Mediagazer: The internet comes of age: Meet the tweeny bloggers (The Independent)

7:10 AM ET, August 30, 2010

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Marisa Guthrie / Broadcasting & Cable:

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Mathew Ingram / GigaOm:

Let a Thousand Personalized Newspapers Bloom — I wrote recently about Paper.li, a service from a Swiss company called Small Rivers, which pulls in your Twitter stream and extracts any links that have been shared by those you follow, and then displays those links in a newspaper-style format …

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Wall Street Journal:

Comcast Gets Static on Net TV — The Justice Department is focusing in on how Comcast Corp.'s bid to purchase control of General Electric Co.'s NBC Universal television and movie unit could affect the emerging Internet video market, people familiar with the matter say.

Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:

Thinner Time magazine still manages to stand out — Rick Stengel may have his shoulder in a sling, but when it comes to the newsmagazine wars, he's the last man standing. — The reason, says Time's managing editor, is that “we saw what was coming. We wanted to fix the roof when the sun was shining.”

The Independent:

The internet comes of age: Meet the tweeny bloggers — Children as young as three are firing up their laptops and connecting, says Susie Mesure — They are the Generation Net, whose toddler years have spawned countless mummy blogs, whether they liked it or not. Now, they're getting their own back.

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Alexander Zaitchik / The New Republic:

Beck on Top — The talk-show host's ‘Restoring Honor’ rally was about one thing: him. — Almost no one who attended Saturday's “Restoring Honor” rally on the National Mall seems able to cogently explain what, exactly, took place. Was it a thinly disguised political rally?

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Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:

A Toolkit for the Cognitive Container — We now live in an apps world. “The web is dead” shouts Chris Anderson, Wired's editor-in-chief. To make his point, he teamed up with Michael Wolff, a Vanity Fair writer. According his latest theory, the internet is taken over by mobile applications …

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Reuters:

Online video key to Disney, Time Warner Cable row — * TW Cable wants comparable deals to Disney-Apple talks — * TW Cable balks at payment for ESPN3.com — The growing availability of popular TV shows on the Web is at the heart of ongoing contentious programming fee negotiations between Walt Disney Co …

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New York Times:

Retargeting Ads Follow Surfers to Other Sites — The shoes that Julie Matlin recently saw on Zappos.com were kind of cute, or so she thought. But Ms. Matlin wasn't ready to buy and left the site. — Then the shoes started to follow her everywhere she went online.

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Dan Nosowitz / Fast Company:

Latest Victim of the Internet: The Oxford English Dictionary — The Oxford English Dictionary, currently a 20 volume, 750-pound monstrosity, has been the authoritive word on the words of the English language for 126 years. The OED3, the first new edition since 1989, may also be the first to forgo print entirely, reports the AP.