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Zach Rait / Facebook Blog:
Introducing the Subscribe Button — Until now, it hasn't been easy to choose exactly what you see in your News Feed. Maybe you don't want to see every time your brother plays a game on Facebook, for example. Or maybe you'd like to see more stories from your best friends, and fewer from your coworkers.
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Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
New Subscribe button lets journalists use Facebook like Twitter — Facebook announced a new feature today that competes directly with Twitter and will make it easier for journalists to use their personal profiles to share updates and links with the public. Facebook users can now visit …
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TechCrunch, eMedia Vitals, Inside Facebook and VentureBeat, more at Techmeme »
The Independent:
Johann Hari: A personal apology — I've written so many articles over the years laying bare and polemicising against the errors and idiocies of other people. This time, I am writing an article laying bare and polemicising against the errors and idiocies of myself. If you give it out, you have to take it.
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The First Post, Reason, The Huffington Post, Jon Slattery and Guardian
Steve Myers / Poynter:
When it comes to disclosing potential conflicts of interest, New York Times shouldn't throw stones at Arrington — The meta-media debate for the last few weeks has been about the conflict of interest inherent in Michael Arrington's proposal to run a new venture capital fund while writing …
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True Ventures and Boing Boing
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Gregory Ferenstein / Fast Company:
Reading Rainbow: The Next Generation — The iconic brand returns—with a 21st-century upgrade for iPads. — LeVar Burton, a children's literacy advocate and a former star of Star Trek: The Next Generation, plans to make an ambitious comeback, giving the once-loved Reading Rainbow brand a 21st-century upgrade.
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
What media companies can learn from Walmart — As reported in a number of places, Walmart has acquired OneRiot: a startup that originally tried to do social search before pivoting to focus on social advertising. OneRiot joins a unit called Walmart Labs, which the giant retailer created earlier …
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eMedia Vitals, @WalmartLabs Blog, TechCrunch, ClickZ and AdExchanger.com, Thanks:terryflynn
Nikki Finke / Deadline.com:
BREAKING! Deadline's Parent Company Sues The Hollywood Reporter's Parent Company For Copyright Infringement — 2ND UPDATE: The Hollywood Reporter has just removed from its website PMC's unique and original featured module comprised of source code that produced PMC-owned TVLine.com's distinctive homepage.
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Hollywood Reporter, The Wrap, mediabistro.com, Washington Post, New York Magazine, Gawker, The Awl and Movieline
Kat Stoeffel / The New York Observer:
Vanity Fair Nabs New York Design Director Chris Dixon — Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Graydon Carter has poached Chris Dixon, New York magazine's design director, according to an internal memo sent out today. — Longtime VF design director David Harris is reducing his role at the magazine.
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WWD, magCulture.com/blog and FishbowlNY
Folio:
Hearst To Convert All Sites to HTML5 — Good Housekeeping is the first redesign with multi-device functionality. — NEW YORK—Hearst Magazines is aiming to improve its digital strategy through the integration of HTML5, the company announced plans early Tuesday to implement the platform …
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ReadWriteWeb, MinOnline, eMedia Vitals and Audience Development Blogs RSS
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
For morning TV's ‘bookers,’ a constant race to secure ratings-grabbing guests — A tornado tears across southwestern Missouri, visiting devastation on the small town of Joplin. The dramatic news breaks in network TV newsrooms in New York in the early evening hours of May 22. What next?
Dylan Byers / Adweek:
Keeper of the Commentary — Gone are the days when Reuters was just a wire service. Former Slate media critic Jack Shafer, hired last week, is only the latest appointment op-ed editor James Ledbetter has made in his effort to turn the Reuters opinion page into a leading source of commentary.
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The New York Observer and FishbowlNY
Robert Niles / Online Journalism Review:
Apps vs. eBooks: Where can newsrooms and journalists make the most money? — By Robert Niles: How much time do you or your news organization spend developing apps? What's your return on that investment, and by that I mean - how much money are you making on app sales and from direct advertising on those app platforms?
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
WSJ's Alan Murray: The iPad Has Driven the Paper's Video Programming Expansion — The Wall Street Journal would not be delivering its three and a half hours of programming if it were not for the iPad, says Alan Murray, Deputy Managing Editor of the Wall Street Journal and Executive Editor of the WSJ.com.
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Online Video News
Kevin McCarthy / BostInnovation.com:
Q&A with BostonGlobe.com's Design/Dev Firms, Upstatement & Filament Group — co-founder at Streetwise Media (property: BostInnovation, platform: Pinyadda). Follow me on twitter (@kmccarth), linkedin and hypem. — BostonGlobe.com launched earlier this week to plenty of media coverage.
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eMedia Vitals, Thanks:sliggity
Janine Gibson / Guardian:
Unveiling the Guardian's new US homepage — The Guardian has launched a new US front page at guardiannews.com. Janine Gibson explains why — Today we're unveiling the new url and front page for our US readers. It's the first tiny step in our bid to improve the Guardian website for US users …
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