Mediagazer: Live-tweeting with @NoReservations (Robinsloan/Twitter Media)

Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:

AOL Buys Outside.In, Less Than $10 Million — AOL will announce today that it has acquired “hyper-local” blog aggregator startup Outside.In, an industry source tells us. — We don't know if AOL will announce how much it is paying for the company — probably not — but we're told that it is less than $10 million.

Discussion: TechCrunch, paidContent, MediaMemo, NYConvergence.com and Mashable!

Nicholas Carlson / The Business Insider:

How AOL's Patch Can Win And Prove Us Wrong When We Say It's A Horrible, Doomed Idea — AOL CEO Tim Armstrong's whole turnaround plan is to take cash flow from the company's dying subscriber business, and make big bets on content businesses. — As a framework, this is a good plan.

Discussion: CNET News, Poynter and SAI

Lacey Rose / Hollywood Reporter:
CEO Tim Armstrong, Arianna Huffington Reveal AOL's Ambitious Hollywood Strategy

Discussion: GigaOM

Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:

New York Times online pay model details coming in ‘matter of weeks’ — If you were the executive editor of one of the world's most prestigious and widely read newspapers, how would you justify billing a reader for a print version that he's no longer reading?

Discussion: The Wire, The Huffington Post, Gawker, UnBeige and Poynter

Discussion: Felix Salmon, The Huffington Post and Future of Journalism

Thomas Catan / Wall Street Journal:

Web Video Rivalry Sparks U.S. Probe — The Justice Department is investigating whether a group representing some top technology firms is unfairly trying to smother a free rival technology for delivering online video that is backed by Google Inc., according to people familiar with the matter.

Discussion: Fortune, GigaOM, CNET News, Guardian, paidContent and Post Tech, more at Techmeme »

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

No More Digital Discount: Conde Nast Raises Prices For Two iPad Magazines — iPad magazines haven't been huge hits. At least in part because readers say they're too expensive. — So this one's a bit of a head-scratcher: Conde Nast is going to raise the prices of two of its tablet titles.

Discussion: mediabistro.com, FishbowlNY and Poynter

Steve Buttry / The Buttry Diary:

TBD has made mistakes, but we understand our community(ies) — It is against my nature to hold my tongue. Or my keyboard. — I have refrained from saying much publicly about the recent cutbacks at TBD because ... well, because. The reasons are complicated and I still work here.

Discussion: The Buttry Diary and Poynter

David Kaplan / paidContent:

@ pC2011: Keith Olbermann: I'm Not Crazy For Joining Current Media — So here's the deal Current TV has for its new chief news officer: Keith Olbermann, who in addition to crafting the behind the scenes content for the cable channel will be back in his old 8pm time slot this summer, gets to say whatever he wants.

Discussion: The Wire, Mixed Media, The Wrap, Yahoo! News and FOK News Channel

James Wolcott / Vanity Fair:

It's Morgan In America — Where did Piers Morgan come from? And is there any way to send him back? Reviewing the debut “gets”—Oprah! Rudy! Condoleezza!—of Larry King's blustery British heir, the author examines the failures behind Morgan's success. — If you're going to go in, go in big.

Discussion: TVNewser

David Kaplan / paidContent:

@ pC2011: Denton: The Internet Is A Mass Medium, Not A Niche One — In a very amiable dialogue about the nature of “internet success,” Gawker founderNick Denton told Reuters' finance blogger Felix Salmon that revenues were expected to be flat this year. Though Salmon floated a number ("It's about $2 million a month, right?")

Discussion: Between the Lines Blog, CJR, The Wrap, Beet.TV, Felix Salmon and Soup, more at Techmeme »

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, The Wrap and The Wire

Jay Rosen / Pressthink:

Why “Bloggers vs. Journalists” is Still With Us — A pre-conference post. Ideas in motion. These are notes in preparation for my talk at South by Southwest in Austin next week. You can help me make it better! — I am going to be doing a solo presentation at South by Southwest in Austin this year.

Discussion: Poynter

Bloomberg:

Murdoch's News Corp. May Have to Pay $17.4 Billion for Its BSkyB Purchase — Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. (NWSA) may have to raise its bid for British Sky Broadcasting Plc to as much as 10.7 billion pounds ($17.4 billion) to win over the pay- television operator's shareholders.

Discussion: Guardian, Guardian and Company Town

Felix Gillette / Business Week:

Ben Silverman, Advertainer — The TV dealmaker is selling a new entertainment vision in which advertising and content are inextricably mixed. Is anyone buying it? — On his recent honeymoon in India, Ben Silverman sold an idea to his wife. Any tourist could go sightseeing …

Lore Sjöberg / Underwire:

Alt Text: Going Undercover at an Unregulated Content Farm — Google has declared war on content farms. Controversy rages over what's best for Google, for business, for the honest, hard-working porn-seeker. But who's worrying about what's best for the content?

Journalism.org:

BLOGGERS TAKE SIDES IN THE WISCONSIN STANDOFF — For the second straight week, social and mainstream media shared similar news agendas as the labor stalemate in Wisconsin and the violent unrest in Libya garnered the most attention. But while the traditional press focused more on the events …

Discussion: Poynter and WebNewser

Robinsloan / Twitter Media:

Live-tweeting with @NoReservations — On Monday night, the Travel Channel demonstrated an on-air Twitter integration that was simple but powerful—a new template for any TV show. Here's how it worked. — Seven times during the season premiere of No Reservations, the Travel Channel told …

Discussion: parislemon

Kim Zetter / Epicenter:

TED 2011: Junk Food Algorithms and the World They Feed Us — LONG BEACH, Calif. — With the birth of the internet came the promise — or so the myth goes — of broadened horizons and fantastic new ways to connect people and viewpoints in ways we could not have imagined.

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Plum TV's Lehman Named NBCU's President, Digital Networks — Nicholas Lehman, formerly CEO of lifestyle Plum TV, has joined NBC Universal (NSDQ: CMCSA) as president of Digital for NBCUniversal's Entertainment & Digital Networks and Integrated Media division (E&DN/IM).

Discussion: MediaMemo and FishbowlNY

Discussion: Techland and Broadcasting & Cable