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Are HuffPo bloggers being exploited?: Arianna Huffington spent last week axing many of AOL's paid writers, and this week she heard from a few of the unpaid ones in the form of a class-action lawsuit filed by Huffington Post bloggers, led by longtime HuffPo blogger Jonathan Tasini. The Washington Post explained Tasini's claims that HuffPo had breached its contract with bloggers by failing to come through the "implied promise" of compensation, and that it was "unjustly enriched" by the unpaid bloggers' contributions. PaidContent, Buy Flagyl without a prescription, meanwhile, said this suit isn't much like Tasini's suit against The New York Times.

Reaction to the suit online was virtually universal: Most everyone agreed that this suit is a non-starter. Huffington herself did the best job of bringing together the various suit slams, arguing, like many of them, buy Flagyl from mexico, that the exposure that HuffPo provides is plenty of compensation for its bloggers: "People blog on HuffPost for free for the same reason they go on cable TV shows every night for free: either because they are passionate about their ideas or because they have something to promote and want exposure to large and multiple audiences."

Many of the critiques of the suit make similar points, so I'll just hit the highlights. Mike Masnick of TechDirt put the sharpest point on it: "You, Flagyl forum, of your own free will, agree to contribute work for free. Then, you file a lawsuit complaining that this is depressing the market for your work, Flagyl Cost. And you expect anyone to take you seriously?" Business Insider's Glynnis MacNicol and Slate's Jack Shafer also made the argument well, with MacNicol speaking from experience as a HuffPo blogger and Shafer noting that Tasini was happy with his arrangement until he saw some money could be had.

Others extended Tasini's logic to more absurd conclusions: Conservative legal blogger Eugene Volokh said if Tasini were right, order Flagyl online c.o.d, he'd be exploiting his commenters, and CUNY j-prof Jeff Jarvis extended the same analogy to Wikipedians and Little League coaches. PR professional Simon Owens saw a dangerous precedent for other sites with free contributors. Discount Flagyl, John Bethune of B2B Memes wrote, tongue-in-cheek, that perhaps Huffington owes all of us some money for making her site valuable by reading it over the years.

Still Huffington's way obviously isn't the only one: Forbes' Jeff Bercovici talked to the New York Times Flagyl Cost, about why they pay their (non-public figure) op-ed contributors. And a few other notes about Huffington's ongoing AOL revamp — Advertising Age's Michael Learmonth on AOL's new aggregation-heavy strategy, Patch is hiring as the new model is extended to its sites, order Flagyl from mexican pharmacy, and Bercovici's account of the grievances of the newly laid-off "freelancers."

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Some unclear data on the Times' pay plan: It's only been a couple of weeks since the New York Times put up its metered pay system, but we got our first glimpse at its effect on the Times' traffic this week with some numbers from Heather Dougherty at Hitwise. Compared with the 12 days before the system went into place, Doses Flagyl work, the Times' unique visitors down between 5% and 15% per day and its page views down 11% to 30%. PaidContent's Joseph Tarkatoff has a few good bits of analysis of the figures.

Those numbers fell in that ambiguous no man's land between success and failure, allowing both supporters and skeptics of the plan to claim them as confirmation. Nate Silver of the Times' FiveThirtyEight called the data "very promising" if it holds, and Business Insider's Noah Davis noted that the Times' dropoff was smaller than Gawker's post-redesign decline, cheap Flagyl. On the other side, Mathew Ingram of GigaOM said that 15% is a high number of its readers for the Times to lose, suggesting that even the threat of a paywall has been enough to deter them from visiting, Flagyl Cost. Likewise, Mike Masnick of Techdirt called it "an awful lot of potential ad revenue lost."

Others were less willing to make pronouncements: VentureBeat's Anthony Ha called the change "only natural" but said it could be dangerous if it continues. Both he and Chris O'Shea of FishbowlNY said it's too early to determine anything meaningful yet, Buy Flagyl online no prescription, though. Media analyst Ken Doctor, meanwhile, took a closer look at the Times' subscription sponsorship deal with the carmaker Lincoln.

Elsewhere in the world of online news paywalls, Flagyl class, paidContent's Robert Andrews reported on the UK government's ongoing efforts to make walled-off material available for free through libraries, and Mashable's Meghan Peters explored the ways paywalls are affecting news orgs' social media strategies.

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Identifying devoted fans through Facebook: Facebook launched Flagyl Cost, a new "Journalists on Facebook" page last week as part of an effort to draw attention to its possible uses for news organizations, and Josh Constine of Inside Facebook argued this week that while the journalism world seems to be particularly enamored with Twitter right now, Facebook's richer content options could pay off more in the long run, though they might require more effort than Twitter does.

The New Yorker tried out one of those Facebook-centric strategies in a novel way this week by making a Jonathan Franzen story available online only to people who "liked" Conde Nast on Facebook. Flagyl dose, The magazine's spokeswoman, Alexa Cassanos, told Poynter's Damon Kiesow the "like-wall" was not an effort to boost its Facebook fan count, but to find people who are fans of long-form journalism on a deeper level. Rather than a pile of casually interested fans, about Flagyl, Cassanos said, "We would much rather have a few thousand fans who really enjoy the content and stick with it."

On the Twitter side of things, former CEO Evan Williams wrote a thoughtful post trying to untangle the thicket of online identity by organizing it into a framework of categories he developed with Twitter CTO Greg Pass: Authentication, Flagyl pharmacy, representation, communication, personalization, and reputation. (I should note that while the framework was developed at Twitter, order Flagyl online overnight delivery no prescription, it was thought up with the whole web in mind.) Tech conference organizer Eric Norlin tweaked Williams' categories and suggested breaking it down by the specificity with which things are associated with us.

Web thinker Stowe Boyd, meanwhile, critiqued it as being too tools- or marketing-centric while ignoring the more philosophical aspects of online identity, like publicy and context, Flagyl Cost. Mathew Ingram of GigaOM concurred with him, saying that a transactional idea of identity misses the larger, Buy cheap Flagyl no rx, messier aspects of how we define ourselves online, offering the failure of Google Buzz as an example.

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Reading roundup: Lots of little bits and pieces this week to go with our continued fixation on AOL and the New York Times. Here's a quick tour:

— I'm a bit surprised it didn't generate more buzz, but WikiLeaks' Julian Assange made his first public appearance since his December arrest last weekend, defending WikiLeaks' accountability at a British debate, and taking questions via Skype at a UC-Berkeley conference.

— A couple of interesting items regarding linking: Reuters' Anthony DeRosa wondered why traditional media orgs don't link out more, and USC's Robert Niles talked to Maryland j-prof Ronald Yaros about a study he led that found that explanatory links work best in news stories — provided they're placed inside explanatory text.

— According to Poynter's Damon Kiesow, we got a surprising entry in the iPad news app field this week: Bing.

— Finally, two thoughtful pieces — one from British journalist Kevin Anderson on the need to rethink what exactly newspapers do, and an interview by the Lab's C.W. Anderson with the Reuters Institute's David Levy and Danish j-prof Rasmus Kleis Nielsen on the need to take the future-of-news conversation beyond the U.S.

May 5th, 2011

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Arianna's AOL thins its ranks: Some weeks are just like this: The three biggest stories were the Huffington Post, the New York Times, and the Huffington Post vs. the New York Times. I'll try to tackle them one at a time, starting with HuffPo (and AOL), then covering its battle with the Times, then going to the Times' paywall. Clear as mud, Lipitor gel, ointment, cream, pill, spray, continuous-release, extended-release. All right then.

While we might have thought HuffPo would have been absorbed into "the AOL Way" when it was bought last month, but as the Wall Street Journal's Jessica Vascellaro reported, it seems the reverse is happening: Arianna Huffington is doing away with parts of AOL's content farm-ish strategy and remaking it in her own image, Lipitor Price. That seems to be good thing, but there is a less happy side, too: Job cuts. By this week, Is Lipitor addictive, they had hit freelancers in just about every content area at AOL — business and finance (though some will apparently be hired into full-time jobs), TV, and movies. (In the latter case, the executive asked laid-off stringers to continue writing for free, then got fired herself.)

All these cuts weren't exactly unexpected, but that didn't make them popular, buy Lipitor from canada, of course. Laid-off freelancer Carter Maness described his frustration at the way AOL handled the move, and Forbes' Jeff Bercovici wondered if the laid-off writers might have a case for termination without notice under New York law. Lipitor Price, Others are chafing under Huffington's labor conditions, too: In the Los Angeles Times, Michael Walker compared the Newspaper Guild's boycott of HuffPo with the 1979 Comedy Store strike. Bercovici criticized the comparison, arguing that the work of HuffPo's unpaid bloggers is of relatively little value to the site. Lipitor photos, TechCrunch's Paul Carr (also part of the AOL empire) couldn't muster much sympathy. The value of writing for the Huffington Post, he said, is greater than the sacrifice of writing for free. Carr also asserted that most of the laid-off writers weren't producing much of value anyway. "A mass cull of non-talent is exactly what Arianna Huffington needed to do to assert her editorial authority over Aol’s content," he wrote. Meanwhile, the American Journalism Review took a look at some of the real talent that's left — the (paid) reporters who have left prestigious news outlets to write for HuffPo, Lipitor Price.

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The aggregation-original reporting showdown: Ever since this passive-aggressive column by New York Times editor Bill Keller, Lipitor steet value, the Times and the Huffington Post have been engaging in an odd little tiff with the general theme of "aggregation vs. original reporting." Both sides kept up the fight this week, in the form of an April Fool's paywall announcement by Huffington and a nasty interview of Huffington in the New York Times Magazine. Reuters' Felix Salmon also documented the Times' refusal to credit (or link to) HuffPo when writing about a few government documents it leaked.

Several observers attempted to make some sense of this conflict, Australia, uk, us, usa, and the Times didn't come out well in any of those analyses. Lipitor Price, Salmon said the Times is lashing out because it's feeling threatened by HuffPo, and New York's Chris Rovsar argued that in order to sell it's paid-content plan, the Times is "turning Arianna Huffington into a straw man, using a caricature of her standards to better frame their own." CUNY j-prof Jeff Jarvis tried to lay out exactly what the Times thinks is wrong with HuffPo: It's not actually content, but instead conversation and aggregation, which is a) worthless, and b) cheating.

Aaron Bady made a deeper version of Rovsar's point, drawing on a paper presented last weekend by CUNY j-prof C.W. Anderson, who argued that while the lines between "aggregating" and "original reporting" are talked about as if they're clear, they are pretty blurry and unstable. Bady then concluded that both Keller and Huffington are trying to stake out their status as the center of Real Journalism by painting the other as being less than real, Lipitor cost. The Online Journalism Review's Robert Niles argued that all reporting is aggregation, though Anderson was skeptical.

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Defending the Times' meter: As Bady noted, the Times has a huge incentive to defend its journalistic turf right now — a newly instituted plan to begin charging for its online content, Lipitor Price. Times execs addressed some of the conversation (and criticism) swirling around its pay system in a panel at Columbia University (audio here). Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. disputed reports that the paper spent $40 million to develop the plan, and paidContent's Staci Kramer reported that the number is actually closer to $25 million — including about a third of the company's 2010 capital investment. Lipitor from canadian pharmacy, In the discussion, Sulzberger also ridiculed the idea that the Times' pay system is too complex, sarcastically comparing it to print subscription plans, He also likened getting around the pay plan online to stealing a paper from the newsstand, as he's described it in the past. (The Columbia Journalism Review also has a couple of notes about Sulzberger's comments about possible threats from HuffPo and the Wall Street Journal.)

Another news organization entered into the Times meter-beating space late last week: The Atlantic Wire, with a daily summary of what from the Times is most worth reading, real brand Lipitor online. The Lab's Megan Garber explained Lipitor Price, why she thinks it's more of a "respectful tribute" to the Times than the stereotypical parasitic aggregation.

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SB Nation's gain is AOL's loss: The sports blog network SB Nation made the week's most intriguing personnel move when it snapped up the team behind the popular tech blog Engadget to make its own move into the world of gadget/tech blogging. PaidContent's Staci Kramer talked to SB Nation CEO Jim Bankoff about why the move into tech makes sense (advertisers are looking for "young, tech-savvy, affluent males" — the same demographic targeted by sports blogs).

Of course, My Lipitor experience, this story, too, ties into AOL, as Engadget is an AOL blog, and Bankoff is the guy who brought it into the AOL fold back in 2005. The New York Times' David Carr, who broke the story, online buying Lipitor hcl, used the defections as a cautionary tale for AOL, concluding that "AOL has found a way to acquire what it cannot build, but it still hasn’t found a way to hang on to what it has."

Outgoing Engadget editor-in-chief Joshua Topolsky hinted at his beef with AOL in his post announcing the move, saying SB Nation believes in new media's potential as an "antidote to big publishing houses and SEO spam." And while Arianna Huffington is helping AOL move away from the "AOL Way" that the Engadget folks disliked so much, GigaOM's Mathew Ingram noted that her strategy is new and internal suspicions about it are likely to be high. Meanwhile, Business Insider's Nicholas Carlson argued that readers don't care who's in charge of Engadget, Lipitor Price. Kjøpe Lipitor på nett, köpa Lipitor online, —

Reading roundup: Other stuff happened outside the AOL/Huffington Post/New York Times bubble — honest. Here's a quick overview:

— The University of Texas held its annual International Symposium on Online Journalism last weekend, and University of British Columbia j-prof Alfred Hermida blogged the heck out of it, producing 16 posts on the conference's panels and speakers. A few posts to check out in particular: Former NPR CEO Vivian Schiller's reasons for optimism about journalism, poor use of Twitter by mainstream media outlets, and lessons on audience engagement, taking Lipitor. I also summarized the conference's main themes.

— Some paid-content notes: British advertising magnate Sir Martin Sorrell argued Lipitor Price, for the media to charge for news online (alongside government subsidy), but GigaOM's Mathew Ingram thought his idea was terrible. Elsewhere, the San Francisco Chronicle is jumping on the paid-content train, and the AP's Jonathan Stray proposed an open-API paid syndication system between content creators and aggregators.

— For the sports-media crowd: Dallas Mavericks owner and former Yahoo mogul Mark Cuban tried to parse out what media sources should and shouldn't be allowed in locker rooms. Lipitor schedule, Dan Shanoff of Quickish broke down Cuban's points, and Craig Calcaterra of NBC Sports' Hardball talk issued a defense of paid bloggers and reporters in general.

— The local content network Examiner.com is often seen as one of the web's "content farms," but it took a couple of steps toward higher quality this week, producing a white paper that analyzed their quality issues and proposed pay incentives based on quality guidelines, and adding several respected media folks to its advisory board.

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February 18th, 2011

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Apple lays down its terms: Publishers have been quite anxiously awaiting word from Apple about the particulars of its subscription plan for mobile devices including the iPad; they got it this week, but it wasn't what a lot of them were hoping for. The New York Times summarized publishers' initial reaction with a few of the basic details — Apple gets a 30 percent cut, owns subscriber data (whether to send data to publishers is up to the subscriber), Get Flagyl, and publishers' options for subscription services outside Apple are limited.

The Lab's Josh Benton aptly laid out some of the primary implications for news organizations: Apple is setting itself up as toll-taker on the new news highway and putting a heavy incentive on converting print readers to tablet readers, but not putting restrictions on browser access within its devices. Media analyst Ken Doctor offered two astute takes on what Apple's proposal will entail; we'll call them glass-half-full and glass-half-empty.

Most of the reaction to Apple's deal, however, was overwhelmingly negative, Flagyl Price. Media consultant Alan Mutter pointed out a couple of gotchas for publishers, Dan Gillmor called Apple's policy stunningly arrogant and the publishers that sign up for it "insane, or desperate, Flagyl from mexico," ITworld's Ryan Faas called it "gouging content producers," Gizmodo's Matt Buchanan dubbed it "evil," developer Ryan Carson urged users to fight Apple's "extortion," and a Wall Street Journal raised possible antitrust issues.

The beef that most of these critics have with Apple is not so much the 30 percent cut (though that's part of it) as it is Apple's restrictions on publishers' alternative subscription methods. Effects of Flagyl, Apple is requiring that publishers that want to have a non-App Store subscription method can't charge less than their Apple-sanctioned route, and can't show app users how to access it, either. This means that, as Buchanan states, "Effectively, all easy roads to getting content on the iPad now run through Apple." (Plus, where can i buy Flagyl online, as TechCrunch's Erick Schonfeld noted, those terms could easily become even worse once Apple has publishers and readers hooked.)

Of course, the system looks a bit different from the consumer's perspective — it may be the most user-friendly subscription system ever, argued MG Siegler of TechCrunch. Flagyl Price, (Publishers, of course, disagreed about that.) As GigaOm's Mathew Ingram pointed out, this may come down to how much publishers think it's worth to have Apple handle their mobile sales for them.

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One Pass to rule them all?: As if to underscore that point, Google announced its own One Pass digital paid-content system the next day, Flagyl dangers. Unlike Apple, Google will keep about 10 percent of publishers' revenue and allow publishers to own their subscribers' data, according to Advertising Age, Flagyl Price. Much of the commentary about Google's plan positioned it in opposition to Apple's proposal: The Wall Street Journal described it as a fired salvo at Apple, search guru John Battelle summed it up as "Hey Apple, we've got a better way," Alan Mutter detailed the ways Google's plan "trumps" Apple's, and others from The Next Web, Flagyl dose, mocoNews, and Fast Companycompared the two proposals.

But several others — particularly the Lab's Josh Benton and Poynter's Rick Edmonds — explained that while it might seem natural to compare Google's system to Apple's given the timing of their announcements, Google One Pass is focused far more on web access than app access, making the paid-content company Journalism Online a more direct competitor than Apple. Journalism Online's Gordon Crovitz made the case to paidContent for his company over Google, highlighting its flexibility, and paidContent also noted that newspaper chain MediaGeneral is trying out both systems at different papers, Flagyl description.

A couple of other notes on Google's plan: TechCrunch's MG Siegler argued that Google's agreement to allow publishers ownership of subscribers' data is at least as big of a deal to publishers as the revenue split, and GigaOM's Mathew Ingram ripped One Pass, saying that as long as its clients' content is on the open web without the exceptional user experience of the best apps, it's just "a warmed-over content paywall."

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Parsing out the 'social media and revolutions' debate: Despite having been declared "over" early this week by The Daily's editor-in-chief, the protests in Egypt continued to dominate conversation, Purchase Flagyl online, including in future-of-news circles. Via The New York Times, we got a glimpse into how Egyptian officials were able to shut down their country's Internet and Facebook is wrestling with its role in the protests. NPR's Andy Carvin continued to earn plaudits (from The New York Times and PR exec Katie Delahaye Flagyl Price, ), and the Lab's Megan Garber looked at the way Carvin spontaneously launched a personalized Twitter pledge drive.

But the bulk of the discussion revolved around the same discussion that's been on slow burn for the past few weeks: What role does social media play in social activism. Washington grad student Deen Freelon has once again produced a fantastic synopsis of what we know and what we have yet to learn in this arena, so consider this a supplement to his post.

The parade of articles arguing that Twitter doesn't cause revolutions continued at a steady pace this week, Flagyl steet value, prompting NYU j-prof to profile the Twitter-debunking article as a genre, concluding that that argument — along with the glib social media triumphalism it's refuting — is a cheap detour around actually thoughtfully considering the complex issues involved in social change. Several others built on Rosen's point: Aaron Bady delved deeper into the social media-debunking article's function, CUNY j-profs Jeff Jarvis and C.W. Anderson focused on protecting those technological tools, and opined on the difference between academic and popular discourse on cause-and-effect, Flagyl brand name, respectively.

That doesn't there aren't substantive things to say about social media's role in recent protests, of course, Flagyl Price. POLIS' Charlie Beckett noted that newly adopted technologies (such as mobile phones) have helped create a more "networkable" power structure in the Middle East, and NDN's Sam duPont looked at social media's role as organizing tool, news source, and public sphere in Egypt.

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To pay or not to pay: With a few exceptions (Frederic Filloux's short, fierce takedown of The Huffington Post as a "digital sand castle" is well worth a read), Flagyl forum, the second week of commentary on AOL's purchase of The Huffington Post centered on the question of whether HuffPo's thousands of unpaid contributors should start getting paychecks for their work.

At The New York Times' FiveThirtyEight blog, Nate Silver attempted to calculate the worth of a typical HuffPo post, concluding that they follow a classic power law relationship and that most of them aren't worth much. The New York Observer's Ben Popper said Silver is undervaluing HuffPo's contributors, Where can i cheapest Flagyl online, and Gannett's Ryan Sholin made the point that having those posts within a single platform is worth more than the posts themselves. Flagyl Price, Most of the grist for this week's conversation, though, came from Silver's Times colleague, David Carr, who used HuffPo as an entree into some observations about creating online content for others for free through platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Quora. Paul Gillin of Newspaper Death Watch built on Carr and Silver's analyses to make the case that in the face of devalued online content, demand for higher-quality material might bring us out of the basement of online pay.

Several others countered Carr with similar points: Web thinker Stowe Boyd, British j-prof Paul Bradshaw and HuffPo's own Nico Pitney said HuffPo bloggers have eminently legitimate non-monetary reasons for writing there, GigaOM's Mathew Ingram pointed out that The Times' op-ed system isn't much different from HuffPo's, and Jeff Jarvis said news folks should be thinking more about value than content, order Flagyl online c.o.d.

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Reading roundup: Some interesting bits and pieces to round out the week:

— Google unveiled the latest tool in its effort to fight content farms this week — an extension to its browser, Chrome, that allows users to block any site they choose from Google search results. TechCrunch called it "crowdsourcing" their content farm detection, and Gizmodo said that it allows for the arresting possibility of "an internet that never disagrees with you."

— A few miscellaneous items regarding The Daily: Slate's chairman, Herbal Flagyl, Jacob Weisberg, ripped it ("It’s just a bad version of a newspaper in electronic form with a very condescending view of the audience"), Scott Rosenberg wondered what'll happen to its archives, and the publication updated its glitch-ridden app.

— A couple of great data journalism resources: Poynter's Steve Myers broke down the difficulties in integrating data journalism into the newsroom, and ProPublica's Dan Nguyen wrote a wonderful post encouraging journalists to get started with data analysis, Flagyl Price.

— The second blogging Carnival of Journalism, focusing on increasing the number of news sources within communities, began going up over the past day or so, so keep an eye out for those posts. I'll have a roundup here next week.

— If you want a 30,000-foot summary of what's happening on the leading edge of news right now, you really can't do much better than Josh Benton's speech posted here at the Lab. It's a fantastic primer, no matter how initiated you already are.

February 18th, 2011

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AOL scoops up Arianna: The week's biggest media story was broken just a couple of hours after the Super Bowl on Sunday, when Kara Swisher of All Things D reported that AOL would buy The Huffington Post for $315 million (here's video of her interview with Arianna Huffington and AOL CEO Tim Armstrong). Swisher's post and this New York Times article provide just about all the background information you should need on the deal, along with The Huffington Post's press release and Huffington's column on the acquisition. Glucophage canada, mexico, india, The deal was seen by many as a bold one — a "fourth-quarter Hail Mary pass," as The New Yorker's Ken Auletta wrote — and reaction on the web (also summed up well by GigaOM's Mathew Ingram) was decidedly mixed. The thumbs-ups came from a eclectic mix of critics: Henry Blodget of Business Insider called it a smart risk, Reuters' Felix Salmon and All Things D's Peter Kafka said the two companies' needs fit each other well, with AOL getting a clear editorial voice (Salmon) and a "content-making machine" (Kafka). CUNY j-prof Jeff Jarvis said what AOL will find most valuable in HuffPo will not be content, but "a new cultural understanding of media that is built around the value of curation, the power of peers, the link economy, passion as an asset, and celebrity as a currency."

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A few themes came up repeatedly in commentary about the two companies; one was HuffPo's expertise in that notorious (some would say dark) art known as search engine optimization. Salon's Alex Pareene declared the new organization "the single largest SEO-gaming operation ever created" and the LA Times' James Rainey explained the appeal that the Post's SEO skills bring. Slate's Farhad Manjoo (who wins this week's award for best lead) made the case that AOL/HuffPo's SEO-heavy strategy is risky in the long-term because "they won't be able to fool the computers forever." (Capital New York's Tom McGeveran made a similar point Glucophage Price, .) HuffPo's new AOL corporate empire-mate, Paul Carr of TechCrunch, reaffirmed his hatred for HuffPo's SEO tactics but said the deal could still be a good one for AOL.

The second theme was the fact that the Post doesn't pay most of its writers, a strategy that Tim Rutten of the Los Angeles Times likened to "a galley rowed by slaves and commanded by pirates." Dan Gillmor's tone was a bit milder, but he, Glucophage samples, too, urged Huffington to start paying her most productive bloggers, and Northeastern j-prof Dan Kennedy wondered whether bloggers might be less willing to go unpaid under a mega-corporation like AOL. Reason's Matt Welch defended Huffington against Rutten's charges, and Time's James Poniewozik said it's possible AOL/HuffPo could be signaling a move toward more expensive, Australia, uk, us, usa, quality content.

A few miscellaneous pieces of sharp commentary: GigaOM's Mathew Ingram said AOL needs HuffPo to help its other online content initatives figure out how the Internet works, and media analyst Ken Doctor saw AOL/HuffPo as a potential free alternative to Rupert Murdoch's steadily building paid-content empire. There were also plenty of posts about what the political viewpoint of the new organization would be, and while I haven't waded into that discussion, I do like NYU j-prof Jay Rosen's concept of "ideological innovation" in online journalism.

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Speeding up The Daily: The negative buzz around The Daily that began last week continued to pile up this week, leading to, Glucophage use, among other things, a "We're listening" blog post by the new "tablet newspaper." One of the issues that drew criticism was The Daily's long load time, as John Gruber of Daring Fireball compared it unfavorably to Flipboard, and paidContent's Staci Kramer explained her own loading glitches. Both Gruber and Kramer argued that while it seem minor, load time is a big deal to users, and The New York Times' Nick Bilton made a similar point: By being too slow and bulky, digital magazines like The Daily "almost defeat one of their main intended purposes, the promise of instant access to content and information."

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But there were a few who were generally impressed with The Daily's first week, including MinnPost's John Dreinan and industry analyst Alan Mutter, who liked its concise storytelling, multimedia integration and interactive advertising. Damon Kiesow and The Columbia Journalism Review's Lauren Kirchner both looked to other media efforts for lessons for The Daily — Kiesow to various other iPad apps, and Kirchner to the mid-1990s debut of Slate and Salon, Glucophage no prescription.

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Gawker evolves the blog: We've been hearing about it since November, and this week Gawker officially launched its redesign, which reflects to a more magazine-style emphasis from a purer blog format. The Lab's Megan Garber captured what the move means Glucophage Price, particularly in terms of Gawker's advertising strategy, explaining how it's appropriated parts of the TV and magazine models to capitalize on its brand as a whole: "It’s moved, it seems, beyond simply selling its readers to advertisers. Now, it is simply selling itself."

Former Gawker Media contributor Latoya Peterson pointed to the outrage by Gawker blogs' readers and used it to argue that Gawker's new, My Glucophage experience, more controlled design is subverting the fast-posting, skim-friendly style it helped make a blogging standard. Rex Sorgatz was also skeptical of the change, asserting that the redesign would have to be rolled back or reworked within months and challenging anyone to bet him otherwise — a wager that was taken up by Gawker chief Nick Denton himself, using pageviews as the determining factor.

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TBD takes a step back: TBD, a online local news operation based in Washington, real brand Glucophage online, D.C., debuted last August to much fanfare, but it took a major hit when the Washington Post reported that its owner Robert Allbritton (who also owns Politico) would have his local TV station WJLA take it over. TBD editor-in-chief Erik Wemple told the Lab's Megan Garber that the move wouldn't be as bad as it appeared, but it was still widely interpreted as "a retreat from the original vision of TBD, Purchase Glucophage online no prescription, " in the Post's words. Jim Brady, the site's former general manager, called it "not good news," and NYU j-prof Jay Rosen summed it up as "the TV guys won."

In the wake of the news, several observers expressed their frustration: Media consultant Mark Potts ripped Allbritton for not allowing the site breathing room to innovate, and media analyst Janet Coats held it up as an example of old media's resistance to change. Terry Heaton and Lost Remote's Cory Bergman used the episode to talk about the tensions involved when TV stations are affiliated with online media efforts, Glucophage Price.

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Reading roundup: There's still quite a bit to get to, but I'll run through it quickly:

— Re Wikileaks: New York Times executive editor Bill Keller edged toward defining WikiLeaks as something a lot like journalism, The Nation's Greg Mitchell explained why the mainstream media is skeptical of WikiLeaks, the Personal Democracy Forum's Micah Sifry and NYU prof Clay Shirky gave some reasons for WikiLeaks' revolutionary nature, and at The Guardian, Evgeny Morozov argued that WikiLeaks can't continue much longer in its current form.

— Yahoo announced a move toward more personal content, particularly tablet-based. The New York Times explained why.

— At the National Sports Journalism Center, Jason Fry wrote a wonderful piece talking about how much less valuable scoops have become in a commoditized news world, and what journalists should do as a result. Craig Calcaterra of the baseball blog Hardball Talk expanded on the idea, offering a vision for the role of bloggers and reporters in a commodity-news environment.

— Two pieces to chew on this weekend, one short and one long: Dave Winer's plea to news organizations to join their communities online, and The New Yorker's Adam Gopnik's musings on the Internet and our interior lives.

Mark Coddington

Associate Professor, Washington and Lee University

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