Mediagazer: Al Jazeera now streaming on TV in U.S. via Roku (Steve Safran/Lost Remote)

5:20 PM ET, February 1, 2011

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Nicholas Carlson / SAI:

LEAKED: AOL's Master Plan — Two years into his tenure as AOL CEO, Tim Armstrong is stepping on the gas. — By April, he wants AOL editorial to increase its stories per month from 33,000 to 55,000. — He wants pageviews per story to jump from 1,500 to 7,000.

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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
I Worked on the AOL Content Farm & It Changed My Life

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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Rupert Murdoch Gives Guests a Sneak Peek of Tomorrow's “Daily” Tonight. Here's What They'll See. — The Daily makes its official debut tomorrow morning, at a press event at New York's Guggenheim Museum. — But a select crowd will get to see the iPad newspaper tonight …

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Damon Kiesow / Poynter:

The Daily staffers we identified came from NY Post, AP, The Atlantic, AOL News, national media companies — The staff of The Daily — Rupert Murdoch's new iPad newspaper that launches tomorrow — bring a wide range of print, online and broadcast experience, mostly at national media outlets …

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Chris Rovzar / New York Magazine: The Daily Columnists Will Include Dan Wolken, Soo Yoon, and Jessica Valenti

New York Times:

Apple Moves to Tighten Control of App Store — SAN FRANCISCO — Apple is further tightening its control of the App Store. — The company has told some applications developers, including Sony, that they can no longer sell content, like e-books, within their apps, or let customers have access …

Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Apple responds: we want a cut of Amazon, Sony e-book sales

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Ingrid Lunden / mocoNews:
Bad News For The Digital Newsstand: Apple Rejects Sony Reader App

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Matea Gold / Los Angeles Times:

Through Egypt, Al Jazeera English has an American moment — The English-language channel, dogged by its Arabic counterpart's image, has had little luck in securing U.S. cable contracts in its four years on the air, but the crisis in Egypt has brought American viewers flocking to its online live stream.

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Vadim Lavrusik / Mashable!:

How Journalists Are Using Social Media to Report on the Egyptian Demonstrations — With the Internet still inaccessible for the majority of people in Egypt, much of the international community is relying on journalists with satellite phones for real-time updates on the violent protests calling …

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Steve Safran / Lost Remote:

Al Jazeera now streaming on TV in U.S. via Roku — Roku, the streaming video player company, has added the live feed of Al Jazeera to its offerings. For mostly political reasons, US cable companies are reluctant to offer the Qatar-based news network. But the crisis in Egypt has shown Al Jazeera …

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Amy Gahran / Knight Digital Media Center All-Site Feed:
How Al Jazeera is putting audio updates from Egypt online fast

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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
YouTube Steps Up to Shine Light on Egypt

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Julie Moos / Poynter:
How Obama, Clinton legitimized Twitter & Facebook as tools of democracy in Egypt

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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
With Egypt in Crisis, Anchors Head to Cairo

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Ben Popper / New York Observer:

Nick Denton on Gawker Redesign: Only Facebook Matters — Gawker went live with its redesign on two of its web sites this morning, io9 and Jalopnik. — Interestingly, the Gawker redesign has stripped out Twitter and Stumble Upon—which used to sit next to each article …

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Ray Wert / Jalopnik:
Welcome to the new Jalopnik 5.0! — You'll notice Jalopnik's …

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Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick:

Hey iTunes, here comes Google Music, Spotify — Google is getting closer to debuting a music service, according to multiple music industry sources who spoke to CNET on condition of anonymity. — Google Music could launch as soon as next month, wrote Brad Stone of BusinessWeek in a story last week.

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Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick: Spotify wouldn't offer as much free music here

IT News Online> Finance:

Newsweek and The Daily Beast Merge — Copyright 2011 PR Newswire. All Rights Reserved — Newsweek magazine and The Daily Beast, an operating business of IAC (Nasdaq: IACI), announced today they have completed their merger which was previously announced on November 12, 2010.

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Zeke Turner / WWD Media Headlines:
Memo Pad: Trailing Tina Brown... Speaking of the Web...

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Jenna Wortham / New York Times:

Apps Alter Reading on the Web — The DVR rocked the world of television by letting viewers skip commercials and build their own home viewing schedules. Now a handful of Web services and applications are starting to do much the same thing to online publishers.

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Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Could BiblioBouts, an online sourcing game for academia, offer lessons for media literacy? — Karen Markey had a fairly straightforward idea: Teach students to steer clear of unreliable sources of information through the use of a game. — What the University of Michigan professor wants …

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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Web Video Doubter Mark Cuban Invests in Web Video Studio Revision3 — Mark Cuban, Web video skeptic? Meet Mark Cuban, Web video investor. — The voluble entrepreneur and investor, who made his fortune off Web video during the first Internet boom, is dabbling in it again …

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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

Industry Moves: News Corp. Adds John McKinley As CTO — On the eve of The Daily's launch, News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) is emphasizing the importance of news products and technology across the company by appointing John McKinley chief technology officer. McKinley, the product and tech lead …

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Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:

Author, Amazon.com Elbow Aside Middleman — Delivering on his promise to try a new publishing model, popular business-book author Seth Godin is releasing his first new title since leaving his long-time publishing house last summer. — While he's doing it without a publisher, he's not exactly going it alone.

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Beet.TV:

The AP's Success on YouTube: It's All About the Breaking News — WASHINGTON, DC — The Associated Press has found considerable traction on YouTube, with some 650 million video views registered since the channel launched in 2006. — According to Kevin Roach, who heads broadcast news operations …

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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

Blekko Bans Content Farms Like Demand Media's eHow From Its Search Results — Blekko, the perky little search engine startup that lets you customize your search results, is taking the fight against web spam to a new level. It already allows searchers to mark results as spam and keeps …

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Eric Enge / Search Engine Land: The Rise And Fall Of Content Farms

Guardian:

Lionel Barber's Hugh Cudlipp lecture: the full text — Speech by the Financial Times editor at London College of Communication — The Business of Journalism: a View from the Frontline — Thank you Lady Cudlipp, trustees, and students of the London College of Communication for inviting me here tonight ...

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