Mediagazer: Why the quants won't take over Hollywood (Felix Salmon)

Felix Salmon:

Why the quants won't take over Hollywood — Andrew Leonard has a very odd column about Netflix and House of Cards, under the headline “How Netflix is turning viewers into puppets”. Netflix, you see, has lots of data, and it used that data in the commissioning process for the series:

Discussion: @pkafka, Esquire and @felixsalmon

Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:

Keeping Secrets — IF you only own a hammer, observed the psychologist Abraham Maslow, you tend to see every problem as a nail. — Similarly, when the government's only chance of keeping an inconvenient truth out of the news media is to warn of a national security threat, it's amazing how these threats pop up.

Discussion: @mathewi, @sulliview, @ggreenwald, The Huffington Post, Gawker, Pressing Issues, Mashable! and Gizmodo

John Cusack / The Huffington Post:

Freedom of the Press Foundation - Updates From Our Front — When we launched Freedom of the Press Foundation — a new organization dedicated to supporting the 1st Amendment and journalism that focuses on transparency and accountability in government — a little over six weeks ago, we knew the need was there.

Discussion: @freedomofpress

Paul Farhi / Washington Post:

Publication of hacked George W. Bush e-mails raises journalism ethics questions — By the old rules of journalism, George W. Bush's private e-mails to his family might never have been published or broadcast, certainly not without his permission. Most news organizations would have thought twice …

Discussion: @postbaron and Reuters

Thomas Fuller / New York Times:

Journalists' E-Mail Accounts Targeted in Myanmar — BANGKOK — Several journalists who cover Myanmar said Sunday that they had received warnings from Google that their e-mail accounts might have been hacked by “state-sponsored attackers.” — The warnings began appearing last week …

Discussion: Eleven Myanmar

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Twitter Hikes Its Promoted Trend Prices Again, to $200,000 a Day — Twitter's ad business is still a work in progress, but here's one positive sign: Prices for the company's “promoted trends” have been steadily rising, and are now at the $200,000 a day mark in the U.S..

Discussion: The Next Web

Sara Hamdan / New York Times:

Social Media Firms Move to Capitalize on Popularity in Middle East — DUBAI — For its most recent advertising push, the Saudi Arabian telecommunications giant Mobily did not turn to the street or television to engage with customers. Mobily paid to promote itself on Twitter.

Associated Press:

Egypt court orders YouTube blocked for a month in case related to anti-Islam film — CAIRO — A Cairo court on Saturday ordered the government to block access to the video-sharing website YouTube for 30 days for carrying an anti-Islam film that caused deadly riots across the world.

Discussion: Reuters, Mediaite, AllThingsD, The Verge, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, CNET and Engadget

Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:

Trinity Mirror's ‘newsroom 3.0 model’ to focus on digital — More details on Trinity Mirror's proposed new workflow, which it plans to roll out across its regional newsrooms, as part of ‘significant changes’ announced last week — Copyright: By jarapet on Flickr. Some rights reserved.

Thanks:@coreypein

Katy Bachman / Adweek:

FCC's Pai Makes Vigorous Case to Loosen Media Ownership Rules — Federal Communications commissioner Ajit Pai made it clear where he stands on media ownership rules. In a no-holds-barred style that is becoming the GOP commissioner's trademark, Pai laid out a vigorous defense for loosening …

Matt Buchanan / BuzzFeed:

Meet The Next Version Of Twitter — It's like Facebook's Newsfeed. But on Twitter. — There was a time when the trajectory of Twitter was at least somewhat uncertain, like it could shoot off in any direction. But it seems quite fixed now, as the Twitter stream flowing down your screen congeals …

Discussion: @pkafka and @mikeisaac

Eric Zorn / Change of Subject:

Subject: In defense of the besieged email interview — This school year alone, three prominent college newspapers have issued general prohibitions against email interviews. — And since “if it happens three times, it's a trend” is an informal law of journalism, I consider it my duty to weigh in.