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10:40 PM ET, March 10, 2011

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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 …
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Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
Bill Keller Accuses Me of “Aggregating” an Idea He Had Actually “Aggregated” From Me  —  Perhaps unsettled by the fact that, when combined, The Huffington Post and AOL News have over 70 percent more unique visitors than the New York Times, and that HuffPost/AOL News' combined page views …
Discussion: FishbowlNY 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 …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Arianna Huffington To Bill Keller: Who You Calling “Oxpecker”?
Sam Gustin / Epicenter:
Veteran Journos Out as AOL-Huffington Cuts 900 Jobs  —  Tim Armstrong, Chairman and CEO of AOL, talks at a media summit in New York Thursday.  AOL said it will slash 900 jobs worldwide, or nearly 20 percent of its work force, partly to eliminate overlap that stems from its recent purchase of Huffington Post.
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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.
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The newsonomics of AOL/Patch buying Outside.in
Discussion: paidContent and Bloggasm
Nicholas Carlson / The Wire:
AOL To Slash More Destination Sites And Media Brands Than Expected
Discussion: Mixed Media and SAI
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: AOL Will Lay Off Several Hundred Employees, Starting Tomorrow
Wall Street Journal:
Hulu Plans to Shrink Its Board  —  Hulu LLC is planning to shrink its board, according to people familiar with the matter, shaking up the Web-video venture's governance as it hashes out its future within the media business.  —  As part of the shift, Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Bob Iger …
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Ross Kerber / Reuters:
News Corp's Hinton: tablet subscriptions soar  —  * WSJ publisher Les Hinton: mobile users pay for content  —  (Reuters) - Paid subscriptions to read News Corp's (NWSA.O) Wall Street Journal on tablet devices such as Apple Inc's iPad and electronic readers have quadrupled to 200,000 in the past year, a top executive said.
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.
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Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:   Why the Knight-Mozilla Technology Partnership is betting on open source and distributed innovation
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.
Lauren Indvik / Mashable!:
How The New York Times Is Incorporating Social & Algorithmic Recommendations  —  The New York Times released Thursday a finished version of the Recommendations platform it quietly introduced in beta in late January.  —  Available at nytimes.com/recommendations and on the “Recommended For You” …
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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.
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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.
Steve Rosenbaum / The Huffington Post:
NPR, Facebook, Netflix and the Crisis of Abundance  —  Yesterday, Vivian Schiller the president and CEO of NPR, resigned.  She told the media that she was trying to head off the threats of defunding of NPR that are swirling around Congress.  —  And there's no doubt that there's a mood …
Josh Sternberg / Mashable!:
Why Curation Is Important to the Future of Journalism  —  Josh Sternberg is the founder of Sternberg Strategic Communications and authors The Sternberg Effect.  You can follow him on Twitter and Tumblr.  —  Over the past few weeks, many worries about the death of journalism have, well, died.
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?).
 
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John Plunkett / Guardian:
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OpenAI:
OpenAI says its board of directors is evaluating its corporate structure, including a plan to turn its for-profit arm into a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation

Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
An undisclosed 2023 agreement between Microsoft and OpenAI defines achieving AGI as the point when OpenAI develops AI systems that generate $100B+ in profits

Zachary Small / New York Times:
Video game executives say making cinematic games is getting so expensive and time-consuming that investing in graphics is providing diminished financial returns
 
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