:: Future of Journalism

"Social" will rewire the structure of society, but what will Facebook's role be?

GigaOM :: It’s fairly common for mission statements in IPO filings to be grandiose, but even so Mark  Zuckerberg’s vision expressed in Facebook's IPO filing is fairly massive: he’s saying he believes that social connections will rewire the entire structure of society — that it will become more like a network graph, multiple connections between points, instead of a top-down hierarchy. He says that a more open and connected world will “help create a stronger economy with more authentic businesses that build better products and services” because as people share their opinions, it makes it easier to “improve the quality and efficiency of their lives.”

[Mathew Ingram:] (Mark Zuckerberg) doesn’t just want to enable these changes in society — on a fairly fundamental level, he wants to control them.

Continue to read Mathew Ingram, gigaom.com

Matt Lynley: Google+ is growing much faster than Facebook did in the early days

Business Insider :: Don't write off Google+ just yet — compared to Facebook's early days, its growth is meteoric. It took Facebook nearly a year to reach a million users and more than four years to reach 100 million. It took Google+ about two weeks to reach 10 million, and less than a year to reach 100 million. Paul Allen, the "unofficial" statistician for Google+ and founder of Ancestry.com, says Google+ could reach 400 million users by the end of the year.

Continue to read Matt Lynley, www.businessinsider.com

What's the value of personal data? - Investor's will pay Facebook for eyeballs

Columbia Journalism Review :: The New York Times’s curtain-raiser on the Facebook IPO this morning asks, “Personal Data’s Value? Facebook Is Set to Find Out.” But is that really what Facebook is set to find out? The Times says about all this private data: “It is a siren to advertisers hoping to leverage that information to match their ads with the right audience.” - You would think so. But it’s worth noting that the rate of Facebook’s ad revenue growth is slowing significantly: Facebook’s fourth-quarter ad revenue grew 44 percent from a year ago, much slower than the growth rates of the third quarter (77%), second quarter (83%), and first quarter (98%).

[Ryan Chittum:] At base, what investors are paying for is something very old-fashioned for a media business: Eyeballs—and lots of them.

Media vs. Facebook's advertising approach - Continue to read Ryan Chittum, www.cjr.org

Google announced content censorship in its Blogger's help section. Google? Yes.

Censored on a per country basis. You have been worried about Twitter's latest policy changes? - Then read Google's help pages carefully.

Techdows :: You wouldn’t be surprised in future if you visit Blogspot.com other than in US country you’ll be redirected to your country specific URL in browser in fact its happening now – where Google redirecting Indian users from blogspot.com domain to blogspot.in. For e.g if you visit Googleblog.blogspot.com URL from India you’ll be taken to Googleblog.blogspot.in URL. - Why Blogspot.com blogs redirected to blogspot.in? Blogger’s help page confirms this.

[Google help pages:] Q: Why is this happening?
A: Migrating to localized domains will allow us to continue promoting free expression and responsible publishing while providing greater flexibility in complying with valid removal requests pursuant to local law. By utilizing ccTLDs, content removals can be managed on a per country basis, which will limit their impact to the smallest number of readers. Content removed due to a specific country’s law will only be removed from the relevant ccTLD.

Continue to read Venkat, techdows.com

Continue to read Google's Blogger help section support.google.com/blogger

Fox News: WikiLeaks to move servers offshore, sources say

Fox News :: Julian Assange’s investors are in the process of purchasing a boat to move WikiLeaks’ servers offshore in an attempt to evade prosecution from U.S. law enforcement, FoxNews.com has learned. Multiple sources within the hacker community with knowledge of day-to-day WikiLeaks activities say Assange’s financial backers have been working behind the scenes on the logistics of moving the servers to international waters.

Continue to read Jana Winter | Jeremy A. Kaplan, www.foxnews.com

Censorship - UDiligence: actively monitors athletes social media accounts

"UDiligence - Reputation Management for Student Athletes on Social Networks" - From now on athletes won't post out of control ...

UDiligence :: UDiligence is the industry-leading social network monitoring service that helps collegiate athletic departments protect against damaging posts made by student-athletes. Coaches, compliance officers and the student-athletes all receive alert emails whenever a troublesome post occurs, so staff can address the issue before it becomes a bigger problem for the student-athlete and the athletic department.

Continue to read what UDiligence says - www.udiligence.com

Daniel Gulati argues that Facebook is making us miserable

Harvard Business Review :: In writing Passion & Purpose, I monitored and observed how Facebook was impacting the lives of hundreds of young businesspeople. As I went about my research, it became clear that behind all the liking, commenting, sharing, and posting, there were strong hints of jealousy, anxiety, and, in one case, depression. Said one interviewee about a Facebook friend, "Although he's my best friend, I kind-of despise his updates." Said another "Now, Facebook IS my work day." As I dug deeper, I discovered disturbing by-products of Facebook's rapid ascension — three new, distressing ways in which the social media giant is fundamentally altering our daily sense of well-being in both our personal and work lives.

Continue to read Daniel Gulati, blogs.hbr.org

Microsoft ads to slam Google on privacy

Do you remember? According to a chart from Silicon Alley Insider Microsoft holds 1.3% shares in Facebook. 

Washington Post | Bloomberg :: Microsoft on Wednesday seized on Google’s privacy flap as an opportunity to tout its own services as better for consumers. In a national ad campaign to launch today, Microsoft says that it offers greater choice to its users and that it isn’t as interested in collecting data for behavioral advertising.

Continue to read Cecilia Kang, www.washingtonpost.com

#OccupyWallStreet - New York Times' letter to the NYPD: problems have persisted

Capital New York :: The New York Times fired off another letter to the Police Department today on behalf of the New York Post, Daily News, Associated Press, Reuters, Dow Jones, Bloomberg News, the National Press Photographers Association, and several local TV affiliates and others about police treatment of the press over the last several months. Besides of a first meeting with NYPD brass last year, the recent letter says problems have persisted.

Copy of the letter - Continue to read Joe Pompeo, www.capitalnewyork.com

"Hulu for music" - Vevo made $150m in revenue 2011

AllThingsD :: When it first debuted in 2009, Vevo aspired to be a “Hulu for music.” Today, it’s exactly that: the second largest video property on the Web in the U.S., a title that — you guessed it — was once held by Hulu. Further evidence of the company’s success: The impressive financials announced by Vevo president and CEO Rio Caraeff during an onstage interview at our D: Dive Into Media conference.

Interview with Vevo CEO Rio Caraeff - Continue to read John Paczkowski, allthingsd.com

David Remnick, New Yorker: Print magazines are “pretty good technology”

AllThingsD :: Quality long-form writing has a place in the Internet age, says the New Yorker editor David Remnick — and it’s worth paying for. Asked whether print magazines would last another 20 years, Remnick said, “The New Yorker — you roll it up, you put it in your bag. It’s quite easy; it’s pretty good technology.”

Interview - Continue to read Liz Gannes, allthingsd.com

Interview with David Karp, founder of Tumblr

Guardian :: David Karp, the founder of the blogging platform Tumblr, was 17 when he decided to cut the apron strings and move to Tokyo. With a smattering of Japanese and a sharp eye for computer code, the impatient Manhattan teenager embarked on a period of self-discovery. "I was holed up in the middle of this world where it was just me on the internet," Karp recalls. Within weeks, he had fine-tuned his computer skills and cooled on the idea of building robots. He wanted to be an entrepreneur. But there was one small problem: his voice.

Continue to read Josh Halliday, www.guardian.co.uk

A new iPad app that promises a future for long-form journalism

Capital New York :: Longform.org, one of the growing breed of aggregators and social sites spreading multi-thousand-word journalism around the web, announced today that it will debut an iPad app tomorrow. And unlike some magazines that create iPad editions, they are making a real app, one that brings new functionality to the format for readers, its founders say.

 

The New York Observer iPad App is now available! itunes.apple.com/us/app/ny-obse…

— NewYorkObserver (@NewYorkObserver) January 31, 2012

 

Continue to read Joe Pompeo, www.capitalnewyork.com

Emails to James Murdoch were deleted days before police investigation

Mail Online :: The News International chief was contacted in 2008 by the paper’s editor Colin Myler who forwarded a chain of emails suggesting that phone-hacking was not confined to a single reporter and warned ‘unfortunately it is as bad as we feared’. James Murdoch has repeatedly denied he had any knowledge that phone hacking at the News of the World went beyond one ‘rogue’ reporter.

Continue to read John Stevens, www.dailymail.co.uk

AOL beats low Wall Street expectations, increasing ad revenue in Q4

AllThingsD :: AOL said it earned 23 cents a share for the fourth quarter on revenue of $576.8 million, compared to 65 cents per share on $596 million in the same quarter a year ago. Wall Street analysts had expected the New York-based Internet company to earn 16 to 17 cents on revenue of $572 million. While the results are still down significantly from a year ago, AOL’s stock has been rising in the quarter

Continue to read Kara Swisher, allthingsd.com