Mediagazer: Twitpic changes reveal conflict as users, journalists, photo sharing services have competing goals (Jeff Sonderman/Poynter)

6:00 AM ET, May 20, 2011

Top News:

The newsonomics of the missing link — Picture Pre-Tablet Man (or Woman). Let's go back to the time before Palm Pilots, at the dawn of consumer digital civilization itself, a time of AOL, Prodigy, and Compuserve. Hunched heavily by the analog world on his shoulders …

Scott Karp / Publish2 Blog:
How to Make It Easy for Newspapers to Link on the Web

Discussion: GigaOMGigaOM, Thanks:p2chairman

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

Breaking: Liberty Media Offers Nearly $1 Billion For Barnes & Noble — Bankrupt Borders needs a sale the most but Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS), which put itself in play last August, is the book retailer with a serious suitor—and they don't come much more serious than John Malone.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Tech Trader Daily and The Wrap, more at Techmeme »

Shira Ovide / Deal Journal:
Insane! John Malone Offers to Buy Barnes & Noble

Discussion: bookforum.com and GalleyCat

The Atlantic Online:

Did the New York Public Library Just Build the Magazine App of the Future? — The new Biblion app could be a model for how to present information on the tablet — Silicon Valley watcher Tom Foremski likes to say that “every company is a media company” in the Internet age.

Discussion: App Advice, Poynter, SocialTimes.com and Forbes.com

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
The Future of Media: Brands Are Publishers Now Too

Discussion: TechCrunch, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, Associated Press and TUAW, Thanks:bamonaghan

Richard Sandomir / New York Times:

Dick Ebersol to Leave NBC Sports — Dick Ebersol, who has run NBC Sports since 1989 and engineered the network's bids to acquire the rights to more Olympics than any other, resigned on Thursday when he said he could not come to an agreement on a new contract.

Discussion: Globetrotting, Company Town, SportsNewser, Broadcasting & Cable, Multichannel, Adweek, The Wire, TVNewser, The Atlantic Wire, Mediaite, Forbes.com, paidContent, rbr.com, Deadspin, TVWeek.com, CNBC, New York Magazine, TVSpy and Inside TV

Amazon.com:

Amazon.com Now Selling More Kindle Books Than Print Books — Kindle with Special Offers for only $114 is already the bestselling member of the Kindle family — (NASDAQ:AMZN)—Amazon began selling hardcover and paperback books in July 1995. Twelve years later in November 2007 …

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

NY Times CEO: We Jumped Onto the Horse of Change — If Twitter makes you stupid, as New York Times executive editor Bill Keller believes, then the Times is extinguishing more brain cells than any other newspaper — and CEO Janet Robinson is darn happy about that.

Discussion: Future of Journalism, This is going to be BIG!, Forbes.com, The Buttry Diary, Most Recent Home Page Posts … and Techland

Alex Leo / MediaFile:

Bill Keller's war on the Internet keeps the Times down — It seems every time Bill Keller takes pen to paper (or hand to keyboard) these days it's to express displeasure with some aspect of the Internet. Last week he tweeted “#TwitterMakesYouStupid. discuss.”

Discussion: Runnin' Scared and Future of Journalism

Reuters:
Bill Keller's blind spots

Discussion: FishbowlNY and Poynter

Carol Marie Cropper / NetNewsCheck Latest:

Honolulu Says Aloha To Add-Free Experiment — Hawaii's palm trees and gentle breezes have given rise to one of the nation's boldest experiments in online news. Honolulu Civil Beat, founded by eBay creator Pierre Omidyar, is vying to take its place among the usual newspaper and TV sites in the Honolulu online arena.

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

Twitpic changes reveal conflict as users, journalists, photo sharing services have competing goals — The popular photo-sharing service Twitpic this month took more control over the photos that millions of Twitter users upload to its site each month. — Although it provoked an outcry …

Discussion: PlagiarismToday

Carly Carioli / Phlog:

Google abandons master-plan to archive the world's newspapers — In an email today to publishers including the Boston Phoenix, Google told partners in its News Archive project that it would cease accepting, scanning, and indexing microfilm and other archival material from newspapers …

Discussion: Search Engine Land and The Next Web

Nikki Usher / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The Conversation, the startup Australian news site, wants to bring academic expertise to breaking news — What would happen if you had close to 1,000 academics available to contribute to the breaking news cycle? Would it change the course, and the discourse, of news? — Andrew Jaspan thinks it will.

Discussion: J-Source

Cory Bergman / Lost Remote:

The CW to reward viewers for watching commercials — At its upfront presentation today, the CW network announced an unique partnership with the shopping app Shopkick. The app serves up shopping deals and special rewards for users who visit top retailers like Target and Home Depot.

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, GigaOM and rbr.com

The Atlantic Wire:

What We've Learned So Far from Radical Transparency — The reason for our experiment in transparency, moving the editorial conversation that keeps the site running out into the open, was primarily that we couldn't think of a good reason not to do it. If anything it would be interesting …

Discussion: Mashable!, Forbes.com, Future of Journalism, J-Source and MediaMemo

Edmund Lee / AdAge:

Wenner Media, Publisher of Rolling Stone, Names a New Chief Digital Officer — Michael Bloom Succeeds Steven Schwartz — Rolling Stone and Us Weekly publisher Wenner Media has named Michael Bloom its new chief digital officer, a role that's enjoying a bit of resurgence at media companies even as it evolves.

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Tom Cleary / Westport News:

Tech writer David Pogue, wife, charged in Westport dispute — David Pogue, the New York Times technology columnist and CBS News correspondent, speaks at the Technology Today Business Forum at the Courtyard by Marriott in Shelton, Conn. Thursday, May 19th 2011.

Discussion: Gawker, Adweek, The Huffington Post, New York Magazine and FishbowlNY