E-books and Self-Publishing Roundup, Feb. 9, 2012
Thursday, February 9, 2012
The best stories of the week from across the web on e-books and self-publishing 1. 2012 marks the rise of new e-book tools (Forbes) 2. Self-published crime writer is Kindle\'s most popular author (The Telegraph) 3. Rogue self-publishers adding XXX material to Nook and Kindle online stores (PC Magazine) 4. Would you buy digital books in bundles if it was cheaper? (Mediabistro) 5. Are Americans suffering from e-reader fatigue? (Huffington Post) #mc_embed_signup{background:#fff; clear:left; font:14.. .. read more..
Daily Must Reads, Feb. 9, 2012
Thursday, February 9, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung . 1. GigaOM CEO discusses acquisition of PaidContent (Wired) 2. BBC journalists told not to break news stories on Twitter (Guardian) 3. AOL has hired a new chief content officer to give Patch a boost (paidContent) 4. How Don Graham fumbled the Washington Post Co. (Forbes) 5. Chicago Tribune will start charging online readers (Crain\'s Chicago Business) 6. Columbia J-school hackathon brings coders, journalists together.. .. read more..
Bay Citizen, Center for Investigative Reporting Plan to Merge. Now What?
Thursday, February 9, 2012
The Bay Citizen and the Center for Investigative Reporting, two non-profit organizations based in the Bay Area, announced formally Tuesday that they intend to merge. Under terms of the agreement, Berkeley, Calif.-based CIR, which also runs California Watch, would take over management of the Bay Citizen, an online publication with a publishing partnership with The New York Times. Phil Bronstein , a former Hearst executive and chairman of CIR\' s board of directors, will become the executive chair.. .. read more..
Are You Part of the 2% (of People Who Get Campaign News From Twitter)?
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Many of you are, like me, among the proverbial \"99%\" when it comes to economics and income. But if you regularly learn about the 2012 campaign from those you follow on Twitter, as I do, you\'re in an elite class of a different sort. A new report out from the The Pew Research Center for The People and The Press contains some interesting findings about the media outlets citizens are using to inform themselves about the presidential campaign. Here are a few of the more surprising findings. New Medi.. .. read more..
Daily Must Reads, Feb. 8, 2012
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung . 1. Amazon and Viacom nearing web-video deal (Reuters) 2. Sky News clamps down on Twitter use (Guardian) 3. Le Huffington Post Québec launches (FishbowlNY) 4. Facebook partners with Bango, looks to mobile payments (The Next Web) 5. LinkedIn is acquiring Rapportive, a startup that focuses on contacts (AllThingsD) 6. WaPo Facebook app hits Kindle, iPhone, iPod, Android (All Facebook) 7. Social TV startup Flingo nabs $.. .. read more..
Spoiler Alert! Tech Is Changing the Way We Even Talk About TV
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
(Spoiler alert! The following post includes things that happened on \"Downton Abbey,\" \"The Sopranos\" and \"Dallas.\") The post to Facebook on a late Monday morning was simple enough. A photo of actor Thomas Howes as his character William from \"Downton Abbey,\" along with the status, \"Oh, William. We will miss you.\" The post was meant to engage, and perhaps commiserate with, those Nashville Public Television fans that were sad that William had died the night before in episode 4 of season 2 of the se.. .. read more..
Journalism and Digital Education Roundup, Feb. 7, 2012
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
The best stories across the web on journalism and digital education 1. Digital, print textbooks to compete for college audience (U.S. News & World Report) 2. Rice U. to offer free online physics textbook (Inside Higher Ed) 3. Is the iPad an educational tool or a lifestyle addiction? (Des Moines Register) 4. Why teachers should manage their digital identities (TeachHUB) 5. Teaching the \'digital native\' (Messenger Post) #mc_embed_signup{background:#fff; clear:left; font:14px Helvetica,Arial,sans-.. .. read more..
Daily Must Reads, Feb. 7, 2012
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung . 1. AP beats Google for Nevada caucus results (Poynter) 2. Netflix competes with pay cable with its first original series (paidContent) 3. Disney\'s ABC, Univision in talks to create 24-hour cable-news channel (Wall Street Journal) 4. Publishers are flubbing the iPad, except one (Newsosaur) 5. Facebook will release more user data (Reuters) 6. Esquire uses trailer to promote own story. Did it work? (Nieman Lab).. .. read more..
How Apps Are Making the \'Third Screen\' a Primary Screen for Historical TV
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
On the last day of the History Makers International conference, a three-day event consisting of award presentations, panel discussions, and master classes for producers and broadcasters, a particular tweet caught my eye: \"At third screen panel at history conference. I feel like a dinosaur.\" The faster-than-the-speed-of-light changes in the digital world may be making many people feel like dinosaurs, but as Chris Pfaff, moderator of The Third Screen panel and vice chairman of the Producers Guild.. .. read more..
Daily Must Reads, Feb. 6, 2012
Monday, February 6, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung . 1. Twitter: In last 3 minutes of Super Bowl, there were 10,000 tweets per second (TechCrunch) 2. First streaming of Super Bowl a success, but left a lot to be desired (TechCrunch) 3. Rupert Murdoch tweets up storm on Euro crisis, Middle East (The Wrap Media) 4. Print media enters live video business for web viewers (New York Times) 5. Pinterest a natural match for foodie magazines (MinOnline) 6. Is GigaOM buying pa.. .. read more..
Epistemic Games Are the Future of Learning, Letting Students Role-Play Professio..
Monday, February 6, 2012
Imagine you\'re a senior manager at a leading videogame company. Your job is to devise the company\'s competitive strategy in a rapidly growing and dynamic industry. What prices will you set for the consoles? How many games will be available for your platform? This is the premise of Platform Wars , an epistemic game, or management simulator, developed by MIT\' s Sloan School of Management. The game\'s learning objectives are to allow students to interactively experience the challenges of strategic .. .. read more..
Poll: What Will Facebook Be Worth in 5 Years?
Friday, February 3, 2012
They say that history repeats itself, but that\'s so easy to forget. It was only as recently as 2006 that analysts were saying that MySpace was likely worth $15 billion (and I was spoofing that conclusion). And you can go back to older social networks like Friendster or Tribe.net or America Online\'s chat rooms... you get the point. So now that Facebook has laid out its plans to go public, with a possible valuation of $100 billion, what do you think \"The Social Network\" will be worth in five year.. .. read more..
Daily Must Reads, Feb. 3, 2012
Friday, February 3, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung . 1. Netflix and WaPo bought a combined $8M in Facebook ads last year, IPO says (All Facebook) 2. Analysis: A sobering look at Facebook (Reuters) 3. How the Huffington Post became a new-media behemoth (GigaOM) 4. News Corp. names Bloomberg exec as Dow Jones CEO (The Wrap Media) 5. Tumblr has hired its first executive editor (Reuters) 6. New York Times to expand health blog (paidContent) 7. Google can\'t weigh in on \'u.. .. read more..
Mediatwits #36: Facebook IPO Fever; Dive into Media; $30 Million to Columbia/Sta..
Friday, February 3, 2012
Welcome to the 36th episode of \"The Mediatwits,\" the weekly audio podcast from MediaShift. The co-hosts are MediaShift\'s Mark Glaser and Dorian Benkoil, who is filling in for Rafat Ali. It\'s been a crazy week in media + tech, with Google privacy concerns, Amazon falling short in earnings, and much more. But the dominant news was Facebook filing for an IPO, with demand to read its S-1 crashing the SEC\' s servers. The startup had $3.7 billion in revenues, with $1 billion in profits last year, and.. .. read more..
E-books and Self-Publishing Roundup, Feb. 2, 2012
Thursday, February 2, 2012
The best stories of the week from across the web on e-books and self-publishing 1. Apple\'s iBooks push raises 6 questions about future of self-publishing (Fast Company) 2. Is Nook Simple Touch the best e-reader? (Gizmodo) 3. Franzen on e-books and the end of books (LA Times) 4. Open Road teams with ProPublica to publish its e-books (eBookNewser) 5. Man makes $100,000 in three weeks self-publishing on Amazon\'s Kindle (Seattle Post Intelligencer) 6. Graphicly launches cross-platform e-book distri.. .. read more..