Mediagazer: MIT researcher says he can predict Twitter trends (Derrick Harris/GigaOM)

8:35 AM ET, November 3, 2012

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Nick Bilton / NYT Bits:

Twitter to Add Photo Filters to Compete With Instagram — Twitter is finally learning a lesson from Facebook: If you can't buy it, build it. — In the coming months, Twitter plans to update its mobile applications to introduce filters for photos that will allow people to share altered images …

Discussion: Mashable!, GigaOM, ReadWrite, CNET, TechCrunch, The Next Web, The Verge and Business Insider

Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

The Times's Washington Bureau Chief, and Legions of Others, in Defense of Nate Silver — Nate Silver, author of the FiveThirtyEight blog on NYTimes.com, may be under attack from some people, as I noted in a post on Thursday but he also has many defenders. — Hundreds of them wrote to me in e-mails …

Discussion: CJR, Groundswell, @fivethirtyeight, Erik Wemple and election

Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:
Foxy Nate Silver and why old-media hedgehogs could soon be old news

Discussion: LA Observed, Salon, JIMROMENESKO.COM, Mashable!, Wired, FAIR Blog, Gawker.com, The Week, HBR.org and The Atlantic Online

Emma Bazilian / Adweek:

The Search Is On for Wired's Next Editor — The publishing world got an end-of-the-workweek surprise today when Wired announced that editor in chief Chris Anderson in stepping down after 11 years on the job. Anderson is leaving Wired at the end of the year to become the full-time CEO of 3D Robotics, a company he co-founded in 2009.

Erik Maza / WWD:

Chris Anderson to Exit Wired — With presidential politics and Hurricane news dominating the day's headlines, Friday could have scarcely been a better day to bury bombshell media announcements. And so it was that Condé Nast ceo Chuck Townsend said Wired editor in chief Chris Anderson …

Discussion: Style Ledger

Pew Research Center:

Journalist Alan Murray Named President of Pew Research Center — Washington (Nov. 2) — Veteran journalist Alan Murray, currently deputy managing editor and executive editor, online, for The Wall Street Journal, has been named President of the Pew Research Center, succeeding public opinion expert Andrew Kohut …

Discussion: Reuters, JIMROMENESKO.COM, Politico, FishbowlNY, www.wnyc.org and Poynter

Capital New York: Who will be the next editor of ‘The Wall Street Journal’? Not Alan Murray

Telegraph:

New BBC row over Newsnight ‘paedophile’ politician probe — The BBC was last night embroiled in a new row over a Newsnight investigation which planned to out a senior political figure as a paedophile. — Jimmy Savile — The politician told The Daily Telegraph he denied the claims …

Discussion: WorldViews and BBC

Angela Watercutter / Wired:

Updated Anonymous Doc We Are Legion Gets Online Release — We Are Legion explores the history of Anonymous and traces the hacktivist group's influence on current political movements. — Photo courtesy Luminant Media — It's amazing the Anonymous documentary We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists ever saw the light of day.

Discussion: Softpedia News

Derrick Harris / GigaOM:

MIT researcher says he can predict Twitter trends — A researcher at MIT claims to have developed an algorithm that can accurately predict what topics will trend on Twitter. But Twitter being a relatively minor business in the grand scheme of things, the algorithm might end up being more useful elsewhere …

Discussion: BetaNews, Engadget, Guardian and Poynter

Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:

Twitter Releases Numbers Related To Hurricane Sandy: More Than 20M Tweets Sent During Its Peak — As you know, the devastation of Hurricane Sandy has hit millions. Many turned to Twitter to discuss what they were going through. Today, the company shared some interesting facts and numbers having …

Discussion: The Next Web, Forbes, Softpedia News, The Huffington Post, CNET and Home Media Magazine

Anna Codrea-Rado / CJR:
It's about the info, not the outlet

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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Kobo expands to South Africa to compete against Kindle — Ebook retailer Kobo announced its first African launch Tuesday evening: The company is partnering with South African retail chain Pick n Pay to sell the Kobo Touch e-reader and ebooks. Kobo promises local content available in Afrikaans and English.

Michael Learmonth / AdAge:

Sandy Brings Back Prime Time for Original Wireless Network: Radio — Amid Continuing Blackout, Medium Is the Only Game in Town — Batteries are drained, internet connections long-gone. For the nearly 5 million households muddling through a fourth day without power in the wake of Hurricane Sandy …

Discussion: Yahoo! News, Forbes and Capital New York

Anthony Crupi / Adweek:

Storm may have cost media industry half a billion dollars — Already looking rocky at the start of the fourth quarter, the media economy this week was dealt a staggering blow by Hurricane Sandy. — In disrupting local TV and radio broadcasts and putting a halt to all New York media buying …

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Ben Sisario / Media Decoder:

So Far, Clear Channel's Digital Strategy Is Breaking Even — The digital future is coming to radio, eventually. — For now, Internet radio still represents a small portion of the radio listening audience. And, according to the latest earnings report from Clear Channel Communications …

Steven Mufson / Washington Post:

The Washington Post Co. reports higher earnings — The Washington Post Co. reported sharply higher earnings in the third quarter of this year, bolstered by cable television profits, political and summer Olympic Game advertising on its local television broadcast stations, and a one-time accounting benefit.

Discussion: MediaPost, PublishersWeekly.com, Broadcasting & Cable, AdAge and Politico