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12:15 AM ET, February 14, 2011

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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

Gutenberg of Arabia — At the critical climax of the Egyptian revolution, one of its sparks, Google's Wael Ghonim, told his followers on Twitter that he would not speak to them through media but instead through the Facebook page he created, the page he'd used to gather momentum for the protest …

Discussion: Pressthink, The Daily Beast and Future of Journalism

Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:

Ayman Mohyeldin: Al Jazeera's Breakout Star — Ayman Mohyeldin earned raves covering Egypt's coup for the Qatar-based network. He talks to Lloyd Grove about being roughed up by the military, the next big protests, and Anderson Cooper's whining. Plus, full coverage of Egypt's uprising.

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

Al Jazeera's Social Revolution (In Realtime) — While you can debate about the exact role of social media, specifically Twitter and Facebook, in Egypt's revolution, there is no question about its role as a new global media channel. Where once people tuned into CNN to watch governments collapse …

Discussion: CyberJournalist.net, THINK / Musings and SAI

David Carr / New York Times:

At Media Companies, a Nation of Serfs — Some of the fizz, if not a great big bubble, seems to have returned to media, depending on how you define “media.” — There have been reports in The New York Times and elsewhere that Facebook is now valued at $50 billion, and The Wall Street Journal reported …

Discussion: Mixed Media

Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:

The Traffic Bubble — The new high tech-bubble might not be the one you're thinking of. Measuring the bubble's size and inner pressure of is a delicate exercise. For today, we'll consider two sectors: social networks and online media — such as the Huffington Post acquired last week by AOL for a stunning $315m.

Mandy / Zombie Journalism:

TBD's future is TBD, but then again, it always has been — If you didn't read about all of the drama regarding TBD this week, well allow me to catch you up. On Wednesday, TBD six-month anniversary, our staff and the rest of the world found out TBD was going to be restructured internally …

Anupreeta Das / Wall Street Journal:

J.P. Morgan Plans New-Media Fund — J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., riding the wave of investor interest in fast-growing, privately held technology firms such as Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc., plans to start a fund that would invest in Internet and digital-media companies, people familiar with the matter said.

Discussion: SAI, more at Techmeme »

Joe Strupp / Media Matters for America:

Sherrod Sues Breitbart For Damaged Reputation — Blogger Andrew Breitbart has been sued by former U.S. Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod who contends her reputation was damaged by Breitbart's posting last year of an edited video. — The New York Times reports today Breitbart …

Discussion: Salon

Martin Anderson / Shadowlocked:

YOUTUBE AND THE MAJOR FILM STUDIOS — OPINION & FEATURES - MOVIES — We're (potentially) damned if we do and impersonated if we don't - will there ever be a clear policy on the consumer's re-use of copyrighted movie material..? — In the course of writing lists or features …

The Fix:

Dishing with Liz Smith! — (NEW YORK) Anna! … Listen and learn, chéris. BY EDDIE ROCHE — New York isn't the same without your column in the New York Post. It ran there for 14 years. Do you miss it? — Oh, yeah, it was a terrible blow to me to find out that I was dispensable to them.

Michael H. Miller / New York Observer:

Oscar de la Renta Meets the Internet — Five fashion bloggers from Tumblr got out of a cab at 40th and Seventh Avenue, and it looked for a moment like a clown car. They waited in the lobby of a big midtown building for 19 others to arrive to take a tour of Oscar de la Renta's studio.