Paperboys (and girls) have become an endangered species [Time]

Ask a former paperboy about the job, and you're likely to summon a
misty-eyed recollection of predawn bundling and knee-high snow. "It
meant a lot to me as a kid," Today host Matt Lauer said of his first
job. "Today it's basically something that doesn't exist."

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2046070,00.html

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Battle brews over digital tablet profits [FT.com]

A battle is brewing between tablet computer manufacturers, component
suppliers and media companies over how to share revenues generated by
the fast-selling devices, according to a study showing that Apple’s
iPad, Motorola’s Xoom and other tablets may not become mass market
devices unless prices fall sharply.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/522772aa-4286-11e0-8b34-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1FGKo...

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JPMorgan fund eyes [$450m] 10% stake in Twitter [FT.com]

A JPMorgan fund is in talks to acquire a substantial stake in Twitter,
one of the fastest-growing social networking sites. The fund hopes to
acquire 10 per cent of the online messaging service for $450m, valuing
Twitter at $4.5bn, according to people familiar with the plans.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/618e0bb4-42a9-11e0-8b34-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1FGKo...

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YouTube millionaires; Google paying big bucks for video sensations [NYPost]

Google's success in wringing more ad revenue from YouTube is giving
rise to a new class of dot-com millionaires. Google revealed last week
that it is running ads against three billion videos a week on YouTube,
up 50 percent from last year. That means the amount of cash it shares
with its YouTube partners is going up as well. Google gives its
content makers more than 50 percent of the ad money from their videos.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/youtube_millionaires_3h5V8I6FdnVLxQKbwO...

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Apple’s iPad Still Has No Competition [TechCrunch]

It’s been almost a year since Apple released the iPad and we’re less
than a week away from the unveiling of the iPad 2, and still there’s
no competition. There are a few very good reasons for Apple’s success
and why its competitors are finding it difficult to gain any traction
against the king of digital devices.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/26/ipad-no-competition/

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Turning Forbes magazine content into Web content — and vice versa [Forbes]

What’s the role of a magazine article in a world gone digital? Can it
effectively be retooled for news consumers on the Web? Can content
originally created for the Web be transformed for magazine readers?

http://blogs.forbes.com/lewisdvorkin/2011/02/23/turning-forbes-magazine-conte...

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Traditional media owners start to dominate online [MediaWeek UK]

Traditional media and information companies have begun to reassert
their expertise in the digital space over much of the last decade,
according to research from UKOM/Nielsen.

http://www.mediaweek.co.uk/news/1056089/Traditional-media-owners-start-domina...

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Digital Media Still About Business Models [FollowTheMedia]

Digital development within media organizations seems to pass through
four stages. The first response was to ignore it and maybe it would go
away. The second was to loath it and maybe it would die. The third,
now present, is to challenge it and maybe it can be controlled.

http://www.followthemedia.com/alldigital/stages21022011.htm

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Tablets: Much Bigger Than You Think, Says Morgan Stanley [Barrons]

A “blue paper” is what Morgan Stanley calls its 96-page report today
on the prospects for tablet computing, authored by numerous analysts,
including Kathryn Huberty, Mark Lipacis, Adam Holt and Ehud Gelblum.
The big picture: people don’t appreciate how big tablet computing can
get, write the authors.

http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2011/02/14/tablets-much-bigger-than-...

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Wired and The New Yorker for Android Coming This Spring [Wired]

Android versions of Wired and The New Yorker will be available in the
spring, Condé Nast announced Monday. The two publications have been
available for the iPad for months, but only now are tablets running
Google’s competing operating system starting to come to market in
earnest.

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/02/wired-and-the-new-yorker-for-android-c...

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Big media, not popular bloggers, dominate the conversation on Twitter [VentureBeat]

Who determines the big topics of conversation on social media such as
Twitter? It’s isn’t the loudest bloggers with large followings of
virtual fans. Rather, mainstream media tends to play the biggest role
in the top “trending” topics on Twitter, or those that appear in the
top ten search terms on the service at any given point in time,
according to a study by Hewlett-Packard’s research labs.

http://venturebeat.com/2011/02/14/big-media-not-bloggers-with-the-most-follow...

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Twitter dismisses reports of Google interest; [But Facebook? No comment] Reuters

Reports that Google has held takeover talks with Twitter that value
the microblogging site at as much as $10 billion are "just a rumor,"
Chief Executive Dick Costolo said on Monday. He declined comment on a
follow-up question on Facebook.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/14/us-mobile-fair-twitter-idUSTRE71D4T...

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Apple Launches Subscriptions For Content-Publishers On The App Store [TechCrunch]

As we heard at the Daily’s launch a few weeks ago, Apple was planning
to launch a new subscriptions model for content-publishers on the App
Store. And today, Apple is officially announcing the new service for
magazines, newspapers, video, music and more on the App Store.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/15/apple-launches-subscriptions-for-content-pub...

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Condé Nast Newsstand Tries Convergence of Technologies [Telegraph]

A newsstand set to open here next week will sell more than a dozen
international editions of Vogue magazine, in languages including
English, Russian and Chinese. More than 100 other titles from around
the world will line the shelves, with little flags indicating their
country of origin. Visitors will be able to browse through digital
versions of these and other publications on iPads tethered to sleek
plastic tables.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/14/technology/14conde.html?_r=1

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Welcome to the information age – 174 newspapers a day [Telegraph]

If you think that you are suffering from information overload then you
may be right – a new study shows everyone is bombarded by the
equivalent of 174 newspapers of data a day.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8316534/Welcome-to-the-inform...

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BBC releases iPlayer iPad app tomorrow [BrandRepublic]

Following a leak from a BBC employee on a Twitter feed, the BBC’s
general manager of future media and technology Daniel Danker confirmed
the app's imminent release on his official blog. It will be available
for free to UK iPad users and to those with Android devices.

http://www.brandrepublic.com/bulletin/digitalambulletin/article/1053927/bbc-r...

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Future hits 32% digital contribution, but print ad revenue falls [BrandRepublic]

The digital contribution to total ad revenue at Future has reached
32%, increasing by 25% over the final quarter of last year and helping
to offset a 10% fall in print advertising at the special interest
publisher.

http://www.brandrepublic.com/bulletin/digitalambulletin/article/1053845/futur...

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Apple's New iPad in Production [WSJ]

Apple Inc. has started manufacturing a new version of its iPad tablet
computer with a built-in camera and faster processor, said people
familiar with the matter. The new iPad will be thinner and lighter
than the first model, these people said. It will have at least one
camera on the front of the device for features like
video-conferencing. A spokeswoman for Apple, Cupertino, Calif.,
declined to comment.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704364004576132643125168876.html

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Matt Drudge finally establishes Twitter presence [DailyCaller]

Matt Drudge, whose Drudge Report has long been a dominate source of
online news aggregation, joined Twitter on Saturday. [Here:
http://twitter.com/#!/DRUDGE]

http://dailycaller.com/2011/02/05/drudge-belatedly-establishes-twitter-presence/

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Global Tablet Shipments To Surge Twelvefold By 2015 [DowJones]

Global shipments of tablet computers are expected to rise to 242.3
million units in 2015, a twelvefold improvement from the researcher's
finalized 2010 figure, as demand skyrockets for a once sleepy niche of
the mobile personal computer market. Media tablet shipments are
forecast to rise to more than 202 million units in 2015, up from 17.4
million in 2010. Shipments of PC-type tablets, or tablets that have
full PC functionality through a PC operating system, will jump to 39.3
million units from 2.3 million over the same period.

http://www.smartmoney.com/news/ON/?story=ON-20110204-000388

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MySpace's Future Gets Fuzzy [WSJ, subs content]

News Corp.'s early talks to sell Myspace have focused on deals in
which the conglomerate would retain a stake in the struggling
social-media and entertainment website, according to people familiar
with the matter. News Corp. has hired Allen & Co. to advise on
"possible deal opportunities for Myspace," the investment bank said.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703989504576128443078516036.html

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People.com Gets 1 Billion Page Views, a First for People and Likely for Magazines [AdAge]

People's prize also poses a question, as a matter of fact, because its
website contributed just 12% of People's overall ad revenue last year.
Shouldn't 1 billion page views help a website comprise a bigger piece
of the ad sales than 12%? Part of the problem is that ad rates are so
much lower on the web than they are in print. The bigger factor,
however, is probably People's enormous success in print.

http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=148607

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Behind The Scenes Of Wired UK Magazine’s Personalized Covers [Wired]

A few selected readers have received an ultra-personalized cover on
their issue of Wired UK this month. We wanted to see how much personal
data we could easily find about them from publicly available sources —
as a means of emphasizing some of the points made in our cover story
by Andrew Keen, Jeff Jarvis and Steven Johnson on “what the end of
privacy means for you.”

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/02/behind-the-scenes-of-wired-uk-magazine...

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RAJAR figures reveal digital radio audience has grown 22% [TheDrum]

Radio listening is as popular as ever and remains high following its
record breaking 46.8 million listeners reported last August 2010.
Radio listening figures announced today by RAJAR (Radio Joint Audience
Research Ltd) reveal that 46.7 million adults, or 90.5% of the UK
population (15+), continued to tune in to their favourite radio
stations each week during Q4, 2010.

http://www.thedrum.co.uk/news/2011/02/03/18248-rajar-figures-reveal-digital-r...

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Ex-Gawker Guy Snyder to Head Atlantic Wire [& news aggregation] Staff [NYObserver]

Former Gawker editor-in-chief Gabriel Snyder has been tapped to run
The Atlantic Wire and build up a news aggregation staff in New York,
as the 154-year-old magazine continues to carve out a home on the web.
"There's been no doubt that the Atlantic has been very nimbly handling
the delicate maneuver of bringing a 150-year-old plus brand into the
digital world," Mr. Snyder told The Observer. The Atlantic will
announce the hire later today.

http://www.observer.com/2011/media/exclusive-ex-gawker-guy-snyder-head-atlant...

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Facebook's next big media move: Comments [CNet]

Facebook is planning to launch a third-party commenting system in a
matter of weeks, according to multiple sources familiar with the new
product. This new technology could see Facebook as the engine behind
the comments system on many high-profile blogs and other digital
publications very soon.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-20030106-36.html

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Americans' Favorite Medium Is Television, According to Study [HollywoodReporter]

Seventy-one percent of Americans say television is one of their
favorite forms of media, even as they consume it more and more on
devices other than traditional TV sets, according to Deloitte's fifth
annual "State of the Media Democracy" report due out Tuesday. The
survey asked consumers to rank their top 3 types of media, and TV
scored highest, followed by the Internet (46 percent), music (35
percent), books (32 percent) and movies (25 percent).

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/americans-favorite-medium-television-st...

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