Mediagazer: Arcade Fire meets HTML5 (Aaron Koblin/The Official Google Blog)

6:15 AM ET, August 31, 2010

Top News:

The AP and Google reach a licensing renewal agreement — here's what it might mean for their relationship — Earlier today, Google and The Associated Press announced that they've struck a new licensing deal that will allow Google to continue posting content from the news cooperative.

Discussion: Associated Press, Media News International and Romenesko

Josh Cohen / Google News Blog:
Extending the Associated Press as Hosted News partner

Discussion: Shelly Palmer, paidContent, Wall Street Journal, Strupp, GigaOm, PC Magazine, bizjournals, 901am, DailyFinance and The Wrap, more at Techmeme »

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google & AP Extend Long-Term Content Deal

Discussion: Relevant Results and The Next Web

Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:

Exclusive: Glenn Beck Launches “News And Opinion” Website, The Blaze, Tonight — Having conquered TV, radio, book publishing and now live events, Glenn Beck is looking to expand his media empire into a new arena - the web (obviously GlennBeck.com is thriving too).

Discussion: The Blaze, Gawker, The Huffington Post, Moneywood, New York Magazine and The Wrap

Nate Freeman / New York Observer:

Huffington Post and the Would-Be Glenn Beck Sex Tape — Huffington Post contributor Beau Friedlander published a post to that site this morning offering $100,000 to anyone who could produce a sex tape of Glenn Beck, but it didn't stay online for long. A few hours after it went up the tags …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Mediaite, Gawker, Media Matters for America, The Daily Caller and Skybarn

Barb Palser / American Journalism Review:

The Hazards of Hyperlocal — Why neighborhood news online is a dicey proposition A hallmark of a successful product is that it addresses an unmet consumer need or want, either conscious or latent. Like DVRs, Facebook and aerosol pancake batter. At this moment, news organizations …

Discussion: Romenesko and HyperlocalBlogger

Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:

Local news rivals doom publisher pay walls — The local news sites being developed by Yahoo, AOL, Huffington Post and a growing number of other online players will dash the hopes of most newspaper publishers of charging for access to their online content. — While newspaper executives …

Discussion: Editors Weblog, Media Matters for America, Kirk LaPointe's …, paidContent and eMedia Vitals, more at Techmeme »

Dean Starkman / CJR:

Susanne Craig leaving WSJ for the NYT — Susanne Craig, one of The Wall Street Journal's star Wall Street reporters, is moving to The New York Times, a boost for the Times and the latest blow to the Journal's coverage of that core beat. — Craig told The Audit she's “looking forward to a new challenge.”

Discussion: Guardian, Runnin' Scared, New York Observer, Romenesko, New York Magazine and News On News

Jason Fell / Folio:

Modern Luxury Sold — Regional magazine publisher to be bought by Atlanta-based Dickey Publishing. — After going on the block this spring, regional magazine publisher Modern Luxury Media has agreed to be sold to Atlanta-based Dickey Publishing. Under terms of the deal …

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Knoxville News-Sentinel:

Future of news: Insider Dave Morgan touts new media — Digital startups said to have advantage over traditional outlets — Register or log in using your account on these websites. — Web Search powered by YAHOO! SEARCH — This is a question-and-answer interview with Dave Morgan …

Knoxville News-Sentinel:
Media migration: New technologies transform reporting, redefine the news

Discussion: Random Mumblings

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Piers Morgan Finally Admits to CNN Talks — LOS ANGELES — Piers Morgan broke his silence about his impending job at CNN on Sunday, saying in a red carpet interview at the Emmys that negotiations are almost finished. — Mr. Morgan has been in talks with CNN this summer about replacing Larry King …

Discussion: Inside Cable News, New York Observer, The Wire and News On News

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

Roku Tries A Price Reset With Google TV, Apple Whatever In The Wings — Video service Roku cut prices by 23 to 30 percent across its WiFi set tops today, taking its most expensive device below $100 in the hopes of being perceived as the best value heading into the fall sales season.

more at Techmeme »

Scott Rosenberg / Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard:

In Defense of Links, Part One: Nick Carr, hypertext and delinkification — For 15 years, I've been doing most of my writing — aside from my two books — on the Web. When I do switch back to writing an article for print, I find myself feeling stymied. I can't link!

Om Malik / GigaOm:

The New Now: How Real Time Redefines the Now — This past week, Nova Spivack, founder of Twine, a web service that dealt with information overload, stopped by in our offices to discuss the future of the web. I first met Nova when he started Earthweb (now called Dice.com), and over the years have kept in touch with him.

Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting & Cable:

ESPN Teaming With YouTube for ‘SportsCenter’ Stunt — Social media blitz by sports network — Who doesn't want to appear in a highlight on SportsCenter? Now you might get your chance. — ESPN is getting ready to launch a tie-in between SportsCenter and YouTube in which fans will be able …

Discussion: TVWeek.com

Jason Fell / Folio:

Gourmet Brand to Return to Print—As Special Newsstand-Only Issues — First up is Gourmet Quick Kitchen, due out next month. — Is shuttered Gourmet clawing its way back out of the grave? — After being shut down by Condé Nast last fall, the publisher announced in June …

Discussion: Gawker

Aaron Koblin / The Official Google Blog:

Arcade Fire meets HTML5 — What would a music experience designed specifically for the modern web look like? This is a question we've been playing around with for the last few months. Browsers and web technologies have advanced so rapidly in the last few years that powerful experiences tailored …

Discussion: Mashable!, TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, Adverblog, Epicenter, PAPERMAG, The Wrap, GalleyCat, Digits, Techland, NewTeeVee, Fast Company, PSFK, Neowin.net, The Awl, Laughing Squid and The Daily What, more at Techmeme »

Dan Zarrella / HubSpot's Inbound Internet …:

Visualizing How a Link Spreads Through the Twitterverse — A few months ago, I did some research into visualizing how a story spreads across the Twitterverse and how that spread could be visualized. — Using a combination of the Twitter API, the TweetMeme API and the Processing visualization library …

the nytpicker:

All The Men That's Fit To Print: So Far This August, NYT Has Published 76 Obituaries — 70 Men And 6 Women. — Still upset about that lack of gender equality in book reviews? — Consider this more frightening and fundamental imbalance: so far in the month of August, the NYT has published 78 obituaries.

Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:

5 Lessons from Longshot, A Magazine Made in 48 Hours — Weekends bring out the avocation in people. Some rock-climb. Other people play in basketball leagues. Hobbyists build robots. My friends and I make magazines. — I co-founded Longshot Magazine with Mat Honan and Sarah Rich a few months ago.

Discussion: The Daily Dish and Laughing Squid

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Playing it by ear: The Atlantic joins the magazine-Tumbling fray in embracing experimentation — Until recently, Tumblr was a fairly isolated phenomenon: a platform that (to overgeneralize only slightly) helped a slew of web-savvy young city-dwellers to stay connected with more characters than Twitter but less commitment than blogs.

Discussion: msnbc.com creative … and Still Not Going To Do …

Matt / Argo, the Blog:

Sourcing images: best practices and best sources — There's a whole universe of images out there, but you have to be mindful. (Courtesy of NASA.gov) — We consistently hear from the Argo-bloggers that the most difficult part of blogging is the visual component - telling your stories in pictures as well as words.

Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:

Not on His Watch, USA Today Founder Says — Allen H. Neuharth, 86, the former Gannett executive who founded USA Today nearly 30 years ago, had some tart words for the people now in charge of his beloved paper. — When USA Today wrapped its front section in an advertisement for a Jeep last month …

Discussion: Gannett Blog, New York Observer and On Media's Blog

Andy Plesser / The Huffington Post:

Taboola Pioneers “Text to Video” for Bloomberg, CNN and Revision3 — Taboola, the video recommendation engine which is used by publishers to provide “related” or “recommended” videos at the end of clips, has introduced a system for publishers to offer up recommended video thumbnails at around text articles.

Discussion: Beet.TV