Mediagazer: Video: Anthony Rose On Google TV's Failure And His Next Big Project (Robert Andrews/paidContent)

11:10 PM ET, January 27, 2011

Top News:

The New York Times, Demand Media Edition — Demand Media — widely described as a “content farm” — went public yesterday and quickly racked up a valuation higher than the New York Times. I figured the news might cause some at the New York Times to wonder if they needed to be more Demand Media-like.

Discussion: Poynter and Future of Journalism

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

Is Demand Media Doing Enough to Prevent Plagiarism? — My post from yesterday on the staggering dumbness of so much of the how-to content produced by Demand Media generated a lot of response, much of it positive, but some from readers who thought I was unfair.

Discussion: B2B Memes

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Demand Media Says It's Getting Along Just Fine With Google, Thank You Very Much

Discussion: Poynter, Deal Journal, GigaOM, Folio, paidContent, The Social, ReadWriteWeb, CNNMoney.com and VatorNews, more at Techmeme »

Felix Gillette / Business Week:
Demand Media's Planet of the Algorithms

Discussion: SAI

Keith Richman / AdAge:
Why Demand Media Really Is a Media Company and Its IPO Will Succeed

Discussion: Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Congratulations, Demand Media. You're Still Pretty Dumb.

Discussion: TechCrunch, The Informer, @rafat, CJR, New York Magazine, paidContent, The Wire, The Atlantic Online, Epicenter, Gannett Blog, Poynter and Deal Journal

Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:

News Corp.'s iPad magazine launching Feb. 2 — News Corporation has chosen Groundhog Day for its launch of The Daily, a digital publication designed for tablet devices—and it's chosen New York, not the previously rumored San Francisco, for the Feb. 2 event.

Discussion: Media Decoder, Mixed Media, Apple Bitch, Ars Technica, The Wrap, TechCrunch, FishbowlNY, The Wire, NetNewsCheck Latest and NYConvergence.com

Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:

Apple, News Corp to hold event to launch The Daily — Apple and News Corp sent out invitations on Thursday to press for the launch of the Daily, a newspaper designed specifically for iPads. — According to the invitation received by The Loop on Thursday, News Corp Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch …

Nick Summers / @nicksumm: Rupert's The Daily now set to launch at the Guggenheim in NYC next Wednesday. Steve Jobs looking like a no-show.

Andrew Wallenstein / paidContent:

Why Jason Kilar Will Leave Hulu — The portrait of Hulu that emerged from today's Wall Street Journal is that of a hopelessly dysfunctional venture at odds with itself over its future direction. If it's true as reported that CEO Jason Kilar has threatened to exit the company …

Discussion: Future of Journalism and The Wire

Wall Street Journal:
Hulu Plots New Script

Adam Sorensen / The Page:

O, Mark Salter!! — McCain wordsmith revealed as “anonymous” author of “O” the novel. — Confirmed by sources, but there were lots of in-plain-sight clues that led to Salter's Maine door. — (Flashback: Page Six touted Salter.) — Read them here. » — Tweet — FAN - FOLLOW - FEED

The Fix:

White House picks Jay Carney as new press secretary — President Obama has chosen Jay Carney to serve as his new press secretary, replacing longtime loyalist Robert Gibbs who is leaving his post in mid February, according to a senior Administration official.

Discussion: Mediaite, Political Punch, CNN, USA Today, Fox News, NPR, PostPartisan, The Caucus and The Huffington Post

Anthony De Rosa / @antderosa:
New White House press secretary Jay Carney was one of the first mainstream journalists to take up blogging.

Discussion: NationalJournal.com and CBS News

Audrey Watters / ReadWriteWeb:

Localeaks: A Drop-Box for Anonymous Tips to 1400 U.S. Newspapers — Although the mission of WikiLeaks is to “open governments,” it's done quite a lot to make us think about how to open journalism as well. We've seen a number of new whistleblower sites crop up - OpenLeaks and Rospil …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, Editors Weblog and WebNewser

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
The disruptors arrive at Davos

Discussion: Canadian Press and ReadWriteWeb

Keren Blankfeld / Forbes:

The Optimist — Forbes Magazine dated February 14, 2011 — Undaunted by his Tribune debacle, Sam Zell is now cutting a bold path in emerging markets. — At the turn of each year since late 1994 Sam Zell, the real estate billionaire known as “the grave dancer,” has indulged in a fit of musical fancy.

Discussion: Poynter, LA Observed, The Wrap, @iwantmedia and @romenesko

Jemima Kiss / Guardian:

Mail Online tops 3m daily users — Daily Mail network of websites scores another month of record traffic, reportedly driven by US growth — Mail Online was the only UK national newspaper website to defy a dip in online audience in December, topping 3 million daily users for the first time in the process.

Discussion: Media Week and Press Gazette

David Lieberman / USA Today:

What are Comcast's plans for NBC News operations? — Keith Olbermann may have unwittingly done Comcast a favor last week when MSNBC's most popular commentator startled audiences by announcing that he had just hosted his last show on the cable news network. — Sure, it was awkward for Comcast.

Discussion: AdAge, Poynter, Company Town and On Media's Blog

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Video: Anthony Rose On Google TV's Failure And His Next Big Project — As BBC future media controller, Anthony Rose took an unwieldy iPlayer by the horns and turned it in to the UK's VOD powerhouse. He recently left as CTO of the UK's YouView connected-TV consortium.

Discussion: ukaop.org.uk

Tom Junod / Esquire:

Roger Ailes on Roger Ailes: The Interview Transcripts, Part 2 — On How President Obama Should Have Handled Stanley Mcchrystal — I haven't even talked to him. Rupert's talked to him once. I would hire him. Look, here's a guy who didn't get the media training because he was out killing people in the night.

Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog

Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:

MSNBC's Sarah Palin Sickness … The following article appears in this week's issue of The Hollywood Reporter on newsstands Thursday. — Now that Keith Olbermann has left MSNBC, perhaps cable news can begin weaning itself from its addiction to Sarah Palin.

Discussion: Mediaite, Yahoo! News, TVNewser, The Huffington Post, On Media's Blog and Vast Wasteland

Julia Boorstin / CNBC:

Correlation or Causation? CBS Stock & Charlie Sheen on TMZ — CBS [CBS Loading... () ] stock moved south starting at around 2:15 pm, at one point off as much as 2 percent. It happens that at 2:20pm Eastern TMZ posted a report that Charlie Sheen was rushed to the hospital this morning on a stretcher.

Discussion: TMZ.com, PopEater and Guardian

Jim Romenesko / Poynter:

Guild, Newsweek pact clears way for Daily Beast merger — Romenesko Misc. — Under the agreement, non-supervisory editorial employees who produce the Daily Beast will be covered by the same contract that now covers many of Newsweek's journalists. — The Newspaper Guild of New York today announced …

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Netflix Takes Aim at the Cable Guys, With a Promise to Start Firing Tomorrow — Interesting PR campaign from Netflix, which is fighting with the cable guys and telcos over the cost of delivering all that streaming video to your living room: The company is going to publish a list of broadband Internet providers, ranked by performance.