Mediagazer: retracted the report and attempted to claim that it was not properly vetted (Techdirt)

4:20 AM ET, November 18, 2012

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Twitter is pivoting — Peter Chernin had this to say during his days as President of News Corp, owners of MySpace, in 2006: … This was the justification and mentality that MySpace employed as they blocked various fast-growing platform partners that they felt impinged in MySpace's core user experience.

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retracted the report and attempted to claim that it was not properly vetted — So, late Friday, we reported on how the Republican Study Committee (the conservative caucus of House Republicans) had put out a surprisingly awesome report about copyright reform. You can read that post to see the details.

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Muhammad Lila / ABCNEWS:

Oops! Taliban Reveal Identities of Their Mailing List Members — Somewhere out there, Mullah Omar must be shaking his head. — In a Dilbert-esque faux pax, a Taliban spokesperson sent out a routine email last week with one notable difference.He publicly CC'd the names of everyone on his mailing list.

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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Yahoo CEO Mayer Cuts End-of-Year “Week of Rest” for Employees, While Prepping Plans to Identify Bottom 20 Percent of Staff — Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is now starting to unveil the flip side of free lunches and smartphones, with two employee-focused moves that are a little more tough love in nature.

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Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The newsonomics of thin ice, from the BBC and FT to The New York Times and The Washington Post — The cracks got a little louder this week. — For most of a decade, news companies have been operating on thinning ice. This week, events on both seaboards of the Atlantic displayed anew …

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Paul Armstrong / GigaOM:

Media companies better embrace Project Glass because it's going to change everything — As consumer hardware goes, few items have had such an instantly polarizing effect as Google's Project Glass, the concept smart glasses (or, to be more precise, augmented reality head-mounted display) …

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Gabriel Beltrone / Adweek:

Reuters, NewsCred Launch New Entertainment Package — If you're a brand looking to play pop culture publisher during the 2012-2013 entertainment awards season, Reuters and NewsCred want your business. The media company and the content licensing and syndication company have partnered up to launch …

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Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Food Network is eyeing YouTube for exclusive online content — Food Network is in advanced negotiations with YouTube about launching a new channel with exclusive online content on the site, the cable network's senior vice president and general manager of online brands Bob Madden told me during an interview this week.

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Paul Sawers / The Next Web:

Earth Unplugged: BBC Worldwide launches its first ever original-content YouTube channel — Back in October, BBC Worldwide announced two new YouTube channels, including a nature channel, delivering new films from its BBC Earth Productions company. Well, the first channel is now live.

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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Avid library ebook borrowers claim it doesn't affect their book buying — Publishers have grappled with how and whether to make ebooks available to libraries — fearing, in part, that a library ebook checkout means a lost sale. A new survey from digital library distributor OverDrive …

Michael Wolf / Forbes:

Three Ways Social TV Analytics Is About to Change the TV Business — While talk of social TV is not new, the industry is still stuggling to understand what exactly the intersection between social media and the TV business will mean. — For consumers, today it's a watercooler conversation …

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

With Amazon Publishing Stonewalled By Retailers, Tim Ferriss Taps BitTorrent To Market His New Book — Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention, and a stalemate between Amazon and big retailers, including Barnes & Noble, over the sale of books from the online giant's publishing imprint …

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