Mediagazer: Getting it right (behavioral tracking) (Terry Heaton/Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog)

10:15 PM ET, December 19, 2010

Top News:

John Naughton / Guardian:

Publishers take note: the iPad is altering the very concept of a ‘book’ — If the success of Amazon's Kindle has made print publishers relax, they're in for a nasty surprise — One of the glories of our print culture is the Economist, a magazine that combines eccentric …

Discussion: TeleRead and Personanondata

Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:

Rebooting Web Publishing Design — Let's start by reviewing the basic ingredients of a successful online publishing operation: — 1 / Quick load. — 2 / Ease of operation and update — 3 / Consistent visual identity — 4 / Platform independence — 5 / Open to the rest of the web

Andrew Alexander / Washington Post:

Post's problems with anonymous-source rules get worse online — Post readers constantly complain about the excessive use of anonymous sources in the newspaper. But the problem is even worse online. — Staff-written news blogs are replete with violations of The Post's long-established …

Mike Shields / Mediaweek:

Murdoch's iBlunders — When it comes to the Internet, it would be hard to call News Corp. timid. The conglomerate has as rich a history of online business endeavors as any other media company out there. Unfortunately, it's a prolonged history of failure.

Terry Heaton / Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog:

Getting it right (behavioral tracking) — Shelly Palmer is spot on when he writes that we have an emergency in the data-driven advertising world. I've written about the disinformation campaign by so-called “privacy advocates” and opportunistic legislators many times, but Shelly's closing paragraph sums it up well.

Discussion: Shelly Palmer Digital Living

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Oprah's Highest Hurdle — BEFORE Oprah Winfrey jetted off this month to Washington for the Kennedy Center Honors, then to Sydney for overseas tapings of her talk show, she had a simple request for the security staff at her house near Los Angeles: — “Can you all make sure that I have the capabilities …

Discussion: Mediaite

Keach Hagey / The Politico:

Larry King producer joins D.C. firm — NEW YORK — “Jimmy Fallon canceled. I'm freaking out.” — It's a little more than an hour before the last show of “Larry King Live” Thursday night, and the show's Washington, D.C.-based senior political producer, Eleanor McManus, has got a situation on her hands.

Muck Rack:

Interview with Garance Franke-Ruta of The Atlantic — Garance Franke-Ruta has been a Senior Editor at The Atlantic since Monday, where she manages online politics coverage and the politics news channel. — She was previously a Who Runs Gov blogger and the national web politics editor …

Kit Eaton / Fast Company:

Amazon Brings Newspapers, Magazines to Kindle Apps, Starting With Android — Amazon's expanding the capabilities of its Kindle apps, starting with Android, to include digital newspaper and magazines singly or in subscription form. Just in time for the iPad “Daily” newspaper.

Discussion: TeleRead

James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:

On the Media: Patch.com clicks with veteran California journalists — Seasoned reporters in California are stamping their mark on the online news' community sites, a trend that can help bolster Patch.com's credibility as it continues its explosive growth into hyper-local reporting.

James Surowiecki / New Yorker:

GROUPON CLIPPING — The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed: the major record labels let Apple take over the digital-music business; Blockbuster refused to buy Netflix for a mere fifty million dollars; Excite turned down the chance to acquire Google for less than a million dollars.

Discussion: John Battelle's Searchblog and broadstuff

Deborah Potter / NewsLab:

Data journalism central — The folks at the Guardian have been doing inspired work with data for several years. Now, they've added a new data store-one stop shopping for anyone interested in making data more meaningful. In addition to the data blog that highlights the British newspaper's own analysis …