1. TBD director not satisfied with how Washington Post used its video feed during Discovery hostage standoff
2. AP managing editor says AP reporters must credit blogs if they broke a story first
3. “Anywhere you peel back the skin of Sarah Palin’s life, a sad and moldering strangeness lies beneath.”
4. Clash of the Blogosphere Titans
1. Gmail Priority Inbox Sorts Your Email For You. And It’s Fantastic.
2. Why PR embargoes are stupid
3. Cheer up
4. Craig Newmark claims CNN did a hatchet job on him
5. Huffington Post pulls a blogger’s post after they decide it didn’t meet the site’s standards
6. Viral guerrilla marketing at its best.
7. This is hilarious: Martin Luther King vs Glenn Beck, An Infographic
8. Holy crap, Reddit has taken over the front page of Digg
9. Simple math shows that Glenn Beck’s crowd estimates are unlikely
10. Supposedly Digg lost a third of its traffic in a single day, but I’m skeptical
So I open up Mike Allen’s PLAYBOOK today in my inbox and come across the top paragraph, which you’ll see below. Notice the Bit.ly link highlighted in blue:
I clicked on the link thinking it would take me to the described article, but instead it took me to this website
Here’s a small screenshot. I was afraid to do any clicking around:
1. Which bloggers are getting exclusive meetings at the Treasury and does it help their reporting?
2. What are the scientific effects of music on exercise?
3. The number of searches conducted has decreased by 16% from 10.5 billion in July 2009 to 8.8 billion in July 2010
4. Since Facebook is no longer exclusive to just college students, other social networks are looking to fill that niche
5. How reporters mangle the science behind the Gulf oil spill
6. Alexa: YouTube surpasses Yahoo! as the Internet’s 3rd most visited site
7. Should bloggers have control over ads that appear next to their content?
8. Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight blog is now live on nytimes.com. Welcome aboard, Nate.
9. DC blogger defends DC against Teabagger accusations that it’s a hell hole
10. Twitter hires more monetization people
1. Fark’s web traffic has been pretty stagnant
2. Does Google Book Search help or hurt publishers?
3. There is no hope for us
4. Is Media Matters trying to put an ad on Fox News, or simply cash in on the publicity they’ll get when FNC rejects?
5. The most hated sportswriter finds out what happens when a crack in the armor is revealed
6. Jon Stewart on Fox News’ ties to terrorism (using the FNC’s own logic)
7. Should Yahoo buy a stake in Hulu?
8. Facebook says no to “Just Say Now” marijuana legalization campaign ads
9. Nick Carr’s hilarious critique of The Web is Dead’s grandeur pronouncements
10. RIAA: The DMCA Isn’t Working
11. Lady Gaga surpasses Brittney Spears in Twitter followers
12. RedState’s Erick Erickson says conservatives should stop trying to create the right-leaning version of MoveOn
1. Over 100 Million People A Month Use Google Maps For Mobile
2. Rogue Apple Exec Trashes Rivals’ ‘Mediocre Engineers’
3. I didn’t realize this, but Financial Times seems to be succeeding with a metered paywall
4. PRES. OBAMA NOT BEATING HIS WIFE
5. Sarah Palin literally thinks it’s unconstitutional for reporters to criticize her. I’m not exaggerating
6. Bill O’Reilly Used Unknowingly To Sell Investment Scheme
7. This slideshow could easily be renamed The Worst People on the Internet
8. Gawker to go through a redesign, will no longer be considered a blog
9. How one woman learned to be alone and earned herself a million views on YouTube
10. Everything You Need To Know About YouTube Charts
1. Clicktivism is ruining leftist activism
2. Justin Bieber must be taking his cues from 4chan
3. The most geeky graph you’ll see today
4. Let Google tell you what you want
5. The Guardian launches governmental pledge-tracking tool
6. 1.2 Million Online Readers Have Ditched The Times Of London’s Websites Since It Started Making Them Pay
7. Salon claims that anti-”mosque” controversy started by single, right wing blogger
8. OBSERVATION: The “Read More” copy-and-paste embed code is the worst widely-adopted web practice in the last year.
9. New York Times Co. Newspaper Starts Charging For Online Content
10. Rupert Murdoch has never succeeded in any digital venture he’s ever managed
11. North Korea Joins Twitter
12. Stan McChrystal has a new gig – as a lecturer in New Haven
13. Hulu thinks it’s worth $2 billion. Compare to $1.5 billion Google paid for YouTube
14. Ann Coulter is hosting some kind of gay Republican fundraising event
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