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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.
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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 …
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.
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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 …
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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.
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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.
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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.
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) …
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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 …
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.
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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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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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 …
Joe Pompeo / The Wire:
Mediaite's Dan Abrams: “I'm Doing This Because We're Making A Profit” — Abrams Media, which publishes Mediaite and a handful of other news aggregation websites, will launch three additional sites and turn a profit at the beginning of next year, said the company's founder, Dan Abrams …
Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:
Boston.com's Beard named National Journal Group online editor — David Beard Joins National Journal Group as Deputy Editor-in-Chief and Online Editor — Washington, D.C. (September 29, 2010) — National Journal Group announced today that online news specialist David Beard is joining …
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Nieman Journalism Lab, FishbowlNY and The Wrap
Melissa Maerz / Show Tracker:
An FCC complaint takes aim at TV news ‘experts’ paid to promote products — Earlier today, the nonprofit watchdog group Free Press filed a complaint with Federal Communications Commission based on Los Angeles Times columnist James Rainey's complaints about hidden advertising embedded in newscasts.
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Jill Ambroz / Folio:
Putting the ‘Ad’ in iPad — What formats drive the best results? — Some have referred to the current marketplace as the ‘golden age’ of online advertising, with the advent of 3G technology and the iPad craze. But the publishing industry seems to be missing out on at least part of what could be a $50 billion ad spend.
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