-You Can Opt Out Of Applications
-You Can Hide Your Friends List
-You Can Hide Your Interests
-Much Information Is Still Public By Default
-Instant Personalization Is Still Opt-Out
-You Can Hide Information From The Past
-You Should Review Your Settings
-Privacy Now Only Takes One Click
-There Is Now A Single Directories Settings Page
-Settings Will Be Rolled Out Over The Next Few Weeks
All Facebook: 10 Things You Need To Know About Today’s Facebook Privacy Changes
(via Mediabistro)
The exciting next stage of the True/Slant vision is about to begin. Forbes Media is acquiring True/Slant and bringing it in house.
What does that mean? Some start-ups continue on as separate entities and build a business. Others become entrepreneurs within a larger company to effect change through technology innovation, new processes, creative thinking and more. Think how Twitter brought in Summize and its engineers and search technology to scale operations.
The small True/Slant team, with more than 100 years of Web, publishing and TV experience, will now be working side-by-side with talented and dedicated journalists at Forbes Media. The goal: to work together to further develop a mindset around the power of the Web and traditional news values. With hard work, we can implement new blogging platforms and more efficient digital, print and video content creation models; we can find better ways for audiences to engage with news and information; and we can pursue new integrative approaches for marketers and advertisers.
Truth/Slant: About those M&A rumors: Forbes to acquire True/Slant
(via Nieman Journalism Lab)
New York Times Magazine article on the future of news with background on True/Slant
Demand Media has just announced to its freelance writers and editors two new content deals that further its reach into traditional media. The company is about to partner with Hearst Newspapers to produce content for two web sites run by two Hearst papers: the San Francisco Chronicle and the Houston Chronicle. The move expands Demand’s reach beyond its deal last month with Gannett (GCI) to provide a travel tips section for USAToday.com.
bnet: Content Mill Demand Media Expands Its Reach — To More Newspapers!
(via Jay Rosen)
See also:
Rosen’s interview with Demand Media’s CEO Richard Rosenblatt
Richard Metzger called 21C his favorite magazine of the 90s and “The most unabashedly intellectual and forward-thinking journal that I have ever seen, anywhere.” Editor Ashley Crawford joined the magazine in 1990 when the magazine was still a publication of Australian Commission For The Future “a comparatively short-lived governmental entity.” Ashley took the magazine international with the help of publishing house Gordon & Breach in 1994. The magazine continued in this form until 1999. After a short lived online revival helmed by Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky) in the early 00s, the magazine went back into long-term hiatus.
Now it’s back in a new digital form. Ashley was kind enough to answer a few questions about the magazine’s past, present, and future for the inaugural Mediapunk interview.
You can read the magazine online here or follow them on Twitter here.
Has anyone else noticed that the Associated Press has been doing some strong fact-checking work lately, aggressively debunking all kinds of nonsense, in an authoritative way, without any of the usual he-said-she-said crap that often mars political reporting?
I asked AP Washington Bureau Chief Ron Fournier about this, and he told me something fascinating, if not all together unexpected: Their fact-checking efforts are almost uniformly the most clicked and most linked pieces they produce.
Journalistic fact-checking with authority, it turns out, is popular. Who woulda thunk it?
Greg Sargent: Who woulda thunk it: Fact-checking is popular!
(via Nielman Journalism Lab)
This is just sad:
On May 11, Lauren Marcello, the assistant general counsel at CBS sent a cease and desist letter, noting that “CBS is the owner of the rights in the award-winning news magazine televison series, ‘48 Hours,’ and its companion series, including ‘48 Hours Mystery,’” adding later in the letter, “your use is unlawful and constitutes trademark infringement, dilution and unfair competition …” along with a lot of other complicated, vaguely threatening legalese.
NYT: 48 HR Magazine Experiment Big Hit, Except for That Part About the Lawyers
(Thanks Paleofuture)
I’m having a hard time parsing the first sentence here, but the second sentence is crystal clear:
Centralized distribution by Apple of journalistic content, according to US laws and Apple’s profits is obviously a journalistic own-goal. Journalists should stop slavishly promoting the iPad.”
Gizmodo Australia: WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange On Apple’s Censorship Policies
Here are the five media trends I’m watching and will focus on in future articles on this site:
Sources and advertisers going direct
Context is King
Journalist as brand
Reporting as service
Media companies as technology companies
I have a heavy emphasis on journalism, but most of these actually apply to other media fields as well.
A simple concept with tremendous implications:
Every company is a media company because every company publishes to its customers, its staff, its neighbors, its communities.
It doesn’t matter if a company makes diapers or steel girders, it must also be a media company and know how to use all the media technologies at its disposal.
While this has always been true to some extent, it is even more important today, because our media technologies have become so much more powerful.
Every Company Is A Media Company
Via this article: The Future of Marketing Starts with Publishing Part 1 (via G.V.)
Compare this with Jay Rosen’s “advertisers going direct” and “sources going direct” mantras.
A top news and politics site is packaging content written by unpaid bloggers, hoping to engage its audience, give writers a platform, and make some money selling ads. No, I’m not talking about The Huffington Post. In recent weeks, The Washington Post has launched two new projects following a model closer to HuffPo — where a small number of professionals are paid to curate the work of many more unpaid writers — than its traditional print roots. In the competitive world of Washington news, it’s another example of the Post trying something new to compete with the startups that, not so long ago, weren’t viewed as much of a direct threat. […]
I spoke with the Post’s national innovations editor, Paul Volpe, about the new project. He described it in ways that have become common for the content-for-exposure model: It’s a mutually beneficial project, though no cash is exchanged; the content is already out there; readers want to see it, and the Post can bridge the audience gap in a way a local blog can’t.
Nieman Journalism Lab: WaPo wades into HuffPo’s unpaid content model
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