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    • ]]>     [This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Aug. 19, 2011.] Is social media killing big ideas?: In the New York Times this week, USC fellow Neal Gabler put forward a different form of the familiar "information overload" complaint, this time tying the proliferation of social media to the paucity of big ideas. We don't spend time thinking about and valuing big ideas, he argued, because we're too busy trying to process — and add to — the flood of information coming at us through social media. You can't think and tweet at the same time, Gabler said, because tweeting "is a form of distraction or anti-thinking." Naturally, this didn't go over particularly well among the online media punditry. Several people countered that one of Twitter's functions is to direct users to big ideas, to point outside of its 140-character limits through hyperlinks. Media prof Chuck Tryon, author Stephen Baker, and Techdirt's Mike Masnick all made that argument, with Masnick summing it up well: "While social media may not have enlarged Gabler's intellectual universe, it has massively enlarged mine. Thanks to Twitter specifically, I've been able to meet tons of fascinatingly smart people I never would have met otherwise." The trick, as Baker said, is to "listen to the right people, and then follow their links." Two other writers made particularly smart points: Kevin Drum of Mother Jones noted that where before we knew exactly where to find big ideas and how to discuss them, we're now in the middle of a massive media transition. That doesn't mean the big idea is dead, he said, it means it's headed somewhere new, and we don't know exactly where yet. And the Lab's Megan Garber pointed out that Gabler's vision of big ideas is closely tied to big media, but argued that those big ideas don't need big media to thrive. Instead, she said, "Increasingly, though, the ideas that spark progress are collective, diffusive endeavors rather than the result (to the extent they ever were) of individual inspiration." — A paywall plan that understands online readers?: Reuters blogger Felix Salmon is already on record as a supporter of the New York Times' five-month-old paywall, and this week he detailed exactly why he thinks it's so effective. Salmon likened the Times' metered model, with all of its leeway and potential workarounds, to a polite "Please keep off the grass" sign. He argued that contra the prevailing philosophy that readers won't pay for something they can get for free, the Times is betting that "the pleasure of reading its content will be enough to persuade a large number of people to pay. It’s a far more attractive model, and one which is much more likely to attract new young subscribers over the long term." In a follow-up post, Salmon explained why the Times' model is fundamentally different from the Financial Times' pay meter — it's not trying nearly as hard to keep non-subscribers away from its content. Venture capitalist Fred Wilson and Poynter's Jeff Sonderman agreed with Salmon's premise: Wilson praised the efficacy of getting paid after the fact rather than before, and Sonderman said the Times has discovered that convenience, duty, and appreciation are more compelling motivations than coercion. There was one notable dissenter: GigaOM's Mathew Ingram, who took issue with the idea that the Times' plan has been successful, arguing instead that it's not growing the paper's online audience, but setting up digital sandbags to protect a declining print product. The plan "has virtually nothing to do with actually taking advantage of the digital world in any concrete way," Ingram wrote. "It’s just charging people nickels and dimes for their paper, the way the NYT and other newspapers have for a century and a half or so." — News Corp.'s problems continue to grow: The damning information against News Corp. in the phone-hacking scandal at its former News of the World newspaper keeps on coming. This week, it was a four-year-old letter written by Clive Goodman, a reporter at the center of the scandal. In it, Goodman said that the hacking was discussed regularly at the paper and suggested that knowledge of it ran much deeper than News Corp. has been insisting. Notably, News Corp. had submitted the letter to Parliament but redacted the incriminating parts. With the new revelation, Slate's Jack Shafer wrote that "the scandal has grown too large for one or two willing Murdoch lieutenants or employees to stanch it by taking the fall." That impression has led many watchers to wonder, as the Guardian's Brian Cathcart did, if James Murdoch, Rupert's son, may be forced to resign. James responded late last week to Parliament's questions about his truthfulness in his testimony to them last month, and News Corp. is reportedly making plans in case he decides to step aside. The bad news continues to pile up elsewhere in News Corp., too. The private investigator at the center of the scandal sued News International (the company's British newspaper division) for not paying his legal bills, and officially acknowledged in its annual report that the scandal could impair its business, and that it doesn't know how much money it'll end up costing. Two more commentators — the New Yorker's Ken Auletta and Reuters' David Callahan — echoed a popular sentiment lately, saying the responsibility for this whole ordeal lies directly with Rupert Murdoch. — Google grabs a mobile-phone producer: For the tech geeks among us, Google made some big news this week, buying Motorola Mobility, Motorola's mobile devices division, for $12.5 billion. According to the New York Times, the deal had a lot to do with stockpiling patents in order to defend its Android mobile operating system from patent lawsuits. It also may allow Google to drive down development costs for the all-important smartphone and tablet markets. Cory Bergman of Lost Remote noted that this move isn't just about mobile, though — it also represents Google's biggest move into TV yet. With Motorola's significant share of the cable-TV hardware business, Bergman said, Google now has the opportunity to seamlessly integrate its technology with TVs across the world. Here at the Lab, Joshua Benton used the acquisition as an example of the tension between a Windows-style modular approach to business, with products that can be swapped in and out, and an Apple-esque interdependent one, with a set of interlinking, proprietary products. He also applied the idea to news, saying our journalistic ecosystem needs both the more open modular approach and the more packaged interdependent approach. A couple of other posts looked at the story of the deal itself: Reuters' Felix Salmon examined the decline (and declining value) of the financial scoops beat, and Gawker's Ryan Tate saw Google's manufactured press-release quotes by its business partners as a sign that Google is moving away from the "Don't Be Evil" mantra toward being a tight-fisted corporate giant. — Reading roundup: This week was a pretty packed one. Here's the best of the rest: — This week in AOL: The New York Times' Verne Kopytoff analyzed why the new-look AOL has experienced so many hiccups, and j-prof Dan Kennedy seized on the tidbit in that article that AOL would reportedly be profitable without Patch. — Web philosopher David Weinberger wrote a fantastic piece about the journalistic curiosity and community exchange that's present at Reddit, and GigaOM's Mathew Ingram echoed his thoughts. — The Knight Digital Media Center's Joy Mayer has apparently become journalism's "Minister of Engagement," and she's earned the title, publishing a thorough guide to community engagement for newsrooms. — The Online Journalism Review's Robert Niles wondered what journalism is worth, and came up with some depressing answers. — Finally, since classes are starting up all over the place in the next week or two, here's 10 great tips for journalism students from Sarah Marshall of Journalism.co.uk, via Twitter.]]> http://markcoddington.com/2011/09/16/this-week-in-review-twitter-and-big-ideas-praise-for-the-nyt%e2%80%99s-pay-plan-and-more-trouble-for-murdoch/feed/ 0     Buy Accupril Without Prescription http://markcoddington.com/2011/07/09/this-week-in-review-what-google-could-do-for-news-and-murdoch%e2%80%99s-news-of-the-world-gets-the-ax/ http://markcoddington.com/2011/07/09/this-week-in-review-what-google-could-do-for-news-and-murdoch%e2%80%99s-news-of-the-world-gets-the-ax/#comments Sat, 09 Jul 2011 20:30:10 +0000 Mark http://markcoddington.com/?p=841
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    • ]]>     [This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on July 8, 2011.] Google's biggest social effort yet: This is a two-week edition of This Week in Review, so most of our news comes from last week, rather than this week. The biggest of those stories was the launch of Google+, Google's latest and most substantial foray into the social media landscape. TechCrunch had one of the first and best explanations of what Google+ is all about, and Wired's Steven Levy wrote the most comprehensive account of the thinking at Google behind Plus: It's the product of a fundamental philosophical shift from the web as information to the web as people. Of course, the force to be reckoned with in any big social media venture is Facebook, and even though Google told Search Engine Land it's not made to be a Facebook competitor, Google+ was seen by many (including the New York Times) as Google's most ambitious attempt yet to take on Facebook. The design looks a lot like Facebook, and pages for businesses (like Facebook's Fan Pages) are on their way. Longtime tech blogger Dave Winer was unimpressed at the effort to challenge Facebook, and Om Malik of GigaOM said Facebook has nothing to be afraid of in Google+, though All Facebook's Nick O'Neill said Google+'s ubiquity across the web should present a threat to Facebook. But the biggest contrast people drew between Google+ and Facebook was the more intuitive privacy controls built into its Circles feature. Ex-Salon editor Scott Rosenberg wrote a particularly thoughtful post arguing that Google+ more accurately reflects social life than Facebook: "In truth, Facebook started out with an oversimplified conception of social life, modeled on the artificial hothouse community of a college campus, and it has never succeeded in providing a usable or convenient method for dividing or organizing your life into its different contexts." His thought was echoed by j-prof Jeremy Littau (in two posts) and the Guardian's Dan Gillmor. Google's other ventures into social media — Buzz, Wave, Orkut — have fallen flat, so it's somewhat surprising to see that the initial reviews for Google+ were generally positive. Among those enamored with it were TechCrunch's MG Siegler, ReadWriteWeb's Marshall Kirkpatrick, social media guru Robert Scoble, and the Huffington Post's Craig Kanalley (though he wondered about Google's timing). It quickly began sending TechCrunch loads of traffic, and social media marketer Chris Brogan brainstormed 50 ways Google+ could influence the rest of the web. At the same time, there was some skepticism about its Circles function: TechCrunch's Siegler wondered whether people would use it as intended, and ReadWriteWeb's Sarah Perez said they might not be equipped to handle complicated, changing relationships. GigaOM's Mathew Ingram, meanwhile, said Circles look great, but they aren't going to be much use until there's a critical mass of people to put in them. — Google+ and the news: This being a journalism blog, we're most interested in Google+ for what it means for news. As Poynter's Jeff Sonderman pointed out, the aspect of Google+ that seems to have the most potential is its Sparks feature, which allows users to collect recommended news around a specific term or phrase. Former New York Times reporter Jennifer 8. Lee said Sparks could fill a valuable niche for news organizations in between Facebook and Twitter — sort of a more customizable, less awkward RSS. The University of Missouri’s KOMU-TV has already used it in a live broadcast, and Breaking News’ Cory Bergman gave a few valuable lessons from that organization’s first week on Google+. CUNY j-prof Jeff Jarvis gave his thoughts on a few potential uses for news: It could be very useful for collaboration and promotion, but not so much for live coverage. Journalism.co.uk's Sarah Marshall listed several of the same uses, plus interviewing and "as a Facebook for your tweeps." Sonderman suggested a few changes to Google+ to make it even more news-friendly, including allowing news org pages and improving the Sparks search and filtering. Still, he saw it as a valuable addition to the online news consumption landscape: "It’s a serendipity engine, and if executed well it could make Google+ an addictive source of news discovery." A bit of Google+-related miscellany before we move on: Social media marketer Christopher Penn gave some tips on measuring Google+, author Neil Strauss condemned the growing culture of Facebook "Likes" (and now Google +1s), and GigaOM's Mathew Ingram offered a rebuttal. — Murdoch kills News of the World: In one of the most surprising media-related moves of the year, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. suddenly shut down one of its most prominent properties, the 168-year-old British tabloid News of the World, on Thursday. The decision stemmed from a long-running scandal involving NotW investigators who illegally hacked into the phones of celebrities. This week, the Guardian reported that the hacking extended to the voicemail of a murdered 13-year-old girl and possibly the families of dead soldiers, and that the paper's editor, Rebekah Brooks (now the head of News Corp. in Britain) was informed of some of the hacking. Facing an advertising boycott and Parliamentary opposition, Murdoch's son, James, announced News of the World will close this weekend. (The Guardian has the definitive blow-by-blow of Thursday's events.) It was a desperate move, and as the New York Times, paidContent, and many on Twitter noted, it was almost certainly an attempt to keep the scandal's collateral damage away from Murdoch's proposed BSkyB merger, which was put on hold and possible in jeopardy this week. Though the closing left hundreds of suddenly out-of-work employees, it may prove less damaging in the big picture for News Corp. than you might expect. NotW only published on Sundays, and it's widely suspected that its sister tabloid, the Sun, will simply expand to include a Sunday edition to cover for its absence. As one Guardian editor stated, the move may simply allow News Corp. to streamline its operation and save cash, and Poynter’s Rick Edmonds called it a smart business move. (Its stock actually went up after the announcement.) There's plenty that has yet to play out: The Guardian pointed out how evasive James Murdoch's closing letter was, and Brooks, the one that many thought would take the fall for the scandal, is still around. And the investigation is ongoing, with more arrests being made today. According to the New Yorker's Ken Auletta and CUNY's Jeff Jarvis, though, the buck stops with Rupert himself and the culture he created. — Making journalism easier on Twitter: Twitter has been reaching out to journalists for quite some time now through a media blog, but last week it took things a step further and launched Twitter for Newsrooms, a journalist's guide to using Twitter, with tips on reporting, making conversation, and promoting content. The Lab's Justin Ellis gave a quick glimpse into the rationale behind the project. A few people were skeptical: TechCrunch's Alexia Tsotsis suspected that Twitter's preaching to the choir, arguing that for the journalists who come across Twitter for Newsrooms, Twitter already is a newsroom. The Journal Register's Steve Buttry called it "more promotional than helpful," and suggested some other Twitter primers for journalists. Ad Age's Matthew Creamer added a tongue-in-cheek guide to releasing your anger on Twitter. Meanwhile, the Lab's Megan Garber reported on the ideas of NPR and Andy Carvin for improving Twitter's functionality for reporting, including a kind of real-time influence and credibility score for Twitter sources, and a journalism-oriented meme-tracking tool for developing stories. — Mobile media and tablet users, profiled: There were several studies released in the past two weeks that are worth noting, starting with Pew's report on e-reader and tablet users. Pew found that e-reader ownership is booming, having doubled in six months. The Knight Digital Media Center's Amy Gahran reasoned that e-readers are ahead of tablets right now primarily because they're so much cheaper, and offered ideas for news organizations to take advantage of the explosion of e-reader users. Three other studies related to tablets and mobile media: One study found that a third of tablet users said it's leading them to read print newspapers and magazines less often; another showed that people are reading more on digital media than we think, and mostly in browsers; and a third gave us more evidence that games are still king among mobile apps. — Reading roundup: Bunches of good stuff to look through from the past two weeks. I'll go through it quickly: — Turns out the "digital first" move announced last month by the Guardian also includes the closing of the international editions of the Guardian and Observer. Jeff Jarvis explained what digital first means, but Suw Charman-Anderson questioned the wisdom the Guardian's strategy. The Lab's Ken Doctor analyzed the economics of the Guardian's situation, as well as the Mail and the BBC's. — This week in AOL/Huffington Post news: Business Insider revealed some leaked lackluster traffic numbers for Patch sites, and reported that Patch is undergoing a HuffPo-ization. That prompted Judy Sims and Slate's Jack Shafer to be the latest to rip into Patch's business model, and Shafer followed up to address rebuttals about non-Patch hyperlocal news. — Google+ was the only interesting Google-related news over the past two weeks: The Lab's Megan Garber wrote about Google's bid to transform mobile ads, potential new directions for Google News, and Google highlighting individual authors in search returns. The New York Times' Virginia Heffernan also wrote on Google's ongoing war on "nonsense" content. — A couple of paywall notes: The Times of London reported that it has 100,000 subscribers a year after its paywall went up, and Dorian Benkoil said the New York Times' plan is working well, the Lab's Megan Garber wrote about the Times adding a "share your access" offer to print subscribers. — Three practical posts for journalists: Poynter's Jeff Sonderman has tips for successful news aggregation and personalized news delivery, and British j-prof Paul Bradshaw reported on his experience running his blog through a Facebook Page for a month. — And three bigger-picture pieces to think on: Wetpaint's Ben Elowitz on the shrinking of the non-Facebook web, former Guardian digital editor Emily Bell on the U.S.' place within the global media ecosystem, and the Economist on the role of news organizations in a citizen-driven media world.]]> http://markcoddington.com/2011/07/09/this-week-in-review-what-google-could-do-for-news-and-murdoch%e2%80%99s-news-of-the-world-gets-the-ax/feed/ 0     Buy Accupril Without Prescription http://markcoddington.com/2011/06/01/this-week-in-review-talking-bin-laden-on-twitter-journos%e2%80%99-online-freedom-and-apple-gets-a-taker/ http://markcoddington.com/2011/06/01/this-week-in-review-talking-bin-laden-on-twitter-journos%e2%80%99-online-freedom-and-apple-gets-a-taker/#comments Wed, 01 Jun 2011 18:51:39 +0000 Mark http://markcoddington.com/?p=806
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    • ]]>     [This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on May 6, 2011.] Twitter as breaking-news system: This week's big news is obvious: American forces killed Osama bin Laden on Monday (Sunday for most Westerners) in a raid of his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. But you already knew that, and how exactly you found out is the first angle I want to look at. The news blew up on Twitter and Facebook late Sunday night after the White House announced President Obama would be addressing the nation. The ensuing frenzy set a record for the highest volume of sustained activity on Twitter, with an average of 3,000 tweets per second for about three hours. While most Americans first got the news from TV, about a fifth of young people found out online. That led to another round of celebration of Twitter as the emerging source for big breaking news — Business Insider's Matt Rosoff called the story Twitter's CNN moment and said Twitter was "faster, more accurate, and more entertaining than any other news source out there." PR guru Brian Solis described Twitter as "a perfect beast for committing acts of journalism," and University of British Columbia j-prof Alfred Hermida said it's becoming routine to see Twitter as the first option for breaking news coverage. Others pushed back against that praise: Advertising Age's Simon Dumenco argued that everyone on Twitter was still waiting for confirmation from government officials and the mainstream media, and Dan Mitchell of SF Weekly said that most of the people tweeting the news were from traditional media anyway. The American Journalism Review's Rem Rieder said the aide who broke the story on Twitter wasn't doing journalism, but just passing on a rumor. And Engadget vet Joshua Topolsky said the Twitter buzz probably says more about our need to tell others we got to the news first than it does about Twitter. Several folks staked out a spot between the two positions. TechCrunch's Erick Schonfeld said Twitter doesn't supplant traditional media, but it does amplify it and drive people to it. GigaOM's Mathew Ingram advised us to think about it not in terms of competition between old and new media, but as part of a news ecosystem: "it’s not really about Twitter or Facebook; it’s about the power of the network." Elsewhere, media analyst Dan Gillmor compared this story to how the 9/11 news broke, GigaOM's Stacey Higginbotham classified the seven stages of breaking news on Twitter, and Search Engine Land's Danny Sullivan looked at the way Google responded to the story. Three other mini-stories within the digital aspect of the Bin Laden story: First, regarding traditional media outlets' online efforts, former Guardian digital chief Emily Bell wrote a fantastic piece about how live news coverage is the great challenge of our time for news orgs, the Online Journalism Review's Robert Niles critiqued the performance of mobile news sites, and the BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones ripped some news iPad apps for being slow with the story. Second, there was plenty of discussion about the remarkable story of Pakistani programmer Sohaib Athar, who live-tweeted the raid without knowing it. Poynter's Steve Myers went meta with the account of how we found out about him, revealing some interesting examples of how information travels through a network like Twitter. He then defended Athar as a citizen journalist. And third, the Atlantic's Megan McArdle explained how a quotation got misattributed to Martin Luther King Jr. and then went viral, and Frederic Lardinois of NewsGrange mused about the difficulty of social media corrections. — Osama and the Times' pay wall: While we've been focusing on the digital media side of things so far, Bin Laden's death was the type of massive story that traditional news organizations go into overdrive on, too. Poynter and the Columbia Journalism Review have great looks at how news orgs played the story in print and online, and we got some behind-the-scenes glimpses at how the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, CNN, and other mainstream journalists put together reports on such quick deadlines. The Times made an interesting decision in the wake of the story not to lift its pay wall/gate/fence for news on Bin Laden's death, even though it had previously expressed a willingness to allow free access for big stories. The Lab's Megan Garber asked a number of questions about that issue — who makes that decision? And if this isn't a huge story, what is? — and noted that the fact that it was the beginning of the month and many users' meters had just been reset played into the decision. Meanwhile, James Rainey of the Los Angeles Times criticized the cheerleading tone of TV news' coverage, and Slate's Jack Shafer called out some of the inaccuracies in news stories on Bin Laden's death. — Giving reporters social-media leeway: We saw a case study in contrasting newsroom social media policies, starting when Bloomberg' guidelines were leaked to eMedia Vitals last week. It encouraged reporters to use Twitter, with several restrictions listed under one strong caveat: "Ask questions first. Tweet later." A couple of days later, John Paton of the Journal Register Co. posted his own company's social media policy. It was blank — implying that the company doesn't put any explicit restrictions on what or how employees can post. Techdirt's Mike Masnick praised Paton's philosophy: "These things are developing quickly, and for people to find out how to use these tools most efficiently and effectively, they need to feel free to experiment and do whatever needs to be done." That prompted GigaOM's Mathew Ingram to give his own social media advice for journalists, telling them to talk to people, link, retweet, reply when spoken to, admit when they're wrong and be human — but not too human. Michele McLellan of the Knight Digital Media Center, meanwhile, defined online engagement in terms of outreach, conversation, and collaboration. — Publishers begin to jump in with Apple: A couple of big media-on-iPad developments this week: Time Inc. reached a deal with Apple to allow magazine subscribers to get iPad apps for free, and Hearst became one of the first major publishers to agree to offer subscriptions within iPad (which means Apple's getting that 30% cut), though Advertising Age's Nat Ives wondered if Condé Nast will beat Hearst to the punch. The British newspaper the Telegraph also launched an iPad edition, and the Guardian's Stuart Dredge noted that both the Telegraph and Hearst are asking customers to share their personal data with them (Apple already gets customer data), and the Telegraph is giving an incentive to them to do so. Meanwhile, the company Yudu has launched some sort of service that will somehow allow publishers to evade Apple's 30% in-app subscription cut and apparently got Apple's approval. (As you can tell, details are sketchy at this point.) Elsewhere in news on the iPad, News Corp. said it's lost $10 million on The Daily this quarter, which has reportedly gotten 800,000 downloads. Former Marketwatch CEO Larry Kramer said The Daily is gradually getting better, though. — Pardon AOL's dust: Arianna Huffington keeps on cleaning house at AOL, with a handful of new changes each week. This week: AOL News was folded into the Huffington Post, and Patch announced they're launching Patch Latino sites in California and unveiled the hyperlocal blogging network for which it's been recruiting volunteers for the past couple of weeks. Forbes' Jeff Bercovici reported that AOL is continuing to pour millions of dollars into Patch and expects to lose money on the site this year. Even if Patch works journalistically, Mathew Ingram said, that doesn't mean it'll make any business sense. The Next Web's Alex Wilhelm warned of the homogenization threatened by the AOL content empire and NPR's On the Media debated whether the Huffington Post is good for journalism. Amid the hand-wringing, Lauren Rabaino of 10,000 pointed out five good things Patch sites are doing, including transparency and accountability by editors. — Reading roundup: Believe it or not, people in media circles talked about things this week that didn't have to do with Osama bin Laden or AOL. Here are a few of them: — Marco Arment's post last week about his successful experiments in charging for Instapaper turned into an interesting discussion about creating a freemium or "business class" for news. Here's Frederic Filloux, Oliver Reichenstein, and Mathew Ingram. — Another noteworthy conversation that sprung week: Scott Rosenberg, Dave Winer, and Amy Gahran on why journalists should be wary of Facebook — because eventually, as Rosenberg said, "it’s not the public sphere, not in the way the Internet itself is. It’s just a company." — The Wall Street Journal became the latest news org to launch a platform modeled after the WikiLeaks anonymous leaking concept, with SafeHouse. The Atlantic has plenty of details. — Finally, two useful sets of tips: One from Poynter's Julie Moos about news blogging from filling in for Jim Romenesko for a week, and the other from TBD's Steve Buttry on possible revenue streams for newspapers.]]> http://markcoddington.com/2011/06/01/this-week-in-review-talking-bin-laden-on-twitter-journos%e2%80%99-online-freedom-and-apple-gets-a-taker/feed/ 0     Buy Accupril Without Prescription http://markcoddington.com/2011/02/18/this-week-in-review-paying-up-with-apple-and-google-twitter-and-activism-free-labor-for-huffpo/ http://markcoddington.com/2011/02/18/this-week-in-review-paying-up-with-apple-and-google-twitter-and-activism-free-labor-for-huffpo/#comments Sat, 19 Feb 2011 04:18:10 +0000 Mark http://markcoddington.com/?p=682
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    • ]]>     [This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Feb. 18, 2011.] 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), 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. 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," 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. 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, 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. (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. We got some mixed early signs about how publishers might answer that question. PaidContent reported on publishers who felt Apple's terms could have been much worse, and Poynter's Damon Kiesow talked to publishers who plan to offer multiple options. Popular Science became the first magazine to jump on board and Wired is following ASAP, but Time Inc. pre-emptively struck deals with Apple's competitors, and another publishers' group threatened to take its business elsewhere. — 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. Unlike Apple, Google will keep about 10 percent of publishers' revenue and allow publishers to own their subscribers' data, according to Advertising Age. 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, 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. 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." — 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, 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), 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, 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, respectively. That doesn't there aren't substantive things to say about social media's role in recent protests, of course. 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. — 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), 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, and Gannett's Ryan Sholin made the point that having those posts within a single platform is worth more than the posts themselves. 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. — 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, 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. — 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.]]> http://markcoddington.com/2011/02/18/this-week-in-review-paying-up-with-apple-and-google-twitter-and-activism-free-labor-for-huffpo/feed/ 1     Buy Accupril Without Prescription http://markcoddington.com/2011/02/18/this-week-in-review-aol%e2%80%99s-big-huffpo-buy-converging-media-in-egypt-and-waiting-on-the-daily/ http://markcoddington.com/2011/02/18/this-week-in-review-aol%e2%80%99s-big-huffpo-buy-converging-media-in-egypt-and-waiting-on-the-daily/#comments Sat, 19 Feb 2011 04:14:39 +0000 Mark http://markcoddington.com/?p=680
  • This Week in Review: Paying up with Apple and Google, Twitter and activism, free labor for HuffPo
  • This Week in Review: Egypt’s media lessons, The Daily’s detractors, and Apple’s strike against e-books
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    • ]]>     [This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Feb. 11, 2011.] 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. 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." There were also plenty of people who shook (or at least scratched) their heads at the deal, including many of HuffPo's own readers and writers. Shira Ovide of The Wall Street Journal called it AOL's admission that its content strategy isn't working, and industry analyst Alan Mutter said AOL overpaid. The Guardian's Jemima Kiss blasted the move as "soullessly commercial," and Salon vet Scott Rosenberg contended that Huffington's once-distinctive brand will dissolve into AOL's bland corporatism. PaidContent's David Kaplan, Dan Lyons, and Om Malik of GigaOM both pointed to advertising struggles, with Malik arguing that AOL has "not yet come to terms with the futility of chasing page views." 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.) 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, 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, 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. — Changing coverage of a changing world: As the protests in Egypt have continued, so has the conversation about its media-related implications, and just as in last week, much of the talk centered on Al Jazeera. The New York Times examined the network's influence on the protests, as well as its efforts to gain more access to American viewers. Throughout the past two weeks, as the Lab's Justin Ellis and Twitter's Robin Sloan pointed out, Al Jazeera has been using social media to distribute its news to American audiences. Meanwhile, Sheila Carapico at Foreign Policy argued that Al Jazeera and other TV networks can't give us a full picture of what's going on in Egypt. There's been other fantastic journalism arising from the Egyptian protests, including the work of NPR's Andy Carvin to curate news and voices of the conflict on Twitter. In an illuminating interview with The Atlantic, Carvin argued that curation — the process of capturing the most elements of a story from various sources and passing them along — has always been a part of journalism. In a more academic piece at the Lab, USC grad student Nikki Usher explained how the protests are expanding the idea of a media event, with social media, webstreams, and the mainstream media "all working together to create a much larger, more nuanced picture of the live broadcasting of history." The debate over social media's role in revolutions continued to roil, with several more writers responding to Malcolm Gladwell's brief New Yorker post arguing that the role Twitter & Co. in social activism like the Egyptian protests is overrated. UT-Dallas prof David Parry, The Awl's Maria Bustillos, new media exec Rex Hammock, UMBC prof Zeynek Tufekci, and web philosopher David Weinbergerall weighed in with their rejoinders to Gladwell, in a discussion that Washington grad student Deen Freelon has mapped out far more expertly than I could. — Speeding up The Daily: The negative buzz around The Daily that began last week continued to pile up this week, leading to, 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." The reviews kept pouring in as well, led by an insightful critique of The Daily's design by Stephen Coles at Fonts In Use. The primary criticism continued in the same vein as last week: The Daily's content just doesn't cut it. John Gapper of the Financial Times and Skip Ferderber of Crosscut made the point this week, and Poynter's Damon Kiesow noted that new content is tough to find. Paul Davis of Shareable also chimed in with a criticism of The Daily's shortcomings with limited sharing options. 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. — 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 meansparticularly 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, 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. — TBD takes a step back: TBD, a online local news operation based in Washington, 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," 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. — 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.]]> http://markcoddington.com/2011/02/18/this-week-in-review-aol%e2%80%99s-big-huffpo-buy-converging-media-in-egypt-and-waiting-on-the-daily/feed/ 0     Buy Accupril Without Prescription http://markcoddington.com/2011/02/18/this-week-in-review-egypt%e2%80%99s-media-lessons-the-daily%e2%80%99s-detractors-and-apple%e2%80%99s-strike-against-e-books/ http://markcoddington.com/2011/02/18/this-week-in-review-egypt%e2%80%99s-media-lessons-the-daily%e2%80%99s-detractors-and-apple%e2%80%99s-strike-against-e-books/#comments Sat, 19 Feb 2011 04:10:52 +0000 Mark http://markcoddington.com/?p=677
  • This Week in Review: AOL’s big HuffPo buy, converging media in Egypt, and waiting on The Daily
  • This Week in Review: Paying up with Apple and Google, Twitter and activism, free labor for HuffPo
  • This Week in Review: Talking Bin Laden on Twitter, journos’ online freedom, and Apple gets a taker
    • ]]>     [This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Feb. 4, 2011.] Al Jazeera, the network, and social activism: For the last week, the eyes of the world have been riveted to the ongoing protests in Egypt, and not surprisingly, the news media themselves have been a big part of that story, too. Many of them have been attacked by President Hosni Mubarak's lackeys, but the crisis has also been a breeding ground for innovative journalism techniques. Mashable put together a roundup of the ways journalists have used Twitter, Facebook, streaming video, Tumblr, and Audioboo, and the Lab highlighted reporting efforts on Facebook, curation by Sulia, and explainers by Mother Jones. Google and Twitter also created Speak to Tweet to allow Egyptians cut off from the Internet to communicate. But the organization that has shined the brightest over the past 10 days is unquestionably Al Jazeera. The Qatar-based TV network has dominated web viewing, and has used web audio updates and Creative Commons to get information out quickly to as many people as possible. Al Jazeera also faced stiff censorship efforts from the Egyptian government, which stripped its Egyptian license and shut down its Cairo bureau, then later stole some of its camera equipment. Through it all, the broadcaster kept up live coverage that online and offline, was considered the most comprehensive of any news organization. As Lost Remote's Cory Bergman pointed, Al Jazeera's coverage showed the continued power of compelling live video in a multimedia world. Salon's Alex Pareene called Al Jazeera's coverage an indictment on the U.S.' cable networks, and CUNY j-prof Jeff Jarvis and others urged cable companies to carry Al Jazeera English. Tech pioneer Doc Searls used the moment as a call for a more open form of cable TV: "The message cable should be getting is not just 'carry Al Jazeera,' but 'normalize to the Internet.' Open the pipes. Give us à la carte choices. Let us get and pay for what we want, not just what gets force-fed in bundles." The protests also served as fresh fuel for an ongoing debate about the role of social media in social change and global political activism. Several critics — including Wired's David Kravets, The New Yorker's Malcolm Gladwell, and SUNY Oswego prof Ulises Mejias— downplayed the role of social media tools such as Twitter in protests like Egypt's. Others, though, countered with a relatively unified theme: It's not really about the media tools per se, but about the decentralized, hyperconnected network in which they are bound up. J-profs Jeremy Littau and Robert Hernandez, along with GigaOM's Mathew Ingram, wrote the most thoughtful versions of this theme, and they're all worth checking out. — Tepid reviews for The Daily: Within the bubble of media geeks, one story dominated the others this week: On Wednesday, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. released The Daily, the first daily updated news publication produced specifically for the iPad. If you can't get enough coverage of The Daily, go check out Mediagazer's smorgasbord of links. I'll try to offer you a digestible (but still a bit overwhelming, I'll admit) summary of what people are saying about it. Leading up to Wednesday's launch, Poynter's Damon Kiesow found many of the people who are working for the heretofore secretive publication, and media analyst Alan Mutter and All Things Digital's Peter Kafka examined the reasons why it might or might not take off. Once the app was released Wednesday afternoon, the reviews came pouring in. First, the good: The first impressions of most of the digital experts polled by Poynter were positive, with several praising its visual design and one calling it "what I’ve always hoped newspapers would do with their tablet editions." PaidContent's Staci Cramer was generally complimentary, and The Guardian's Ian Betteridge gave it a (not terribly enthusiastic) "buy." Most of the initial reviews, though, were not so kind. Much of the 'meh' was directed at lackluster content, as reviewer after reviewer expressed similar sentiments: "a general-interest publication that is not generally interesting" (The Columbia Journalism Review); "Murdoch’s reinvention of journalism looks a lot like the one before it" (Macworld); "fairly humdrum day-old stories that you might read in, well…a regular old printed newspaper" (Mathew Ingram); "little [of Murdoch's money], it appears, has been invested in editorial talent" (Mashable); "the Etch A Sketch edition of Us Magazine" (Alan Mutter); "barely brings digital journalism into the late 20th century, much less the 21st" (Mark Potts). The bulk of that criticism seemed to be built on two foundational questions, asked by the Lab's Joshua Benton, which The Daily has apparently yet to answer convincingly: "Who is The Daily trying to reach? What problem is it trying to solve?" TechCrunch (and several of the above reviewers) asked similar questions, and GigaOM's Darrell Etherington attempted an answer, arguing that it's not for the obsessively-Twitter-checking news junkies, but iPad users struggling to adjust to life after newspapers. A few other issues surrounding The Daily that drew attention: One was its separation from the web by virtue of its place within the proprietary iTunes Store and iPad, as well as the complete lack of links in or out. (That hasn't stopped an authorized daily index of links to the web versions of articles from springing up, though.) Salon alum Scott Rosenberg and j-prof Dan Kennedy led the charge against the walled garden, while the Lab's Megan Garber pointed out the draconian anti-aggregation language on The Daily's AP content, and Justin Ellis wondered how user engagement will work in that closed environment. Then there were the economics of the publication: Media analyst Ken Doctor had two good sets of questions about what it will take for The Daily to financially succeed (the latter is more number-crunchy). Jeff Jarvis also looked at some possible numbers, and media consultant Amy Gahran chastised Murdoch for investing so much money in the venture. Gahran also looked at the hazards of dealing with Apple, and paidContent's Staci Kramer noted that Murdoch wants Apple to lower its share of the subscription revenue. And on the News Corp. front, Slate's Jack Shafer wrote about the role Murdoch's impatience will play in its fate, and Subhub's Evan Radowski gave us a history lesson on News Corp. initiatives like this one. — Apple strikes against e-publishers: In its ongoing tightening of App Store access and regulations, Apple made a significant move this week by rejecting a Sony iPhone app that would have allowed users to buy e-books from the Sony Reader Store. GigaOM's Mathew Ingram did a great job of putting the decision in the context of Apple's past moves, explaining why they make good business sense: "What’s the point of controlling a platform like the iPhone and the iPad if you can’t force people to pay you a carrying charge for hosting their content and connecting them with their customers?" But others (even at GigaOM) were more skeptical. Jason Kincaid of TechCrunch said the decision underscores the downside of closed content platforms, and posited that it's the first shot in a war between Apple and Amazon's Kindle, and Slate's Farhad Manjoo urged Amazon to pull its Kindle app out of the App Store. In another widely expected move along the same lines, Apple also told publishers that within two months, any app that doesn't take payments through its iTunes Store would be rejected. — AOL follows Demand's content-farming path: We talked last week about Demand Media's explosive IPO and Google's intention to make content farms harder to find in searches, and we have a couple of updates to those issues this week. First, Seamus McCauley of Virtual Economics explained why he's skeptical about Demand's true valuation, not to mention its accounting methods. And while Google's algorithm limiting content farms is not yet live, search engine startup Blekko has banned many content farm domains, including Demand's eHow, from its search results. Meanwhile, the debate over Demand continued, with Adotas' Gavin Dunaway and MinnPost's John Reinan delivering this week's broadsides against the company. AOL hasn't been talked about as a content farm too much as of yet, but that may change after Business Insider's publication this week of a leaked internal document called "The AOL Way," which reads a lot like the textbook content farm strategy guide. GigaOM's Mathew Ingram and Fortune's Dan Mitchell blasted the plan, with Ingram asserting that "the chasing of eyeballs and pageviews is a game of constantly diminishing returns." Martin Bryant of The Next Web, on the other hand, said AOL's model is not a misguided, diabolical plan, but "an inevitable, turbo-powered evolution of what’s happened in the media industry for many years." — Reading roundup: A few things to check out this weekend while you're most likely snowed in somewhere: — This week's WikiLeaks update: Julian Assange sat down with 60 Minutes for an interview (there's also a video on what it took to make that happen), WikiLeaks was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, The Guardian's Alan Rusbridger gave his own account about working with WikiLeaks, and NYU's Adam Penenberg made the case for Assange as a journalist. Reuters also profiled the new WikiLeaks spinoff OpenLeaks. — A few paid-content notes: The New York Times isn't releasing details of its paywall plan just yet, but it is fixing technological glitches with the system right now, while Media Week reported that some industry analysts are skeptical of its chances. Meanwhile, the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News announced they'll start offering an e-edition to paying subscribers. — GigaOM founder Om Malik wrote a simple but insightful guide to creating a successful consumer Internet service, focusing on three elements: A clear purpose, ease of use, and fun. — Harvard prof David Weinberger has a short, thought-provoking post offering a 21st-century update on Marshall McLuhan's famous "The medium is the message" aphorism: "We are the medium." 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    The hyperlocal business model questioned: This week was a relatively slow one on the future-of-news front; most of the remaining stories are roundups of various interesting bits and pieces. I'll try to hit them as succinctly as possible and get you on your way, Lotrel prices. Lotrel in uk, First, we talked a bit about hyperlocal news last week, and that conversation bled over into this week, as Alan Mutter talked to J-Lab's Jan Schaffer about her fantastic analysis of local news startups. Buy Lotrel Without Prescription, Mutter quoted Schaffer as saying that community news sites are not a business, then went on to make the point that like many startups, many new news organizations go under within a few years. The money just isn't there, Mutter said. (The Wall also has 10 takeaways from Schaffer's study.)

    For those in the local news business themselves, the Reynolds Journalism Institute's Joy Mayer provided some helpful tips and anecdotes from West Seattle Blog's Tracy Record, and the Online Journalism Review's Robert Niles put together an online news startup checklist. Meanwhile, the hyperlocal giant du jour, AOL's Patch, continued its expansion with a launch in Seattle, and dropped hints of a plan to get into newspapers. TBD's Steve Buttry assured local news orgs that they can compete and collaborate with Patch and other competitors at the same time.

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    More defenses of social media's social activism: Malcolm Gladwell's New Yorker piece questioning Twitter's capability of producing social change drew no shortage of criticism last week, and it continued to come in this week. Harvard scholar David Weinberger made several of the common critiques of the article, focusing on the idea that Gladwell is tearing down a straw man who believes that the web can topple tyrannies by itself. Other takes: Change Observer's Maria Popova argued Gladwell is defining activism too narrowly, and that online communities broaden our scope of empathy, which bridges the gap between awareness and action; The Guardian's Leo Mirani said that social media can quickly spread information from alternative viewpoints we might never see otherwise; and Clay Shirky, the target of much of Gladwell's broadside, seemed kind of amused by Gladwell's whole point, Buy Lotrel Without Prescription.

    The sharpest rebuttal this week (along with Weinberger's) came from Shea Bennett of Twittercism, who argued that change starts small and takes time, even with social media involved, but that doesn't mean it isn't happening. "As we all continue to refine and improve our online social communities, this shift in power away from a privileged few to an increasingly organised collective that can be called at a moment’s notice [presents] a real threat to the status quo," he wrote.

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    Getting started with data journalism: A few cool resources on data journalism were published this week: British j-prof Paul Bradshaw wrote an invaluable guide to data journalism at The Guardian, taking you through everything from data collection to sorting to contextualizing to visualization. To Bradshaw, the craft comes down to four things: Finding data, interrogating it, visualizing it, and mashing it. ReadWriteCloud's Alex Williams followed that post up with two posts making the case for data journalism and giving an overview of five data visualization tools. Buy Lotrel Without Prescription, And if you needed some inspiration, PBS' MediaShift highlighted six incredible data visualization projects.

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    — The bookmarking app Instapaper has become pretty popular with web/media geeks, and its founder, Marco Arment, just rolled out a paid subscription service. The Lab's Joshua Benton examined what this plan might mean for future web paywalls.

    — Several mobile journalism tidbits: TBD's Steve Buttry made a case for the urgency of developing a mobile journalism plan in newsrooms, The Guardian reported on a survey looking at mobile device use and newspaper/magazine readership, and the Ryerson Review of Journalism gave an overview of Canadian news orgs' forays into mobile news.

    — Northwestern j-prof Pablo Boczkowski gave a fascinating interview to the Lab's C.W. Anderson on conformity in online news, Buy Lotrel Without Prescription. Must-reading for news nerds.

    — Netflix founder Reed Hastings gave a talk that Ken Doctor turned into six good lessons for news organizations.

    — The real hot topic of the past week in the news/tech world was not any particular social network, but The Social Network, the movie about Facebook's founding released last weekend. I couldn't bring myself to dedicate a section of this week's review to a movie, but the Lab's Megan Garber did find a way to relate it to the future of news. Enjoy.

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    This reason was only hinted at by Brown-Smith and Groves, but I think it's key to determining why sports departments' online innovations are so much more substantive and successful, Actos from canadian pharmacy. Order Actos no prescription, There is no other type of news that is as social as sports, and none for which the audience's appetite is as ravenous. No other area even comes close; politics is a pretty distant second.

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    Media trust hits a new low: Gallup released its annual poll on Americans' trust in the news media, and in what's become a fairly regular occurrence, that trust is at an all-time low. MinnPost's David Brauer tried to square that finding with Pew's finding two weeks ago that people are spending more time with the news. (My guess: Gallup's survey measures feelings about the traditional news media, while Pew's finding of increased news consumption is attributable largely to new media sources.)

    The Atlantic's Derek Thompson asked why trust is so low, and came up with an interesting hypothesis: The news media is telling us not to trust the news media. Citing Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck and Jon Stewart as examples, he concludes, "to consume opinion journalism ... is to consume a product that exists to tell you that the product is inherently rotten." As if on cue, the Los Angeles Times' Andrew Malcolm rattled off a sarcastic litany of things the media has done to confirm people's belief that it's biased, Buy Lithium Without Prescription.

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    Reading roundup: Before we get the miscellany, there were a few smaller news developments that I want to highlight this week:

    — The Boston Globe announced that it's planning on splitting its websites into free and paid versions late next year. (The Globe is owned by The New York Times Co., and The Times is also planning to charge for its website next year.) Media analyst Ken Doctor wrote a smart analysis on the Globe's strategy, calling it a plan to retain its print readers in the short run and convert them to (paid) tablet reading in the long run. The alt-weekly Boston Phoenix, meanwhile, didn't waste time in writing Boston.com's obituary.

    — Mayhill Fowler, who gave The Huffington Post one of its biggest-ever scoops in 2008 as a reporter for the Off the Bus citizen-journalism project, wrote a kiss-off post on her personal blog announcing she was leaving the site, essentially, because she was tired of writing for nothing. The Post fired back Buy Lithium Without Prescription, , and Politico's Ben Smith used the incident to wonder if the opinion-oriented blogosphere is moving toward news judgment as the mainstream media makes the opposite transition.

    — After Forbes bought his freelance blogging network True/Slant, Lewis D'Vorkin is planning on selling blog space to advertisers alongside the company's news blogs, Advertising Age reported. Reuters' Felix Salmon predicted the plan would spur a uprising along the lines of ScienceBlogs' PepsiGate this summer.

    Now the three stray pieces you need to take a look at:

    — The Awl's Nick Douglas wrote a great post explaining why online forums are so underrated as online culture-drivers, and why Reddit is becoming more important within that subculture.

    — Stanford scholar Geoff McGhee produced a fantastic set of videos on data journalism. Regardless of whether you're familiar with data journalism, this is a must-see, Buy Lithium Without Prescription.

    — And possibly the most essential piece of the week: Jonathan Stray's case for designing journalism from the user's perspective. "The news experience needs to become intensely personal," Stray wrote. "It must be easy for users to find and follow exactly their interests, no matter how arcane. Journalists need to get proficient at finding and engaging the audience for each story." A quote doesn't do it justice; go read the whole thing.

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    Hyperlocal news and notes: A few hyperlocal news-related ideas and developments worth passing along: Sarah Hartley, who works on The Guardian's hyperlocal news efforts, wrote a thoughtful post attempting to define "hyperlocal" in 10 characteristics. Hyperlocal, she argues, is no longer defined by a tight geographical area, but by an attitude, Buy Accupril Without Prescription. She follows with a list of defining aspects, such as obsessiveness, fact/opinion blending, linking and community participation. It's a great list, though it seems Hartley may be describing the overarching blogging ethos more so than hyperlocal news per se. (Steve Yelvington, for one, says the term is meaningless.)

    Brad Flora at PBS MediaShift provided a helpful list of blogs for hyperlocal newsies to follow (disclosure: The Lab is one of them). And two online media giants made concrete steps in long-expected moves toward hyperlocal news: Microsoft's Bing launched its first hyperlocal product with a restaurant guide in Portland, and Yahoo began recruiting writers for a local news site in the San Francisco area.

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    — Spot.Us founder David Cohn wrote an illuminating post comparing journalists' (particularly young ones') current search for a way forward in journalism to the ancient Israelites' 40 years of wandering in the desert. TBD's Steve Buttry, a self-described "old guy,"responded that it may not take a generation to find the next iteration of journalism but said his generation has been responsible for holding innovation back: "We might make it out of the desert, but I think our generation has blown our chance to lead the way."

    — A couple of interesting looks at developing stories online: Terry Heaton posited that one reason for declining trust in news organizations is their focus on their own editorial voice to the detriment of the public's understanding (something audiences see in stark relief when comparing coverage of developing news), and Poynter's Steve Myers used the Steven Slater story to examine how news spreads online.

    — At The Atlantic, Tim Carmody wrote a fantastic overview of the pre-web history of reading.

    — In an argument that mirrors the discussions about the values of the new news ecosystem, former ESPN.com writer Dan Shanoffgave a case for optimism about the current diffused, democratized state of sports media.

    — Another glass-half-full post: Mike Mandel broke down journalism job statistics and was encouraged by what he found.

    — Finally, for all the students headed back to class right now, the Online Journalism Review's Robert Niles has some of the best journalism-related advice you'll read all year.

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