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Daily Must Reads, Jan. 13, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Nathan Gibbs 1. New York Times public editor smashes himself with boomerang (Reuters) 2. Study: Old-school TV viewing is still growing (paidContent) 3. Apple cancels in-store iPhone 4S sales in Beijing and Shanghai because of unruly crowds (AllThingsD) 4. Study: Your Facebook personality is the real you (ReadWriteWeb) Subscribe to our daily Must Reads email newsletter...
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E-books and Self-Publishing Roundup, Jan. 12, 2012
The best stories of the week from across the web on e-books and self publishing 1. Amazon: Time to start programming your e-books (CNET News) 2. Soon, e-books to let you flip pages like print magazines (Deccan Herald) 3. UK's first literary prize exclusively for e-books and digital publishing (Book Trade) 4. Amazon scoots past Apple's rules with HTML5 iPad Kindle store (paidContent) 5. 19 free e-books on...
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Daily Must Reads, Jan. 12, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Nathan Gibbs 1. The Philadelphia Experiment: Why a media company wants to be a tech incubator (Nieman Journalism Lab) 2. The magical (and sometimes ridiculous) gadgets of tomorrow (The Wirecutter) 3. Inside the NYT's hyper-local efforts (Street Fight) 4. Disqus: People using pseudonyms post the highest-quality comments (Poynter) 5. How Google+ Hangouts could transform traditional TV broadcasting (Lost...
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Daily Must Reads, Jan. 11, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Nathan Gibbs 1. Justice Alito: "It is not going to be long before [broadcast TV] goes the way of vinyl records and eight-track tapes" (New York Times) 2. Finding success through pay walls (Monday Note) 3. UK to reintroduce computer science teaching in schools (Geek) 4. Patch triples traffic year-over-year, claims growth across...
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Daily Must Reads, Jan. 10, 2012
he best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Nathan Gibbs 1. Myspace plans new Web TV service (AllThingsD) 2. How France's Free will reinvent mobile (GigaOM) 3. NBC to deliver 2012 Olympics in 3D with Panasonic (Multichannel News) 4. Ladies' Home Journal crowdsources articles from its readers (Advertising Age) 5. Google fuses Google+ into search (TechCrunch) 6. Some Ford vehicles will give drivers voice control of NPR's...
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Daily Must Reads, Jan. 9, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Nathan Gibbs 1. Walking while texting: A guide for safety and etiquette (New York Times) 2. Glam Media will test appetite for digital-media IPOs (Advertising Age) 3. CES loses clout as as industry shifts (New York Times) 4. How people watch TV online and off (TechCrunch) Subscribe to our daily Must...
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Daily Must Reads, Jan. 6, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Nathan Gibbs 1. BitTorrent takes on Dropbox with personal file sharing (GigaOM) 2. Why ONA opposes #SOPA (Online News Association) 3. Europe's largest free WiFi zone set for London (BBC News) 4. Matt Alexander: The e-reader, as we know it, is doomed (The Loop) 5. How Google beat AP with Iowa caucus results (and why it matters) (Poynter)...
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E-books and Self-Publishing Roundup, Jan. 5, 2012
The best stories of the week from across the web on e-books and self publishing 1. Barnes & Noble eyes Nook spin-off amid sales shortfall (ZDNet) 2. Which e-books are most borrowed from libraries, and why? (paidContent) 3. New Yorker gets Nooked (MinOnline) 4. USA Today becomes latest publisher to embrace Kindle Fire with custom app (paidContent) #mc_embed_signup{background:#fff; clear:left; font:14px Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; width:500px;} Sign up for our weekly...
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Daily Must Reads, Jan. 5, 2012
he best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Nathan Gibbs 1. Rick Santorum's search engine problem hits the big time (paidContent) 2. Vinton G. Cerf: Internet access is not a human right (New York Times) 3. Where did nine million cable subscribers go? (AllThingsD) 4. Sweden recognizes new file-sharing religion Kopimism (BBC News) 5. Barnes & Noble eyes Nook spin-off amid sales shortfall (ZDNet)Subscribe...
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Daily Must Reads, Jan. 4, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Nathan Gibbs 1. Yahoo announces PayPal president Scott Thompson as its new CEO (TechCrunch) 2. Wikipedia raises $20 million in its annual donation drive, from 1 million donors (Wikimedia Foundation) 3. No warrant needed for GPS monitoring, judge rules (Wired) 4. Why Twitter's "verified account" failure matters (GigaOM) 5. It is now illegal to visit a foreign...
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Daily Must Reads, Jan. 3, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Nathan Gibbs 1. The Internet changes how we remember (Scientific American) 2. Larry Downes: Why Best Buy is going out of business...gradually (Forbes) 3. The verified Twitter account for Rupert Murdoch's wife was fake (ReadWriteWeb) 4. Volkswagen turns off Blackberry email after work hours (BBC News) 5. Laura Hazard Owen: What's 2012 holds for book publishing (paidContent) Subscribe...
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Daily Must Reads, Dec. 23, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Nathan Gibbs 1. FCC proposes relaxing newspaper-TV ownership rules (Los Angeles Times) 2. How smartphones are changing photography (Wire) 3. File-sharing app creator not guilty of copyright infringement (TorrentFreak) 4. Is plagiarism killing creativity in the games industry? (Guardian) 5. Kelly Oxford and the future of Twitter-savvy TV writers (Lost Remote) 6. Google to pay Mozilla almost $300M...
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E-books and Self-Publishing Roundup, Dec. 22, 2011
The best stories of the week from across the web on e-books and self publishing 1. E-books as a digital news business strategy (Nieman Reports) 2. China e-reader sales down thanks to lack of content (paidContent) 3. Kindle app update brings some Kindle Fire features to iPads (CNET) 4. Tim Carmody: Next year, Kindles, iPhones, and tablets will truly grow up (Nieman Journalism Lab) 5. Laura Hazard Owen:...
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Daily Must Reads, Dec. 22, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Nathan Gibbs 1. Speaker of the House controls C-SPAN cameras (The Raw Story) 2. Gizmodo lists all the companies supporting #SOPA and ways to contact them 3. Facebook promises privacy changes after audit by Data Protection Commissioner of Ireland (The Irish Times) 4. Trevor Buterworth: Too much journalism can be bad...
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Daily Must Reads, Dec. 21, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Nathan Gibbs 1. Russell Merryman: Journalism schools are failing at technology (The Kernel) 2. The Curse of Cow Clicker: How a cheeky satire became a videogame hit (Wired) 3. Firefox add-on bypasses SOPA DNS blocking (TorrentFreak) 4. Local news outlets among Google's most-searched terms (Poynter) 5. Kindle Fire's ad impressions are growing faster...
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Daily Must Reads, Dec. 20, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Nathan Gibbs 1. Man sentenced to one year in federal prison for uploading X-Men movie (Deadline) 2. New York Times Co. negotiating to sell regional newspapers (Media Decoder) 3. Should computer science be required in K-12? (MindShift) 4. E-books as a digital news business strategy (Nieman Reports) 5. Winners and losers from the...
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Journalism Education Roundup, Dec. 20, 2011
Education content on MediaShift is brought to you by: Innovation. Reputation. Opportunity. Get all the advantages journalism and PR pros need to help put their future in focus. Learn more about USC Annenberg's Master's programs. The best stories across the web on journalism education 1. Syracuse named best j-school in NewsPro poll (Jim Romenesko) 2. "Medical school model" brings newspaper, radio station and...
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Daily Must Reads, Dec. 19, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Nathan Gibbs 1. Joshua Kopstein: Dear Congress, it's no longer OK to not know how the Internet works (Motherboard) 2. Schools explore rules to limit how teachers and students interact online (New York Times) 3. Demonstration of touchless control of smartphones and TVs (BBC News) 4. What does life after IPO...
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Daily Must Reads, Dec. 16, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Nathan Gibbs 1. SAY Media acquires tech blog ReadWriteWeb (Tech Crunch) 2. Video ads with special effects are more successful (paidContent) 3. Viewers increasingly watch streaming video on game consoles (Los Angeles Times) 4. Zynga IPO could challenge Google's high score (paidContent) 5. Telling political stories in closer to real-time (Nieman Reports)...
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E-books and Self-Publishing Roundup, Dec. 15, 2011
The best stories of the week from across the web on e-books and self-publishing 1. Farhad Manjoo: "Buying books online is better for authors, better for the economy, and better for you" (Slate) 2. Richard Russo: "Amazon's ham-fisted strategy has the potential to morph into a genuine Occupy Amazon movement" (New York Times) 3. Readers return to brick-and-mortar stores for holiday book purchases (New York Times)...
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Daily Must Reads, Dec. 15, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Nathan Gibbs 1. Somalia's Islamist insurgents embrace Twitter as a weapon (New York Times) 2. Richard Russo: "Amazon's ham-fisted strategy has the potential to morph into a genuine Occupy Amazon movement" (New York Times) 3. Readers return to brick-and-mortar stores for holiday book purchases (New York Times) 4. Vivian Schiller on the launch...
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Journalism Education Roundup, Dec. 14, 2011
Education content on MediaShift is brought to you by: Innovation. Reputation. Opportunity. Get all the advantages journalism and PR pros need to help put their future in focus. Learn more about USC Annenberg's Master's programs. The best stories across the web on journalism education 1. Some quick lessons for student journalists: Penn State scandal (Newspaper and Online News) 2. Don't study in...
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Daily Must Reads, Dec. 14, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Nathan Gibbs 1. Farhad Manjoo: Buying books online is better for authors, better for the economy, and better for you (Slate) 2. F.A.A. approves iPads in cockpits, but not for passengers (Bits Blog) 3. Louis CK made more profit on latest release by selling directly to consumers instead of through a...
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Daily Must Reads, Dec. 13, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Nathan Gibbs 1. FBI: Carrier IQ files used for "law enforcement purposes" (Muckrock) 2. Post-revolt Tunisia can alter email with "big brother" software (Bloomberg) 3. Why Apple is winning the mobile video format war, for now (Mashable) 4. Adults now spend more time with mobile devices than with print media (PCWorld) 5. Hulu...
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Daily Must Reads, Dec. 12, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology 1. Is HP's decision to make webOS open source a good move? (Monday Note) 2. Michael Robertson: Why Spotify can never be profitable (GigaOM) 3. Why you didn't hit reply: Jonah Lehrer on email and friendship (Wall Street Journal) 4. How a book is made: From the Middle Ages to today (Brain Pickings) 5. YouTube...
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Daily Must Reads, Dec. 9, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology 1. PRX, Knight launch a $2.5 million Public Media Accelerator (Nieman Journalism Lab) 2. Feds falsely censor popular blog for over a year, deny due process, hide details (Techdirt) 3. Twitter redesign seeks to monetize user base (The Register) 4. Google Currents: First impressions of Google's Flipboard competitor (TechCrunch) Subscribe to our daily Must Reads...
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E-books and Self-Publishing Roundup, Dec. 8, 2011
The best stories of the week from across the web on e-books and self-publishing 1. Justice Department confirms e-book pricing investigation (Digital Trends) 2. Mathew Ingram: What purpose do book publishers serve? (GigaOM) 3. Which online retailers do the best job of helping sell your e-books? (Online Journalism Review) 4. Amazon to publish children's e-books for Kindle Fire (paidContent) 5. Amazon expands Kindle owners' lending library to self-published...
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Daily Must Reads, Dec. 8, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology 1. The choice of BBM over Twitter in the recent UK riots illustrates social stratification (Guardian) 2. New businesses pop up to teach web programming (Wall Street Journal) 3. How Twitter's trending algorithm picks its topics (NPR) 4. 70% of Americans have no idea what geolocation apps are (ReadWriteWeb) 5. David Goetzl: Email is the new social (MediaPost) Subscribe...
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Daily Must Reads, Dec. 7, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology 1. Nearly 80% of college students can't figure out QR codes (Digital Trends) 2. Verizon to take on Netflix with web video service (Reuters) 3. Oregon court deems blogger "not a journalist," imposes $2.5 million judgment (Seattle News) 4. iPhone could be used by police to take fingerprints in the field (Cult of Mac) 5....
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Journalism Education Roundup, Dec. 6, 2011
Education content on MediaShift is brought to you by: Innovation. Reputation. Opportunity. Get all the advantages journalism and PR pros need to help put their future in focus. Learn more about USC Annenberg's Master's programs. The best stories across the web on journalism education 1. Alex Hope: "Coding is the new Latin" (BBC News) 2. How Time Inc. is preparing for a...
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Daily Must Reads, Dec. 6, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology 1. Apple's Newsstand gives publishers a push (Editor & Publisher) 2. Richard Stallman: "Facebook does massive surveillance" (RT) 3. Jakob Nielsen: "Kindle Fire offers a disappointingly poor user experience" 4. U. of Alaska slows Internet to curb illegal downloading (Wired Campus) 5. Khan Academy blends its YouTube approach with classrooms (New York Times) 6. NBC-Owned...
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Daily Must Reads, Dec. 5, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology 1. Internet access and the new digital divide (New York Times) 2. Facebook has acquired Gowalla (TechCrunch) 3. Old media executives too busy, private for Twitter (Reuters) 4. First feature film shot on a smartphone is about Tothit movie theaters (paidContent) 5. Book buyers shop in stores, buy online (New York Times) Subscribe to our...
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Daily Must Reads, Dec. 2, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology 1. Google may step on Amazon's turf (Bits Blog) 2. Twitter begins rolling out self-serve ad platform (SFGate) 3. Yahoo to remove 75,000 Associated Content articles that don't meet content standards (WebProNews) 4. Sony Bravia TV sets add Twitter ticker, Facebook app (Lost Remote) 5. New Android app lets users buy e-books from independent bookstores (paidContent)...
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E-books and Self-Publishing Roundup, Dec. 1, 2011
The best stories of the week from across the web on e-books and self-publishing 1. Barnes & Noble invests in e-books, losses narrow (Crain's New York Business) 2. New publisher of technical books embraces e-books and authors, not DRM (VentureBeat) 3. Self-publishing books not without pitfalls (ABC 7 News) 4. Air travelers still must turn off devices, but it's not clear why (Bits Blog) 5....
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Daily Must Reads, Dec. 1, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology 1. Cable companies consider Web usage fees to compete with Netflix, Hulu (Bloomberg) 2. Phone 'rootkit' maker Carrier IQ may have violated wiretap law in millions of cases (Forbes) 3. SOPA will be changed to meet some objections, says movie industry supporter (Media Decoder) 4. The sketchbook of Susan Kare, the artist who gave...
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Daily Must Reads, Nov. 30, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology 1. CNN cites quality of iReporters' cameras when laying off photojournalists (PetaPixel) 2. U.S. judge orders hundreds of sites "de-indexed" from Google, Facebook (Ars Technica) 3. Is Siri anti-abortion? (The Raw Story) 4. FTC announces 20-year privacy deal with Facebook (paidContent) 5. New publisher of technical books embraces e-books and authors, not DRM (VentureBeat) 6. How...
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Daily Must Reads, Nov. 29, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology 1. NY Times and LA Times both come out against SOPA & PIPA (Techdirt) 2. "Coding is the new Latin" - Alex Hope (BBC News) 3. Magazines pull back on tablet bells and whistles (Adweek) 4. Analyst: Cord cutting less of a threat to TV cable than youth who never subscribe in the first...
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Daily Must Reads, Nov. 28, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology 1. The closed, unfriendly world of Wikipedia (Danny Sullivan) 2. Ten lessons Om Malik learned from a decade of blogging (GigaOM) 3. Spotify service includes peer-to-peer streaming (Pansentient League) 4. Disney coming to YouTube movies (MediaPost) 5. Air travelers still must turn off devices, but it's not clear why (Bits Blog) Subscribe to our daily Must...
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E-Books and Self-Publishing Roundup, Nov. 23, 2011
The best stories of the week from across the web on e-books and self-publishing1. For their children, many e-book fans insist on paper (New York Times)2. Thirteen ways to jumpstart digital revenue (FOLIO:)3. Mobile devices boost magazine reading (MediaPost)4. Five lessons on using e-books for news (Poynter)5. Amazon taps self-published authors for Kindle lending library (paidContent)6. Challenge for publishers in 2012: funding tablet and e-reader product development (eMedia Vitals)7. Penguin pulls new e-books...
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Daily Must-Reads, Nov. 23, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology1. How SOPA would affect you - FAQ (CNET News)2. Alexis Madrigal declares Friday "Update Your Parents' Browser Day" (The Atlantic)3. Netflix will rely on rival Amazon's cloud for years to come (paidContent)4. Challenge for publishers in 2012: funding tablet and e-reader product development (eMedia Vitals)5. Education-specific HTML to be submitted to search engines (ReadWrite Web) #mc_embed_signup{background:#fff; clear:left; font:14px Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; width:450px;}...
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Journalism Education Roundup, Nov. 22, 2011
The best stories across the web on journalism education1. Evaluating Plagiarism: Part I & Part 2 (Best Colleges Online)2. Four ways journalism educators are using Storify as a teaching tool (Poynter)3. Ricky Bordelon: Social media in the classroom has some benefits, many drawbacks (The Ram)4. Journalist's Resource attempts to make academic research more user-friendly for journalists (Nieman Journalism Lab)5. University of Missouri to limit lecture recording (Associated Press)6. Stanford lends its name to...
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Daily Must-Reads, Nov. 22, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology1. For their children, many e-book fans insist on paper (New York Times)2. Social media buzz not necessarily linked to TV ratings (Lost Remote)3. The future of news and why "digital first" matters (GigaOM)4. Experiments in the open newsroom concept (Columbia Journalism Review)5. Mobile devices boost magazine reading (MediaPost)6. The new boom of online video advertising platforms (TheMediaBriefing) Subscribe to our daily Must...
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Daily Must Reads, Nov. 18, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology 1. Half of all countries with freedom of information laws don't follow them (Associated Press) 2. The road ahead for the Huffington Post: 'capital-J Journalism' is still a work in progress (Capital New York) 3. Highlights from the Social TV Summit (Lost Remote) 4. RoboKopter drone captures aerial views of Warsaw protest (New York Times) 5. Sony considers Internet...
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E-books and Self-Publishing Roundup, Nov. 17, 2011
The best stories of the week from across the web on e-books and self-publishing 1. Comparison chart of e-readers and tablets (paidContent) 2. Kindle Fire to include "Newsstand" with 400 magazines and newspapers (MinOnline) 3. Survey: iPad trumps Kindle, Nook tablets (MediaPost) 4. How independent bookstores sell e-books (paidContent) 5. LA Times publishes first e-book: 'A Nightmare Made Real' (Los Angeles Times) 6. Kobo offers...
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Daily Must Reads, Nov. 17, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology 1. Google Music open to public, lets users sync music library to the cloud for free (Google Blog) 2. Tumblr helps users call their congressional representatives to fight the Stop Online Piracy Act (TechCrunch) 3. How the Stop Online Piracy Act could impact journalists (10,000 Words) 4. The newsonomics of Amazon Prime (Nieman Journalism...
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Daily Must Reads, Nov. 16, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology 1. Natasha Lennard: Why I quit the mainstream media (Salon) 2. How anonymous bloggers were identified using Google Analytics (Wired) 3. Will the anti-piracy Protect IP Act infringe on free speech? (New York Times) 4. Sting may ditch albums for apps (Guardian) 5. The failures of gamification (Self Aware Games) 6. Scientists boost battery strength...
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How Journalism Professors Can Navigate Social Media
Teaching journalism today requires an aptitude for learning new technology and experimenting with social media and mobile tools. It's a rewarding challenge, a constant race to stay ahead of the curve. But while some might expect a challenge in staying ahead of students regarding social media, it can sometimes be the opposite.
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Journalism Education Roundup, Nov. 15, 2011
Education content on MediaShift is brought to you by: Innovation. Reputation. Opportunity. Get all the advantages journalism and PR pros need to help put their future in focus. Learn more about USC Annenberg's Master's programs. The best stories across the web on journalism education 1. The Romenesko Saga: Some questions for Poynter about recent changes to its fabled site (Columbia Journalism Review)...
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Daily Must Reads, Nov. 15, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology 1. "It's a known fact in advertising circles that only idiots click on ads" - Felix Salmon (Wired) 2. Mexico's largest university to post nearly all course materials online (The Chronicle of Higher Education) 3. Is it Game Over for Nintendo DS and Sony PSP? (Flurry) 4. Kobo offers $99 ad-supported option for Kobo...
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Daily Must Reads, Nov. 14, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology 1. John Paton prepares his newspapers for a world without print (New York Times) 2. The Romenesko Saga: Some questions for Poynter about recent changes to its fabled site (Columbia Journalism Review) 3. The future of online advertising: "an ad unit that smart readers actually want to click on" (Reuters) 4. LinkedIn, others show...
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Daily Must Reads, Nov. 11, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology 1. Judge: Feds can get Twitter users' data without warrant (Wall Street Journal) 2. Facebook settles with FTC to make new privacy changes opt-in (TechCrunch) 3. Romenesko out at Poynter after attribution problems surface (Media Decoder) 4. Apple's AssistiveTouch helps the disabled use the iPhone (David Pogue) 5. Opinion writers at the South...
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Daily Must Reads, Nov. 10, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology 1. The Blessings of Networks: Emily Bell takes on Dean Starkman's "news gurus" argument (Columbia Journalism Review) 2. Amazon's $79 Kindle costs $84 to make (Mainstreet) 3. A look at the successes and challenges of the New York Times' local partnerships (NetNewsCheck) 4. Policing social media in schools (DFM News) 5. Diversify your ad...
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E-books and Self-Publishing Roundup, Nov. 10, 2011
The best stories of the week from across the web on e-books and self-publishing 1. Amazon's $79 Kindle costs $84 to make (Mainstreet) 2. Kobo acquired by Japanese e-commerce firm Rakuten for $315 million (paidContent) 3. Barnes & Noble's upcoming Nook Tablet to challenge Amazon's Kindle Fire (VentureBeat) 4. Amazon adds self-published Amanda Hocking to "Kindle Million Club" (paidContent) 5. Magazine publishers divided...
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Daily Must Reads, Nov. 9, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology 1. FCC and cable companies hope to decrease digital divide with $9.99/mo broadband Internet for low-income households (New York Times) 2. Why interactive design should focus on our hands (Bret Victor) 3. Confidence Game: A critique of the "limited vision of the news gurus" (Columbia Journalism Review) 4. Oregon first to use iPad...
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Journalism Education Roundup, Nov. 8, 2011
The best stories across the web on journalism education 1. Leveraging a "teaching hospital model" in journalism education (New America Foundation) 2. Students "may be 'digital natives,' but they're wretched at searching" (Wired) 3. American Public University enlists faculty to write e-textbooks (Inside Higher Ed) 4. Census: Journalism majors make about $50,000 (Poynter) 5. News bosses talk shop in panel discussion on entrepreneurial journalism (Buzz...
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Daily Must Reads, Nov. 8, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology 1. New Nook is latest entry in tablet wars (New York Times) 2. NewsTransparency aims to hold journalists accountable, reveal bias (Center for Sustainable Journalism) 3. Wired offers original photography through Creative Commons (Wired) 4. Google+ pages now available to brands (Google Blog) 5. Apple's planned obsolescence schedule (TidBITS) Subscribe to our daily Must Reads...
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Daily Must Reads, Nov. 7, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology 1. Researchers release "socialbots" on Facebook to collect user data for security study (CNET News) 2. All the Groupon IPO really proves is that the bubble is back (GigaOM) 3. Investing in selling nothing: Zynga's march to an IPO (NPR) 4. Disney partners with YouTube on new video series (New York Times) 5. Ira Glass:...
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Daily Must Reads, Nov. 4, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology 1. "Students may be 'digital natives,' but they're wretched at searching" (Wired) 2. The Onion grows print distribution through local franchises (Nieman Journalism Lab) 3. Robert Levine on why copyright is good for the Internet (Adweek) 4. China: Government taking steps to shutdown Web TV (Penn Olson) 5. Magazine publishers divided over giving free...
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E-Books and Self-Publishing Roundup, Nov. 3, 2011
The best stories of the week from across the web on e-books and self-publishing 1. Amazon launches free e-book borrowing for Prime members (CNET Reviews) 2. E-book maker Kobo to become a publisher (CBC News) 3. Next up to sue BitTorrent users: Book publishers (ReadWriteWeb) 4. Our relationship with e-books: It's too complicated (GigaOM) 5. Magazine publishers look to book industry for digital sales...
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Daily Must Reads, Nov. 3, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology 1. Amazon launches free e-book borrowing for Prime members (CNET Reviews) 2. New study links video gaming to creativity (CNET News) 3. Square launches Card Case, hands-free payments on iPhone (GigaOM) 4. Only 1/5 of U.S. home entertainment market is digital (SplatF) 5. Adobe "quietly positioning itself to become a major player in...
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Daily Must Reads, Nov. 2, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology 1. U.S. Marshals ordered to sieze Righthaven assets (Ars Technica) 2. Twitter launches @TwitterStories to show how the service affects people's lives 3. Why tech companies want engineers to ignore patents when designing products (paidContent) 4. Wired experiments with bringing advertisers and blogs closer (Adweek) 5. Homeland Security reviews social media...
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Journalism Education Roundup, Nov. 1, 2011
The best stories across the web on journalism education 1. Should we teach journalism students to be more like Julian Assange? (Charlie Beckett) 2. Are you competing with Facebook during class? (GigaOM) 3. Do school newspapers hold the future of print media? (European Journalism Centre) 4. Tips on getting a student newspaper online (Prof KRG) 5. How journalism professors can use screencasts as...
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Daily Must Reads, Nov. 1, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology 1. Inside Groupon: "The world's most controversial company" (Business Insider) 2. Study: HuffingtonPost's brand is more valuable than AOL's (Forbes) 3. NBC to invests millions in news at its local TV stations (The Hollywood Reporter) 4. Gamestop to sell branded Android tablets (paidContent) 5. Next up to sue BitTorrent users: Book publishers (ReadWriteWeb) 6. Motorola...
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Daily Must Reads, Oct. 31, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology 1. Cable TV is holding Web TV at bay (New York Times) 2. YouTube preps 96 channels with original content (Multichannel News) 3. HP to hold on to PC division but sources say it will finally kill WebOS (paidContent) 4. Emily Gould and the rise of the indie e-bookseller (paidContent)...
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Daily Must Reads, Oct. 28, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology1. U.S. Copyright Office considers new rules about digital media (Hollywood Reporter) 2. Samsung overtakes Apple as world's biggest smartphone seller (Businessweek) 3. Google Street View goes inside stores (PCWorld) 4. E-book maker Kobo to become a publisher (CBC News) 5. Clear Channel lays off dozens of D.J.'s across the country (New York Times) 6. Google...
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E-books and Self-Publishing Roundup, Oct. 27, 2011
The best stories of the week from across the web on e-books and self-publishing 1. E-book checkouts from libraries up 200% over 2010 (paidContent) 2. E-book revenues up 153% over last year (paidContent) 3. Amazon announces HTML5 e-book format (Mashable) 4. Big U.S. publishers say e-books now generate 15-20% of their sales, only 1% in Europe (paidContent) #mc_embed_signup{background:#fff; clear:left; font:14px...
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Must Reads
Daily Must Reads, Oct. 27, 2011
Here are the best stories about media and technology from across the web. 1. Anti-piracy bill worries free speech advocates (CNET News) 2. "The safety of anonymous sources will depend not only on journalists' ethics, but on their computer skills" (New York Times) 3. Netflix cuts 15 jobs after subscriber loss (Bloomberg) 4. Warner Brothers stops giving Blockbuster latest films...
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Must Reads
Daily Must Reads, Oct. 26, 2011
Today's best stories about media and technology from across the web.1. Netflix puts global expansion on hold as costs drag it down (paidContent) 2. Poor kids experience "app gap" (The Digital Shift) 3. U.S. government requests for Google user data up 29% in 6 months (Wired) 4. Facebook more popular than TV during the day for 15-46 year olds...
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Must Reads
Daily Must Reads, Oct. 25, 2011
The best stories on media and technology around the web 1. Netflix loses 800,000 subscribers, stock takes another hit (MediaPost) 2. Screen time higher than ever for children (New York Times)3. WikiLeaks suspends publishing to fight financial blockade (paidContent) 4. Obama campaign adds Tumblr to its social media activities for 2012 election (New York Times) 5. The best link position for clicks is...
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Social Networking
How to Correct Social Media Errors
In my job as the social media editor for MediaShift, I'm used to fitting big ideas into tight spaces. But recently, in the fray of 140-character editing, I struggled to condense a curious statistic. Finishing up, I double-checked grammar, the link, and clicked "submit" as usual. It was retweeted more than 100 times (see the tweet at left). And it...
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EducationShift
5 Teachable Lessons From the Washington Post's Mistake
It's rare for the public to see news sausage in the grinder. The gore of the editing process is kept from view. Yet while the factory floor of the newsroom may be less sanitary than a meat processing plant, a glimpse inside the news process may still be more likely to inspire confidence in the final product. We got such...
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EducationShift
How to Integrate Social Tools into the Journalism Classroom
Integrating social media into university classrooms can be a daunting task for many journalism educators. Professors are typically required to use clunky online systems for grading and communicating with students. It's an unpleasant experience for everyone involved. These awkward systems don't inspire creativity, enrich collaboration, or instill a passion for experimentation -- all of which are required to survive and succeed in a rapidly changing media industry.
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EducationShift
Learning How to Teach Multimedia Journalism
Doing multimedia journalism and teaching it are two very different things. The past semester marked my first as an adjunct professor. It was probably the best thing I could have done for my own education.
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