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4:10 PM ET, September 19, 2010

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Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
Aggregators: the good ones vs. the looters  —  News aggregators have grown into all shapes and forms.  Some are truly helping the producers of original content but others simply amount to mere electronic ransack.  —  My daily media routine starts on Techmeme.
Arthur S. Brisbane / New York Times:
Covering Murdoch and Company  —  THE NEW YORK TIMES masquerading as a tabloid — it was more than enough to draw me into the story, I'll admit.  The Sept. 5 Sunday Magazine cover blared, “TABLOID HACK ATTACK!” amid funny little color balloons offering tantalizing subheads …
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Newsweek's Howard Fineman to Join The Huffington Post  —  Howard Fineman is leaving Newsweek, where he has worked for the past thirty years, and is joining The Huffington Post.  —  Mr. Fineman will be the senior political correspondent for Arianna Huffington's Web site.
Steve Safran / Lost Remote:
UK hyperlocal site starts paper edition  —  A site that covers an East Yorkshire, UK locale is now turning out a print edition.  HU17.net, which covers Beverley, has started a weekly print version.  It's a small print run - about 100 copies.  Paul Smith, the publisher, tells The Guardian:
Noam Cohen / New York Times:
Spoiler Alert: Whodunit?  Wikipedia Will Tell You  —  At the end of each performance of the Agatha Christie play “The Mousetrap,” the person revealed to be the murderer steps forward and tells the audience to “keep the secret of whodunit locked in your heart.”
Discussion: /Film
Steve Stecklow / Wall Street Journal:
On the Web, Children Face Intensive Tracking  —  A Wall Street Journal investigation into online privacy has found that popular children's websites install more tracking technologies on personal computers than do the top websites aimed at adults.  —  The Journal examined 50 sites popular …
Discussion: Doc Searls Weblog
Sam Thielman / Variety:
Price is right for junior journalists  —  ABC News marshals multitasking collegians  —  They're on the front line of the one-man-band revolution in television news.  —  Two years ago, ABC News launched a partnership with a handful of journalism schools, dubbed ABC News on Campus …
Burt Herman / Hacks/Hackers:
Check-ins with a purpose: Ushahidi speaks at Hacks/Hackers  —  Hacks/Hackers has assembled a highly popular Survival Glossary for digital journalists under a Creative Commons share-alike attribute license.  What's an API?  What is Drupal?  Explanations are now available in clear English.
Investor's Business Daily:
Magazine Publishers Finding Early Success With iPad Editions  —  The print media's transition to the digital world has been rocky, but some publishers now have higher hopes thanks to the iPad.  —  Whether it establishes itself as the Kleenex of media tablet computers, Apple's (AAPL) …
MediaShift Idea Lab:
5 Mistakes That Make Local Blogs Fail  —  So you're thinking about starting a local blog.  Maybe you're a reporter tired of office politics and lowest-common-denominator assignments.  Maybe you're a neighborhood gadfly who wants to create a new place for locals to gather.
Ken Doctor / Newsonomics:
The (Still-Evolving) Newsonomics of Digital Transition  —  First published at Nieman Journalism Lab  —  It seems like a simple enough question.  If newspaper companies could make the switch to digital publishing, how much would they save in costs?  —  Newspapers have been Big Iron companies …
Discussion: Lost Remote
Ira Stoll / The Future of Capitalism:
How Murdoch's Wall Street Journal Covers Kushner  —  News Corp. chief executive Rupert Murdoch and New York Observer owner and real estate investor Jared Kushner are close enough pals that Mr. Kushner and his wife reportedly accompanied the Murdoch family on a recent Middle East trip for the christening of the Murdoch daughters.
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
 
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Source: Google has canceled the development of a second-generation Pixel Tablet, planned for release in 2025, due to concerns that it wouldn't sell very well

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Sources: Apple is testing a more conversational version of Siri, dubbed “LLM Siri”, with plans to release it in spring 2026 as part of iOS 19 and macOS 16

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