Mediagazer: Is Social Media too Engaging for Its Own Good? (AdAge)

Michael Roberts / The Latest Word:

Brian Hill: Righthaven drops suit against autistic blogger, warns other targets not to rest easy — Righthaven LLC, the Nevada firm that's been suing for copyright infringement on behalf of companies like MediaNews Group, owner of the Denver Post, picked a sympathetic target when it went …

Discussion: paidContent and Poynter

Discussion: TeleRead and Righthaven Victims

Heather Dougherty:

Impact of paywall on NYTimes.com — After months of speculation, the paywall for The New York Times went live at 2pm on Monday, March 28th, which limits online readers (non-print subscribers) to 20 articles each month. For smartphone and tablet applications, only the top news section …

Discussion: paidContent, VentureBeat, Mashable! and ReadWriteWeb, more at Techmeme »

New York Times:

Egypt Sentences Blogger to 3 Years — CAIRO — An Egyptian blogger was sentenced Monday to three years in prison for criticizing the military in what human rights advocates called one of the more alarming violations of freedom of expression since a popular uprising led to the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak two months ago.

Discussion: Crikey, Runnin' Scared and Gawker

Tom Krazit / paidContent:

Amazon To Sell Ad-Supported Kindle For $25 Discount — Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) will sell its Kindle e-reader for $25 less than the lowest list price currently available—if customers are willing see ads and other types of sponsored content. — Most of the valuable real estate on Amazon.com's home page …

Discussion: PC Magazine, mocoNews, SocialTimes.com, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, CNET News, Fast Company and Bridget Carey, more at Techmeme »

Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:

Jonathan Alter talks about his post-Newsweek plans — Jonathan Alter has left his post at Newsweek after almost three decades at the magazine. The news was first reported by Politico Monday morning. — Reached by phone, Alter told The Cutline he's “going to be doing other things,” …

Discussion: Poynter

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

Arianna Huffington and Nick Denton Hug Out Their Beef — That's Bill Maher on the left, but it could totally be Nick Denton now that he and Arianna Huffington are all buddy-buddy again. Image by Getty Images via @daylife — Arianna Huffington, blog empress, does not have warm feelings toward Nick Denton, blog overlord.

Damon Kiesow / Poynter:

The New Yorker uses a ‘like-gate’ to find fans of long-form journalism on Facebook — The New Yorker is experimenting with Facebook this week, making a 12,000-word piece by Jonathan Franzen free behind a “like-gate” for a limited time. — When users “Like” the magazine's Facebook page …

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, MediaPost and FishbowlNY

Discussion: Mashable!, Inside Facebook and Journalism.co.uk, more at Techmeme »

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Maybe Cord Cutting Isn't Here Yet. What About Cord Shaving? — Here's an answer that might satisfy the two sides in the “Cord cutting is real! No it isn't!” debate: Perhaps Web video fans aren't dumping cable in favor of Netflix, Hulu, etc. Perhaps they're just dumping premium cable channels, like HBO.

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Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Film shoots to farmers markets: Users respond to Everyblock's community-focused redesign — Late last month, Everyblock launched an overhaul of its site — its “first major redesign,” and one “driven by the feedback we've been getting over the past year.” The revamp marked a significant shift …

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Stuart Elliott / Media Decoder:

Consolidation of Trade Publications Nears — The long-planned consolidation of three familiar trade publications into one is beginning at Prometheus Global Media. — Monday brought the final issues of two publications, Brandweek and Mediaweek, which have been published along with their sibling, Adweek, for almost 10 years.

Discussion: The Wire and Poynter

Alex Mindlin / New York Times:

More Media Time, on Various Screens — Americans are spending about 20 percent more time consuming radio, television and the Internet than they were a decade ago, according to a survey by two media measurement firms. — That jump reflects in part a rise by 26 percentage points in the number of Americans with access to the Internet.

Discussion: TVWeek.com and Noted

Ben Popper / Betabeat:

10 Things the Media Either Gets Wrong or Doesn't Know About the Winklevoss Twins — The Winklevoss twins lost another round in their legal battle against Mark Zuckerberg today, but according to their lawyer, they aren't giving up yet. Our newest team member, Foster Kamer …

Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:

Facebook for Journalists: More Work Than Twitter, but With a Bigger Payout — Last week, Facebook launched a Page called Journalists on Facebook in an effort to encourage the news community to use the site's Page feature as a distribution and research tool.

Forbes Blogs / Forbes.com:

A Vision for Unifying Access to Data and Documents — What do we really want when we start using technology for reporting and analysis of data? We want answers to our questions. We want to be able to discover and follow up on new questions that occur to us.

Discussion: CITO Research

AdAge:

Is Social Media too Engaging for Its Own Good? — As someone who has been tasked with monetizing social media continuously since 2005, the single most important thing I've learned is this: The biggest problem is that the content is too engaging. Here's why.

Discussion: GigaOM

Ted Nesi / WPRI.com Blogs:

NYT's Nocera on paywalls, Providence and CEO pay — “Local boy makes good.” In the news business, few Rhode Island natives fit that hoary headline better than Joe Nocera. — Nocera grew up in Providence, graduating from Classical High in 1970 before attending Boston University.

Discussion: The Big Lead and Talking Biz News

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Kiip Is An Entirely New Mobile Ad Model: Real Life Rewards For In-Game Achievements — Kiip, the seven month-old mobile ads startup, is finally coming out of stealth today and revealing an entirely new model for in-game advertising, one that offers users value instead of fighting an uphill battle for their attention.

Discussion: Marketing Pilgrim, Techland, Mashable!, GigaOM and Epicenter

Violet Blue / ZDNet:

AOL/HuffPo Shuts Down Download Squad — In a surprise move Monday night, popular software blog Download Squad became the latest tech casualty in Huffington/AOL's so-called ‘consolidation’ of its content sites. In an end-of-the-day email, Download Squad's staff was told that the blog …

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Jim O'Neill / Online Video News:

Ooyala launches Ooyala Everywhere, Ooyala Personal Playback — White label online video platform Ooyala is rolling out a suite of services designed to help content creators and distributors deliver rich, personalized viewing experiences directly to consumers, helping to bring more premium …

The Wrap:

Viacom's Philippe Dauman Is America's Top-Paid CEO, Report Says — Recession? What recession? A New York Times ranking of the top-paid CEOs says media-conglomerate chief made $84.5 million in just 9 months last year

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Front-Runner for CBS Anchor Is ‘60 Minutes’ Reporter — Growing up, Scott Pelley's journalistic dream was very specific: he wanted to work at “60 Minutes,” which was and is the nation's pre-eminent television newsmagazine. — He checked all the television correspondent boxes — wars …

Discussion: Yahoo! News and New York Times

Wall Street Journal:

Time Warner Eyes Headquarters Move — Time Warner Inc. is considering moving its headquarters to Manhattan's far West Side as Related Cos. tries to kick-start its $15 billion Hudson Yards development planned there, people familiar with the matter said. — The talks are in preliminary stages and could fizzle.

Discussion: FishbowlNY and New York Observer