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1:57 AM Fri, Aug 07, 2009 |
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News org needs good home: New York Times Co. confirms Globe is for sale

Twitter, Facebook attack targeted one user

A Georgian blogger with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal and Google's Blogger and YouTube was targeted in a denial of service attack that led to the site-wide outage at Twitter and problems at the other sites on Thursday, according to a Facebook executive.
That's the country of Georgia, not the state.

Will they say it glows? Italy to build solar-energy-producing statue of saint


Speed skills: How Netflix gets your movies to your mailbox so fast


Digital suicide: NAA/Nielsen stats show newspapers own less than 1 percent of U.S. online audience page views, time spent

The dialogue in the industry should not be about building paywalls, punishing aggregators, tweaking copyright laws or anything else that would constrict, rather than build, the online audience for newspaper content. And it should not be about "protecting print."

The dialogue should be primarily about transforming newspapers into online-first digital enterprises.

Rupert Murdoch plans charge for all news websites by next summer. Rupert Murdoch will embrace a retail model that takes his products off the open Web.

I Want Media: Gawker will benefit if Page Six is put behind a web pay wall, said @nicknotned (Nick Denton) at IWM's media panel. "We would love it." http://bit.ly/F9pXy


Ayurvedic bento box: Distinct tastes balance on Indian tapas plates. Guest-blogging for vacationing Journal Food Editor Gail Ciampa over on the Food Blog.

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