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News Corp.'s problems spread to the Sun: The ongoing phone hacking scandal at News Corp., which took down News of the World last summer, is now threatening to swallow the company's other British tabloid: The Sun. Five of its top journalists were arrested last weekend as part of an investigation into bribing public officials, which News Corp.'s internal investigation is reported to have determined amounts to more than 10,000 pounds per year, with officials essentially on retainer.

That investigation generated some controversy itself when it handed over details of Sun journalists' sources to the police, Japan, craiglist, ebay, overseas, paypal, though it said it redacted the information heavily and didn't pass on documentation of standard journalistic source interaction. Journalists at News Corp.'s three British newspapers — the Sun, the Times, and the Sunday Times — were livid, and prepared for a legal challenge by hiring a top human rights attorney who promptly ripped the decision to hand over sources in a Times column.

Others joined in the criticism: Britain's National Union of Journalists and the Sun's competitor, the Daily Mail, buy Lipitor without prescription, blasted News Corp.'s investigative committee, with the latter saying it "should hang its head in shame." And Ryan Chittum of the Columbia Journalism Review was concerned about the precedent set by having police riffling through millions of newspaper emails, though he and British j-prof Roy Greenslade defended the police's stern treatment of Sun journalists in their arrests.

So what does Rupert Murdoch do now, Lipitor For Sale. At the Guardian, Murdoch biographer Michael Wolff urged him to give the company "something of a noble death" — sell the Sun, Lipitor canada, mexico, india, and use the proceeds to establish a trust for the Times and Sunday Times. Ad Age's Simon Dumenco suggested News Corp. will simply shut the Sun down, saying that like News of the World, it's been reduced to merely a "repository of evidence that [needs] to be destroyed." Forbes' Jeff Bercovici argued that it's only a matter of time before one of the two happens, especially since dropping its newspapers would help News Corp.'s bottom line.

News Corp, buy cheap Lipitor no rx. Lipitor For Sale, could still be facing plenty of trouble in the U.S., too. The FBI is investigating the company for bribing foreign officials, and the Guardian reported its executives could be prosecuted for being "willfully blind" about their company's wrongdoing. The company has gathered a massive legal team to fight potential charges. Joe Pompeo of Capital New York didn't see U.S. charges as likely, Lipitor price, coupon, but said the multi-front battle News Corp. is fighting is taking a devastating toll on the company as it drags on, Lipitor For Sale.

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Path, privacy, and reforming tech journalism: What started last week as one tech startup's privacy faux pas had by this week turned into a full-blown debacle for privacy on mobile devices, when we learned that the address books in smartphones are available for free to developers, often without the owner's knowledge. Path, where can i find Lipitor online, the photo-sharing and messaging app, was the first company outed for taking and storing the data after it was discovered last week by developer Arun Thampi.

The company received a wave of criticism and apologized, but soon the names of other companies — big companies — that were doing essentially the same thing trickled out. VentureBeat reported that Facebook, Online buy Lipitor without a prescription, Twitter, Instagram, Foursquare, Yelp, and Gowalla were doing it, and the Verge also laid out exactly who's taking address books and how. Lipitor For Sale, Twitter owned up to the practice, acknowledging to the Los Angeles Times that it stores email addresses and phone numbers (though not names) for 18 months from the address books of users who turn on its Find My Friends app.

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As PandoDaily's Greg Kumparak wrote, this was a common practice that was simply understood among developers to be just fine, even though it was against Apple's guidelines, Lipitor For Sale. Lipitor images, Now that it's been called out very publicly as not being just fine at all, developers need to figure out where to go from here. Kumparak reminded developers that address book data isn't theirs to begin with, and Om Malik of GigaOM urged them to consider the moral imperative, rather than just what's allowed. Developer Matt Gemmell showed how to use app address book data without violating users' privacy.

A bizarre quasi-journalistic side-story rose out of this issue after the New York Times' Nick Bilton complained of the alarming obliviousness that Path and Silicon Valley in general show toward the seriousness of user privacy and security, Lipitor australia, uk, us, usa. Both Michael Arrington and MG Siegler Lipitor For Sale, , former TechCrunch-ers whose CrunchFund invests in Path, ripped Bilton's post, with Siegler turning it into a diatribe against the vapidity in tech blogging resulting from an out-of-control preoccupation with speed and page views.

Of the many responses to Siegler's piece, Newsweek tech editor Dan Lyons' was the most severe, as he described TechCrunch and several other tech blogs as a racket to extract "investment" out of venture capitalists in exchange for good press about their startups. (If you want to go all the way down the rabbit hole, you can read Arrington and Siegler's rebuttals.)

Frederic Lardinois of Silicon Filter said both the pageview-chasing and VC coziness are serious problems within tech journalism, but there are still plenty of tech outfits staying above the fray and doing solid work. Lipitor interactions, And ReadWriteWeb's Scott Fulton urged tech bloggers to step outside the tech-journalism bubble and refocus on what journalism is: "Journalism is not about being an expert in twenty different things. It's about being interested in all of them, knowing how to ask questions, and how to elicit information from the answers."

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AP goes on the copyright offensive: Another skirmish in the long war between traditional news organizations and online aggregators began this week, as the AP sued Meltwater News, a Norwegian company that helps businesses track mentions of themselves in media sources through a searchable database. The AP alleges that Meltwater uses its content without paying for licensing fees, order Lipitor no prescription, allowing it to create a cheaper service that directly takes subscribers from the AP, as an AP attorney told the Guardian. The attorney also told paidContent that the AP hopes that controversial "hot news doctrine," which gives publishers legal rights over the dissemination of news they break, will be applied to this case, Lipitor For Sale.

According to the AP's article on the suit, the AP is distinguishing between Meltwater and online aggregators because Meltwater charges a fee and keeps a five-year database of AP stories (aggregators do neither of these). But GigaOM's Mathew Ingram said this case could still very well apply to online aggregators and represents a "fundamentally futile" approach to online content. Lipitor gel, ointment, cream, pill, spray, continuous-release, extended-release, —

News sites lag in advertising: Pew's Project for Excellence in Journalism released a study this week that painted a really depressing picture of advertising at top news websites. Among the major findings: In-house ads are the most common kind of ads on news websites, very few news sites do any targeted advertising based on users' online behavior, and very few do work with any ads other than static banner ads, either.

PaidContent's Jeff Roberts pointed out Lipitor For Sale, that most news orgs are at a major disadvantage when it comes to selling digital ads in that they weren't raised on it like tech companies have been, and thus need to constantly play catch-up when it comes to strategies and software. And Forbes' Jeff Bercovici chastised print-based news orgs for using so much of their digital advertising space to promote their print product, saying, where can i buy Lipitor online, "it’s hard to see how publishers are ever going to persuade marketers to spend real money on their websites as long as those advertisers can see those publishers treating their own web inventory as next to worthless."

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Reading roundup: A couple of other interesting stories this week, plus some pieces to look at over the weekend:

— It's been a rough couple of months for PolitiFact. This week, it ruled Sen. Marco Rubio's statement that a majority of Americans are conservative "mostly true" because a plurality of Americans are conservative. Lipitor schedule, The decision got ripped by MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, the Washington Post's Erik Wemple, Politico's Dylan Byers, the American Journalism Review's Rem Rieder, and j-prof Jay Rosen. They also fact-checked a statement from "Glee," which was...odd, Lipitor For Sale.

— Another media organization under fire lately has been the Philadelphia Media Network, the parent company of the Inquirer and Daily News. The papers were put on the block a few weeks back, and may be sold to a group led by former Philly mayor and Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell. This week, the company announced layoffs and buyouts, and over the past two weeks, both WHYY and the New York Times have reported that executives have interfered with stories about the sale. Former Daily News reporter Buzz Bissinger lamented the papers' future.

— A couple of pieces on online content that are a worth a read: Reuters' Felix Salmon expressed his skepticism about the widespread viability of longform articles online, and here at the Lab, j-prof Dan Kennedy reported on the comment conundrum at Connecticut's New Haven Independent and why it matter for other news sites.

September 16th, 2011

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Paid and free, side by side: The Boston Globe became the latest news organization to institute an online paywall this week, but it did so in an unprecedented way that should be interesting to watch: The newspaper created a separate paid site, BostonGlobe.com, Order Cipro from United States pharmacy, to run alongside its existing free site, Boston.com. PaidContent has the pertinent details: A single price ($3.99 a week), and Boston.com gets most of the breaking news and sports, while BostonGlobe.com gets most of the newspaper content. The Lab's Justin Ellis, meanwhile, buy no prescription Cipro online, has a look at the lab that designed it all.

As the Globe told Poynter's Jeff Sonderman, the two sites were designed with two different types of readers in mind: One who has a deep appreciation for in-depth journalism and likes to read stories start-to-finish, and another who reads news casually and briefly and may be more concerned about entertainment or basic information than journalism per se.

The first thing that caught many people's attention was new site's design — simple, clean, and understated, Cipro Dosage. Tech blogger John Gruber gave it a thumbs-up, Buy Cipro without prescription, and news design guru Mario Garcia called it "probably the most significant new website design in a long time." The Lab's Joshua Benton identified the biggest reasons it looks so clean: Far fewer links and ads.

Benton (in the most comprehensive post on the new site) also emphasized a less noticeable but equally important aspect of BostonGlobe.com's design: It adjusts to fit just about any browser size, which eliminates the need for mobile apps, making life easier for programmers and, as j-prof Dan Kennedy noted at the Lab, a way around the cut of app fees required by Apple and others. If the Globe's people "have figured out a way not to share their hard-earned revenues with gatekeepers such as Apple and Amazon, then they will have truly performed a service for the news business — and for journalism, Cipro trusted pharmacy reviews," Kennedy said.

Of course, the Globe could launch the most brilliantly conceived news site on the web, but it won't be a success unless enough people pay for it. Poynter's Sonderman (like Kennedy) was skeptical of their ability to do that, Ordering Cipro online, though as the Atlantic's Rebecca Rosen pointed out, the Globe's plan may be aimed as much at retaining print subscribers as making money off the web. The Washington Post's Erik Wemple wondered Cipro Dosage, if readers will find enough at BostonGlobe.com that's not at Boston.com to make the site worth their money.

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The TechCrunch conflict and changing ethical standards: Last week's flap between AOL and TechCrunch over the tech site's ethical conflicts came to an official resolution on Monday, when TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington parted ways with AOL, the site's owner. But its full effects are going to be rippling for quite a while: Gawker's Ryan Tate called the fiasco a black eye for everyone involved, but especially AOL, Cipro samples, which had approved Arrington's investments in some of the companies he covers just a few months ago. Fellow media mogul Barry Diller also ripped AOL's handling of the situation.

At the Guardian, Dan Gillmor said that while he doesn't trust TechCrunch much personally, it's the audience's job to sort out their trust with the help of transparency, Cipro recreational, rather than traditional journalism's strictures. Others placed more of the blame on TechCrunch: Former Newsweek tech editor Dan Lyons said TechCrunch's people should have expected this type of scenario when they sold to a big corporation, and media analyst Frederic Filloux said TechCrunch is a perfect example of the blogosphere's vulnerability to unchecked conflicts of interest.

There was more fuel for those kinds of ethical concerns this week, as the winning company at TechCrunch's annual Disrupt competition was one that Arrington invests in, Cipro Dosage. But Arrington had an ethical accusation of his own to make at the conference, pointing out that the New York Times invests in a tech venture capital fund which has put $3.5 million into GigaOM, a TechCrunch competitor. Poynter's Steve Myers detailed the Times' run-ins between the companies it invests in and the ones it covers (and its spotty disclosure about those connections), concluding that even if the conflict is less direct than in blogging, comprar en línea Cipro, comprar Cipro baratos, it's still worth examining more closely.

As it plunged further into its battle with TechCrunch late last week, AOL was also reported to be talking with Yahoo, which recently fired its CEO, about a merger between the two Internet giants. Cheap Cipro no rx, All Things Digital's Kara Swisher said there's no way the deal would actually happen, and Wired's Tim Carmody called it a "spectacularly crazy idea" and GigaOM's Mathew Ingram agreed, while Business Insider reminded us that they said a year ago that AOL and Yahoo should merge. Cipro Dosage, Meanwhile, the New York Times' David Carr homed in on the core problem that both companies are facing: The fact that people want information online from niche sites, not giant general-news portals. "As news surges on the Web, giant ocean liners like AOL and Yahoo are being outmaneuvered by the speedboats zipping around them, relatively small sites that have passionate audiences and sharply focused information," he wrote.

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Facebook opens to subscribers: It hasn't gotten nearly as much attention as some of its other moves, but Facebook took another step in Twitter's direction this week by introducing the Subscribe Button, which allows users to see other people's (and groups') status updates without friending or becoming a fan of them.

As GeekWire's Monica Guzman and many others noted, buy cheap Cipro no rx, Facebook's "subscribe" looks a heck of a lot like Twitter's "follow." When asked about similar Google+ features at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, a Facebook exec said it wasn't a response to Google+.

Guzman said Facebook is putting down deeper roots by going beyond the limits of reciprocal friendship, and GigaOM's Mathew Ingrampinpointed the reason why this could end up being a massive change for Facebook: It's beginning to move Facebook from a symmetrical network to an asymmetrical one, which could fundamentally transform its dynamics. Still, Cipro brand name, Ingram said Twitter is much better oriented toward being an information network than Facebook is, even with a "Subscribe" button.

The change could have particularly interesting implications for journalists, as Poynter's Jeff Sonderman explained in his brief outline of the feature. As he noted, it may eliminate the need for separate Facebook profiles and pages for journalists, and while Lost Remote's Cory Bergman said that should be a welcome change for journalists who were trying to manage both, he noted that shows and organizations may want to stick with pages, Cipro Dosage.

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News Corp.'s scandal widens: An update on the ongoing scandal enveloping News Corp.: A group of U.S. banks and investment funds that own shares in News Corp. expanded a lawsuit to include allegations of stealing, hacking, purchase Cipro for sale, and anti-competitive behavior by two of the company's U.S. subsidiaries — an advertiser and a satellite TV hardware manufacturer. As the Washington Post's Erik Wemple noted, these are old cases, but they're getting fresh attention, Cipro dosage, and that's how scandals gain momentum. Cipro Dosage, James Murdoch, the son of News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch, was also recalled to testify again before members of Britain's Parliament later this fall, facing new questions about the breadth of News Corp.'s phone hacking scandal. The Wall Street Journal examined the scandal's impact on the elder Murdoch's succession plan for the conglomerate, especially as it involves James. The company's executives also announced this week that they've found tens of thousands of documents that could shed more light on the phone hacking cases.

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Reading roundup: Here's what else went on this week:

— The biggest news story this week, of course, is actually 10 years old: Here's a look at how newspapers marked the anniversary of 9/11, real brand Cipro online, how news orgs used digital technology to tell the story, and a reflection on how 9/11 changed the media landscape.

— Twitter introduced a new web analytics tool to measure Twitter's impact on websites. Here's an analysis from Mathew Ingram of GigaOM, Cipro Dosage.

— At an academic conference last weekend, Illinois j-prof Robert McChesney repeated his call for public funding for journalism. Purchase Cipro online no prescription, Here are a couple of good summaries of his talk from fellow j-profs Axel Bruns and Alfred Hermida.

— Finally, here's a relatively short but insightful two-part interview between two digital media luminaries, Henry Jenkins and Dan Gillmor, about media literacy, citizen journalism and Gillmor's latest book. Should make for a quick, thought-provoking weekend read.

September 16th, 2011

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TechCrunch, ethics, and new notions of journalism: The prominent tech news site TechCrunch tends to find itself in the middle of some controversy or another fairly regularly. Usually they're relatively inconsequential inside baseball, but this week's blowup is by far its biggest, and it spurred some enlightening discussion outside of the tech-news bubble, canada, mexico, india.

Here's the quick summary of what happened (the Guardian has a fuller version): Michael Arrington, TechCrunch's founder and editor, launched a venture capital fund to invest in tech companies — the same companies TechCrunch covers. AOL, which bought the site last year, responded by taking him off of TechCrunch and moving him to the business side in an arrangement that no one completely understood. Arrington fired back with an ultimatum: Give TechCrunch total editorial freedom, or sell it back to him, Order Glucophage. Effects of Glucophage, AOL has reportedly countered by booting Arrington entirely. Whatever happens, TechCrunch's MG Siegler said the site won't likely be the same.

There were conflicting views on the impact of Arrington's reported ouster, of course — Reuters' Felix Salmon said AOL is losing its top journalist, while Fortune's Chadwick Matlin said the fall of TechCrunch would be good for the tech industry. But the central issue here was the ethics of Arrington's arrangement — investing in the same companies his site covers, something he's been doing openly for years, real brand Glucophage online.

The critique was articulated most strongly by the New York Times' David Carr Order Glucophage, , who documented several instances of TechCrunch writing favorable pieces on companies in which Arrington had invested, calling the arrangement "almost comically over the line." All Things Digital's Kara Swisher delivered an angrier version — "A giant, greedy, Silicon Valley pig pile" — and many others were also critical, including the Atlantic's Alexis Madrigal, Rem Rieder of the American Journalism Review, and VentureBeat's Dylan Tweney.

TechCrunch had its defenders, too, including Gawker's Ryan Tate, who argued for the hypocrisy of AOL's Arianna Huffington's sudden concern about ethics. The most thorough defenses, though, Glucophage coupon, came from TechCrunch's writers themselves: First, Paul Carr asserted that the new company would have nothing to do with TechCrunch. Then, both Carr and MG Siegler responded to David Carr's column by arguing that their site doesn't have the editorial workflow that its critics assume, and by criticizing the Times for its own ethical conflicts. "Ultimately there is only one thing that matters: information. People don’t care how they get it, just that they get it. If they don’t think they can trust it from one source, they’ll find another way to get it," Siegler wrote, Order Glucophage.

Some observers, buy cheap Glucophage no rx, like New York mag's Chris Rovzar, called that defense naive. In a terrific post here at the Lab, j-prof C.W. Anderson looked a bit deeper into the ways TechCrunch's philosophy challenges traditional journalism's norms, particularly the site's commitment to transparency as its primary ethical safeguard and its idea of the supremacy of information. About Glucophage, There was also the question of whether Arrington should have to abide by journalistic standards in the first place. Arrington asserted Order Glucophage, that he's not a journalist, and tech pioneer Dave Winer argued that "journalism itself is becoming obsolete." GigaOM's Mathew Ingram countered that journalism is still alive, just evolving and expanding, and j-prof Jeff Jarvis said journalism defies definition, and that's just fine.

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A bigger challenge for Digital First: John Paton has grabbed a lot of attention with his rejuvenation of the formerly bankrupt newspaper chain the Journal Register Co., and this week, his project expanded to include a much larger (also formerly bankrupt) company, MediaNews Group, which owns papers such as the Denver Post, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Glucophage gel, ointment, cream, pill, spray, continuous-release, extended-release, and Detroit News. Though the two companies will remain formally separate, Paton will manage both companies under the auspices of the newly created Digital First Media.

Paton briefly reiterated his digitally centered philosophy in a blog post on the move, and GigaOM's Mathew Ingram called him the "patron saint" of the digitally focused, open approach to newspapers, Buy Glucophage no prescription, as opposed to the more print-protectionist, paywall-oriented one. Reuters' Felix Salmon said Paton's model of leveraging local sales staff and trusted editorial content for digital revenue makes much more sense than the hyperlocal-en-masse Patch model, Order Glucophage.

There's another important aspect to this deal, though: the Journal Register Co. was bought this summer by Alden Global Capital, a hedge fund that also owns a significant stake in MediaNews and several other newspaper companies. The Lab's Joshua Benton provided some background on that situation, and Ken Doctor predicted that the move "may mark just the beginning of a local newspaper roll-up, Glucophage cost, resulting in the United States’ first truly national local news(paper) company," noting that Paton's Digital First initiative is also accompanied by major cost-cutting. At the Knight Digital Media Center, Amy Gahran expressed concern that Paton's plans could run aground on an entrenched traditional culture at MediaNews and the impatience of hedge-fund investors. Order Glucophage, MediaNews also has newly installed paywalls at 23 papers, and Paton told paidContent he isn't sure yet what will happen to them. But one change has already been made: MediaNews' contract with copyright litigant Righthaven has been ended.

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WikiLeaks under fire: We talked last week about the inadvertent release of the rest of WikiLeaks' archive of 251, Glucophage pharmacy, 000 diplomatic cables and the fallout that ensued. As it happened, WikiLeaks decided late last week to go ahead and publish all of the unredacted cables themselves, given that they had already been leaked online.

The decision led to more criticism — not just from the traditional media, but from others on the web: the Personal Democracy Forum's Micah Sifry, author of a book on WikiLeaks, chastised the organization for the dump, online buy Glucophage without a prescription, saying it's thrown away the moral high ground. Consultant Tom Watson said WikiLeaks' move has damaged their efforts at transparency and an empowered society, and James Ball, a former WikiLeaks volunteer, made the same point more powerfully by painting a picture of an internal culture at odds with the group's stated ideals of accountability and openness. "WikiLeaks has done the cause of internet freedom – and of whistleblowers – more harm than US government crackdowns ever could," he said, Order Glucophage.

Tech blogger Dave Winer, however, After Glucophage, was more troubled by the traditional media's eagerness to blame and ostracize Assange for the incident. It's not about one person, he said, it's about the technology that makes WikiLeaks possible: "They have a method that they have religious feelings about, ones that some of us don't share, and that method is broken by the Wikileaks model." Mediaite's Frances Martel, meanwhile, wondered why no one seemed to care about the documents themselves, herbal Glucophage.

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Yahoo fires its CEO: After a tumultuous two-and-a-half-year tenure, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz was fired this week. The next step for the troubled Internet giant could be to engineer a sale, as CNNMoney's Paul La Monica urged it to do. Order Glucophage, Plenty of names were tossed around as potential buyers, most recently Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang.

The Wall Street Journal detailed what's gone wrong at Yahoo, and Om Malik of GigaOM was one of many who pinned many of the company's failings on its board. Glucophage reviews, Malik called for Yahoo to rid itself of everything that connects it to the Internet's past, and Business Insider's Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry advised Yahoo to "own the fact that it's a media and content company," encouraging a strategy that looks quite similar to AOL's. PaidContent's David Kaplan noted that Yahoo has a lot of ground to make up in display advertising, and Mark Walsh of MediaPost wondered if we'll see more of an emphasis on mobile media from Yahoo now.

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Reading roundup: Just a couple more items for this week:

— One piece of news to note: Google has killed FastFlip, the magazine-like news presentation tool it launched in 2009.

— As we continue to move closer to bona fide campaign season, Glucophage maximum dosage, the Columbia Journalism Review's Greg Marx offered a smart response to Jay Rosen's critique of political journalism last week, defending the usefulness of certain kinds of the much-maligned "horse-race journalism."

— On the practical side, Florida j-prof Mindy McAdams put together a handy list of 10 tips to compelling visual storytelling. It's a great resource for professionals, j-profs, and students.

October 4th, 2010

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AOL snaps up TechCrunch: The Internet giant of the '90s, AOL, has been aggressively trying to remake itself as a media company for the 2010s, and it made one of its biggest moves this week when it bought the influential tech blog TechCrunch. Get Bactrim, The deal was first reported by GigaOM and announced on stage Tuesday at TechCrunch's Disrupt conference. AOL also scooped up the web video company 5Min and Thing Labs, maker of the social media reader Brizzly on the same day, though it couldn't snatch the popular All Things Digital blogging crew away from The Wall Street Journal.

Given how central TechCrunch's founder, Michael Arrington, is to the blog's success, cheap Bactrim no rx, the first questions were twofold: Will Arrington be able to continue exercising his iconoclastic editorial voice with AOL, and can the blog remain strong if he leaves. Salon's Dan Gillmor was skeptical about the latter, and Fast Company and The Atlantic gave reason for similar doubts about the former, with a list of Arrington's past criticism of AOL and statements by the founder of Engadget, another blog purchased by AOL, that too many layers of management made the company difficult to work at, Bactrim Mg. (He said things have changed at AOL since then.) For his part, Arrington gave assurances to tech blogger Robert Scoble and TechCrunch's readers that he'll have complete editorial independence and has agreed to stay on for at least three years.

The bigger media issue, Buy Bactrim online cod, of course, is that this purchase signals AOL's deepening transformation into a full-on web media company. As a marketing exec told the New York Post's Keith Kelly, "Nobody gives AOL enough credit for the massive transformation that the brand has undertaken." AOL CEO Tim Armstrong explained the rationale behind the deal to Advertising Age and Bloomberg: TechCrunch's insider, consumer audience can garner premium ad rates, and the TechCrunch brand can give AOL some cred it couldn't necessarily get on its own. He also told GigaOM's Om Malik that he wants to begin developing platforms in communication, buy Bactrim without a prescription, content and advertising for other companies to build on, though he wouldn't go into details.

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Others weren't quite so complimentary: In a video conversation, politics professor Henry Farrell and the Cato Institute's Julian Sanchez agreed that social media's weak ties could make it easier to form the strong social ties that lead to significant action. A quasi-anonymous Economist correspondent made a similar arguments to both those points, saying that social media strengthens all social ties, and that networks' bottom-up nature make them particularly subversive. Jeff Sonderman made similar points as well Bactrim Mg, and pointed out that online and offline social networks tend to overlap, so they can't be treated as discrete entities.

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Helping hyperlocal news thrive: Many of the U.S.' hyperlocal-news pioneers gathered in Chicago late last week for the Block By Block Community News Summit hosted by the Knight Digital Media Center's Michele McLellan and NYU j-prof Jay Rosen. A variety of ideas, tips, anecdotes flew back and forth at the event, which was ably summarized by the Lab's Megan Garber as well as Lauren Kirchner of The Columbia Journalism Review and Polly Kreisman of the local-news blog Lost Remote. You can also check out videos of several of the sessions at the Reynolds Journalism Institute, Bactrim results.

Garber listed several of the main themes of the gathering: Developing an intimate connection with a community (something of a throwback role for the news media, Garber said), building advertising and branding, and finding ways to share ideas with each other, Bactrim Mg. Kirchner noted the common strain among the participants' description of their own situations: "I’ve figured out how to do this, but I don’t know how to make it last." She also noted the general tension in the room caused by the presence of representatives from AOL and Yahoo, two media companies with large-scale hyperlocal news aspirations. (Elsewhere this week, AOL’s hyperlocal Patch initiative was called the WalMart of news and a potential steamroller of hyperlocal startups, Order Bactrim online c.o.d, though The Batavian’s Howard Owens gave some tips on beating Patch in your own neighborhood.) Afterward, McLellan took stock of what hyperlocal journalists need next. Afterward, McLellan took stock of what hyperlocal journalists need next.

That wasn't the only hyperlocal news resource to emerge this week. J-Lab released a report detailing what's worked and what hasn't in the the five years it's been funding community-news startups. One major conclusion in the report is that Bactrim Mg, hyperlocal news sites didn't replace the journalism of traditional news sources; they added something that hadn't been there before. (Some other key takeaways: Engagement, not just content; sweat equity is big; and the business model isn't there yet.) At Lost Remote, Bactrim treatment, Cory Bergman of Seattle's Next Door Media offered an endorsement of the report, adding that for his startup, "the biggest critical success factor for a neighborhood news site is a passionate editor." And at PBS Idea Lab, Martin Moore made the case for a bottom-up structure in local news sites.

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Media trust hits a new low: Gallup released its annual poll on Americans' trust in the news media, Real brand Bactrim online, 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, Bactrim Mg.

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Reading roundup: Before we get the miscellany, is Bactrim addictive, 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, Taking Bactrim, 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 Bactrim Mg, , 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, Bactrim Mg.

— 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.

Mark Coddington

Associate Professor, Washington and Lee University

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