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2:10 PM ET, August 26, 2010

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Matthew Lynch / WWD:
Newsweek Editorial Director Steps Down  —  Newsweek editorial director Mark Miller has resigned, several sources have told WWD.  —  Save for a yearlong stint with ABC News in the 1990s, Miller had been with the magazine in almost every conceivable editorial capacity since joining as a summer intern in 1985.
Peter Lauria / The Daily Beast:
Why Eisner Fits at Tribune  —  Many in Hollywood seemed puzzled yesterday by reports that the former Disney chief might run a newspaper company.  Peter Lauria has four reasons why Michael Eisner seems open to it.  —  Hollywood was buzzing yesterday about reports that Michael Eisner …
Discussion: Romenesko
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
ITunes Music Update: Think Social, Not Streaming  —  When will Apple launch a cloud-based version of the iTunes music service that lets you stream your songs to wherever you are, whenever you want?  —  Probably not at Apple's newest product launch next week.
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Julia Boorstin / Media Money with Julia Boorstin:
Studios Evaluate Apple's Rental Offer  —  Apple is the hot topic in Hollywood as studios continue negotiations with iTunes over 99 cent TV episode rentals.  Now sources tell me they expect an announcement at Apple's iPod event on September 1.  Steve Jobs has been pushing the idea …
Joe Flint / Company Town:
TV networks need to think hard about biting that Apple
David Pogue / New York Times:
New Kindle Leaves Rivals Farther Back  —  Too bad there's not a reality TV show called “America's Most Freaked-Out Tech-Company Meetings,” where you watch classic panicked board meetings.  For example, when the Apple employee left an iPhone 4 prototype in a bar.  Or when Intel learned that its Pentium chip contained a math error.
Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
Yahoo readies San Francisco news site  —  Moving quickly to leverage its $90 million-ish acquisition of Associated Content, Yahoo has begun recruiting writers to begin building a local news site for the San Francisco area.  —  Though hundreds of news shops of every shape …
Discussion: Lost Remote
Sarah Hartley:
10 Characteristics of hyperlocal  —  What, if anything, the term ‘hyperlocal’ now means is something that keeps coming up in conversations I have and it strikes me that it's no longer necessarily defined by a tight geographical area, but instead seems to have evolved to describe more of an attitude than a place.
Discussion: Journalism.co.uk
New York Post:
MSNBC's Ed Schultz goes bonkers  —  MSNBC talk show screamer Ed Schultz had a meltdown in the network's 30 Rock newsroom, shouting at staff, “I'm going to torch this [bleep]ing place.”  —  The hot-tempered anchor of “The Ed Show” lost it during a phone call in the packed studio and slammed down the phone before exploding.
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Cisco Buys Online Video Distributor ExtendMedia  —  Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO) is in the process of acquiring ExtendMedia, a company that specializes in managing online video content.  The space has seen some consolidation lately and with the growth of mobile video, the rate of acquisitions is likely to increase rapidly.
Danah Boyd / Technology Review:
Why Privacy Is Not Dead  —  The way privacy is encoded into software doesn't match the way we handle it in real life.  —  Each time Facebook's privacy settings change or a technology makes personal information available to new audiences, people scream foul.  Each time, their cries seem to fall on deaf ears.
Emily Steel / Wall Street Journal:
New Technology to Lure Shoppers  —  Marketers Try Interactive Mirrors, Discounts via Scanners  —  It's Steven Spielberg's futuristic “Minority Report” come to life.  —  Marketing companies are experimenting with a new wave of digital technologies to pitch to consumers while they shop …
Discussion: Gawker
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
How Entertainment Weekly Embraces the Digital Age  —  YouTube Channels, Mobile Apps and Barcoded Pages  —  In partnership with Entertainment Weekly, YouTube just announced the launch of a specialized site for getting a sneak peek at the new television season which includes …
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
ABC to launch UK VoD service  —  US broadcaster and maker of Desperate Housewives and Cougar Town launches first VoD service outside North America  —  US broadcaster ABC, which makes shows including Desperate Housewives and Cougar Town, is to launch its first video-on-demand service outside North America …
Discussion: Variety
Rachel Deahl / Publishers Weekly:
The RH/Wylie Showdown Ends, New Digital Royalty Rate Is Born  —  The news that Random House had “won” its showdown with The Wylie Agency, over the inclusion of titles by its authors in Wylie's backlist digital publishing business Odyssey Editions, spread through publishing circles quickly on Tuesday …
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Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon Loses E-Book Deal
Nick Wingfield / Digits:
Hillcrest Sees More Movement from TV, Game Companies  —  Hillcrest Laboratories is staking a bigger claim to technologies that let consumers control games and other television content with their body movements.  —  Hillcrest, a maker of a Nintendo Wii-like remote control for navigating Internet content …
Google Small Business:
YouTube Homepage: Promoted Videos advertisers can get it while it's hot  —  For big advertisers on YouTube, the YouTube homepage is often seen as the holy grail.  It's the highest-profile placement on YouTube, providing marketers with the ability to deliver a big impact and drive attention to content, trailers or advertising.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Hyperlocal Business Directory MerchantCircle Takes On Patch With Content Studio  —  Hyperlocal business directory MerchantCircle is getting into the content game today with the launch of a “Local Content Studio.”  Merchant Circle, which has been steadily growing, is a business directory …
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Hulu Plus By The Numbers: 14 Percent More TV Than Basic Hulu  —  No, we don't have subscription numbers but we do have a little more insight into the differences between Hulu Plus and basic Hulu.  Research firm One Touch Intelligence counted all the shows on Hulu and Hulu Plus during one week in August …
 
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Donya Blaze / WebNewser:
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Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:
New business news site to make use of semantic search tools
MediaShift:
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Joe Pompeo / The Wire:
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Laura McGann / Nieman Journalism Lab:
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Mark Milian / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
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The Atlantic Online:
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Zach Baron / Sound of the City:
How Kanye West's Twitter Killed Music Magazines
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Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
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