Mediagazer: Humans vs. Cyborgs: Four Ways @NYTimes Has Changed This Week (Jessica Roy/10,000 Words)

10:00 AM ET, May 26, 2011

Top News:

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Zuckerberg: All Of Media Should Go Social Like Games Have — Facebook won't try to offer music, movie or book services - but CEO Mark Zuckerberg has grand pronouncements for those sectors nevertheless. … Whilst almost religiously celebrating internet users' ability to share …

Discussion: Media News, digiday:DAILY, Digits, Daily Mail, Consumer Reports News, AllThingsD, The Consumerist and ZDNet, more at Techmeme »

Parmy Olson / Disruptors:

Facebook To Launch Music Service With Spotify — . — Facebook has partnered with Spotify on a music-streaming service that could be launched in as little as two weeks, sources close to the deal have told Forbes. — The integrated service is currently going through testing …

Eliot Van Buskirk / Evolver.fm:
Report: Facebook and Spotify Plan To Help Friends Listen Together

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Wall Street Journal:

Comcast Takes Online Rivals' Technology for a Spin — Comcast Corp., facing a growing threat from online video services, is fighting fire with fire. — The country's largest cable-service provider soon will start testing a new way to deliver its television channels, co-opting …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, gigaom.com, SAI, ZDNet, Electronista and Shelly Palmer Digital Living, more at Techmeme »

Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:

Ed Schultz Apologizes On The Ed Show For Calling Laura Ingraham A ‘Right-Wing Slut’ — MSNBC's Ed Schultz, suspended by MSNBC Wednesday evening for calling conservative radio host Laura Ingraham a “right-wing slut” on his nationally syndicated radio show, addressed his comments …

Discussion: On Media's Blog, Facebook, Washington Post, The Huffington Post, mediabistro.com, FishbowlDC and Gawker

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

Glenn Beck Planning Web TV Channel GBTV, Tagline: ‘The Truth Lives Here’ — Outgoing Fox News host Glenn Beck and his company, Mercury Radio Arts, are developing a new service called “GBTV,” which will be a web-based TV channel, according to sources familiar with the matter as well as trademark applications filed by the company.

Discussion: On Media's Blog, Media Matters for America, Nieman Journalism Lab, Mediaite, Inside Cable News and The Huffington Post

Glynnis MacNicol / The Wire:

HuffPo Employees Flee AOL After “Brutal” “Awful” “Worst Few Weeks” — Since Aol purchased the Huffington Post from Arianna Huffington in February for $315 million most of the subsequent coverage has focused on the widespread layoffs of Aol employees; the hiring of experienced reporters …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, Future of Journalism and SAI

Lauren Goode / Venture Capital Dispatch:

Groupon Founders Turn To Financal News With Benzinga Investment — In their latest investment through a separate seed fund, two Groupon founders are turning their attention towards a new area: financial news. … Lightbank, the seed fund created by Eric Lefkofsky and Brad Keywell …

Jessica Roy / 10,000 Words:

Humans vs. Cyborgs: Four Ways @NYTimes Has Changed This Week — On Monday, New York Times social media editors Lexi Mainland and Liz Heron announced from the @NYTimes account that all week long, they would be engaging in a social experiment: the automated @NYTimes Twitter account …

Discussion: FishbowlDC, SocialTimes.com, NYConvergence.com and Marketing Pilgrim

Les Luchter / MediaPost:

Study: Online Video Ads Beat TV Ads In Viewer Recall — Viewers pay more attention to online video ads than to traditional TV commercials and also recall them better, according to new research that utilized Affectiva's facial tracking algorithms and second-by-second biometric modeling of cognition, excitement and stress levels.

Cory Bergman / Lost Remote:

Future of TV? ‘American Idol’ taps Facebook events — For several days leading up to this weeks two-episode season finale of American Idol, the show's website encouraged fans to RSVP to the show on Facebook: — As of this afternoon, 25,000 people RSVP'd for the event, some inviting their friends to attend, as well.

Matt Silverman / Mashable!:

Can Modern Mobile Web Apps Loosen Apple's Grip on Tablet Publishing? — By now there's little question that the iPad has defined the modern tablet, and media companies have tackled the promising concept of digital subscription publishing with varying degrees of success.

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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Will Publishers Choose the Open Web Over Apple's Walled Garden?

Discussion: Future of Journalism, Thanks:mathewi

Jason / Nokia Conversations:

CNN and Nokia announce plans to collaborate to deliver mobile news and rich mapping — GLOBAL - Today Nokia and news network CNN have announced plans for an international agreement which will see Nokia providing rich mapping services to the network. You may have already seen the first fruits …

Discussion: CNN

Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:

It's Hilarious That Mike Arrington Gets Beat Up For Investing In Startups When Om Malik Is A Partner At A VC Firm — Leading tech writer Michael Arrington has taken a lot of heat lately for his decision to get back into investing in startups and venture funds.

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Om Malik / gigaom.com:
Reed Elsevier Leads $6M Investment in GigaOM

Discussion: GigaOM Pro, Yahoo! News, Pulse2, Om.Is.Me, @jason, Audience Development, silicontap.com, SAI, VentureBeat, TechCrunch and paidContent:UK

Dylan Stableford / Yahoo! News:

‘Free’ New York Times Twitter feed appears to be shut down (The Cutline) — ‘Free’ New York Times Twitter feed appears to be shut down — When the New York Times first unveiled its much-anticipated online paywall in March, several enterprising hackers soon discovered ways to circumvent it.

Discussion: Poynter and ReadWriteWeb

Tom Acitelli / New York Observer:
Sulzberger on The Times' Print Lifers.... Dueling Water Analogies for Web Media

Discussion: Betabeat and Editors Weblog

Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:

How Roger Ailes Built the Fox News Fear Factory — The onetime Nixon operative has created the most profitable propaganda machine in history. Inside America's Unfair and Imbalanced Network — By — At the Fox News holiday party the year the network overtook archrival CNN in the cable ratings …

Discussion: The Daily Beast, Media Matters for America, @poniewozik and The Huffington Post

Financial Times:

Digital media need Oprah's tastemaking touch — The more urgent question for publishers and for content owners is whether the daytime talkshow queen can replicate her influence online, or whether anyone else can recreate it