Mediagazer: Sources: Ziff Davis is close to buying IGN (PandoDaily)

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.

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.

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 …

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

Tom Gara / Corporate Intelligence:

Exclusive: Eric Schmidt Unloads on China in New Book … Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt is brutally clear: China is the most dangerous superpower on Earth. — Corporate Intelligence reviewed preliminary galleys of Schmidt's new book, “The New Digital Age,” (Random House) which debuts in April.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal and Business Insider

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

Joe Hagan / New York Magazine:

Tinkerer-in-Chief Bolts Times: Joe Sexton's Innovative, Profane Reign — “Do s**t you're not supposed to do.” That's how Joe Sexton, who as New York Times sports editor has been behind some of the paper's most groundbreaking recent work, describes his guiding philosophy.

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).

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

Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:

Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn Britt to Step Down — Time Warner Cable Chief Executive Glenn Britt will step down at the end of the year, said a person familiar with the matter. — “Glenn Britt is currently under contract with Time Warner Cable. If and when that changes we will announce it …

Discussion: Light Reading and Deadline.com

The Huffington Post:

NY Times Revises Ed Koch Obit After Outcry — The New York Times revised its Friday obituary of former New York City mayor Ed Koch after several observers noticed that it lacked any mention of his controversial record on AIDS. — The paper's obituary, written by longtime staffer Robert D. MacFadden, weighed in at 5,500 words.

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

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