Mediagazer: Memo #3 to Jeff — Data & User Profiling for The Washington Post (Frédéric Filloux/Monday Note)

12:55 AM ET, September 24, 2013

Top News:

Andy Fixmer / Bloomberg:

Pandora Falls 10% as Apple ITunes Radio Draws 11 Million — Pandora Media Inc., the biggest Web radio service, fell 10 percent after Apple Inc. said it attracted more than 11 million unique listeners to its new iTunes Radio service. — Pandora, with 72 million active listeners, slid to $24.26 at the close in New York.

Discussion: @jaredbkeller and Inc.com

Christopher Heine / Adweek:

Will iTunes Radio Spark Digital Music Shakeout? — There appeared to be an overabundance of digital music streaming services before Apple's iTunes Radio became a reality last week, so it stands to reason that a shakeout—if it wasn't already on the horizon—could now be only a matter of time.

Lance Whitney / CNET:
iTunes Radio snags 11 million users

Discussion: Radio & Television …, Pulse 2.0 and MacStories

Dominic Rushe / Guardian:

NSA surveillance goes beyond Orwell's imagination - Alan Rusbridger — Guardian editor says depth of NSA surveillance programs greatly exceed anything the 1984 author could have imagined — The potential of the surveillance state goes way beyond anything in George Orwell's 1984 …

Discussion: @jeffjarvis

Chris Elliott / Guardian:

Open door: The readers' editor on... the Guardian's coverage of government surveillance — Readers have raised concerns about these stories, based on tens of thousands of secret documents disclosed by Edward Snowden, but few are critical of the decision to publish

Discussion: Press Gazette

Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:

Memo #3 to Jeff — Data & User Profiling for The Washington Post — For customer-related technologies, the financial and intellectual backing of Jeff Bezos, and his Amazon experience can give The Post a huge competitive advantage. Here is what should be at the top of the to-do list.

Lucia Moses / Adweek:
The Washington Post Unveils Visual News Product

Discussion: paidContent, @elanazak, @lmoses and NetNewsCheck Latest

Charlie Savage / New York Times:

Former F.B.I. Agent Pleads Guilty in Leak to A.P. — WASHINGTON — A former Federal Bureau of Investigation agent has agreed to plead guilty to leaking classified information to The Associated Press about a foiled bomb plot in Yemen last year, the Justice Department announced on Monday.

Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Turn your followers into gold: Beacon won't be the Netflix of journalism, but it might help you make rent — “The actual number of readers, at this stage, is kind of irrelevant, as long as the writers are like, ‘This is worth it for me.’” — Not exactly the wisdom you'd expect from Adrian Sanders …

Discussion: @ionacraig, @niemanlab and Big News Network.com

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Netflix launches Spoilerfoiler to stop Twitter from spoiling Breaking Bad — Are you one of those people who are afraid to check Twitter Monday morning because everyone is talking about Breaking Bad, but you haven't watched Sunday night's episode yet? Netflix to the rescue …

Discussion: VentureBeat, The Verge, AllThingsD, Forbes, Engadget, /Film, GeekWire, Social News Daily, Betabeat, PopWatch, Pocket-lint, Variety, The Next Web, @tcarmody, @awallenstein and Mashable

Paul Carr / PandoDaily:

To “save NSFWCORP”, founder publicly solicits investors on first day of loosened SEC rules — A change in fundraising law, but is there still time to save NSFWCORP from a forced pivot? — You've seen it, of course. “Brewster's Millions,” the movie — so popular that Hollywood remade …

Discussion: VentureBeat, @entropymedia, @aulia, @maura, @nbj914, Washington Post, @pankajontech, @paulcarr, @rafat, @rafat, @rafat, @mathewi and Felix Salmon

Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:

Fox Loses Bid to Stop Hopper's Place-Shifting Technology — On Monday, a California judge made the latest ruling in the continuing legal saga over Dish's ad-skipping Hopper. This one pertains to Dish's Hopper with Sling, also known as “Dish Anywhere,” which was introduced with much fanfare at CES in January.

Discussion: Home Media Magazine, Techdirt, Variety, Broadcasting & Cable and Deadline.com

Peter Preston / Guardian:

First Politico took DC: now it wants Manhattan - and the New York Times — In a digital world where impermanence is the only constant, even Mark Thompson's paper feels its powers waning — Finding knocking copy in the most sacred corner of journalism's cathedral comes as a surprise …

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

NPR's “On the Media” and moral panic: two segments showing different views — First, the good news — First, listen to this superb and profoundly disturbing segment by On the Media producer Sarah Abdurrahman about how she and her husband and other guests at a Canadian wedding …

Discussion: @hardaway and Common Sense Journalism

Mike Shields / Adweek:

Maker Studios Is Building an In-House Ad Team — Flush with $26 million in new funding, Maker Studios is looking to up its monetization game. The startup, which manages YouTube stars like PewDiePie and Kassem G, is set to announce the launch of Maker Made, an in-house unit dedicated to helping brands succeed in Web video.