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8:30 PM ET, August 13, 2010

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Dawn C. Chmielewski / Los Angeles Times:
News Corp. plans national newspaper for tablet computers and cellphones  —  It's the latest bid by a major media company to build readership using new devices such as the iPad.  The new publication would offer short, snappy stories and operate under the auspices of the New York Post.
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Felix Salmon:
The huge obstacles facing Murdoch's new tablet newspaper  —  Rupert Murdoch is launching a new national newspaper, which will be “distributed exclusively as paid content for tablet computers such as Apple's iPad and mobile phones”.  —  The interesting thing here is the “paid content” part …
Discussion: eMedia Vitals
Joe Pompeo / Silicon Alley Insider:
Meet The Print Guy Who Will Lead Rupert Murdoch's Digital Newspaper  —  Rupert Murdoch is planning to launch a paid national US newspaper that will be exclusively available on tablets and mobile phones, one with its own resources and reporting staff, and that will rival papers like The New York Times and USA Today.
Rachel Sklar / Mediaite:
Fair Use: Okay, Let's Talk About It  —  It is a pet peeve of mine when people throw around arguments citing “Fair Use” and yet fail to actually explain what a fair use argument actually is.  So it was mostly for that reason that I was annoyed by Jeff Bercovici's misleading, poorly-reasoned post yesterday on AOL's Daily Finance.
Laura McGann / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Knight Foundation's new biz consultant thinks news startups can learn from outside of journalism  —  When Nick Denton sent out an email to his Gawker empire in April 2008 announcing the sale of the popular political site Wonkette, it came as a shock to those of us who so closely identified Wonkette with the Gawker brand.
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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
What Do You Think Of The Gawker Redesign?
Discussion: Brooks in Beta and Soup
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
The Secrets Behind a Viral Web Hit-And the Huffington Post's Success  —  Everyone who makes stuff for the Web wants it to go “viral.”  But you can't just make your stuff go viral-anyone who actually found out how to do that would be very, very rich.  —  Still, there are ways to increase your chances of making stuff go viral.
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Facebook Launching Official Live Streaming Channel: Facebook Live  —  Today at 3 PM PST (6 EST), Facebook will unveil its new official live video streaming channel, Facebook Live.  To kick off the launch, actress America Ferrera will stop by Facebook's headquarters in Palo Alto …
Edmund Lee / AdAge:
MTV, Universal Call Truce in Digital Rights Battle for VMAs  —  Talks With Vevo Still at an Impasse, but Label Gives MTV.com Temporary Break so Viewers Can Vote on Videos  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — MTV and Universal Music Group have kissed and made up — temporarily.
Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
Can Miso, Philo and Tunerfish Compete With CBS' Social TV App?  —  Social TV is all the rage these days, with startups like Bazaar Labs and Philo pushing apps that allow Foursquare-like check in functionality and virtual rewards while letting users tell their friends what they're watching.
Discussion: CBS Corporation
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Andrew Wallenstein / Hollywood Rewired:
CBS Interactive's TV.com enters social-TV race with Relay (exclusive)
Discussion: MediaPost
Erik Huggers / BBC:
HTML5, open standards, and the BBC  —  Recent commentary on this blog has suggested that our use of Flash on BBC iPlayer and across BBC Online in general, betrays our commitment to open standards.  Is this a reasonable assumption?  I do not think so.  —  Open standards have always been part of the BBC's DNA.
Tom Scott / Tom Scott's updates:
CONTENTS NOT VERIFIED  —  It seems a bit strange to me that the media carefully warn about and label any content that involves sex, violence or strong language — but there's no similar labelling system for, say, sloppy journalism and other questionable content.  —  I figured it was time to fix that, so I made some stickers.
Ian Shapira / Story Lab:
Print guy learns video—how's he doing?  —  For the last several weeks, I've been leading a double life in journalism.  During the weekdays, I've been doing essentially the same job at The Washington Post for the last ten years — churning out feature and news stories for our print editions and website.
Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
Marc Kramer Out as NY Daily News CEO  —  A memo just went out to NYDN employees announcing that CEO Marc Kramer is being replaced by William Holiber, who also runs U.S. News and World Report.  The full memo is below.
Serkan Toto / CrunchGear:
How Is 3D TV Doing?  Some Data From Japan  —  Think what you want about 3D TV, but it's here already, and we've just seen the beginning.  But are people actually buying the devices, as a few dozen models are now available in the US, Japan and other places?
Discussion: Gizmodo
Joel Meares / CJR:
Q & A: New York Times Reporter Michael Powell  —  “My tendency is to want to go longer, to zig rather than zag.”  —  The New York Times's Michael Powell leapt from the metro pages to the business section this May—a place he never saw himself while a student at the Columbia J-School in the early 1980s.
Discussion: New York Observer
The Huffington Post:
The Problem With Financial Journalism  —  What's Your Reaction: … The peculiar sport of fox hunting was described by Oscar Wilde as “the unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable.”  I feel a similar aphorism can be applied to most financial journalism: “The unspeakable perusing the unreadable.”
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Demand Media Faces Harsh Spotlight En Route to IPO  —  Updated: Whenever a company files for an initial public offering (IPO) — particularly in the IPO-starved technology sector — it gets put under a microscope, since it's the first chance observers have to see the actual numbers behind the business.
Jane Hu / The Awl:
Have Editors and Writers Always Hated Each Other?  —  After publishing Richard Morgan's account of his life as a freelance writer, we heard from someone who'd been both a freelance writer and an editor at a major newspaper.  “Was there a time, a long time ago, when editors and writers weren't at war with one another?” he asked.
 
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Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
Which White House reporters had lunch with Obama?
Discussion: Gawker, Hot Air and Media Decoder
Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter:
Gregory Brothers of ‘Bed Intruder’ Fame Discuss TV Pilot, Antoine Dodson
Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:
Trinity Mirror's Birmingham Mail Linking Out To Local Bloggers...
Jason Stverak / Online Journalism Review:
Watering-down press credentials, or denying citizens news?
Discussion: mediabistro.com
The Huffington Post:
Blogger Beats Mexico Drug War News Blackout
Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad Blueprint for a Post-Literate Future
Discussion: New York Observer
Rosecrans Baldwin / The Millions:
Writing Is My Peppermint-Flavored Heroin
Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Marketplace brings a Twittery approach to the explainer
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Pete Blackshaw / AdAge:
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Henry K. Lee / San Francisco Chronicle:
Appellate court upholds Bay Guardian damages
Discussion: Romenesko, Informer and Hit & Run
David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Apple iAd partners say they're happy with early results
Discussion: The Wire and Silicon Alley Insider
 

 
From Techmeme:

Gary Marcus / Marcus on AI:
Apple AI researchers say they found no evidence of formal reasoning in language models and their behavior is better explained by sophisticated pattern matching

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Matt Mullenweg says WordPress is “forking” Advanced Custom Fields, a plugin developed by WP Engine; ACF team says the plugin was taken away “without consent”

Wes Davis / The Verge:
Threads users criticize Meta after the company posted AI-generated images of the Aurora Borealis on its Threads account

 
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