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2:40 PM ET, February 10, 2011

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Jay Rosen / Pressthink:
The Politics of the New Huffington Post at AOL  —  Is ideological innovation possible in online journalism?  I think it is.  My suggestion: Drop the View from Nowhere and go with transparency throughout the reborn AOL.  —  These are the top five questions journalists have been asking …
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Emily Steel / Wall Street Journal:
Advertisers Weigh AOL, Politics
Discussion: The Wire and Fast Company
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Huffpo Isn't Huffpo Without the People. Does AOL Know That?
Wall Street Journal:
Twitter as Tech Bubble Barometer  —  As Internet valuations climb and bankers and would-be buyers circle Silicon Valley in an increasingly frothy tech market, many eyes are on one particularly desirable, if still enigmatic, target: Twitter.  —  Executives at both Facebook Inc. and Google Inc. …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
More Subscriptions For Time Inc: Sports Illustrated/Google Deal Coming  —  Yesterday Time Inc. announced a deal to offer digital magazine subscriptions on Hewlett-Packard's new tablet.  Tomorrow it will have a deal to announce with Google.  —  This one will be more limited than yesterday's announcement …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Despite Pushback From Pubs, Apple Will Make iTunes Subscription Billing Mandatory  —  When Rupert Murdoch's The Daily launched last week, Apple's VP Eddy Cue got on stage to announce one-click subscriptions for iPad publications through iTunes.  The Daily already has the one-click billing option …
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Yahoo Unveils ‘Livestand’ Tablet Newsstand And ‘Personalized News’ Focus  —  Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) revealed details of its mobile “personalization” initiative that were hinted at earlier this week.  In a conference call led by Blake Irving, the company's chief product officer, Yahoo's The platform …
Fortune:
Conan 2.0  —  How a late-night Luddite accidentally fought his way back into bedrooms (and computers, smartphones, and tablets) across America.  —  By Douglas Alden Warshaw, contributor  —  Conan O'Brien is in his bedroom.  It's a little bit past 11 p.m., and he's shyly, hesitantly, nervously attempting to do his first webcast.
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Gawker's Scoop Draws Eyes to a New Format  —  Representative Christopher Lee's sudden resignation on Wednesday was triggered by an article on Gawker, the Manhattan-based gossip Web site.  —  The story of the married “Craigslist Congressman” who evidently sought out a woman via …
Byrne / majordojo:
How did WordPress win?  —  When we are passionate about something, it is sometimes hard for us to wrap our heads around why someone else might not be passionate about the same thing.  You see this in the WordPress community often - fans and users of WordPress are often flabbergasted that someone might choose something else.
Scott Rosenberg / MediaShift Idea Lab:
See an Error at the Washington Post?  Now You Can Easily Report It  —  Beginning Monday, every new staff-written article on the Washington Post's website came with a prominent link labeled “YOUR FEEDBACK: Corrections, suggestions?”  One click takes the reader to a form for reporting errors or providing other feedback to the newsroom.
Discussion: Future of Journalism
Michael Bush / AdAge:
Virgin America on Why Twitter, Facebook Are More Important to Airline Than TV  —  Carrier's Top Marketer Porter Gale: ‘Other Airlines Should Recognize That Social Media Is Not Going Away’  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — While discussing the rewards that Twitter and Facebook have delivered …
Matthew Lasar / Ars Technica:
Can cable block the Google TV revolution?  —  Behind the scenes at the Federal Communications Commission, a quiet war is being waged over the future of television.  It isn't getting as many headlines as net neutrality or the Comcast/NBCU merger, but the debate is nearly as important.
Adam Westbrook:
10 free and totally legal programs every multimedia journalist should have  —  Image credit: BinaryApe on Flickr  —  The multimedia journalist's toolbox is ever growing - and getting ever cheaper.  —  While some of the top flight bits of kit: Adobe After Effects, Final Cut Studio …
Terry Heaton / Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog:
WJLA-TV re-assumes control of “its” website  —  According to reports out of Washington, Albritton Communications is transferring control of its experimental news start-up, TBD.com, back to its TV station in the market, WJLA-TV, where GM and News Director Bill Lord will now be in charge.
Discussion: Poynter, Lost Remote, The Wrap and @lavrusik
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Tim Molloy / The Wrap:
Mubarak News Fills Airwaves With Uncertainty — Except About One Thing  —  News that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's resignation could be imminent filled the airwaves with questions, and the major cable news networks, understandably, did a better job of framing than answering them.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Mobile Insiders Say Apple's iAds Are “Hurting”  —  Apple's iAds are hitting a rough spot.  Across the board, several developers I've spoken to confirm that “fill rates” for iAds dropped drastically after the New Year and have yet to recover.  The fill rate—what percentage of the ad inventory …
Discussion: MacRumors and MacStories
 
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Damon Kiesow / Poynter:
Boston Globe's augmented reality project an example of quick, cheap innovation
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Greg Masters / American Journalism Review:
“Verve and Attitude”
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Ben Popper / New York Observer:
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Adam Hochberg / Poynter:
Maddow, MSNBC chase ‘two-screen viewers’ to increase engagement, ratings
 

 
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Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
An undisclosed 2023 agreement between Microsoft and OpenAI defines achieving AGI as the point when OpenAI develops AI systems that generate $100B+ in profits

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