Mediagazer: The iPad Election: Not quite ready to declare victory for mobile (Regina McCombs/Mobile Media)

Regina McCombs / Mobile Media:

The iPad Election: Not quite ready to declare victory for mobile — I love election night. It's my favorite non-holiday night every other year. For 25 years, I spent it at someone's campaign headquarters. Working at Poynter has led to severe election withdrawal, and I was looking forward …

Discussion: Media Decoder, Mediaite, TVNewsCheck and The Huffington Post

Austin Carr / Fast Company:

Behind The Scenes of CNN's Election Tech: iPads, Magic Walls, Holograms, Twitter — Walking into CNN's newsroom is like walking into Best Buy during the holidays: gigantic flat panel displays are plastered all over the hangar-like space; people are running around frantically with laptops …

Discussion: Inside Cable News, via:ellmcgirt

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

For Fox News, Most Viewers Ever for a Midterm Election — Television reporters covering Rand Paul's election night victory party in Bowling Green, Ky. — As a Republican wave swept across the United States on Tuesday, the Fox News Channel enjoyed its biggest midterm election audience ever.

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable and Gawker

David Folkenflik / NPR:
The Annals Of Election Night Analysis

Discussion: Mediaite, Tuned In, Denver Post, CJR, New York Times, Yahoo! News, American Journalism Review, Web Journalist Blog, PRWeb and Media Decoder

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

News Corp. Puts MySpace on Double Secret Probation — That big MySpace relaunch we read about last week? That's all fine and good. — But the troubled Web property is a...really troubled Web property, its News Corp. parent stressed today. And it needs to get its act together before it gets kicked off campus.

Discussion: paidContent, SAI, Company Town, Business Wire, Between the Lines Blog and Broadcasting & Cable, more at Techmeme »

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

Twitter Promoted Tweets Come To Google — In a first ever move, Google is now carrying ads from someone else's ad network — Twitter's, as Google integrates Twitter's new Promoted Tweets into Google Realtime Search. — It's quite a coup for Twitter. Not only did the company get Google …

Discussion: The Next Web, Relevant Results, ReadWriteWeb, All Things Digital, SAI and CenterNetworks, more at Techmeme »

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

It's people! Meet Soylent, the crowdsourced copy editor — The phrase “on-demand human computation” has a sinister tinge to it, if only because the idea of sucking the brain power out of a group of people is generally frowned upon. And yet, if you call it “crowdsourcing” everything sounds so much friendlier!

Dan Trombetto / Folio:

Rising Stars: Ten Under 30 — A look at publishing's new breed, from editors to CEOs. — While it's natural to worry about how the publishing industry is going to attract the next generation of media leaders, the fact is the industry is already seeing a demographic shift, with younger people taking on more leadership roles.

Discussion: Romenesko

Laura Oliver / Journalism.co.uk:

‘Why are we just doing static things?’: Burt Herman talks dynamic storytelling with Storify — Tweet — Having a social media editor in the newsroom, someone who handles the official Twitter account say, while everyone carries on as before, isn't good enough for Burt Herman.

Emily Bell:

W(h)ither the Times? — When it comes to paywalls around news websites, I sometimes wonder if we are becoming an international fraternity of cargo cultists. The voodoo economics which accompanies the release of digital sales figures for The Times and Sunday Times is developing into its own art.

Discussion: Guardian, Virtual Economics, Editors Weblog, the Econsultancy blog and Sky News

Mike Madden / City Desk:

Politico Celebrates Politico — Around the District last night, it wasn't hard to find somewhere to go watch election returns filter in. Local Democrats gathered at Love. National Democrats, for some reason, had a fancy party downtown; second-hand reports made clear it was only the place …

Brad Stone / Business Week:

The New New Andreessen — With Andreessen Horowitz, visionary entrepreneur Marc Andreessen is trying to reinvent himself as a top-tier venture capitalist and world-class power broker — As Silicon Valley events go, it was an irresistible draw: Marc Andreessen, Web wunderkind turned venture capitalist …

Jay Rosen / Pressthink:

“I'm committed to the destruction of the old media guard.” ABC News and Andrew Breitbart. — Wake up, journalists. You have no magic exemption from the requirements of political maturity. There are people out there who seek your destruction, and they are not evenly distributed.

Discussion: Mediaite, Big Journalism and ThinkProgress

David Kaplan / paidContent:

AOL's Armstrong: All About ‘Content Exits’ — AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong began the company's Q3 earnings call talking about a three-pronged strategy around distribution. That includes “communication products” like AOL mail, search, social media and its homepage, which was revamped this week.

Discussion: MediaMemo, Variety, The Digital Home, Associated Press, The Wire, AdAge and MediaPost

Seth Colter Walls / The Awl:

Russ Feingold At Rest — There will be plenty of political eulogies forthcoming on behalf of Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Anyone Who Cared About the Influence of Money in Politics and Oh Sure, Civil Liberties, Too). This won't be one, precisely—or at least not a eulogy on behalf of his politics.