Andrew Golis

• NYT vs. WSJ: the quietest newspaper war in America » Nieman Journalism Lab
  Very interesting. National newspapers make a play into local markets *in paper*.
  (tags: nieman.journalism.lab newspaper nyt wsj)
• The Media Equation – AOL Builds Content as Mainstream Media Falters – NYTimes.com
  Interesting. Hate the use of uniques as a metric for sites like this, though. What's their non-AOL.com traffic like? Any fans or do they just have random portal run-off?
  (tags: aol nyt new.media david.carr)
• On the link economy « BuzzMachine
  Jarvis goes through the problems with the paidcontent piece on "the fallacy of the link economy" I saved last week.
  (tags: hyperlinks aggregation new.media buzzmachine paid.content)
• Huffington Post and Facebook Go “Social News,” With Connect on Steroids | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD
  Very cool.
  (tags: huffpo social.networking facebook all.things.d new.media)

• Qik Brings Video Sharing App to iPhone 3GS – iPhone – Lifehacker
  Really love the folks at Qik. Good people, very ambitious, fun to watch them grow.
  (tags: qik video live.video live iphone)

• Journalism Online Offers Up ‘Letters Of Intent’ From Possible Affiliates—But No Names | paidContent
  Interesting
  (tags: steve.brill pay.wall new.media paid.content)
• The Fallacy Of The Link Economy | paidContent
  This is the case that's being made to older media orgs everyday.
  (tags: paid.content hyperlinks new.media ap)
• Laura and Euna Say Thank You – mediabistro.com: BayNewser
  Nice.
  (tags: current video north.korea)

• NBC Debuts New Comedy on Facebook – mediabistro.com: WebNewser
  This is really smart.
  (tags: marketing television nbc video facebook social.networking mediabistro)
• Mourning The Loss Of Condé Nast's "Gilded Age" – mediabistro.com: FishbowlNY
  Amazing it lasted this long.
  (tags: conde.nast greed new.media mediabistro)
• Beet.TV: MSNBC.com to Monetize its Videos Throughout the Web
  They're doing a great job of building a distributed, partnership-based biz. Very impressive.
  (tags: msnbc video live huffpo beet.tv)

• Howard Kurtz – Media Notes: Howard Kurtz on Politics Daily, AOL's Fledgling Web Site – washingtonpost.com
  Novel model for online journalism: pay a lot of money for writers who are both inexperienced with and hostile toward online journalism.
  (tags: journalism aol politics.daily new.media wapo howard.kurtz)
• Charlie Beckett, POLIS Director » Blog Archive » The myth of the myth of digital democracy (book review)
  Challenging review of a great book.
  (tags: new.media blogging democracy)
• Wall Street Journal Creating New “LinkedIn Killer” Called WSJ Connect
  Smart.
  (tags: wsj social.networking linked.in finance techcrunch)
• State of U.S. Wireless Data: Q2 2009
  Data.
  (tags: metrics mobile gigaom)
• Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
  Interesting essay on the way people think, and work, differently.
  (tags: time labor creativity)

• 'Boston Globe' to Charge Readers for Web Site
  The Great Paywall Experiment of 2009 seems to have really kicked off. We'll see!
  (tags: pay.wall boston.globe newspaper finance advertising)
• Ezra Klein – In Praise of Matt Taibbi
  Similar to the recent point that Gawker made about WaPo: WRITE THINGS PEOPLE ACTUALLY WANT TO READ. Easier said than done, of course.
  (tags: ezra.klein wapo matt.taibbi finance journalism writing gawker)

Went on GritTV again yesterday to discuss the day’s news with Michael Musto of the Village Voice and and Esther Armah of WBAI.  Enjoy.

• 'This Week' beats 'Meet'; first time since '99 – Michael Calderone – POLITICO.com
  Huh.
  (tags: meet.the.press this.week george.stephanopoulos david.gregory)
• Pay Cuts Coming at Press Democrat – mediabistro.com: BayNewser
  My pop's paper still cutting.
  (tags: press.democrat labor finance mediabistro)

• Guest Post: How Talking Points Memo uses chartbeat « chartbeat
  Al explains our Ramen Profitable solution for live metrics.
  (tags: tpm metrics chartbeat new.media visualization)

• The Time Gawker Put the Washington Post Out of Business – Washington Post – Gawker
  Setting aside fair use, this is a point very well taken. Want to build a better business model? Stop being boring.
  (tags: wapo gawker fair.use funny new.media)
• Startups unite to drive nail into the coffin of Internet Explorer 6 | VentureBeat
  YES! KILLLLL
  (tags: ie browsers microsoft history)
• Digg Opening Up? New Read/Write API Coming Soon
  FINALLY.
  (tags: digg api read.write.web new.media hyperlinks)
• White House Takes on Drudge, Others "with a Computer and a Lot of Free Time" | Personal Democracy Forum
  This is interesting. They zoom straight in on "DrudgeReport.com" and try to take down the info opposition.
  (tags: drudge white.house youtube pdf nancy.scola)
• Open Left:: Joe Sestak For Senate!
  Bowers is going to work for Sestak.
  (tags: chris.bowers open.left netroots democrats)
• Olbermann Mocks FNC; O'Reilly Silent – mediabistro.com: TVNewser
  So much for a truce…
  (tags: bill.oreilly olbermann msnbc fox television)
• Associated Press is Insane – Articles – Baekdal.com
  Yup.
  (tags: ap syndication new.media micropayments)