Mediagazer: DoneDeal sells majority stake to Norwegian firm (Stephen/Digital Times)

8:15 AM ET, September 30, 2011

Top News:

The Yes Men Raise Money to Publish the Occupy Wall Street Journal — Media activists The Yes Men are raising money on Kickstarter to publish a four-page broadsheet about the 99% represented at Liberty Plaza called The Occupy Wall Street Journal, Animal NY noticed.

Discussion: Forbes, ANIMAL, Globe and Mail and Capital New York

Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Clean Slate: How the online mag's tech director Dan Check fine-tuned a 15-year-old machine — As the web's oldest living magazine, Slate has acquired a certain reputation of, well, old-fashionedness. The New York Observer called Slate “tech-backward” last November.

David Plotz / Slate:
Meet the New Slate — The same great stories, but a better home page …

Discussion: Future Journalism Project, ShortFormBlog, The Awl and CyberJournalist.net

Bloomberg:

Microsoft Said to Add Comcast, Verizon Pay TV to Xbox Live — Microsoft Corp. plans to offer online pay television service from Comcast Corp. (CMCSA) and Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) through Xbox Live, in an bid to channel more entertainment to its video-game console, people with knowledge of the situation said.

Discussion: Deadline.com, PC Magazine, Multichannel, CNET News, @pkafka, Medacity, GigaOM, Between the Lines Blog, Engadget, Electronista and MarketBeat, more at Techmeme »

Kunur Patel / AdAge:

Amazon's Kindle Fire Could Ignite Tablet Media Consumption — At Less than Half the Price of iPad, New Device Pulls Down Barriers to Entry — By pricing its new Kindle Fire tablet at less than half the cost of an Apple iPad, Amazon is setting up tablet consumption of media to spread …

Discussion: MediaPost, One Man & His Blog, Bits, MediaFile, Future of Journalism, Poynter, Forbes, MediaPost and Epicenter, more at Techmeme »

Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:
Magazines Join With New Tablet Challenger

Discussion: Deal Journal, Digits and eMedia Vitals

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: NetNewsCheck Latest, Stark Insider, @penenberg, @mathewi, @thomnagy and @j_fuller

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Is it Google's job to somehow improve the media?

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Stephen / Digital Times:

DoneDeal sells majority stake to Norwegian firm — DoneDeal always enjoyed impressive figures — DoneDeal has sold “just over 50 per cent” of its company to Norway's Schibsted Media Group. No price was revealed, however, Schibsted now has a majority shareholding in an Irish firm …

MediaShift Idea Lab:

Hyper-Local Heaven at UC Berkeley's Journalism School — I've said this many times before: The driving force behind my career has been to increase the level of transparency and participation in the process of journalism. — That driving force has taken my career in all kinds of fun …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest and Street Fight

Tom Kington / Guardian:

News Corp faces fresh hacking drama - around satellite TV cards — Italian trial of those accused of hacking TV access cards turns spotlight on to Sky Italia - and reveals that hackers nicknamed Rupert Murdoch ‘the Kangaroo’ — The Palace of Justice in Siracusa on the east coast of Sicily feels …

eMarketer:

Twitter Ad Revenues to Near $400 Million by 2013 — Ad dollars expected to triple this year — Twitter will earn $139.5 million in global ad revenues this year, up 210% from $45 million in 2010, according to a new forecast from eMarketer. By 2013, eMarketer estimates worldwide ad revenues at Twitter will reach nearly $400 million.

Discussion: Softpedia News, MediaPost, Marketing Pilgrim, Mashable!, VatorNews, Search Engine Journal, TechCrunch and Forbes

Barbara Selvin / Poynter:

RiverheadLocal one of the hyperlocal success stories at Block by Block summit — The theme for the homecoming parade was board games, and Denise Civiletti, the publisher of RiverheadLocal.com, moved into the street to get a shot of the senior class' Candyland float as it rumbled along Osborn Avenue in Riverhead, N.Y.

Steve Fishman / New York Magazine:

Floored by News Corp.: Who Hacked a Rival's Computer System? — News Corp. was at war with Floorgraphics, a small in-store advertising company, and veteran salesman Gary Henderson was leading the attack. He appeared to have a valuable advantage: access to inside information …

Discussion: On Media's Blog

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

With ‘frictionless sharing,’ Facebook and news orgs push boundaries of online privacy — Facebook again may have gone too far in its quest to make privacy obsolete, and this time some news organizations could get burned by going along with it. — Facebook spent years making it easier …

Discussion: Hillicon Valley, Inside Facebook, Betabeat, Journalism.co.uk and The Atlantic Online, more at Techmeme »

Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:

Google Analytics Goes Real-Time & Gets a Premium Version — Google launches two new features for Google Analytics: Real-time stats and premium accounts for large enterprises. — Google just announced that it is launching a premium version of its Google Analytics website stats product.

Discussion: Softpedia News, Google Analytics Blog, TechCrunch, Google Analytics Blog, Search Engine Land and Marketing Pilgrim, more at Techmeme »

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 …