The proposed new rules would stop carriers from blocking services that compete with their own, but still allow subtler types of discrimination. It would be an improvement, but also allow the creation of a two-speed internet. Read more at GigaOM »
The Department of Justice’s trial against Apple kicked off in New York Monday. The DOJ alleges that Apple conspired with publishers to set ebook prices, while Apple argues that there was no conspiracy and that Apple was operating the way it normally does with content providers. Read more »
If the media is being disrupted in many of the same ways that the automotive manufacturing industry has been, who would qualify as the most innovative or disruptive force in the media business over the last decade? Read more »
Junyo, an education startup led by Zynga co-founder Steve Schoettler, is launching a new product strategy for using data to improve education publishing, and perhaps education itself. Read more at GigaOM »
The federal government is pressing its legal and PR case against Apple in New York federal court today. It released some slides from the proceedings that are intended to highlight the intended conspiracy. Here’s a look. Read more »
Newspaper companies might not want to think of their business as being similar to industrial manufacturing like the car industry, but in many ways it is — and they can learn from what other manufacturers have been through. Read more »
Onwards and upwards — advertisers, once again, spent more money than ever before on online ads. Here’s the latest, and a nifty chart, by way of the Interactive Advertising Bureau. Read more »
A new French court ruling raises questions about how far the country, which has robust support for artists and musicians, should go in imposing cultural taxes on connected devices. Read more »
The world of mobile is getting faster and faster, and that means more LTE everywhere. It also means less talking, more Facebook and, of course, more video. The bottom line — we are only just getting started. Some data points from Ericsson’s mobility report. Read more at GigaOM »
What does Phil DeFranco’s new deal with Revision3 say about the state of the industry, and are there other creators who might be right for similar deals? Read more »
Aereo’s careful plan to upend the TV industry was going fine — until an LA company, with a streaming service of its own, got in the way. Here’s an inside view of what happened. Read more »
The Chicago Sun-Times’ decision to lay off its entire staff of 28 photographers was widely criticized as a knee-jerk response by clueless managers, but the fact remains that newspaper cost structures are too high, and crowdsourcing works. Read more »
The Wall Street Journal has said it is planning to launch a LinkedIn-style social network for readers, and Bloomberg appears to be launching (or relaunching) one as well — but is this really what their readers or users want? Read more »
The winner of the Publishing Hackathon will be chosen at BookExpo America on Friday afternoon, and I’ll be live blogging here starting at 3 PM ET. Read more »
Rap Genius started out as a website that lets fans annotate rap lyrics, but it’s expanded to allow annotation of lots of different types of content. Cooking site Food52 has partnered with Rap Genius to let users annotate recipes, and Sheryl Sandberg annotated the first chapter of Lean In. Read more »
A new technology lets consumers watch and record live TV shows on smartphones and other devices. Due to court fights, a large part of the country won’t see it anytime soon — here’s a visual. Read more at GigaOM »
Introducing advertising to previously ad-free platforms is a tough sell for anyone, but Tumblr users might be even less accepting of the new dashboard ads considering how they use Tumblr for personal expression. Read more at GigaOM »
The departure of Thomson Reuters’ social-media editor sparked a debate about whether the position as we know it is dead or dying — but while those jobs may be evolving, the skills involved are more necessary than ever. Read more »
Ebook pricing strategies are changing fast as the market evolves and retailers and publishers amass more data. Here are some new tips. Read more »
Netflix wants to triple its original content spend within the next few years, according to its Chief Content Officer, Ted Sarandos. Read more »
The Guardian has gotten a fair amount of ribbing on Twitter for opening a coffee shop in London, but the venture is just another element in the newspaper’s attempt to open up its journalism and engage more with its readers. Read more »
The New York Times has disavowed the current trend towards “native advertising” but a report suggests it is close to embracing it. Read more »
Facebook has admitted that it failed to apply its policies about offensive content to some disturbingly misogynistic pages. But is this a victory for the social network’s critics, or just another stop on the slippery slope of censorship? Read more at GigaOM »
Here’s one reason why Yahoo and Hulu would be a good match: They’re practically roommates already! But the deal would also make sense from a business perspective. Read more »
The University of Pennsylvania, Frederator Studios, the Chicago Tribune and the Toronto Star all recently started publishing ebooks. Here are some of the lessons they’ve learned — and how well they’re doing. Read more »
“The domino is going to fall,” IAC chairman Barry Diller predicted. How fast and how hard, we don’t exactly know, but the television market is ripe for change. Read more »
Dow Jones is betting on tech investments to wield together a sprawling swarm of products — including the Wall Street Journal as well as research and data products — and compete with Bloomberg. Read more »
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo thinks Apple is his spirit company, news organizations shouldn’t fear Twitter, and that engineers need room to experiment. Read more at GigaOM »
According to multiple reports, media mogul Barry Diller is looking to unload his stake in Newsweek magazine. Is the title’s brand irreparably damaged, or could a new owner revitalize it? Here are a few suggestions. Read more »
If the last ten years were about mobile computing, the next ten years will be about wearable computing. And as a result, the type of content we share with the internet will also change. Read more at GigaOM »
A new initiative from HarperCollins allows authors to give away digital advance copies of their ebooks. The ebooks are protected by DRM and can only be read on devices that support Adobe Digital Editions (which does not include Kindle). Read more »
TuneIn more than doubled its funding with a new $25 million round, and the company wants to use the money to help monetize radio online – without the need for subscription fees. Read more at GigaOM »
The FT just launched a rapid-fire news service that consists of 100-250 word stories. The idea is to offer punchy news and analysis — and ensure readers don’t have to stray from the FT for their business news. Read more »
With the proliferation of new publishing platforms — and not just blogs or social networks, but also all-digital publishers like Medium, LinkedIn and the Huffington Post — how does a writer decide where they should put their work? Read more »
A new initiative from DailyLit/Plympton, the Harvard Book Store and the Creative Action Network lets artists design custom covers for classic books, then sell the books in print and digital editions. Read more »
Guess who else likes Arrested Development? Pirates, that’s who. The new season of the cult show has been downloaded by 100,000 file sharers within a single day. Read more »
Netflix declined to renew its licensing deal with Viacom last week, leading to the loss of popular streaming kids’ shows like Dora the Explorer and SpongeBob SquarePants. Toddlers nationwide had a terrible weekend. Read more »
Gawker reached its goal of raising $200,000 to purchase a video of a big city mayor smoking crack. Editor John Cook explained on Tuesday the reasons for the controversial campaign in which the fate of the video is still unknown. Read more »
Circa, the San Francisco-based startup that creates news summaries for mobile users, says it has hired Thomson Reuters social-media editor Anthony De Rosa as its new editor-in-chief to expand its journalistic reach. Read more »
