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The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet — Sources: Cisco estimates based on CAIDA publications, Andrew Odlyzko — Two decades after its birth, the World Wide Web is in decline, as simpler, sleeker services — think apps — are less about the searching and more about the getting.
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What's Wrong With “X Is Dead” — Technologies die violent deaths less often than we think. — This is the basic problem with the Chris Anderson-anchored Wired cover story, “The Web is Dead.” If you think about technology as a series of waves, each displacing the last …
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Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Wired Says ‘The Web is Dead’ — On Its Increasingly Profitable Website
Wired Says ‘The Web is Dead’ — On Its Increasingly Profitable Website
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Everything Old Is Hip Again — Notes from the newsroom on grammar, usage and style. (Some frequently asked questions are here.) — We try hard to shed our old image as stodgy and out of it. Perhaps too hard, sometimes. — How else to explain our constant invocation of the old/new slang “hipster”?
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Breaking: New York Times Told to “Chill” on That “Hipster” Business
Breaking: New York Times Told to “Chill” on That “Hipster” Business
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Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Google TV Is a Tough Sell Among Would-Be Partners — Google Inc. is launching a campaign to line up TV networks' support for its new Google TV software, but many remain reluctant to partner with a service that encroaches on their turf. — The service will allow people to watch and search cable …
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Jessica Guynn / Los Angeles Times:
Google TV undergoes a trial by partisans
Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost:
Apple And Google Set To Capitalize (And Compete) On Internet TV
Apple And Google Set To Capitalize (And Compete) On Internet TV
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Ken Doctor / Newsonomics:
Nine Questions on Patch's New Push: National Hyperlocal?, SEO Sauces, and the Case of the Besieged Florist — It's Patch day in the news news world, as AOL formally announces the expansion of its network of local sites. It's really a ratification of what we've been hearing …
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Netflix Lust for ‘True Blood’ Is Unrequited as HBO Blocks Path — Netflix Inc.'s drive to offer its subscribers online movies from all the biggest Hollywood studios may hit a wall with HBO. — Time Warner Inc.'s pay-television channel, home to shows including the “The Sopranos” and …
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Dr. Laura to leave radio amid N-word controversy — Schlessinger, under fire since using a racial slur on her radio show, won't renew her contract. ‘I want my 1st Amendment rights back,’ she says, citing threats. — “I want my 1st Amendment rights back, which I can't have on radio without …
Marc Cooper / Online Journalism Review:
Choose Your Multimedia Tools Strategically: Story is Still King — By Marc Cooper: If everyone who has a hammer sees a world made only of nails, do reporters who know Illustrator think the world is one big infographic? — Choosing the right tool to tell the right story is one of the greatest challenges …

TwitZip: Twitter's Unofficial Hyperlocal News Network — This is brilliant. Ever heard of TwitZip? It's a network of hyperlocal Twitter accounts, each one based on local ZIP codes, that sends out tweets around the clock with the latest news from that zip code.

Social Network Ad Spending to Approach $1.7 Billion This Year — 6.7% of all US online ad spending to go toward social networks this year — Social network advertising is getting renewed attention in 2010. The US's gradual economic recovery, combined with marketers' incessant focus …
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EXCLUSIVE: People magazine iPad app delayed by paparazzi — Photo agencies want payment for photos used with new app — The publishing world's headlong rush to Apple's iPad has hit a big hitch. — More than a dozen of the photo agencies that supply celebrity snapshots from the paparazzi …
Dareh Gregorian / New York Post:
Columbia grad wants to know who called her a ‘whore’ on YouTube — Ho no you don't! — A Columbia business school grad wants a judge to unmask the cowardly creep who anonymously labeled her a “whore” on YouTube. — In a Manhattan Supreme Court suit, Carla Franklin says she has …
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Chilling assault on South Africa's press — A country in which cronyism thrives unchecked is not one in which investors will find it easy to do business, writes Michael Skapinker — More from MIchael Skapinker
Jason Fell / Folio:
Survey: Publishers Could See as Much as $3 Billion from Interactive Periodicals Subs — Digital consortium Next Issue Media conducts survey with global consulting firm. — Digital publishing consortium Next Issue Media recently enlisted international management consulting firm Oliver Wyman …
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Survey of viewers shows extent of TV time shifting — NEW YORK - If you've never time-shifted a prime-time television series — watched it later on a DVR, over the Internet or ordered it on demand — you're now in the minority. — A survey of viewers conducted on the eve …
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