Mediagazer: Need Advice on What to Read? Ask the Internet (Claire Cain Miller/Bits)

5:45 PM ET, March 10, 2011

Top News:

Nicholas Carlson / SAI:

THE GORY DETAILS: Tim Armstrong's Layoffs Memo — UPDATE: We've been covering AOL's layoffs all morning long. Below is a memo from CEO Tim Armstrong detailing what's happening. — Other stories we've covered: — AOL is planning a big re-org in its tech division, with HuffPo's people getting a bigger role.

Discussion: Mixed Media, Mediaite, Fortune and MediaNama, more at Techmeme »

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:

Exclusive: AOL Will Lay Off Several Hundred Employees, Starting Tomorrow — The AOL layoffs are finally here, and they are smaller than some had been expecting. — According to several people close to the situation, the New York-based Internet giant will lay off up to several hundred …

David Kaplan / paidContent:

@ Media Summit: AOL's Armstrong: Layoffs Today, Hiring Tomorrow — Update: CEO Tim Armstrong's full memo to staffers. — AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong took the stage at Bloomberg Media Summit and confirmed last night's big news: the company is cutting 900 jobs; in India …

Discussion: BoomTown, Media & Entertainment, paidContent:UK, Future of Journalism, Mediaweek and Poynter

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The newsonomics of AOL/Patch buying Outside.in — Editor's Note: Each week, Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of news for the Lab. — There are two ways to be local, we've learned.

Discussion: Future of Journalism and Bloggasm

Nicholas Carlson / The Wire:
AOL To Slash More Destination Sites And Media Brands Than Expected

Discussion: Mixed Media, SAI and SAI

Sam Gustin / Epicenter:
Veteran Journos Out as AOL/HuffPo Cuts 900 Jobs

Discussion: MediaFile

Bill Keller / New York Times:

All the Aggregation That's Fit to Aggregate — According to the list makers at Forbes, I am the 50th most powerful person in the world — not as powerful as the Pope (No. 5) but more powerful than the president of the United Arab Emirates (56). Vanity Fair, another arbiter of what matters …

Discussion: Mediaite, On Media's Blog, FishbowlNY, eMedia Vitals, @jeffjarvis and SAI

Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:

Bill Keller Writes Provocative Media Column From 1997 — When we learned that New York Times editor Bill Keller was getting his very own column in the New York Times Magazine, our keen media instinct—honed by years of reading the Twitter and writing juvenile jokes on the internet while never doing any …

Discussion: New York Observer and Runnin' Scared

TechCrunch:

LinkedIn Is About To Make Headlines — Editor's note: The following guest post was written by Mrinal Desai, an early employee of LinkedIn who is also co-founder of CrossLoop and addappt. You can follow him on Twitter. — A lot has been written about social news and how Twitter and Facebook …

Discussion: The LinkedIn Blog, The Huffington Post, The Wire, paidContent, CNET News, SAI, GigaOM, L.A. Times Tech Blog, NetworkEffect, 10,000 Words and Bloggasm, more at Techmeme »

Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
LinkedIn unveils its social newspaper, LinkedIn Today

Discussion: TechCrunch, The LinkedIn Blog and Black Web 2.0, more at Techmeme »

Wall Street Journal:

Video Kills the Radio Czar — CEO Is Second NPR Executive to Resign Following Activist's Sting Operation — The head of National Public Radio quit under fire as the organization became ensnared in a fresh scandal at a time when Congress is debating whether to pull its government funding.

Discussion: Epicenter, American Journalism Review, BoomTown, Hit & Run, Gawker and Poynter

Tim Carmody / Nieman Journalism Lab:

“Journalists have lost control of the story”: Twitter, tech bubbles, and the nostalgia of the technology press — Editor's Note: I'm very happy to welcome Tim Carmody — who you may know from Snarkmarket, kottke.org, Wired.com, Twitter, or elsewhere — as a contributor to the Lab.

Discussion: TVNewser

Farhad Manjoo / Slate:

Why we need to get rid of anonymous comments. — Once or twice a week, I get a letter taking me to task for Slate's commenting policy. The reader wants to tell me that I suck, but he doesn't want to log in to Slate's comment system using his credentials for Facebook, Google, Yahoo, or Twitter.

Discussion: Future of Journalism, Thanks:malliegator

Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:

NY Times responds to backlash against portrayal of 11-year-old rape victim — The New York Times came under attack Wednesday from bloggers claiming that James C. McKinley Jr.'s disturbing March 8 article about the alleged gang-rape of an 11-year-old girl laid blame on the prepubescent victim.

Discussion: Mother Jones, The Huffington Post, New York Times, mediabistro.com, Salon, The Atlantic Wire, Jezebel, New York Magazine and Runnin' Scared

Martin Belam / currybetdotnet:

The Guardian's Paul Lewis on crowd-sourcing investigative journalism with Twitter … Last week I attended an event at the Royal Statistical Society looking at data and news sourcing, and one of the panel sessions was about crowd-sourcing using the internet.

Discussion: Jon Slattery

Knight Blog Administrator / KnightBlog:

Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism opens at CUNY — In this photo: Marissa Mayer and Tim Armstrong discuss the future of news; Credit: Dan Reshef — The Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism officially opened this week at the Graduate School of Journalism of the City University of New York.

Discussion: CUNY Graduate School …

Marika Lynch / KnightBlog:
Knight welcomes new VP Journalism and Media Innovation, Detroit program director; promotes journalism exec

Discussion: Knight Foundation News …, paidContent, Poynter, Gannett Blog and News for Digital Journalists

Claire Cain Miller / Bits:

Need Advice on What to Read? Ask the Internet — Netflix uses a software algorithm to recommend movies and Zappos uses one to recommend shoes. Now Goodreads, the social network for book lovers, is introducing an algorithm to recommend books. — Goodreads was started in 2006 for people who wanted to talk about books online.

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

The Race to Build the “Daily Me” Continues — Ever since the web first started to become mainstream, there have been attempts to build the “Daily Me,” a personalized newspaper that learns what you like or are interested in (does anyone remember PointCast?).