Mediagazer: Cargo cult analytics (Stijn Debrouwere/stdout.be)

9:00 AM ET, August 29, 2013

Top News:

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

Automattic takes on Storify with WordPress Media Explorer for curating tweets and YouTube videos — Automattic has released a Media Explorer tool for the WordPress blogging platform that lets authors curate trending content from Twitter and YouTube all without needing to leave their post.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, WordPress.com News, VentureBeat and TechCrunch

Jane Darby Menton / Yale Daily News:

Woodward to teach ‘Journalism’ — In the spring, aspiring Yale journalists will have the opportunity to learn from one of the most famous names in the field, Bob Woodward '65. — Woodward will teach the spring section of “Journalism,” an intensive seminar that the English Department offers each spring and fall.

Lucas Shaw / The Wrap:

Press+ Launches a Service to Make Online Video Profitable (Exclusive) — You can start by watching the Microsoft anti-trust trial, but shows from major entertainment companies could be next — Press+, which provides paywalls for the websites of several top newspaper chains …

NPR:

Area Man Realizes He's Been Reading Fake News For 25 Years — Before Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert became establishments in news satire, there was The Onion. Thursday, “America's Finest News Source” turns 25. — Two college students founded the fake news organization …

Discussion: @aparnamuk and Rosie Gray

Stijn Debrouwere / stdout.be:

Cargo cult analytics — This is a talk I gave at a Hacks/Hackers meetup in Berlin on August 21, 2013. — Thanks for inviting me to speak at this Hacks/Hackers meetup. My name is Stijn Debrouwere. I'm a Knight-Mozilla OpenNews fellow and I'm loosely affiliated with the Guardian's data science team in London.

Discussion: @ajdant, @mattwaite, @greglinch, @yurivictor, @nowthis, @stdbrouw, @andymboyle, @scholarlykitchn, @brianabelson and @yelvington

Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:

Instapaper gets complete redesign after Betaworks purchase, new mobile apps soon — Instapaper is in the midsts of an overhaul. After being purchased by Betaworks this past April, the first major changes to the read-it-later service since creator Marco Arment gave up control of the app are here.

Discussion: betaworks, @piercedavid, I4U News, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, Engadget, Pocket-lint, Instapaper and Gizmodo

David Kravets / Wired:

White House Copyright Czar Jumps to Industry Anti-Piracy Group — Victoria Espinel, the nation's copyright czar until two weeks ago, has been named president of an anti-piracy trade group that lobbies governments on behalf of the software industry. — Espinel resigned earlier this month …

Discussion: Washington Times, Politico, RT, @padresj, Techdirt, Digital Media Wire and Hillicon Valley

Ben Woods / The Next Web:

Sky+ HD boxes that include WiFi as standard and up to 2TB of storage are now available — BSkyB, the UK broadcaster better known simply as Sky, has finally launched its pair of new PVR units for its TV subscribers. — The new Sky+ HD boxes, one of which includes 2TB of on-board storage …

Discussion: TechRadar.com, Telegraph, Compare Mobile Phones …, Broadband TV News, Tech Digest, Gizmodo UK, Trusted Reviews, Crave and Shiny Shiny

Guardian:

Sun on Sunday overhaul expected in September — Tabloid thought to relaunch after News UK's recruitment of 16 new staff and editor's pledge to take paper ‘to greater heights’ — The Sun on Sunday is expected to unveil a radical overhaul in September, 19 months after Rupert Murdoch launched …

Discussion: @benfenton and The Drum

Andy Fixmer / Bloomberg:

TiVo Posts $268.9 Million Profit Boosted by Settlements — TiVo Inc. (TIVO), the digital-video recorder pioneer, reported a second-quarter profit of $268.9 million, boosted by legal settlements, and forecast earnings to continue through this year and in fiscal 2015.

Discussion: TechCrunch, Motley Fool, Wall Street Journal, Digital TV Europe, Corporate Intelligence, Multichannel News, Hollywood Reporter and Tech Trader Daily

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Twitter Acquires Social TV Tracker Trendrr — Twitter has acquired Trendrr, a social tracking TV service that until today competed with Twitter's own in-house analytics products. — After Wednesday's acquisition, the three dominant, stand-alone players in the social TV chatter space are gone.

Kelly McBride / Poynter:

What the ESPN/Frontline breakup teaches us about investigative reporting — As we put the pieces together in this week's ESPN/Frontline breakup, we've learned something about investigative journalism: it's incredibly difficult for a news organization to hold its own partners accountable.

Discussion: @poynter and @kellymcb