Andrew Golis

• The Media Equation – Talking Back to Your TV Set, Endlessly – NYTimes.com
  The new commentariat: "social media lets us pretend we're not wallowing in low culture."
  (tags: twitter new.media television david.carr nyt)

• Beet.TV: Boom Time for Online Video News: CNN Has 42 Percent Jump in Video Views in February, Nielsen
  CNN.com is, more than anyone I think, prepping aggressively for the TV/web convergence. They've had an explosion of video views after their homepage redesign.
  (tags: cnn video television new.media beet.tv metrics)
• PEJ Study Examines How Americans Consume News – mediabistro.com: WebNewser
  STATS!
  (tags: metrics statistics pew new.media newspaper mediabistro)
• Introducing Homer: The Blogware-agnostic Feed-based Homepage Creator for the 'News Blob' | Shhhaw
  Al Shaw, brilliant monster code journo.
  (tags: new.media development api al.shaw)
• A “reporting recipe” to dig up dirt like ProPublica » Nieman Journalism Lab
  What's the real goal of non-profit journalism? Read the comments for a fun back and forth w/ Jack Shafer from Slate and Jay Rosen.
  (tags: nieman.journalism.lab non.profit laura.mcgann jack.shafer jay.rosen)
• Why did Nick Denton truncate Gawker’s RSS feeds? | Analysis & Opinion | Reuters
  The debate over RSS is interesting, but as someone who's studied it and discussed it with the founders of the major RSS management companies, I can tell you that no one really knows the right answer. It's all guess work.
  (tags: rss feeds new.media blogging felix.salmon gawker)
• Interview: ABC News’ Slavin: Paywall Strategy Coming Down By June | paidContent
  Interesting, ABC considering a paywall. That seems…. silly.
  (tags: abc.news new.media pay.wall paid.content television)

• The Monkey Cage: Do Blog Readers Self-Segregate or Deliberate?
  I am gonna read the shit out of this. New academic study from Eric Lawrence, John Sides, and Henry Farrell.
  (tags: polarization new.media blogging academia)
• Beet.tv Roundtable: Economist Chief Says E-Readers Can Save Long-Form Journalism | paidContent
  Maybe wishful thinking, but there's truth to the idea that the different mode of consumption could mentally prepare people to be more interested in long form.
  (tags: long-form new.media ereaders beet.tv economist paid.content magazines)
• How Andrew Breitbart Hacks the Media | Magazine
  Breitbart is the dark side of the new media system incarnate. What Glenn Beck is for television Breitbart is for the web: the embodiment of all of the destructive incentives of the medium.
  (tags: wired andrew.breitbart drudge new.media blogging hyperlinks)

• The case for context: my opening statement for SXSW at Newsless.org
  Great post on the need for explainers.
  (tags: explainers context aggregation hyperlinks new.media)

• Why You Can't Work At Work – The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
  Big believer in asynchronous virtual offices.
  (tags: labor interruption andrew.sullivan big.think jason.fried instant.messaging email)
• Matthew Yglesias » The Cable News Problem
  Cable news has a huge influence over politics even though only about 10 people watch it.
  (tags: television yglesias metrics)

The Onion takes on cable news:

• Amanpour for 'This Week'? – Michael Calderone – POLITICO.com
  This would be awesome.
  (tags: amanpour politico calderone this.week abc television)
• …My heart’s in Accra » Jonathan Stray on original reporting: imaginary abundance
  Zuckerman points to research that says there are 583 versions of each story on the internet every day. Nutty.
  (tags: ethan.zuckerman new.media aggregation nieman.journalism.lab)
• Huffington Post Reports 40 Million Monthly Visitors | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD
  They keep building.
  (tags: huffpo peter.kafka metrics blogging)

• If you blog unauthorized "Daily Show" or "Colbert" clips, Viacom will sue your ass – Boing Boing
  Wow, that's an expansion view of copyright violation if I ever heard it.
  (tags: copyright viacom daily.show colbert video blogging)
• Eight key terms for determining legitimacy in journalism – Jay Rosen: Public Notebook
  These are great.
  (tags: journalism ethics transparency jay.rosen new.media)
• The Atlantic Tweaks its Web Redesign : CJR
  This is great web management. Launched a great new site, accepted public criticism of a serious flaw, fixed it quickly and explained themselves. Impressive.
  (tags: the.atlantic new.media cjr design blogging)

• Facebook And Omniture Deepen Their Ties For Analytics And Marketing | paidContent
  Interesting.
  (tags: metrics facebook omniture paid.content)
• Yahoo News Brings News Commenting Back | paidContent
  Woo!
  (tags: yahoo comments community new.media paid.content)

• Cooper-CBS meeting took place months ago – Michael Calderone – POLITICO.com
  The react to a side mention in a NYTS story got blown out of proportion, so the NYTs is calming it down.
  (tags: anderson.cooper nyt cbs katie.couric television calderone)
• The Redesign, Ctd – The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
  Wow, this brutal post from Andrew Sullivan on the Atlantic's redesign sure does prove that the relationship between top talent and their publishers has been changed forever by the personal blog.
  (tags: the.atlantic andrew.sullivan blogging design new.media advertising labor)
• BBC News – Online 'more popular than newspapers' in US
  There ya go.
  (tags: television internet newspaper bbc new.media metrics)
• Condé Nast Preparing iPad Versions of Top Magazines – NYTimes.com
  iPad sure is turning into where the magazine biz thinks it can't erase a decade of being behind the times.
  (tags: conde.nast magazines ipad apple nyt)