Mediagazer: Posterous' Sachin Agarwal: In Search of ‘the Easiest Way to Publish Online’ (Knowledge@Wharton)

Jenna Wortham / Bits:

Betaworks and The Times Plan a Social News Service — Something is stirring deep within the technology incubator Betaworks: A personalized news service called News.me that is being developed in collaboration with The New York Times. — On Thursday, a cryptic placeholder for the service went live.

Discussion: Romenesko, FM Blog, Shaping the Future …, VatorNews, Journalism.co.uk, Mashable!, WebNewser, Trends in the Living Networks and Domain Name Wire

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

The New York Times Gets a Bite of Bit.ly — Here's a quick follow up to News.Me, the sort-of mysterious social news project that the New York Times (NYT) is developing alongside Betaworks. An interesting deal point, really: As part of the partnership between the two companies …

Discussion: DealBook

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Coverage of Koran Case Stirs Questions on Media Role — A renegade pastor and his tiny flock set fire to a Koran on a street corner, and made sure to capture it on film. And they were ignored. — That stunt took place in 2008, involving members of the Westboro Baptist Church from Topeka …

Discussion: Salon, Politics Daily, PostPartisan, The Huffington Post, New York Magazine, Most Recent Home Page Posts …, Romenesko, Chickaboomer, David Higgerson, Editors Weblog, Free Press, Guardian, Gothamist, Political Punch, Yahoo! News, TechCrunch and The Daily Dish

Libby Reinish / Save the News Blog:

No More Bleeding Ledes, Please — Sensationalism is rampant in our consolidated news system, where scandal, celebrity gossip and violence (or the threat of looming violence) lead the headlines. Ever wonder why this is all we see and read and hear? — It isn't simply that scandal …

Discussion: Common Sense Journalism and Silicon Alley Insider

Stephen Heyman / New York Times:

Technology Gives Everyone a Great Seat at Shows — THE hub of New York Fashion Week may have moved from Bryant Park to Lincoln Center, but a swirl of exclusivity still surrounds the event, with its security guards and glamazon gatekeepers. How can an unaccredited clotheshorse crash the party?

Discussion: NewTeeVee

Discussion: WebNewser, New Media Age and Switched

Michael Learmonth / AdAge:

Yes, That's The Wall Street Journal Tracking You — Aggressive Re-Targeting For Subscriptions and No Obvious Way to Opt Out — The Wall Street Journal is bringing some needed attention to the online privacy issue. Its series, ‘What They Know’ has detailed the buying …

Andy P / WordPress.com News:

Introducing Subscriptions — Keep track of posts across multiple blogs with the subscriptions reader. — Do you have trouble keeping track of all the blogs you read each morning? You may use RSS feeds to keep track, but those can be tricky to manage for a non-technical person.

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb and The Next Web, more at Techmeme »

Nicholas Watt / Guardian:

MPs warned off over Rebekah Brooks — Cross-party committee allegedly abandoned plans to force News International chief to testify after being warned their lives would be investigated — A cross-party committee of MPs abandoned plans to force the News International chief executive …

Discussion: Press Gazette

Nicholas Carlson / The Wire:

BuzzFeed Founder Jonah Peretti Explains Why A Picture Of Lindsay Lohan's Side Boob Won't Turn Viral — Even though a lot of people will click to see a photo of Lindsay Lohan's side boob, the picture will never turn viral. — Why? Because it would be straight up awkward to share …

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

USA Today Latest Media Co. to Realize Open is Better — USA Today is the latest media company to open up its data via an API, the software interface that makes it easy for outside developers to use another company's data in their applications. The newspaper — which said that it will launch …

Discussion: ProgrammableWeb and Beyond Search

Discussion: The Now/ledge, rbr.com, Broadcasting & Cable, Public Radio Exchange and paidContent

Peter Kirwan / Wired News:

What's Hiding in Demand Media's Finances? — If you believe the hype, Demand Media represents the beginning of the end for everything that's noble about journalism. — Coincidentally, Richard Rosenblatt's company, which runs sites like eHow, Cracked.com and Livestrong.com …

Hunter Walker / The Wrap:

ABC Marketing Co-Head Mike Benson Steps Down — ABC Entertainment just got its big first casualty under new president Paul Lee: Mike Benson, one of the two execs who run the marketing division, is stepping down. — “Paul is going in a new direction, and Mike has decided to step down,” an ABC spokesperson told The Wrap.

Discussion: New York Magazine, Variety, Company Town, MediaPost and Broadcasting & Cable

Knowledge@Wharton:

Posterous' Sachin Agarwal: In Search of ‘the Easiest Way to Publish Online’ — When Sachin Agarwal wanted to publish content online, he found that sites like YouTube and Flickr only took him part of the way. They did their jobs well, but there was no site offering a way to integrate photos, text and video into a single product.

Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:

Pentagon Loosens Restrictions for Press in Guantánamo — The Pentagon has agreed to revise some of the rules that have restricted what journalists are free to report on from Guantánamo Bay, resolving a conflict that peaked in May when four reporters were expelled from the naval base there.

Discussion: Romenesko

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Exclusive: IAC Finally Kills Off Bloglines — It's finally happened. Bloglines,the troubled RSS feed reader owned by IAC, will officially be shut down, the company has told TechCrunch exclusively. The site has had a tumultuous history, so it's unsurprising that IAC has finally put the platform out of its misery.

Discussion: The Ask.com Blog, paidContent, ReadWriteWeb and Silicon Alley Insider, more at Techmeme »

Rachel Sklar / Mediaite:

If It's San Bruno That's Burning And Not The Koran, Will The Cable Nets Notice? — The breaking news email alert came in from CNN: “State of emergency declared in San Bruno, California, after massive gas explosion and fire.” Thing is, it came in at 2:54 a.m.

Kevin Allocca / TVNewser:

Florida Runs Your News — Growing up in South Florida, I should have known I would someday end up somehow involved in TV news. For better or worse, the state of Florida — and in particular the Miami/Ft. Lauderdale market — has had maybe the biggest impact on the television news industry outside New York and LA.

Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:

In Adding Book Section, the Journal Bucks Trend — In the last few years, newspapers including The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune and The Boston Globe have ended their freestanding book review sections. — Now The Wall Street Journal is bucking the trend and starting one of its own.

Discussion: Slate

Jolie O'Dell / Mashable!:

Dissecting the New Vogue.com: How One Magazine Did the Web Right — Vogue is one of the biggest, glossiest names in magazine publishing, and it's just given its website a huge facelift. — The site has grown exponentially in glamor and functionality with its latest iteration.

Discussion: PAPERMAG