Mediagazer: HP research shows mainstream media drive Twitter ‘trends’ to a surprising degree (ETHAN BAULEY/Data Central)

11:00 AM ET, February 15, 2011

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Trudy Muller / Apple:

Apple Launches Subscriptions on the App Store — Apple® today announced a new subscription service available to all publishers of content-based apps on the App Store℠, including magazines, newspapers, video, music, etc. This is the same innovative digital subscription billing service …

Discussion: Mixed Media, GigaOM, FishbowlNY, Fortune, Fast Company, SAI, Epicenter, ReadWriteWeb, AppAdvice and MacRumors, more at Techmeme »

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Apple Launches Subscriptions For Content-Publishers On The App Store — As we heard at the Daily's launch a few weeks ago, Apple was planning to launch a new subscriptions model for content-publishers on the App Store. And today, Apple is officially announcing the new service for magazines …

Discussion: New York Observer, CNET News and The Next Web

Damon Kiesow / Poynter:
Tablet options proliferate for publishers, but Apple maintains control

Discussion: paidContent, eMedia Vitals and Editors Weblog

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Content Farming: Is Online Media Just a Digital Sweatshop? — The recent sale of Huffington Post to AOL for $315 million has focused a lot of attention on the economics of online media. Many seem concerned that the sale of Arianna Huffington's creation — along with other recent developments …

Discussion: BuzzMachine, Poynter, Online Journalism Blog, paidContent, Free Press, The Daily Dish, Newspaper Death Watch and Stowe Boyd, more at Techmeme », Thanks:mathewi

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

72 Hours: Inside Arianna's Mission To Change AOL — Late Monday afternoon, Arianna Huffington tweeted a picture from AOL (NYSE: AOL) headquarters with the note “Valentine's Day transition meeting with ice cream sundaes afterward.” She's already sent one from the AOL gym.

Discussion: New York Times and FiveThirtyEight

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

First AOL Q1 Luge Update Since HuffPo Acquisition: We've Got Work To Do (No Kidding) — It's rare that we get access to insider information as AOL employees here at TechCrunch HQ, so we have to rely on our mad reporting skills and the strength of our inboxes in order to figure out the goings on over in Dulles and at 770 Broadway.

Discussion: SAI, Guardian and LA Observed

Ryan Chittum / CJR:

AOL's HuffPo Premium Doesn't Mean Much For the NYT — Frederic Filloux has some harsh criticism of The Huffington Post's business model, calling it “a digital sandcastle.” — But what caught my eye was this at the bottom of his piece: … If only this were true. — Alas, his numbers are off there.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, New York Observer and Future of Journalism

ETHAN BAULEY / Data Central:

HP research shows mainstream media drive Twitter ‘trends’ to a surprising degree — Who gets to determine the big topics of conversation on social media? And how do they do it? Looking to find out, HP researchers recently examined how popular subjects get to be listed among the top ‘trending’ topics on Twitter.

Discussion: Depth Reporting, Lost Remote, VentureBeat, Mashable!, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, Epicenter, eMedia Vitals, MarketingVOX, ReadWriteWeb, Fast Company and SAI, more at Techmeme », Thanks:hpnews

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Eight trends for journalism in 2011: A Nieman Lab talk in Toronto — A couple weeks ago, I had the pleasure of being asked to speak at the Canadian Journalism Foundation's speaker series at the University of Toronto. (I also had the pleasure of being introduced by Nora Young, host of the CBC's excellent program/podcast/site Spark.)

Discussion: Media Nation

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

How the AP Vetted a Citizen Video of a Death in Cairo.....and the Arduous Task of Verifying UGC — WASHINGTON — During the unrest in Egypt, CNN iReporters uploaded 1600 videos and photos,of which 44 were vetted for use on CNN. — While there is value having citizen reporting out on the streets …

Wall Street Journal:

Online, Small Voices Become Sparks of Revolution — For most of the last century, the world operated on the big-man theory of politics: Towering personalities were required to drive big changes. — We now seem to have moved into the small-person era of history, in which seemingly insignificant people …

Patrick Smith / TheMediaBriefing:

Weasel words and journalism: It's either true or it isn't — The problems with the use of anonymous sources in the UK media - GrabMore — The CBS journalist Serene Branson has become world-famous, but not in the way she would have liked. — The twice-Emmy nominee was presenting from LA …

Discussion: Telegraph, CBS Los Angeles, The Wire, Dave Lee and Online Journalism Blog, Thanks:rorybrown

Nat Worden / Wall Street Journal:

Web-Video Viewing Jumps — Internet-video viewing data for January show Netflix Inc. building substantial momentum with its paid streaming video service, which has become a disruptive force in the TV and film industry as consumers migrate online. — Netflix was No. 1 by a wide margin …

Discussion: Online Video News, Venture Capital Dispatch and Shelly Palmer Digital Living

Ian Hunter / BBC:

BBC Online and ‘deleting’ websites — There's been a lively discussion on the issues around archiving websites this week that kicked off with an initial post from Adactio blogger Jeremy Keith. He suggested that the BBC's plans to halve its top level directories were cultural vandalism.

Discussion: currybetdotnet

Eric Pfanner / New York Times:

Condé Nast Newsstand Tries Convergence of Technologies — LONDON — A newsstand set to open here next week will sell more than a dozen international editions of Vogue magazine, in languages including English, Russian and Chinese. More than 100 other titles from around the world …

Discussion: MediaPost and Noted

John C Abell / Epicenter:
Wired and The New Yorker for Android Coming This Spring

Discussion: eMedia Vitals

Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:

Reuters staffers unhappy with union letter likening contract dispute to Egypt uprising — Did the Newspaper Guild of New York go too far in likening a Thomson Reuters contract dispute to the recent social uprising that toppled Egypt's authoritarian government?

Discussion: Poynter