Mediagazer: ‘Breaking Tweets:’ How A Blog From A Chicago Apartment Gained A Global Following (Craig Kanalley/Medium)

5:05 AM ET, May 21, 2013

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Craig Kanalley / Medium:

‘Breaking Tweets:’ How A Blog From A Chicago Apartment Gained A Global Following — And led to a full-time job. Here's how it all happened. — The Internet, I've learned, is a great place to throw up ideas and see what sticks. — Some things resonate with people more than others.

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Why Google Will Crush Nielsen — Internet measurement techniques need a complete overhaul. New ways have emerged, potentially displacing older panel-based technologies. This will make it hard for incumbent players to stay in the game. — The web user is the most watched consumer ever.

Jane Mayer / New Yorker:

How far did PBS go to avoid offending a sponsor? — Last fall, Alex Gibney, a documentary filmmaker who won an Academy Award in 2008 for an exposé of torture at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan, completed a film called “Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream.”

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