Mediagazer: Michael Arrington's Road to Millions (Om Malik/GigaOM)

9:00 AM ET, September 30, 2010

Top News:

Om Malik / GigaOM:

Michael Arrington's Road to Millions — Earlier this week, AOL snapped up TechCrunch, a technology blog network started by former attorney Michael Arrington, for an undisclosed amount of money. The final price is said to be somewhere between $25 million to $60 million.

Discussion: Guardian, more at Techmeme »

Bloomberg: Armstrong Says TechCrunch to Boost AOL's Brand, Talent: Video

Wall Street Journal:
AOL Shifts Emphasis, Bit by Bit

Discussion: GigaOM, Venture Capital Dispatch and New York Times

James Hibberd / The Hollywood Reporter:

Anderson Cooper negotiating for daytime talk show — Exclu: CNN anchor Anderson Cooper is close to a deal for a syndicated daytime talk show. — The “Anderson Cooper 360” host is deep in talks with Telepictures Productions and Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution for a program that would be pitched to stations next year.

Discussion: Romenesko, Inside Cable News, The Huffington Post, New York Magazine and Gawker

Celeste Katz / The Daily Politics:

Breaking: Carl Paladino To Reporter: “I'll Take You Out, Buddy!” Updated With Video — Now it's REALLY personal. — Actually, he really IS mad tonight. — Our Glenn Blain is up in Lake George at the Sagamore Hotel, where GOP gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino is making a stop …

Discussion: Capital Tonight, The Politico, Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, New York Observer, MyFox New York and TPMMuckraker

Alexander Howard / ReadWriteWeb:

Katie Couric: We Need Better Filters for a “Tsunami of News” — Will hanging out with the geeks improve network news? Judging from CBS News anchor Katie Couric's comments at the Web 2.0 Expo yesterday, the potential is there. — Will it matter? In a news environment …

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:

Exclusive: Major Meltdown at Yahoo as More Top Execs to Depart, Including U.S. Head Hilary Schneider — The executive turmoil at the very top of Yahoo continues, with the company poised to announce the resignations of three top execs, including U.S. head Hilary Schneider (pictured here), according to sources close to the situation.

Discussion: The Wire, Wall Street Journal, Between the Lines Blog, Silicon Alley Insider, AdExchanger.com, paidContent, VentureBeat and Tech Trader Daily, more at Techmeme »

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Facebook's Sandberg: In The Future, All Media Will Be Personalized — There will always be a place for mass marketing, but in the next three- to five years, a website that isn't tailored to a specific user's interest will be an anachronism, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg told Arianna Huffington at the latter's Advertising Week event.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest and ReadWriteWeb, more at Techmeme »

Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:

WSJ memo touts ad, circulation revenue gains — From: Krafinski, Marianne On Behalf Of Hinton, Les — Subject: FW: to be sent from Les's inbox - HOLD FOR MY CALL — This Saturday we launched WSJ Weekend to positive reviews and great enthusiasm from a broad set of readers and advertisers.

Discussion: MediaFile, Gawker and paidContent

Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:

The Short Lifespan of a Tweet: Retweets Only Happen Within the First Hour — For some, Twitter is a social network and for others it is just a broadcast medium. Judging from the latest data from social media analytics and monitoring service Sysomos, for the majority of users, Twitter is indeed mostly a broadcast medium.

Discussion: Mashable!, hypebot, Kirk LaPointe's …, BizReport, Sysomos, Web Analytics World and broadstuff, more at Techmeme »

Kate Kaye / ClickZ:

Twitter Shuts Out Political Advertisers, For Now — Many political candidates and their campaigns have embraced Twitter, but when they've come calling about advertising there, Twitter has not reciprocated. Twitter has only recently begun rolling out its paid products for advertisers …

Discussion: Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, more at Techmeme »

Julie Bosman / New York Times:

In Study, Children Cite Appeal of Digital Reading — Many children want to read books on digital devices and would read for fun more frequently if they could obtain e-books. But even if they had that access, two-thirds of them would not want to give up their traditional print books.

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, Fast Company and ResourceShelf

Robinsloan / Twitter Blog:

Tweets in your media, media in your Tweets — On a sunny September Sunday inside a non-descript trailer in downtown Los Angeles, media evolved. — There—in the shadow of the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, next to an outdoor stage where Justin Bieber would soon perform …

Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:

Women ‘significantly underrepresented’ in the media, survey suggests — A research project which monitors the gender of those in and reporting on the news claims women are “significantly underrepresented and misrepresented” in media coverage. — It also suggests that gender bias …

Discussion: IFJ.org

Gabriel Perna / International Business Times:

Study Examines Online News Reading Habits — Despite the push by organizations such as Google and Yahoo!, a recent study found not everyone is a fan of web-based customization for news. — Through an extensive study, Penn State researchers found certain browsers and readers of online news do not prefer customization.

David Kaplan / paidContent:

HuffPost's Hippeau: Social Informants Are The New ‘Influencers’ — Since last October, the number of comments on Huffington Post stories have more than doubled to 3.5 million, making commenting the “main attraction” on the online aggregator, said CEO Eric Hippeau, opening the company's Advertising Week gathering.

Penelope Pitstop / Media Week:

NatMag and Hachette tipped as early contenders for BBC Magazines — It's official - BBC Magazines and its portfolio of 35 titles are up for sale, or as the BBC prefer to think of it, “looking for a partner”, but who would buy a group of magazines today?

Discussion: FishbowlNY

MediaShift:

How Journalism Teachers are Failing, and How to Stop It — Education content on MediaShift is sponsored by Carnegie-Knight News21, an alliance of 12 journalism schools in which top students tell complex stories in inventive ways. See tips for spurring innovation and digital learning at Learn.News21.com.

Ben Kuchera / Ars Technica:

Scared to open the package: adventures in game writer bribery — One of the best perks of my job is the ability to play games before they come out, and of course I get copies sent to my door. It's not a bad deal. Most of the time the games come in nondescript boxes containing nothing more than the game …

CNN:

Fake pimp from ACORN videos tries to ‘punk’ CNN correspondent — Editor's note: CNN takes an unprecedented look inside the young conservative activist movement in the documentary “Right On The Edge,” which airs Oct. 2 and 3 at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. EST. — Lusby, Maryland (CNN) …

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Barry Diller: Ask.com Has No Value Inside Of IAC — Many of us may have forgotten that Ask.com is a search engine just like Google and Bing. It seems that IAC's Barry Diller, who owns Ask.com, seems to have no memory of Ask's value as well. Diller sat down with Michael Arrington today …

Discussion: MediaFile, Search Engine Land and New York Observer, more at Techmeme »

Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:

New York Post, Rupert Murdoch Media Empire Fooled by the Old “UN Ambassador to Aliens” Hoax — If you're anything like the many New Yorkers who pick up the New York Post on Sunday mornings, you might have noticed a pretty fun story in those first few pages: in the event we're ever contacted …