Mediagazer: How two scientists are using the New York Times archives to predict the future (Laura Hazard Owen/GigaOM)

11:15 PM ET, February 2, 2013

Top News:

Chinese hackers suspected in attack on The Post's computers — A sophisticated cyberattack targeted The Washington Post in an operation that resembled intrusions against other major American news organizations and that company officials suspect was the work of Chinese hackers, people familiar with the incident said.

Discussion: New York Times, CNET, Guardian, Politico, Softpedia News, Washington Post, The Verge, Krebs on Security, Wired and Kirk LaPointe's …

Associated Press:
US weighs tougher action over China cyberattacks

Discussion: Mashable!

Jay Kirsch / TechCrunch:

CBS, CNET Debacle And The Separation Of Church And State — Editor's note: Jay Kirsch is the President of AOL's Business, Technology & Entertainment Group, which includes properties such as TechCrunch, Engadget, Autoblog, DailyFinance and Moviefone among others. Follow him on Twitter @jaykirsch.

Discussion: @alexia

Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:

How two scientists are using the New York Times archives to predict the future — Researchers at Microsoft and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology are creating software that analyzes 22 years of New York Times archives, Wikipedia and about 90 other web resources to predict future disease outbreaks …

Discussion: newsplexer, The Verge and Tom Simonite

PandoDaily:

Sources: Ziff Davis is close to buying IGN — It's no secret that News Corp. has been trying to sell gaming portal IGN for some time. It even floated an aspirational price to the Wall Street Journal: $100 million. — We've heard all sorts of rumors about who the buyer could be since that article …

Discussion: AllThingsD

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The newsonomics of Aaron Kushner's virtuous circles — Aaron Kushner is the anti-Advance. — Tomorrow, Advance makes digital origami of the Syracuse Post-Standard, going to three days a week of print (good Poynter inside view of the change). Its strategy: addition by subtraction.

David Gelernter / Wired:

The End of the Web, Search, and Computer as We Know It — People ask what the next web will be like, but there won't be a next web. — The space-based web we currently have will gradually be replaced by a time-based worldstream. It's already happening, and it all began with the lifestream …

Discussion: ZDNet, @miguelrios, ROUGH TYPE, @wiredopinion, @_mstevenson and @stevenlevy

Jill Goldsmith / Variety:

News Corp. names two more execs to publishing biz — Healy to help fashion strategic direction — News Corp. Friday named Anoushka Healy, current group managing editor of The Times and Sunday Times in London, as chief strategy officer of its new global publishing entity once it splits in two later this year.

Discussion: Reuters, mnilive.com, Wall Street Journal, Yahoo! Movies, Guardian and Adweek

Bora Zivkovic / Scientific American:

Commenting threads: good, bad, or not at all. — Proposed alternative title: “This post is not about climate change” … A couple of weeks ago, an article was published in Science about online science communication (nothing new there, really, that we have not known for a decade, but academia is slow to catch up).

Discussion: PandoDaily, @cshirky and Poynter

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

In Wake of Restructuring, NBC News President Quits — The longest-serving president of any of the three network news divisions, Steve Capus of NBC News, stepped down from his position on Friday, six months after Comcast restructured its news units in a way that diminished his authority.

Discussion: Chickaboomer, The Huffington Post, Media & Entertainment, Broadcasting & Cable, mediabistro.com, Capital New York, TVNewser, Politico, The Daily Caller, Politico and New York Magazine

China Internet Watch:

74% Chinese Netizens Acquire News Online — The latest Global Communication Market Report from the British Ofcom made a comprehensive research on consumers' consumption and attitude toward communication services and products in the global market. — The Overview of China — 1. Population and Economic Elements

David Lieberman / Deadline.com:

YOU On Demand Offers Films On VOD In China Weeks After They Debut In Theaters — Studio and theater owners who wonder what would happen to sales if movies are rushed to home video should keep an eye on what's happening in China. Warner Bros has begun an experiment to stay ahead of DVD pirates …

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Ed Koch, the newspaper columnist — Ed Koch, the former three-term mayor of New York who died of gongestive heart failure this morning at the age of 88, will most likely be remember first and foremost for his political skills and his identification with an era of redemption for New York City.

Discussion: New Yorker, The Huffington Post, Fast Company, New York Magazine, AdAge, The New Yorker Blog, Gothamist and Poynter

The Huffington Post:
NY Times Revises Ed Koch Obit After Outcry

Discussion: Poynter, Daily Download, The Corsair, Gawker, Inside Movies, Capital New York and Poynter

Mathew Ingram / paidContent:

Watch out, Atlantic — the New Yorker is gunning for you — We've argued before, The Atlantic is one of the traditional media players that is most worth paying attention to when it comes to the ongoing disruptive effects of the web — the venerable magazine has managed to turn itself around financially …

Discussion: Adweek