Mediagazer: Yahoo News Rolls Out Beta Design: Personalization, Social, Blogs (Nikhil Pahwa/MediaNama)

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

“Hulu for Magazines” Launching Early 2011-But Only for Android — Next Issue Media, the “Hulu for Magazines” joint venture, plans to have its digital storefront open early next year. But you won't be able to shop there if you've got an iPad. — Next Issue's initial incarnation will only work …

Discussion: Poynter Online, paidContent, eMedia Vitals, SAI, WebNewser and Gizmodo

Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:

‘Beast’ talks on again — Tweet — Big-name principals behind Newsweek and the Daily Beast have resumed merger talks, insiders said late today. — Talks between the online news firm, owned by media mogul Barry Diller and led by Chairman and Editor-in-Chief Tina Brown, and Newsweek's new owner …

Discussion: Yahoo! News, Romenesko, Gawker and New York Magazine

Newsweek Editor Search Continues Fitfully — Merger talks between Newsweek and The Daily Beast are back on—but then again, they were never off. — The New York Post's Keith Kelly reported this morning that “after a three-week cooling off period, talks are back on.”

Julie Bosman / New York Times:

Times Will Rank E-Book Best Sellers — In an acknowledgment of the growing sales and influence of digital publishing, The New York Times said on Wednesday that it would publish e-book best-seller lists in fiction and nonfiction beginning early next year. — The lists will be compiled …

Discussion: Epicenter, Mobile Marketing Watch, FierceMobileContent, Gizmodo, Business Wire, The Atlantic Online, Switched, ReadWriteWeb, The Next Web, Cheat Sheet and All Things Digital

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter Online:

5 Ways to Get People to Contribute Good Content for Your Site — As news organizations experiment with user-generated content, they're learning that users are capable of creating quality content that can be turned into powerful projects. What's not as clear: How can news organizations motivate people …

Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:

Digg Adds Editors to Break News Faster — One of the issues Digg has always struggled with is that it can take quite a while before a breaking news story hits the front page. Waiting for enough users to vote a story up can sometimes take a few hours and in this age of real-time breaking news …

Discussion: Digg Blog and The Next Web, more at Techmeme »

Andrew Wallenstein / paidContent:

Confirmed: Fox Blocking Google TV — Fox has begun blocking the availability of its TV programming from Google (NSDQ: GOOG) TV, joining ABC (NYSE: DIS), CBS (NYSE: CBS), NBC (NYSE: GE) and Hulu. — A source at the network confirmed the move late Wednesday, but declined comment.

Discussion: MediaPost, GTVHub.com and GigaOM

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, GigaOM, Fortune, Media Maverick, Hillicon Valley, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, The Next Web and Engadget

Peter Lauria / The Daily Beast:

Can This Man Save NBC? — Bob Greenblatt made Showtime a must-watch network with shows like Weeds and Dexter. Now he's expected to turn around NBC Universal Entertainment. Peter Lauria on why he's the right man for the challenge. — Since leaving his post as Showtime's president …

Discussion: Hollywood Reporter

Chris Dale / YouTube Blog:

Great Scott! Over 35 Hours of Video Uploaded Every Minute to YouTube — Remember in March when we shared with you that more than 24 hours of video being uploaded to YouTube every minute? Well, you continue to amaze us: you've increased the amount of video uploaded to YouTube to 35 hours per minute.

Discussion: Crave, SAI and WebNewser

Katrina vanden Heuvel / The Nation:

Math Error Skews Nation Ad Numbers In Monday's New York Times Profile — The Nation was excited to see that we'd been profiled in Monday's New York Times, in a business section feature, “Bad News for Liberals May Be Good News for A Liberal Magazine.” But we were surprised to read this:

Discussion: Gawker and MinOnline

Cindy Royal / Cindy's Take on Tech:

An Open Letter to Wired Magazine — Dear Wired: — I feel like I'm in an abusive relationship with you. I love you. You're charming, attractive and smart, everything I could ever want in a magazine. My heart skips a beat when I see a new issue in my mailbox.

Discussion: The Awl

Nikhil Pahwa / MediaNama:

Yahoo News Rolls Out Beta Design: Personalization, Social, Blogs — Yahoo has rolled out the beta version of its news site, apparently to coincide with CEO Carol Bartz' visit to India. Yahoo News India, in its current form, wears a pre-2004 look, and never received the makeover that Yahoo News US did.

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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

A Web Video Truce: Free Hulu Goes Away From Boxee, Replaced by Hulu Plus — The Hulu-Boxee war is over! The terms of the truce: Boxee, which makes software that makes it easy to get Web video on TV, will remove links to Hulu's free service-but will give users the ability to use the Hulu Plus paid service.

Discussion: New York Observer, New York Magazine and Zach Klein's Blog

Discussion: Mediaite and Co.Design

Jenna Wortham / Bits:

Social Books Hopes to Make E-Reading Communal — Outside of a book club, reading a book is a pretty solitary affair. Two entrepreneurs, Jason Johnson and Jason Illian, are trying to change that with a new mobile application called Social Books. — “Short-form content on the Web is very interactive, very dynamic,” Mr. Johnson said.

Tom Scocca / Scocca:

New York Times Editor Bill Keller Thinks He Is a Magnificent Rhinoceros — Last week, New York Times executive editor Bill Keller warmed up the crowd at an address to the paper's staff with an admonition: … Having edited two out of the three little birds Keller named …

Discussion: Poynter Online and Yahoo! News

Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:

Eric Schmidt, Wendi Murdoch, And Other Huge Names Are Betting On Art.sy To Shake Up The Art Market — Some of the biggest names in the technology, media, and fine art worlds are coming together to invest in Art.sy, a New York-based startup that aims to disrupt the fine-art market, we hear.

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Martha Stewart Living's iPad App Will Influence Content For Print — Less than two weeks after Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO) released its first iPad app, it has introduced a second one that serves as both a preview of what's to come and a clearer expression of its evolving approach to digital, print and TV.

Discussion: WebNewser