Mediagazer: Nicolas Sarkozy ally accused of spying in latest scandal to hit re-election bid (Angelique Chrisafis/Guardian)

7:55 AM ET, September 29, 2011

Top News:

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: Gizmodo, Amazon Silk, CNET News, broadstuff, Business Insider, ZDNet, AllThingsD, Digits, Mashable! and GeekWire, more at Techmeme »

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: parislemon and TechCrunch

Bloomberg:
Amazon Unveils $199 Kindle Fire Tablet, Targeting IPad

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

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

Discussion: MediaPost, GigaOM, Garcia Media, FT Tech Hub, TUAW and 9to5Google, more at Techmeme »

Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:
Amazon's Lukewarm Fire: No Kindle Tablets Outside U.S.

Discussion: Jon Slattery, Forbes, Mashable!, mocoNews, ReadWriteWeb, CNET News and Poynter, more at Techmeme »

Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:
Amazon Unveils New $79 E-Ink Kindle, $99 Kindle Touch

Discussion: Forbes, ZDNet, VentureBeat, Engadget, AllThingsD and Kindle Review

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: paidContent, MacStories, Electronista, The New York Observer, New York Magazine, The Next Web, Adweek, Guardian, Future Journalism Project, AllThingsD, Business Insider and Cision, more at Techmeme »

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 Huffington Post, Death and Taxes, The Atlantic Wire and ShortFormBlog

Dylan Stableford / Yahoo! News:
Media coverage of Wall Street protest ramps up following cop clash

Discussion: The New York Observer and FishbowlNY

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: Adweek and On Media's Blog

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

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

Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:

Independent editor backs plan for bad journalists to be ‘struck off’ — Chris Blackhurst supports proposal to licence journalists and says paper's Johann Hari should hand back Orwell prize — Chris Blackhurst, the editor of the Independent, has come out in support of the Labour party's …

Discussion: bbc.co.uk, AndyDickinson.net, Future of Journalism, http://www.Stinkyjournalism … and FleetStreetBlues

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

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 Next Web, AppleInsider and MacStories, more at Techmeme »

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 …

Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

Yahoo Cofounder Jerry Yang “Has Re-assumed Command” — The leadership situation at Yahoo right now is incredibly murky, and no two sources close to the situation see it the same way. — That said, one thing is clear. — Jerry Yang - who is at once a beloved cofounder and a hated former CEO - has reinserted himself at the top.

Discussion: Gawker and Electronista

Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: Board Member David Kenny Wants The Yahoo CEO Job

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 …

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 …

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

IAB: Internet Advertising Reaches A Record $15B In First Half Of 2011; Up 23 Percent — The Internet Advertising Bureau just released its numbers of the first half of 2011, and it looks like internet ad revenue reached record highs during the time period. Internet ad revenues rose 23.2 percent …