Mediagazer: NBC's ‘Today’ Going Behind the Scenes Tuesday (Alex Weprin/TVNewser)

8:30 PM ET, March 6, 2011

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Dylan Tweney / Epicenter:

Al Jazeera English Plans Show Centered on Social Networking — As the Arab world reels with revolutions fomented in part online, Al Jazeera English is planning a new talk show that has social networking at its heart. — It's just lucky timing, says Ahmed Shihab-Eldin …

Discussion: Runnin' Scared, @lavrusik and The Atlantic Online

Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:

What the Egyptian Revolution Taught Al Jazeera About Digital — Much has been made of the role that social media played in the Egyptian revolution, including the way international news network Al Jazeera used social media in its reporting. But the crisis also taught the organization a number …

Cathy Williams / KCET: KCET Offers Morning International Newscasts

Felix Salmon:

The FT's decline — I had a hard-to-follow Twitter debate yesterday about the FT's paywall, where a couple of FT types — Alan Beattie and John Gapper — told me that the latest numbers for digital subscribers show that I was wrong when I criticized the FT's strategy in October 2007.

Discussion: Beet.TV and @jayrosen_nyu

Eric Pfanner / New York Times:

Financial Times Digs Gold Out of Data — PARIS — For newspapers, connecting with readers is the ultimate challenge. At newsstands, many customers choose a paper only after they see the headline on the cover. The lady in hair curlers and a bathrobe might choose “Toe job to no job,” …

Tim MacMahon / ESPN:

Mark Cuban, Charlie Sheen in talks — DALLAS — Mark Cuban, the outspoken billionaire owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks, and controversial actor Charlie Sheen could soon be business partners. — Cuban confirmed Sunday evening that he's had several conversations with Sheen recently …

Discussion: @thefamousjay and @espn

Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:

Redesigned Newsweek on stands Monday — Tina Brown's redesigned Newsweek will hit newsstands and the iTunes App Store on Monday, March 7, and Brown will reveal the cover Sunday morning on ABC's “This Week with Christiane Amanpour,” The Cutline has learned. — Brown has slowly been reinventing …

Discussion: Poynter, The Daily Dish, ABCNEWS, mediabistro.com, Mediaite, The Wire and The Huffington Post

Arthur S. Brisbane / New York Times:

Business News You Didn't Read Here — THE universe covered by The New York Times is vast, spiraling to the ends of the known worlds of politics, business, culture, sports, science, entertainment and more. — Yet at the very center of it all lies a tiny black hole: the largely uncovered subject …

Discussion: Talking Biz News

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Twitter's “Quickbar Uprising” Is Nothing: Wait Till The Ads Really Show Up — Some people hate Twitter's new iPhone app, and Twitter is listening: It's going to change the app slightly. — Which won't appease the people who hate Twitter's new iPhone app at all.

Discussion: Mashable!, The Next Web and Net Worked, more at Techmeme »

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

NBC's ‘Today’ Going Behind the Scenes Tuesday — In a first for the nearly 60 year old morning show, NBC's “Today” will present a live simulcast online as the show airs on the broadcast network. — “Today” fourth-hour hosts Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford will host the online show starting at 7:30 AM …

Discussion: Media Decoder and FishbowlNY

Mike Swift / Mercury News:

In YouTube, Google finds a nimble model to compete with Facebook — Once derided as Google's folly, the home of cheesy cat videos and the money-losing stepchild of an otherwise wildly profitable company, YouTube is emerging as a model for the more nimble, faster-paced company Google co-founder …

the nytpicker:

On Language: Hugo Lindgren's New NYT Magazine Rewrites “Lives” Column, Cuts Use Of “F**k,” “S**t” And “Dude.” — On the back page of Hugo Lindgren's newly-remodeled NYT Magazine — you know, the one that unceremoniously axed the “On Language” column after 32 years — there's a sweet little essay in the …

Discussion: New York Times

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Is The Internet Enabling Bad Content... Or Killing Bad Content? — One of the common refrains we hear from the modern Luddite is that one of the awful things about today's internet culture is that it's flooded with too much “crap.” One of our regular critics in the comments insists …