Mediagazer: Adventures in self-publishing: Here's what a month-old news site looks like (Dan Frommer/SplatF)

12:20 AM ET, August 9, 2011

Top News:

Rick Perry to make 2012 intentions clear Saturday — Rick Perry intends to use a speech in South Carolina on Saturday to make clear that he's running for president, POLITICO has learned. — According to two sources familiar with the plan, the Texas governor will remove any doubt …

Discussion: unionleader.com, TPMDC, The Daily Caller, Gawker, Mother Jones, Iowa Caucuses and New York Magazine

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

NYT Labs: Can a newspaper think like a startup? — After delaying the project while it launched a paywall, the New York Times has finally rolled out its version of Google Labs, the now-shuttered project that provided a home for the search company's various web experiments.

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab, beta620, News for Digital Journalists and ReadWriteWeb, Thanks:mathewi

Adweek:
First Mover: Frank Rich

Discussion: Poynter, Media & Entertainment, Techland, eMedia Vitals and FishbowlNY

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:

What journalists need to know about libelous tweets — Rumors that CNN had suspended Piers Morgan due to the News of the World phone hacking scandal spread on Twitter earlier this month, sparking an important discussion about whether journalists need to verify information before tweeting.

Discussion: The Awl, Rhetorica and Kirk LaPointe's …

Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick:

Apple's rumored ‘Replay’ service a ways off — Warner Bros. is one of at least four top film studios from which Apple has yet to obtain streaming-movie licenses, sources say. — The rumors from last week about Apple being “on the edge” of launching a cloud movie service …

Discussion: Computerworld, TUAW, ReadWriteWeb, SlashGear, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, MediaPost, MacRumors, WebProNews, The Business Insider and Electronista, more at Techmeme »

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

Current TV Taps David Bohrman as President — Former CNN Washington bureau chief David Bohrman has been named president of Current TV, the cable TV channel founded by Al Gore and Joel Hyatt. Current has switched its focus in recent months from non-fiction and user-generated content towards news …

Discussion: Poynter, Broadcasting & Cable, MediaPost, Deadline.com, Media Decoder, Company Town, Multichannel, FishbowlLA, Adweek, FishbowlDC, The New York Observer, NewsBusters.org blogs, On Media's Blog, The Wire, paidContent and Inside Cable News

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

Why Huffpo Would Be Better Off Without ‘Zombie’ AOL — Tim Armstrong. Image by AOL via CrunchBase — Back in February, Arianna Huffington said that selling her company to AOL was like “stepping off a fast-moving train and onto a supersonic jet.” In terms of creating value for shareholders …

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Austin Carr / Fast Company: AOL iPad Mag “Editions” Missed The Memo About The AOL Way

Michael Learmonth / AdAge:

Why the Web's New TV-Style Ratings Might Not Mean More Ad Buys — Nielsen's ‘Campaign Ratings’ Isn't a Cure-all, Could Expose Other Ills — It's become an article of faith among digital folks that once online media can be measured apples to apples to TV, big dollars will flow to the web.

Michael Wolff / Adweek:

How Bad Is News Corp.? — In my biography of Rupert Murdoch, I referred to News Corporation as Mafia-like, provoking the annoyance of my publisher's libel lawyers. I explained to them that I did not mean to suggest this was an organized crime family, but instead was using “mafia” …

Discussion: Poynter, Mixed Media, Deadline.com, Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Future of Journalism

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Hawaiian punch! A paywall showdown in Honolulu — It looks like Honolulu just turned into a two-paywall town. Last week, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser began charging for online content. And it's a hard wall, too: no monthly allowance for stories like, say, The New York Times offers …

Jim Romenesko / Poynter:

‘Extreme Couponing’ show blamed for rise in newspaper thefts — A 34-year-old Arkansas woman was charged with misdemeanor theft last week after she stole 185 unsold copies of the Springdale Morning News that were left outside a grocery store for a carrier to pick up.

Dan Duray / The New York Observer:

Conde Nast Sued Over Vanity Fair Oleg Cassini Story — Conde Nast has been sued for libel over Maureen Orth's September 2010 Vanity Fair article, “Cassini Royale,” about designer Oleg Cassini and the battle over his estate. The plaintiff identifies herself as Marianne Nestor-Cassini …

Discussion: The Wrap

Telegraph:

How technology fuelled Britain's first 21st century riot — The Tottenham riots were orchestrated by teenage gang members who used the latest mobile phone technology to incite and film the looting and violence. — The disorder was captured second-by-second on Twitter with rioters so caught …

Discussion: Guardian, Gawker, TechCrunch Europe, The Urban Mashup Blog, paidContent:UK, The Lede, GigaOM, Techland and Fast Company, more at Techmeme »

Trymaine Lee / The Huffington Post:

The Rise And Fall Of KING, The 'Illest Men's Magazine Ever' — “We need to talk about KING,” the Harris Publications exec told Datwon Thomas, editor-in-chief of XXL magazine and a founder and editorial director of KING, the men's lifestyle magazine. — It was early 2009.

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Another Cool New Yorker App. And This One's Free. — Like the New Yorker's iPad app, but don't want to pay for it? Here's a sort-of alternative: The magazine's new entertainment listings app. — It's not the New Yorker, but it's built using the magazine's intellectual DNA.

Discussion: The New Yorker Blog, VentureBeat, The New York Observer and MacRumors