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  • This Is Not Akio Toyoda Apologizing on David Letterman


    Posted Friday, March 12, 2010 - 2:31pm

    • Matthew DeBord has written about the auto industry for the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Huffington Post. Follow him on Twitter.

  • Walt Mossberg Discusses the E-Reader Market


    Posted Friday, March 12, 2010 - 2:04pm

    • Marion Maneker is a regular contributor to The Big Money.

  • Google-China Endgame Approaching?


    Posted Friday, March 12, 2010 - 1:26pm

    Ever since January, when Google (GOOG) officials announced the existence of a plot to hack into its systems and declared that it would no longer comply with China's censorship regulations, observers have wondered what high-level negotiations were occurring between the two parties and the United States. We've all been forced to read what tea leaves we could find: the slant in a Chinese proxy newspaper, Hillary Clinton's recent address on cybersecurity, cryptic remarks by Google and Chinese authorities. This morning, we got a little clarity.

    • Chris Thompson is a writer living in Brooklyn.

  • Articles Posted on Weekends May Get More Play on Facebook


    Posted Friday, March 12, 2010 - 12:45pm

    According to data from social media marketing consultant Dan Zarrella, the slow part of the news cycle is actually the time when articles are shared most on Facebook. Here's his chart that shows Facebook sharing on different days of the week.

    Zarrella says:

    • Caitlin McDevitt is an editorial assistant at The Big Money.

  • Confessions of an Embedded "Corporate Journalist"


    Posted Friday, March 12, 2010 - 12:34pm

    Thomson Reuters, my former employer, published this week its social media guidelines—rules that all its journalists should consider before tweeting, blogging, uploading, or simply publishing, the news. The principles espoused—accuracy, objectivity, transparency—are hardly futuristic.

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  • Hearst Slices Content Into Apps


    Posted Friday, March 12, 2010 - 12:14pm

    The transition from print to digital hasn't been easy. But the most likely outcome, as I've been banging on about these last few weeks, is a media world where a central editorial brand produces content that is accessed (and paid for) in a variety of ways. 

    Today, the Wall Street Journal gives us a glimpse of Hearst's strategy to do just this. They've got a new Let Me Know division that is producing iPhone apps segmented by celebrity:

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    • Marion Maneker is a regular contributor to The Big Money.

  • Does Eating Local Ingredients "Kill Innovation"?


    Posted Friday, March 12, 2010 - 12:04pm

    Here's chef Peter Gordon in Britain's The Independent; "Our love affair with home-grown ingredients is killing innovation in our restaurants."

    He's speaking mainly from a British perspective and, though he doesn't make the distinction, he seems to be arguing only with the fundamentalists among the "eat local" movement. But it's a good read.

    • Dan Mitchell has written for the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, and Wired.

  • Make My RSS Feed Full, Goddamnit!


    Posted Friday, March 12, 2010 - 11:24am

    from SlateGawker Media recently scrapped its full-text RSS feeds in order to encourage reader to click through to its sites. While the point of the move may have been to increase page views, it could just end up alienating readers:

    • Jack Shafer is Slate's editor at large.

  • Friday Tune-Up


    Posted Friday, March 12, 2010 - 9:45am

    They call it the Car-puccino, and it runs on coffee—lots and lots of lots of coffee. Note the useful graphic. (Daily Mail)

    “Toyota is proving to be the winner in the March Madness of incentives.” (Edmunds Auto Observer)

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    • Matthew DeBord has written about the auto industry for the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Huffington Post. Follow him on Twitter.

  • Stream Room March 12, 2010: There's a Good Chance Somebody in Your Family Watches TV Online


    Posted Friday, March 12, 2010 - 9:29am

    At this rate, Comcast and NBC are going to appear before Congress every week until the midterms. Comcast (CMCSA) CEO Brian Roberts went to Congress again yesterday to lobby for that merger thing people are still talking about.