Mediagazer: Zagat Survey Aims to Regain Its Online Balance (Ron Lieber/New York Times)

6:55 PM ET, November 14, 2010

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Zagat Survey Aims to Regain Its Online Balance — BACK in the early '80s, when the Zagat Survey was still just a single sheet of legal-size paper that Nina and Tim Zagat gave to friends and colleagues, they learned that their list of the best restaurants in New York had been reproduced — en masse — inside Citibank.

Discussion: The Huffington Post

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

The kids are all right — Yesterday, I held a session on privacy and publicness as part of a news literacy event held at Baruch's journalism school, intending to exploit these young people by interviewing them — rather than lecturing them — for my book on publicness and privacy.

Jay Rosen:

The critic Thomas Frank misled the readers of Harpers about my interview with Demand Media's CEO. And when I say “misled” I am being polite. — In the December issue of Harper's (a magazine I have been published in, though it was years ago) the acerbic and frequently brilliant cultural critic Thomas Frank …

John C Abell / Epicenter:

Why Isn't Netflix on Android? Not Secure Enough To Suit Hollywood — The Netflix streaming app has been available on iPhones and iPads for months, and this month was released for Windows 7. Why isn't it available for Android? Netflix says it's because they can't get a secure enough DRM …

Discussion: GigaOM and Business Wire, more at Techmeme »

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

The Daily Me is Here Already — It's Called Twitter — One of the interesting questions that have been asked on Quora, the question-and-answer site (whose cofounder I interviewed recently) is a question about “personalized news” and why so many startups had tried to solve the problem and failed.

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Tavi / style rookie:

it's happening. — You guys may know how I feel about Sassy. You also may know that I've been babbling about how I think our generation should get one, too. Jane Pratt, founding editor and then EIC of Sassy, also became aware, and emailed me, and we've met a couple times …

Discussion: New York Observer and Styleite

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Why iPad Magazine Apps Suck: They're Defined By The Past, Not The Future — Earlier this year, we suggested that the media industy's infatuation with the iPad as some sort of savior was going to result in serious disappointment. Part of the reason was that the media industry was salivating …

Ian Burrell / The Independent:

Tina Brown: And for her next trick... When she succeeds, it's dazzling. And when she fails, she just bounces right back. So what might be the fate of the latest publishing venture to bear the imprint of the quintessential Brit in New York? — In Evelyn Waugh's Scoop …

Telegraph:

Andy Coulson facing more scrutiny over News of The World phone hacking scandal — Andy Coulson, the Tory communications chief, was facing fresh scrutiny about the News of the World phone hacking scandal as prosecutors reviewed a new file of evidence from police.

Nick Bilton / Bits:

Twitter's Biz Stone Talks About Growth and Local Ads — Biz Stone, a co-founder of Twitter, and Sean Garrett, the company's director of communications, visited The Times this week to talk about the current state of Twitter and plans for the company over the next few years.