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Daily Must Reads, Jan. 30, 2012

by MediaShift on Jan 30, 2012 • No Comments

The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung.

1. The Guardian expands open journalism experiment with new live blog (10,000 Words)

2. ProPublica will release its work in e-book form (The New York Times)

3. Kindle Fire takes...

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Gina Chen: Breaking-news situations require a breaking-news approach

by Gina Masullo Chen on Jan 25, 2012 • No Comments

I have new duty to add to journalists' jobs: Imagine how readers will use the information news organizations disseminate. In the past, it was enough to gather the information, accurately explain it, and make some sort of sense of the news for readers. Now journalists need to imagine what it's like to be the consumer...

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What Do You Think About the Consumer Electronics Show (CES)?

by MediaShift on Jan 13, 2012 • No Comments

Imagine 150,000 people from 140 countries wandering 1.6 million square feet of exhibit space in search of the latest whiz-bang flat-screen TV, tablet, smartphone or souped-up teched-out car. This is the International CES show in Las Vegas,...

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Magisto: An iOS app that makes home videos cool

by Colleen Taylor on Jan 9, 2012 • No Comments

Although devices that shoot high-definition video are cheaper and more ubiquitous than ever, amateur videos themselves have not gotten any better to watch. That's where a new iPhone app called Magisto comes in: It turns any simple iPhone video into a fully edited movie in minutes.

New York Times (Media) / Publishers

Top 1% of Mobile Users Use Half of World’s Wireless Bandwidth

by By KEVIN J. O'BRIEN on Jan 6, 2012 • No Comments

The gap between extreme users and the rest of the population is widening, according to Arieso, a company that advises mobile operators.

New York Times (Media) / Publishers

Advertising: Using Google’s Data to Sell Thermometers to Mothers

by By ANDREW ADAM NEWMAN on Dec 23, 2011 • No Comments

A mobile advertising campaign for a new thermometer will display the ad only in areas where there is a high incidence of the flu and only to mothers.

New York Times (Media) / Publishers

Media Decoder Blog: Using Prizes to Reach Video Game Players on Their Phones

by By TANZINA VEGA on Dec 23, 2011 • No Comments

An advertising company, Kiip, is working with Disney to use a new technology, Swarm, that allows players will compete for high scores on a game and win prizes.

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Daily Must Reads, Dec. 23, 2011

by MediaShift on Dec 23, 2011 • No Comments

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...

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Tim Carmody: Next year, Kindles, iPhones, and tablets will truly grow up

by Tim Carmody on Dec 21, 2011 • No Comments

We’re wrapping up 2011 by asking some of the smartest people in journalism what the new year will bring. Next up is Tim Carmody, an occasional Lab contributor who writes about transformations in media and technology for Wired magazine and the Epicenter blog at Wired.com.

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Daily Must Reads, Dec. 15, 2011

by MediaShift on Dec 15, 2011 • No Comments

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...

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The newsonomics of the magic formula for 2012

by Ken Doctor on Dec 15, 2011 • No Comments

There's an algorithm out there, we can be sure. It's got all the components of business success for news-creating companies, each value carefully computed and relational to the others. Yet, approaching 2012, the algorithm hasn't been found. We have but shreds of numbers, beacons of numerals that portend models, but can't prove them out. 2011...

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