Mediagazer: How Much Super Bowl Is Too Much Super Bowl? (David Roth/The Awl)

3:40 AM ET, February 6, 2011

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The Daily Wait — I've been reading The Daily each day since its debut Wednesday. Three days, three issues. My opinion of it has declined each day. Until I see an updated version of the app, I'm done with it. I noticed yesterday that it took way too long to load the day's new issue.

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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Users Rate The Daily: Better than NY Times App, Worse Than WSJ

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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

NBC: Here's Why We Fired the “Today Show” YouTube Leaker — Yup, NBC did indeed fire the guy who put that 1994 “Today Show” clip up on YouTube. — Here's the company's official statement: “The individual in question violated the company's standards of conduct by repeatedly copying …

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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

NBC Fires Guy Who Posted The Bryant Gumbel/Katie Couric ‘What Is Internet’ Video — Like a bunch of sites, we posted about the amusing video that had been posted to YouTube, that showed Katie Couric and Bryant Gumbel, back in 1994, very confused about the internet. The video itself went viral pretty quickly.

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Ethan / ...My heart's in Accra:

Interview with Andy Carvin on curating Twitter to watch Tunisia, Egypt — Andy Carvin is a pioneer in online organizing, digital journalism and social media. He's currently “senior strategist” at NPR, helping the radio network develop their digital strategies.

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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Readability Just Became Instapaper's Publisher Payment Layer — Personally, I think the concept behind Readability is pretty awesome. It gives you a way to read all your favorite articles on the web without all of the clutter of the web — meaning, mainly, ads.

Discussion: Instapaper Blog, Sample the Web, Readability Blog and SAI

David Roth / The Awl:

How Much Super Bowl Is Too Much Super Bowl? — On Thursday morning, I went to the Paley Center for Media—which used to be the Museum of Television and Radio, and still kind of is, although it's now called the Paley Center for Media—and was brought down into a basement dubbing room …

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Arianna Huffington / Guardian:

Traditional papers didn't know how to handle WikiLeaks | Arianna Huffington — WikiLeaks revelations were fascinating - but the key points were too often overlooked by the press, writes Arianna Huffington — With condolences to the iPad and Sarah Palin's Twitter account, WikiLeaks is the media story of our time.

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:

Exclusive: HuffPo's Eric Hippeau Stepping Down From Yahoo Board as Akamai's David Kenny Steps In — Eric Hippeau (pictured here), longtime Yahoo board member and one of its earliest investors, will be stepping down as a director, according to sources close to the situation.

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Frances Martel / Mediaite:

Matt Drudge Surfaces On Twitter To Talk Internet Lexicon, Obama Poll Numbers — Notoriously elusive internet aggregator Matt Drudge has decided to give his internet persona a voice away from the screechy headlines. With little fanfare, the Drudge Report added to the tops of its stories …

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Washington Post:

The argument for funding public media — Federal funding for public media has once again become a target in the debate about fiscal prudence. Attempts last fall to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting were defeated along party lines. CPB provides financial support for locally owned …

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Emily Bell / Guardian:

The Daily, and the AOL way — News Corp's glossy iPad launch represents the world of ‘spectacle’ media, while the web giant focuses on the ugly data — There were two faces of digital media abroad in New York this week. One was its most impressively flat shiny square face …

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Storyful, YouTube: The value of the impermanent team-up — The turmoil in Egypt has shown, yet again, the key role that curation plays in a networked news environment. But as valuable as all the text-based aggregators are — which is to say, hugely valuable — the constantly shifting events …

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