Mediagazer: Two Cheers for Anonymity — Red Medicine panicked … (Jonathan Gold/LA Weekly)

7:25 AM ET, December 30, 2010

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Blake Hounshell / FP Passport:

The curious case of Glenn Greenwald vs. Wired magazine — I love a good blog fight as much as anyone, but after reading several thousand words of accusations and counter accusations being slung between Salon blogger Glenn Greenwald and Wired's Evan Hansen and Kevin Poulsen …

Discussion: Boing Boing, Felix Salmon and Yahoo! News

Glenn Greenwald / Salon:

Wired's refusal to release or comment on the Manning chat logs — Last night, Wired posted a two-part response to my criticisms of its conduct in reporting on the arrest of PFC Bradley Manning and the key role played in that arrest by Adrian Lamo. I wrote about this topic twice — first back in June and then again on Monday.

Discussion: zunguzungu, GMSV, TechEye and p2pnet

Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Response to Wired's accusations

Discussion: Boing Boing, MediaPost, The Atlantic Wire, Scripting News, The Nation and Threat Level

Om Malik / GigaOM:

Evan Williams: The Challenges of a Web of Infinite Info — Evan Williams and I have known each other for a long time. From a struggling entrepreneur who started Blogger, to a successful founder who got liberal funding for his podcasting start-up Odeo, to the accidental launch of Twitter …

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, more at Techmeme »

Venkat / Technology & Marketing Law Blog:

Court Rejects Agence France-Presse's Attempt to Claim License to Haiti Earthquake Photos Through Twitter/Twitpic Terms of Service — AFP v. Morel — [Post by Venkat with a few comments from Eric] — Agence France Presse v. Morel, 10 Civ. 2730 (WHP) (S.D.N.Y.; Dec. 23, 2010)

Discussion: paidContent, New York Observer and Lost Remote, more at Techmeme »

Richard Sandomir / New York Times:

In NBC's Shadow, Comcast Ponders an Olympic Plunge — Does Comcast cherish the Olympics with the same fervor as did General Electric, which has paid billions to make NBC the network of the Summer and the Winter Games for a generation? — The question arises because Comcast …

Discussion: Company Town and TVWeek.com

Marie-Lou Fernandes / The Huffington Post:

Paid News, Treaties and the Indian Media: The Cause Is the Corporation — Just when you thought you'd seen it all, more dirt surfaces. Dirt that's quite old actually — about how the news corporation swallowed the free press — common knowledge for years, front page news material …

Discussion: Times of India

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

The Sun admits publishing false story — The Sun has owned up to what I guess we in the journalism trade realised the moment we saw it - its splash about the pre-Christmas live episode Coronation Street being targeted by al-Qaeda was false. — On 9 December, it carried this front page story …

Discussion: Mediaite, New York Observer, The Wire, mediabistro.com and The Sun

Jonathan Gold / LA Weekly:

Two Cheers for Anonymity — Red Medicine panicked in outing Times' Virbila, but did no lasting harm — Anonymity, it has long been held, is the proper state of being for restaurant critics, who would otherwise be feted with rare wines, exquisite nibbles and a level of hospitality unavailable …

Discussion: LA Observed

the nytpicker:

NBC's Brian Williams Declares NYT's “Discovery” of Brooklyn As Media Story Of 2010. “It's Like Marrakesh,” He Says. — NBC News anchorman Brian Williams has declared the NYT's “discovery of Brooklyn” as the media story of 2010. — “There are young men and women wearing ironic glass frames on the streets …

Discussion: New York Magazine, New York Observer, Gothamist and The Atlantic Wire

Erik Sass / MediaPost:

Online Ad Revenue to Grow 10% in 2011, S&P Predicts — Online advertising revenue and online retail spending will both grow by 10% in 2011, according to the latest forecast from S&P Equity Research, which also issued predictions about major players and the industry as a whole — not all of them rosy.

Ryan Sholin / Invisible Inkling:

So long, ReportingOn — In 2008, I was awarded a Knight News Challenge grant to build ReportingOn, a backchannel for beat reporters to share ideas, information, and sources. The goal of the project was to provide journalists of all stripes with a place to talk about content, not craft, or process, or skillset.

Chris Faraone / thephoenix.com:

Infopocalypse: The cost of too much data — Meet big government's next big problem: Digital Overload. — Our nation is drowning in data. At any given time, federal agencies use more electronic storage units than could fill every NFL stadium from Oakland to Foxboro.

Poynter:

Seniors increasingly read news online, use social media to stay connected — By her own admission, Mary Dysart Quint wastes too much time on Facebook. The Pittsfield, Maine resident logs on to the social networking site three or four times a day to chat with friends and family, share links to... Read more