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Twitter rolling out new music strategy centered on music conversations and content this week — Twitter to Relaunch Music Strategy — Move Comes Shortly After It Pulled #Music App from iTunes — Twitter Inc. is trying out a new tune. The short-messaging service is preparing to roll …
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Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Tweets About Music to Get a Billboard Chart — Chatter about music is everywhere on Twitter. Soon there will be a Billboard chart to rank all of it. — On Thursday, the two companies will announce a deal to create the Billboard Twitter Real-Time Charts: continuously updated lists …
Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:
Songza now pulls data from The Weather Channel to recommend music — Above: The row of options Songza uses to make music recommendations now includes the current weather conditions. — The two most common factors that affect someone's current mood are music and the weather.
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TechCrunch, BetaNews and The Verge
Felix Salmon:
Grand, immersive designs, increasingly common in journalism, vastly oversell smaller stories — Against beautiful journalism — Have you seen that site's gorgeous new redesign? Every article has a nice big headline, huge photos, loads of white space, intuitive and immersive scrolling …
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Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:
Aereo Says A Win For Broadcasters Would Have “Chilling” Consequences To Cloud Computing — Aereo has today filed its response brief with the Supreme Court in a case that will make or break the streaming TV startup. So far, we're in the preliminary stages of this particular case …
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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Aereo Tells Supreme Court Not to Kill ‘Next Technological Step’ — The upstart TV streaming service makes its last written arguments before an oral hearing next month. — The countdown begins. With less than a month before TV broadcasters face off against Aereo in a high-stakes showdown …
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Salon and World TV PC Streaming Video …
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEightDataLab:
Silver fires back at critic Krugman by quantifying his columns mentioning FiveThirtyEight — For Columnist, a Change of Tone — A New York Times columnist has expressed substantially more negative sentiments about FiveThirtyEight since it left The New York Times, according to a FiveThirtyEight analysis.
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Nate Raymond / Reuters:
Ex-MP3tunes chief hit with $41 million copyright verdict — (Reuters) - The former chief executive of defunct online music storage firm MP3tunes was ordered to pay an estimated $41 million on Wednesday after being found liable for infringing copyrights owned by record companies and music publishers once part of EMI Group Ltd.
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Gigaom, Hollywood Reporter, Complete Music Update, hypebot and Techdirt
Mark DeCambre / Quartz:
Spotify is planning an IPO for this fall — Spotify could take itself public some time in the fall of 2014. — The popular music-streaming company has participated in informal chats with some of the investment banks likely to fight for a role in a potential IPO, sources familiar with the process said.
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Guardian, Business Insider and @matthewphillips
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Charting the years-long decline of local news reporting — The Manassas News & Messenger survived Reconstruction, multiple recessions and depressions, assorted wars and the dismantling of Jim Crow laws throughout Virginia and the South. But the Internet was another matter.
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Street Fight, @jfdulac, @jzheel, @farhip, @pottsmark, 10,000 Words, CNN Money, TVSpy, USA Today and AllAccess.com
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Mail Online ad revenue up 51% but misses overall target — Website falls short of £5m a month rate set by Daily Mail & General Trust to meet financial year goal of £60m — Mail Online made an average of £4.6m a month in revenue in the five months to the end of the financial year, missing its £5m target.
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Press Gazette
Ronan McGreevy / The Irish Times:
‘Guardian’ threatened with closure over Snowden leaks, conference told — Deputy editor details extent to which intelligence agencies tried to stop newspaper's disclosures — The Guardian newspaper was threatened with closure by the British government over the Edward Snowden spying affair …
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The Huffington Post, @jayrosen_nyu, @dobroyeutro, @clarecurranmp, RT, @msentropy, @jilliancyork and The Voice of Russia, News
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Entertainment Weekly goes the platform route — Some of the hottest new publishers often paint themselves as platforms, open to contributions from the “people formerly known as the audience,” as journalism professor Jay Rosen has put it. Old media wants in.
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@andygreenwald, @nprmonkeysee and @erik_hayden, Thanks:@lmoses
Emerging Technology From the arXiv:
The Curious Nature of Sharing Cascades on Facebook — Most content on Facebook is shared a few times but some can be shared millions of times. Now computer scientists are beginning to understand the difference. — One of the defining features of social content is the way pictures, video and text is shared among many users.
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@niemanlab
César Puerta / The Twitter Blog:
Twitter rolls out photo tagging, ability to share up to four photos in a tweet — Photos just got more social — We're rolling out two new mobile features that make photos on Twitter more social. One is photo tagging, which lets you tag the people in your photo; the other is the ability to include up to four photos in a Tweet.
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Abigail Edge / Journalism.co.uk:
With paywall, UK's Times Newspapers cut losses from £72 million in 2009 to £6 million in 2013 — The Times ‘moving towards profit’ since paywall launch — According to Alan Hunter, head of digital at The Times and Sunday Times, Times Newspapers has moved from a £72 million loss …
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Gabriele Steinhauser / Wall Street Journal:
Top EU court says ISPs may have to block copyright infringing websites — Top EU Court Backs Internet Bootlegging Ruling — Decision Could Raise Costs for Internet Service Providers — BRUSSELS—The European Union's highest court said on Thursday that Internet service providers …
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Bloomberg
Jordan Zakarin / The Wrap:
New Crowdfunding Site Hosts Big Names - Tom Hanks Film Among First Projects — Soon, wealthy movie fans will be able to get more than a digital download and a T shirt for investing in films online. — The new Junction — which is already raising money for films with Tom Hanks, among others …
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Guardian, VCPOST and New York Times
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
German TV giant ProSiebenSat.1 buys 20 percent of YouTube network The Collective — Germany's ProSiebenSat.1 has acquired a 20 percent stake in the YouTube multi-channel network Collective Digital Studio, also known under the much simpler moniker The Collective.
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Bloomberg and Hollywood Reporter
Angela Washeck / 10,000 Words:
What NYT Now Means For the Times and Mobile Journalism — The New York Times has been a bit slow getting with the program, as mobile offerings go. NYT Now, an $8 app billed monthly, will offer top stories as curated by Times editors on mobile phones (it's not clear yet when an iPad version is coming) starting April 2.
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Poynter, TechCrunch and FishbowlNY
Juliette Garside / Guardian:
Broadcasters slash YouView funding leaving BT and TalkTalk to plug gap — BBC, ITV, Channel 4, and Channel 5 fear platform has been hijacked by telecoms companies as a pay-lite vehicle — The BBC and other broadcasters are poised to drop their annual contribution to the YouView set top box venture by 85%.
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@tdobson and seenit.co.uk
Alex Sherman / Bloomberg:
Dish's Ergen Said to Approach DirecTV CEO White About Merger — Dish Network Corp. Chairman Charlie Ergen recently contacted DirecTV Chief Executive Officer Mike White to discuss a merger of the two satellite television companies, according to several people with knowledge of the matter.
Sophie Warnes / Mirror:
Blocking the publication of Prince Charles' letters has cost taxpayers £274,000 and counting — The cost of preventing the publication of Prince Charles' letters has cost taxpayers £274,481 since the government started fighting to block their publication
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@julesmattsson
Capital New York:
The 60-second interview: Neetzan Zimmerman, Whisper editor in chief — CAPITAL: Whisper allows its users to share their secrets anonymously as macro-image overlays. There's been a spate of privacy- and secret-concerned applications coming to market lately. Is this a sign of the NSA-watching times?
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@mathewi and @capitalnewyork
James Robinson / PandoDaily:
Outdoor ads that can count faces are useful for advertisers, terrifying for everyone else — There's no genre of advertising at more of a disadvantage than outdoor ("out of home") ads. — Online advertisers know how many people saw an ad, how many clicked, when they engaged …
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@pandodaily
Alexander Howard / Tow Center for Digital Journalism:
Debugging the backlash to data journalism — While the craft and context that underlies “data journalism” is well-known to anyone who knows the history of computer-assisted reporting (CAR), the term itself is a much more recent creation. — This past week, data journalism broke …
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@niemanlab, @latdatadesk, @webjournalist, @chasedavis, @digiphile and @chanders
Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
Commercials to Go Live With Show Cast Members — IN another back-to-the-future moment on Madison Avenue, the season premieres on Wednesday of two series on TV Land will include, for the first time, live commercials delivered by cast members of the shows. — Live commercials were once …
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