Mediagazer: Kindle Fire, and the tricky business of chasing scoops (Dan Lyons/Real Dan Lyons Web Site)

11:40 AM ET, September 29, 2011

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The Omnivore — First it was Earth's Largest Bookstore. Then came TVs, cameras, appliances, auto parts, music, diapers... Now, with the new Kindle Fire, Amazon's Jeff Bezos is making his boldest move yet — Jeff Bezos is channeling Steve Jobs. It's mid-September and the wiry billionaire founder …

Discussion: Forbes, eMedia Vitals, Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo, Editors Weblog, AdAge, Amazon Silk, PSFK, broadstuff, Mashable!, GeekWire, Business Insider, CNET News, ZDNet, Digits, GigaOM, Guardian, AllThingsD, ReadWriteWeb and Bloomberg, more at Techmeme »

Joe Flatley / This is my next:
Kindle Fire Newsstand announced, featuring Conde Nast magazines, DC Comics

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, MediaPost, GigaOM, FT Tech Hub, Garcia Media, ZDNet, TUAW, SocialTimes.com, 9to5Google and Fortune

Martin Langeveld / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Amazon enters the tablet battle: It's all about the shopping

Discussion: New York Times, more at Techmeme »

Steven Levy / Epicenter:
Playing With Fire: Amazon Launches $200 Tablet, Slashes Kindle Prices

Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:

News Corp.'s ‘Daily’ Trails Murdoch Reader Goal — News Corp. (NWSA)'s the Daily is averaging about 120,000 readers a week, or less than a quarter the number the company said it needs to make money, according to an advertising executive working with the iPad-only publication.

Discussion: Poynter, eMedia Vitals, iDownloadBlog.com, Guardian, the Econsultancy blog, The Wrap, AllThingsD, MacStories, FT Tech Hub, Electronista, The New York Observer, New York Magazine, The Next Web, Adweek, Future Journalism Project, Business Insider and Cision, more at Techmeme »

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

Murdoch's ‘Daily’ Has 120,000 Weekly Uniques; Nearly Two-Thirds Paid — The folks at News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) have been cagey about nearly every number to do with The Daily from the beginning—except for the amount of the investment, $30 million in the last fiscal year and a run rate of nearly $500,000 a week.

Claire Cain Miller / Bits:

Should Google Tweak the News We Consume? — Should Google play an editorial role in presenting readers with news? — That question was a matter of debate at Zeitgeist, a Google conference this week in Paradise Valley, Ariz., where Larry Page, Google's co-founder and chief executive …

Discussion: Stark Insider, @j_fuller, @thomnagy, @penenberg and @mathewi

MG Siegler / parislemon:

Fake Steve Jobs: Funny. Real Dan Lyons: Sloppy, Lazy, Too Old For This S**t. — Like everyone else, I used to be a big fan of Fake Steve Jobs. Then he was revealed to be Dan Lyons. The magic was over. The 15 minutes was over. He had to go back to doing his actual job — though not before he got a book out of it.

Discussion: @mathewi

Dan Lyons / Real Dan Lyons Web Site:

Kindle Fire, and the tricky business of chasing scoops — It's tough work, trying to predict the future. Especially when it comes to technology products. — As I tried to point out yesterday in the post about all the nutty reports about the features that the new iPhone 5 might or might not have …

Discussion: TeleRead, The Daily Beast, parislemon and TechCrunch

Henry Blodget / Business Insider:

Dear Marco Arment! Sorry About Last Week. We Finally Figured Out What Happened... Last week, an entrepreneur and writer named Marco Arment trashed us in a blog post, which was then picked up and forwarded around the Twitter-sphere. — Marco accused us of lots of horrible things …

Felix Salmon:
Business Insider and over-aggregation

Discussion: Business Insider

Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:

The Michael Wolff Era at Adweek Is Over — Media bomb-thrower has been editor of Adweek for less than a year. Earlier this month, rumors began circulating that he would soon be replaced. Now, we hear, Wolff's days at Adweek are definitively coming to an end.

Discussion: Poynter, New York Magazine and FishbowlNY

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

The ‘Occupy Wall Street’ media blackout myth: Plenty of stories, none of them big — News interest in the demonstrators presently camping out in a park in the Financial District appears to have increased after a high-ranking police officer was caught on camera apparently pepper-spraying a pair of protesters Sunday.

Discussion: The New York Observer, Media Matters for America, The Huffington Post, Death and Taxes, The Atlantic Wire, Yahoo! News and ShortFormBlog

Declan Fahy / CJR:

Skeptical of Science — Among other new roles, journalists becoming more critical of research — The recent coverage of the subatomic particles found to have travelled faster than the speed of light—tentative evidence that could mean a revision of Einstein's special theory of relativity …

Discussion: Climate ShiftClimate Shift

Sabrina Ford / Reuters:

Warner Bros puts your face in Facebook Web series — (Reuters) - Warner Bros. on Thursday will unveil a Web show from “Charlie's Angels” director McG that seeks to create a new genre the studio calls a “social series” by taking pictures, music and information from a viewer's Facebook page and putting it in the video.

Karyn Campbell / Sparksheet:

Return of the Editor: Why Human Filters are the Future of the Web — If web 1.0 was about websites and 2.0 the power of network connectivity, whatever 3.0 looks like, better filters will play a big part. — The web has become too big and noisy. The design community has helped guide us through …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals

Fox News:

Mexican Journalist Beheaded for Using Social Media to Cover Crime — MEXICO CITY - The editor-in-chief of the Primera Hora newspaper in Nuevo Laredo, a border city in northern Mexico, was beheaded for using social media to report on criminals, prosecutors said.

Discussion: The New York Observer

Liz Castro / Pigs, Gourds, and Wikis:

Apple's iBookstore opens in 25 new countries — Christian Peters just alerted me to the fact that he can choose Spain as a market for his books on the iBookstore. Before today, you could only choose US, UK, France, Germany, Australia, and Canada. — Now, you can add twenty-five new markets …

Discussion: The Digital Reader, Fast Company, The Next Web, AppleInsider and MacStories, more at Techmeme »

Michael Arrington / UNCRUNCHED:

VentureBeat Needs To Put On Their Big Boy Pants If They Want To Fight With TechCrunch — VentureBeat leveled quite an accusation at TechCrunch this evening, claiming that they had evidence that suggested TechCrunch was trading stories for ad buys. The evidence?

Discussion: TechCrunch, VentureBeat, @venturebeat, Business Insider, @tolles, @mathewi, dylan tweney and Future of Journalism, more at Techmeme »

Dylan Stableford / Yahoo! News:

‘Gruesome’ Bin Laden death photos should be secret, White House says — The CIA has 52 photographs or videos that were taken of Osama bin Laden after he was killed on May 1 in the American raid on his compound in Islamabad, Pakistan, according to the Justice Department.

Discussion: mediabistro.com

Angelique Chrisafis / Guardian:

Nicolas Sarkozy ally accused of spying in latest scandal to hit re-election bid — Prosecutor close to French president in court over allegations of spying on Le Monde journalists investigating Bettencourt scandal — The threat to Nicolas Sarkozy's re-election bid from corruption scandals intensified …

Raphael Satter / The Huffington Post:

News Of The World Paid Spies For Scoops During Piers Morgan's Tenure — LONDON — No one suspected the secretary. — Efficient, well-dressed and well-liked, Sue Harris was at the heart of the Sunday People, the smallest of Britain's weekly tabloids. She booked flights, reserved accommodation …

Discussion: On Media's Blog and Adweek

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian: Phone hacking: second NoW journalist takes News International to tribunal

Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD:

Encyclopaedia Britannica Now Fits Into an App — The Encyclopaedia Britannica has been the most prestigious general encyclopedia in the English language for what seems like forever. But it has always been expensive, and a bit stodgy. Today, when people need to look up information …