Mediagazer: Real-time news is neither (Seth Godin/Seth's Blog)

9:45 AM ET, February 25, 2013

Top News:

Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:

Barnes & Noble Weighs Its E-Reader Investment — Even for a company with a lot of bad news lately, the bulletin from Barnes & Noble this month had an ominous feel. — Barnes & Noble, the nation's largest book chain, warned that when it reports fiscal 2013 third-quarter results on Thursday …

Discussion: paidContent, Fast Company, Bloomberg, DealBook, Reuters, BGR, Mashable!, Business Insider, GeekWire, The Verge, CNET, Engadget and Softpedia News

Wall Street Journal:

Barnes's Chairman Mulls Store Buyout — Barnes & Noble Inc.'s chairman and biggest shareholder, Leonard Riggio, has expressed interest in buying out the retailer's consumer-bookstore chain, raising the prospect that the company could be split in two. — Mr. Riggio, 71 years old …

Discussion: Bloomberg, Reuters, DealBook, The Next Web, AllThingsD and 24/7 Wall St.

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

We Are All Huffington Post Now — Two years ago, the Huffington Post published a story called “What Time Does the Super Bowl Start?” which generated lots of clicks from regular Web-surfers, and eye-rolling from people like me. — The post was both effective — it showed up high on Google searches …

Discussion: The Wrap, mediabistro.com, Gawker, @pkafka, @deanpraetorius, Mediaite and Los Angeles Times

David Boardman / The Seattle Times:

Digital subscriptions needed to support quality journalism — In mid-March, The Seattle Times will launch a new digital-subscription plan for users of Seattletimes.com. Print subscribers will continue to have unrestricted access. — It is a truism of American life that you get what you pay for.

Discussion: Poynter, Columbia Journalism Review, NetNewsCheck Latest and GeekWire

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Robert Gibbs Told Not To Acknowledge Drone Program Exists As White House Press Secretary — Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy — Former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Sunday that he was told not to “acknowledge” or “discuss” …

Discussion: Politico and The Verge

Jennifer Martinez / Hillicon Valley:
White House orders agencies to open access to research

Discussion: Boing Boing

Seth Godin / Seth's Blog:

Real-time news is neither — The closer you get to the event itself, the more it costs to find out what's going on. A week or a month or a year after the fact, the truth (or as close as we can get) is nearly free. Finding out that same truth mere seconds after it happens is costly indeed.

Discussion: @stkonrath, @tesener and @adamwestbrook

Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:

Michael Goldfarb Gleeful Provocateur at Intersection of Many Worlds — At 11:42 a.m. on Feb. 14, a conservative online magazine called The Washington Free Beacon posted a dispatch about a speech Chuck Hagel gave in 2007 in which it said he called the State Department “an adjunct to the Israeli foreign minister's office.”

Discussion: @nycsouthpaw, The Huffington Post, @jim_newell, Prof Chris Daly's Blog and Smartertimes.com

Dylan Byers / Politico:

ABC News announces Jeff Zeleny hire — It's official: ABC News has hired New York Times national political correspondent Jeff Zeleny to serve as Senior Washington Correspondent covering Congress and politics. — “If you're interested in presidential campaigns or national affairs …

Discussion: @dylanbyers, ABCNEWS and TVNewser

T.C. Sottek / The Verge:

NASCAR blocks eyewitness video of Daytona crash, but YouTube reverses the takedown — A NASCAR race at the Daytona International Speedway today was disrupted by a harrowing crash that sent debris flying into the stands and left some fans injured. As CNN reports, shredded debris flew …

Marco Arment / Marco.org:

The Magazine: now with full-article sharing, web subscriptions — When I launched The Magazine in October, I didn't know whether enough people would subscribe to keep it afloat. I didn't know whether most people would make fun of the idea, argue that articles on the internet should be free …

Discussion: @steverubel, @natdudley and @marcoarment, Thanks:@steverubel

John Plunkett / Guardian:

BBC condemns China's ‘deliberate’ jamming of World Service broadcasts — Statement by global news head Peter Horrocks cites ‘deliberate and co-ordinated’ blocking of shortwave frequencies in region — The BBC has “strongly condemned” the “deliberate and co-ordinated” jamming of the BBC World Service by authorities in China.

Discussion: BBC and Associated Press

Samantha Murphy / Mashable:

Oscar Win Is a First for Kickstarter-Funded Film — For the first time ever, a Kickstarter-funded film has won an Oscar. How's that for the power of the Internet and crowdfunding? — Inocente — the story of a 15-year old girl from California who refuses to give up her dream of being an artist …

Discussion: Speakeasy, BBC, The Independent, Associated Press, The Next Web and Los Angeles Times

Eliot Van Buskirk / Evolver.fm:

How Pitchfork Visualizes Music on the Internet — Welcome to part two of our condensed, super-digestible interview with RJ Bentler, vice president of video programming for the influential music tastemaker Pitchfork. The first part of this interview covers the interactive promise of internet-on-the-television.