Mediagazer: Media-Tech Meet-Ups in Vegas (Wall Street Journal)

1:55 PM ET, January 8, 2011

Top News:

BBC:

US wants Twitter details of Wikileaks activists — Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is currently fighting extradition from the UK to Sweden — The US government has subpoenaed the social networking site Twitter for personal details of people connected to Wikileaks, court documents show.

Discussion: Salon, New York Times, Guardian, BoomTown, Boing Boing, CNET News, Threat Level, msnbc.com, New York Magazine, TechCrunch, MetaFilter and AdScam/The Horror!, more at Techmeme »

Adrian Chen / Gawker:

Courtney Love's Slanderous Twitter Account Suspended — Courtney Love's highly-entertaining Twitter account, CourtneyLoveUK, has been suspended! And this just days after she was hit with the world's first-ever Twitter defamation lawsuit, stemming from a 2009 tweet-based rant.

WWD Media Headlines:

The Paris Review Won't Change — NOTHING LIKE PARIS: Times have changed, but the Paris Review won't. Editor Lorin Stein appeared with three of his deputies at McNally Jackson Books on Prince Street Thursday night to talk about publishing a literary quarterly in the online age.

Wall Street Journal:

Media-Tech Meet-Ups in Vegas — Media and technology companies cozied up to each other at the Consumer Electronics Show this week, touting their collaborations on stage and flaunting their friendships at private parties all along the Las Vegas Strip. — Talks progressed on a number of potential deals.

Discussion: The Corsair

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

Cisco Expects 12 Billion Net Connected Devices by 2014 and Plans to Deliver Video to Many — LAS VEGAS, Cisco Systems expects that there will be 12 billion devices connected to the Internet by 2014 and plans to deliver video to many of these devices through Cisco Videoscape, says Murali Nemani …

Discussion: The Huffington Post

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Why Google and Demand Media Are Headed for a Showdown — There's been a chorus of criticism recently about Google's spam-filled search results, including pointed blog posts from a number of technology and web luminaries, complaining that the company's links are in many cases virtually unusable …

Discussion: TechCrunch, Burst Media Company Blog and paidContent:UK

Martin Bryant / The Next Web:

WordPress.com growing fast. Over 6 million new blogs in 2010, pageviews up 53% — Automattic's WordPress.com, the commercially run leg of the popular blogging platform is growing incredibly fast, according to its latest statistics. — Automattic tells us that it has seen over 6 million …

Discussion: Mashable!

The Wire:

Award-Winning Village Voice Contributor Canned For Fabricating Sources, HuffPo Deletes Posts* — On Wednesday Village Voice editor Tony Ortega pulled an article from the Voice website after it came out that freelance reporter and recent Columbia grad Rob Sgobbo had fabricated the sources …

Discussion: http://www.Stinkyjournalism …, Gothamist, Mediaite, The Huffington Post and Poynter, Thanks:mradamtaylor

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

AOL's Goal: Grow Homepage Traffic...A LOT — Earlier this week I told you that AOL recently kicked off what it calls the Winter Luge, a sort of motivational event in which employees are challenged to achieve certain goals within a compressed time frame. (The previous incarnation was called Summer Sprints.)

Discussion: SAI

Jenna Sauers / Jezebel:

Epic Ladymag Meltdown Causes Duplicate Cover F**k-Up — “Glenda, we have a problem with the new cover.” — Glenda Bailey: “A problem?” — Editor: “Um, it's come out looking just like last month's.” — Glenda Bailey: “How so?” — Editor: “Well, the hair's the same …

Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:

Robert Gibbs on tangling with the White House press corps — Robert Gibbs is well versed in the ways of the scoop-obsessed Washington press corps, having been a political spokesman for more than a decade. But the outgoing White House Press Secretary says that the pace of news has only revved …

Discussion: Poynter, ABCNEWS, Political Punch and The Daily Beast

Nat Ives / AdAge:

Xtranormal Videos Run Rampant on Web, Make Their Way to TV — Startup Rolls Out Characters That Look a Lot Like Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer and Andy Rubin — LAS VEGAS (AdAge.com) — Geico's slick CGI gecko is getting competition from some adorably low-fi characters.

Discussion: GigaOM

Mathew Ingram / GigaOMTech:

Memo to Newspapers: Stop Thinking Like a Portal — Updated: The story of homeless radio announcer Ted Williams became an Internet sensation this week, as a video of him got passed around on Twitter and in the blogosphere, and quickly led to appearances on the Today Show and job offers from around the country.

Discussion: prTini, The Daily Beast, Associated Press and Lost Remote, Thanks:mathewi