Mediagazer: Apps and widgets? The secret to blog traffic is more simple than all that (blogs.journalism.co.uk)

Branson launching digital magazine for iPad — SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - British tycoon Richard Branson on Tuesday will unveil a digital magazine tailored for viewing on Apple's popular iPad tablet computers, according to press conference invitations. — Word of Branson's plans to publish …

Discussion: The Next Web, Gizmodo, MacStories, CrunchGear, 9 to 5 Mac, Electronista and iClarified, more at Techmeme »

Ryan Tate / Gawker:

Why the iPad Newspaper is Doomed — It's slow and backward — The Daily will be put to bed each night for consumption the next day, just like a newspaper. As David Carr put it in the New York Times, “a button will be pushed and it will be ‘printed’ for the next morning.”

Discussion: Guardian, Editors Weblog, The Wall Blog, The Atlantic Online, The Huffington Post and PR Newswire

blogs.journalism.co.uk:

Apps and widgets? The secret to blog traffic is more simple than all that — Struggling to get traffic to your blog? Want to know what widgets and apps will magically increase your hits and get you noticed? The secret is actually rather simple: Hard-work, regular updates, extensive reading …

Discussion: Editor's Blog, BBC College of Journalism Blog and Thoroughly Good Blog

Cory Doctorow / Guardian:

News Corp Kremlinology: what do the Times paywall numbers mean? — The publisher has released some numbers for its paper's subscriber-only site - but they leave more questions than answers — Earlier this month, Rupert Murdoch's News International released figures on the performance of the paywall it put around the Times last July.

Discussion: Boing Boing

James Poniewozik / Time:

The Tick, Tick, Tick of the Times — The morning of Sept. 11, 2001, there was more news than the country could bear and more than a TV screen could fit. Beyond the plane crashes and burning buildings, reports and rumors abounded of other attacks, explosions, evacuations.

Discussion: Inside Cable News and TVNewser

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

Ex-Newsweek Editor: Daily Beast Merger Was ‘Best Bet’ — Jon Meacham. Image by Getty Images via @daylife — Former Newsweek editor Jon Meacham didn't stick around to see what new owner Sidney Harman had planned for the magazine, but if there are any hard feelings, he's keeping them to himself.

Discussion: Editors Weblog, Gawker and Yahoo! News

Jon Bershad / Mediaite:

News Outlets Eagerly Look To Twitter Followers For That Next Big TSA Video — The anger over the TSA security procedures makes for the perfect ongoing news story. Sure, that “Ground Zero Mosque” thing had public anger, an easy narrative, and racial undertones, this story has public anger, an easy narrative, and sexual undertones!

Wall Street Journal:

Shunned Profiling Technology on the Verge of Comeback — One of the most potentially intrusive technologies for profiling and targeting Internet users with ads is on the verge of a comeback, two years after an outcry by privacy advocates in the U.S. and Britain appeared to kill it.

Discussion: New York Magazine, GigaOM and Hillicon Valley

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:

Bleacher Report's Brian Grey Talks About New Content Biz, as Patrick Keane Joins Board — Earlier this week, BoomTown went downtown to the San Francisco HQ of Bleacher Report, one of the many interesting efforts trying to change the way content is made and distributed.

Rob O'Regan / eMedia Vitals:

How are publishers budgeting for mobile? — Mobile publishing is getting plenty of attention, but is the money following? Much like the transition to web publishing, media companies must answer one big question as they forge ahead into the mobile space: How do we pay for it?

@loisbeckett > 140:

Wish fulfillment: How would you reinvent a weekly magazine? — Imagine you just became the the editor of a weekly magazine. You produce a 16ish-page tab once a week, plus whatever you want on the web. You have no advertisers, no responsibility to earn money, and a bunch of smart …

Phil Villarreal / The Consumerist:

Why Amazon Studios Is Bad For Wannabe Screenwriters — Entering the production side of the movie industry, Amazon launched Amazon Studios, which offers writers and filmmakers a potential way to break into the industry by offering up their work to Amazon for exclusive, 18-month contracts.

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