Mediagazer: Google Will Scan 250,000 Out-Of-Copyright Books For The British Library (Robert Andrews/paidContent)

Om Malik / GigaOM:

Revealed: Facebook's music plans involve Spotify, others — For the past few months, I have been hearing about Facebook and Spotify getting a lot closer as companies, with a much tighter integration between the two services. However, Facebook's musical ambitions go beyond Spotify and include other music services and applications.

Discussion: SAI, I4U News, The Next Web, 9 to 5 Mac and Gizmodo, more at Techmeme »

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

At New Network, Olbermann Sets Sights on MSNBC — Starting on Monday, there will be new competition for progressive attention spans on television. — Challenging MSNBC, which has a stable lineup of left-leaning hosts, will be Current TV, where Keith Olbermann will start anchoring the 8 p.m. hour, his former time slot on MSNBC.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Inside Cable News, Gawker and Chickaboomer

David Carr / New York Times:

Ugly Details in Selling Newspapers — Any look behind the curtain of Wall Street is not going to be pretty. But there is not pretty and then there is plain ugly. — James O'Shea, the former editor in chief of The Los Angeles Times, found a classic of the genre in the course of reporting out …

Discussion: The Atlantic Wire and The Wire

Edmund Lee / AdAge:

Display's New Kingpin: Facebook's No. 1 — Social Network's $2.19 Billion Puts It at Top of the Digital Heap, Leaping Google, Yahoo — but It's Still a Bit Player When Compared to TV — Facebook doesn't really have to try to become the biggest player in digital media; it simply is.

Discussion: Beet.TV, Softpedia News, SAI and Future of Journalism, more at Techmeme »

Ellie Behling / eMedia Vitals:

Reinventing the article with Storify — Storify is one of the most exciting journalism tools of the year. The mission of the platform is to make social media the story not just the distribution tool, explained Xavier Damman, co-founder of the site. — “Storytelling has to be reinvented …

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Google Will Scan 250,000 Out-Of-Copyright Books For The British Library — Turns out libraries and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) can work together on books - as long as copyright is no longer an issue. — The British Library is handing 250,000 out-of-copyright titles from 1700 to 1870 …

Discussion: pressandpolicy.bl.uk, BBC, Future of Journalism, Telegraph, The Register, Inquirer, Softpedia News, Michael Geist Blog, Ubergizmo, open, Engadget, Pocket-lint, Gizmodo and The Next Web

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Google's SageTV acquisition: It's not about the DVR — SageTV's announcement that it's been acquired by Google this weekend has many speculating about DVR functionality soon coming to Google TV. But one of the few dissenters, interestingly enough, is the founder of one of SageTV's competitors: SnapStream Media founder Rakesh Agrawal.

Discussion: paidContent, Rakesh Agrawal's Blog, Softpedia News, PC Magazine, I4U News and Electronista, more at Techmeme »

Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:

The Onion Is Seeking a Pulitzer, Any Pulitzer — Despite a professed designation as “America's Finest News Source,” The Onion has never actually won the highest honor in American journalism: the Pulitzer Prize. — Not that it hasn't tried. Editors at the satirical newspaper have submitted …

Discussion: Hit & Run

Committee to Protect Journalists:

Journalists in exile 2011: Iran, Cuba drive out critics — Two of the world's most repressive nations each forced at least 18 journalists to flee their homes in the past year. In exile, these journalists face enormous challenges. A CPJ special report by Elisabeth Witchel. — LONDON

Discussion: Jon Slattery and Media News

AdAge:

Kids Flock to Social Nets, but Few Advertisers Dare to Follow — Online playgrounds with colorful names such as Everloop and Togetherville aren't only popular with small fry, but also investors — but not with advertisers. Here's why.

Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:

Losing value in the “Process” — Digital media zealots are confused: they mistake news activity for the health of the news business. Unfortunately, the two are not correlated. What they promote as a new kind of journalism carries almost no economic value.

Magda Abu-Fadil / The Huffington Post:

Newsroom Summit Highlights Digital Engagement — The newsroom cafÃ© concept was music to my ears when Journal Register Company's (JRC) Jonathan Cooper explained how his organization had taken the bold step of engaging its audience. — “The legacy definition of engagement is wrong …