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Twitter Blog:
Welcoming the Posterous team to the flock — Today we are welcoming a very talented group from Posterous to Twitter. This team has built an innovative product that makes sharing across the web and mobile devices simple—a goal we share. Posterous engineers, product managers and others …
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Fast Company, Telegraph, Softpedia News, CNET, The Verge, Bigmouthmedia Search …, VatorNews, Wired, Guardian, PC Magazine, One Man & His Blog, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Mashable!, Forbes, ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, Engadget, SiliconFilter, GigaOM, New York Times, WebProNews and AllThingsD
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Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Twitter has acquired shortform blogging company Posterous, Spaces will remain up and running for now — Blogging and sharing company Posterous has announced via its company blog that it has been snagged by Twitter in an apparent ‘acqui-hire’, with Twitter interested mostly in the people, not the product.
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The Official Posterous Space and Betabeat
Marco Arment / Marco.org:
I'm not a “curator” — Curator's Code is an attempt to codify and standardize “via” links and attribution from link blogs and aggregators with two new symbols: — á"¥ means “via” — means “hat tip” — It's completely misguided. — First of all, readers aren't going to learn what those symbols mean.
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Gizmodo, The Verge, ReadWriteWeb and The New York Observer
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Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
We Don't Need No Stinking Seal of Approval from the Blog Police — David Carr's column today is partly about a plan masterminded by Ad Age columnist Simon Dumenco to create, quote, a “Council on Ethical Blogging and Aggregation,” which will ostensibly serve as a sort of trade group or …
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Mashable!, Erik Wemple, WebProNews, Spiersblr, JIMROMENESKO.COM, FishbowlNY, @antderosa, Boing Boing, The Awl and New York Times
Guardian:
Brooks among six Weeting arrests — Former Sun editor held by Operation Weeting detectives on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice — Rebekah Brooks is among six people arrested by Scotland Yard detectives on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice …
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The Independent, Deadline.com, The Huffington Post, Reuters and @davidfolkenflik
Wall Street Journal:
Intel Developing Web-Based TV Service — Intel Corp. is developing an Internet-based TV service that it hopes to sell to U.S. consumers, a strategic shift for the chip maker that makes it the latest technology company to look at a foray in the pay-TV business.
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ZDNet, ITProPortal, PC Magazine, Bits, Forbes, CNET, The Verge, GigaOM, Multichannel, Business Insider, Engadget and Gizmodo
Ari Levy / Bloomberg:
IAC Chairman Diller Sees Aereo TV Service in Up to 100 Cities Within Year — Barry Diller, the billionaire chairman of IAC/InteractiveCorp. (IACI), expects his Aereo Inc. Web- based television service to be in 75 to 100 cities within a year after making its debut this week in New York.
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TechCrunch, Light Reading, Adweek, Betabeat, CNET and Bloomberg
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Aereo files countersuit against broadcasters
Aereo files countersuit against broadcasters
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Adweek, PC Magazine, Broadcasting & Cable and TVSpy
The Huffington Post:
CNN Lifts Roland Martin's Suspension — CNN announced on Monday that it has lifted its suspension on political analyst Roland Martin. — According to Fishbowl DC, the network announced the news during a conference call Monday morning. — Martin was suspended shortly after Super Bowl Sunday …
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Mediaite, FishbowlDC, TVNewser and Inside Cable News
CNN:
FCC should clear Limbaugh from airwaves — Limbaugh has long history of hate speech. FCC should ask: Are stations carrying him are acting “in public interest,” writers say. — Editor's note: Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, and Gloria Steinem are the Co-Founders of the Women's Media Center.
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Speakeasy, Forbes, New York Times, The Daily Caller, The Huffington Post, Mediaite and Chickaboomer
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
EXCLUSIVE: 141 Companies Drop Advertising From Rush Limbaugh
EXCLUSIVE: 141 Companies Drop Advertising From Rush Limbaugh
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Cagle Post, The Huffington Post and Mediaite
Sean Roach / CJR:
The Constant Gardener — My two years tending AOL's hyperlocal experiment — My employment with Patch started with a handshake and a promise that I would be called with a job offer in the next few days. I had met with Patch's editor in chief, Brian Farnham, at the company's New York headquarters.
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Street Fight and Poynter
Jeanine Poggi / AdAge:
Netflix Quietly Launches TV Network-Branded Pages — Could Complicate Stance as Complementary to TV Distributors — Comcast, cablevision, cox and ... Netflix? — Netflix has been careful to describe itself as a complement to cable distributors, but as it quietly tests network-branded pages …
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@brizilla, New York Post and Business Insider
Bloomberg:
Yahoo Accuses Facebook in Suit of Infringing Advertising-Related Patents — Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) sued Facebook Inc. (FB) over allegations it infringed patents covering functions critical to websites, including Internet advertising, information sharing and privacy.
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paidContent, @jeffjarvis, AllThingsD, The Verge, The Next Web, AllThingsD and VentureBeat
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
NY Times Editor Jill Abramson Stays Humble at SXSW — Here's one way to gauge how big SXSW Interactive has gotten: The executive editor of The New York Times is taking three days off from overseeing All The News That's Fit To Print to come down to Austin, give a talk and take in a few panels — and maybe to catch a Jay-Z show.
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The Huffington Post, NetNewsCheck Latest and Poynter
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
E-Book Smackdown: Who Should Control Pricing—Publishers Or Amazon? — A couple of years ago, with Amazon steadily pushing down the prices of e-books, the fortunes of the big book publishers were sinking fast. Then Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) came along and helped enable publishers to set their own prices for their e-books across platforms.
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Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, @jeffjarvis and TeleRead, Thanks:@mathewi
Joanna Walters / Guardian:
Mourners say farewell to Colvin — Rupert Murdoch among those at Long Island funeral for war correspondent who was killed trying to escape Homs shelling — Marie Colvin, the Sunday Times war correspondent whose reputation for covering difficult stories in the world's most dangerous places …
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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Exclusive: How Much Do Kindle Singles Authors Make? — The top-ten list of bestselling Kindle Singles includes a number of big-name writers. But how is the format working for writers who don't have the brand of a Stephen King or Jodi Picoult? — In addition to sharing overall sales information …
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The Awl
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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Exclusive: Amazon Has Sold Over Two Million Kindle Singles
Exclusive: Amazon Has Sold Over Two Million Kindle Singles
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eMedia Vitals, the Econsultancy blog, Gizmodo, The Verge, Engadget, PC Magazine and eBookNewser