Archive for September, 2010

Wednesday Breakdown: James O’Keefe Edition

1. Smaller community weeklies continue to weather the storm, not hit as hard as larger newspapers

2. 71% of all Tweets produce no reaction

3. 40% of Aol’s Revenue Still Comes From Dial-Up Subscriptions.

4. Holy shit, this is the fool who “brought down” ACORN?

5. If O’Keefe would have succeeded in getting that correspondent on his boat he would have been arrested for kidnapping

6. Imagine how terrifying it would have been for that correspondent if O’Keefe had managed to get her out on that boat.

7. FLASHBACK: The 31 House Republicans listed as cosponsors of a resolution to “honor” O’Keefe

8. What an asshole

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Tuesday Breakdown

1. Weekly Online Radio Listenership Reaches 43 Million

2. New CNNPolitics to spotlight agenda-setting coverage, capitalize on interactivity and social conversation

3. Social Network Content Creation Has Plateaued [STUDY]

4. HuffPo Slams Blogger For Taking Pay Dispute Public

5. Most of the nominees for Online Journalism Awards work for traditional news organizations

6. How will CNN’s new president affect the network’s programming?

7. Why Jay Rosen didn’t become a journalist

8. Facebook finds a way to predict your ethnicity

9. Amazon now lets you preview and embed Kindle books on the web

10. Authors Feel Pinch in Age of E-Books

11. The Live-Tweeting of a Murderer’s Execution

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Monday Breakdown: Nick Denton Edition

1. Twitter’s promoted tweets are having mixed results

2. Malcolm Gladwell has a new piece in the New Yorker about Twitter

3. Stats show that we’ve reached the tipping point where people are really hungry for polling data

4. Good move. Microsoft Announces Partnership With WordPress

5. Meet The New Yorker’s two youngest staff cartoonists. (PLUS: Earlier interviews with both.)

6. New York magazine did a profile of Nick Denton. I think I heard the New Yorker is working on one too.

7. Nick Denton claims Twitter traffic doesn’t have much worth and that Facebook traffic is more important

8. Did New York Scoop The New Yorker with its Nick Denton Profile?

9. People who fear the new media ecosystem won’t pay for good journalism will likely cite this in the future

10. 1 in 10 tech stories in the last year focused on texting while driving

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Friday Breakdown

1. Perez Hilton participates in Dan Savage’s It Gets Better YouTube campaign

2. Helen Thomas makes comment about Jews, Howard Kurtz is outraged. TNR editor makes comment about Arabs, just silence

3. Howard Kurtz responds to the CJR piece on him

4. Why the press prefers bad-news-for-Dems polling results.

5. New “Sh*t My Dad Says” show looks absolutely awful. [Promo Video]

6. How Actblue is influencing the Alaskan election

7. The Rise of Reddit: 4chan and Digg Get the Credit While Reddit Booms

8. CNN partnering with Foursquare for its healthy eating reporting

9. Someone has created a kind of Digg for Facebook “likes”

10. This is one way you can pitch a TechCrunch writer on your new tech idea and get him to write about it

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Wednesday Breakdown

1. The ex-governor of Alaska loves Facebook. You know who doesn’t? Other women named Sarah Palin. A digital horror story

2. Why is Facebook blue? Because Zuck is colorblind

3. Dan Savage makes a video for gay teens who are bullied, informing them that “It gets better”

4. New York Times has a great redesign of its opinion pages. Simpler is better.

5. Ebook sales will top $500 million in sales in 2010 . I remember in 2002 when authors mocked them

6. CNN Reporter or Porn Star?

7. USA Today editor defects to Yahoo

8. Canadian blogger claims George Soros’s lawyers pressured her into removing passages from an article , but it looks as if the passages that were removed from the blog post were full of errors

9. 4chan Has Gone Political

10. How an atheist blogger and his readers addressed his mortality

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Tuesday Breakdown

1. Michael Arrington loves breaking tech stories, but he’s not big on PR people, conversational niceties, or sunlight

2. Reddit buzz wins the site Microsoft ad bucks

3. Each Story About Muslims Must Be ‘Balanced’ by a Story About 9-11

4. A Cognitive Approach To Online Advertising

5. Is Jon Stewart creating false equivalencies when comparing the Left to the Right?

6. If you don’t want to pay your journalists, what better way than to “hire” a bunch of J-school students?

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Wednesday Breakdown

1. Sorry for the delay in posting, I for some reason got out of the habit of publishing these.

2. Conservative bloggers are turning against Karl Rove

3. Journalists who give money to political candidates, yada yada yada

4. Bing to Add Facebook “Like” Data to Search?

5. Twitter user sells @Israel username for six-figure sum

6. Great illustration of the Fail Whale by @jess3

7. Developers are getting angry that Twitter is playing favorites

8. Apple will take 30% cut of newspaper subscriptions sold in its App Store and 40% of the advertising revenue from apps

9. Google to launch its new social networking features this fall

10. DC social media users now regularly scoop local news outlets

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