• News Int elevates Katie Vanneck to CMO
  Vanneck will take responsibility for the marketing teams across News International and also for circulation revenue. She is tasked with steering brand and promotional activity titles as the publisher continues to launch more apps and products.
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• Financial Times’ iPad App Brings In £1 Million | paidContent
  The Financial Times’ new iPad app has generated more than £1 ($1.59) million in advertising revenue since it was launched in May, according to the paper’s deputy chief executive.
  (tags: ipad advertising buisness)

• Republic of Letters
  To engage in literary commerce, to send news, books, literature – even compliments and criticism – was to show one's commitment to the community as a whole. Given the importance of these exchanges for ensuring the perpetuation of the republic of letters as a community, Lespinasse, Roland, Mosconi, and Renier Michiel worked to reinforce cohesion through friendship and loyalty. Thus sending a letter or procuring a book was a sign of personal devotion that engendered a social debt to be fulfilled.
  (tags: socialnetworking)
• 5 Tools for Online Journalism, Exploration and Visualization – ReadWriteCloud
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A newspaper, conducted on the true and natural principles of such a publication, ought to be the Register of the Times, and faithful recorder of every species of intelligence. It ought not to be engrossed by any particular object, but, like a well-covered table, it should contain something suited to every palate.

- John Walter, The Daily Universal Register, January 1785

• Twitter signs up Rockstar Games and Xbox to Promoted Accounts | News | Marketing Week
  Twitter has begun rolling out its Promoted Accounts product with Grand Theft Auto creators Rockstar Games and Microsoft’s Xbox among the first brands to sign up.
  (tags: twitter business advertising)

• Coming out: how was it for you? | The Times
  "I must confess that I felt them quite strongly. Communication is so much more intimate online. If people criticised me, or told me that it was drivel etc etc, I felt like I'd been slapped in the face."
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• Why diversity turns into conformity in online news: An interview with comm scholar Pablo Boczkowski » Nieman Journalism Lab
  “It is impossible to avoid the public anymore. I mean, it’s impossible to avoid listening to the public anymore…The question is what to do when you have to listen to the public. In my own experience, what you hear is not a whole lot that you would like to hear, especially if you have certain ideas about the role of journalism in society, and the importance of that for democracy, and the way the public feels. It’s a little bit depressing. But that is not going to go away because you’ve stopped listening to people.”
• Social Media Monitoring Tools Without the Hassle | Trackur
  YOUR WHITE LABELED, UNLIMITED EVERYTHING, ASS-KICKING, SOCIAL MEDIA MONITORING DASHBOARD…WITH A MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE!
• Facebook Introduces Lifetime Budgets For Ad Campaigns
  Facebook has introduced a new form of budgeting for advertisers, which enables to control how ad spends will be managed over the life of a campaign rather than a daily budget.
  (tags: advertising socialnetworking)
• Yap Transcribes Voicemails On Your iPhone For Free
  It transcribes them for you using only speech-to-text technology (no humans), which allows it to offer the service for free (with ads at the bottom).
  (tags: mobile tools iphone)
• Twitter turns entire accounts into ads • The Register
  Twitter has unveiled another effort to make money from its micro-blogging service. With its latest advertising program, dubbed "Promoted Accounts," advertisers can pay the company to promote their Twitter accounts to certain users.
  (tags: twitter advertising business)
• Magazines: Conde Nast Edges Further Into Video on Demand – Advertising Age – MediaWorks
  "On Monday Golf Digest will introduce Golf Digest on Demand, an ongoing golf-instruction series featuring young golf instructors that will cost $9.99 per month."
  (tags: business video)
• "It's not a perfect system" – my thoughts on changes to Reuters' commenting policy – Martin Belam's currybetdotnet blog – October 5, 2010
  I do worry, though, that they've rather left themselves as hostages to fortune with this feature. It surely won't be long until we get the first blog posts saying 'I looked at all the user profiles of the people commenting on this thread about global warming, and I can PROVE that Reuters rejects 12% of comments by users who do not support the myth of man-made climate change, but only rejects 4% of postings by ecofascists.

• The Press Association: Photographers boycott Turner Prize launch
  Richard Pohle, from The Times, said he had refused to photograph the launch. He said: "We are not prepared to sign a contract that leaves us open to being sued by the Tate if our pictures are used next to an article that criticises the gallery."
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• FT’s Tilt Is A Pure-Play Digital News Site About Emerging Markets | paidContent
  Like Alphaville, Tilt will include community elements which the FT says will provide a platform for thinkers and businessfolk to share views.
  (tags: innovation)
• Wired UK Will Test One-Off iPad Edition Before A Rolling Schedule | paidContent:UK
  Wired’s UK edition is about to follow its U.S. counterpart by publishing an iPad version.
  (tags: ipad)
• Toward a more thoughtful conversation on stories | Analysis & Opinion |
  Our new process grants a kind of VIP status on people who have had comments approved previously. When you register to comment on Reuters.com, our moderation software tags you as a new user. Your comments go through the same moderation process as before, but every time we approve a comment, you score a point.

  Once you’ve reached a certain number of points, you become a recognized user. Congratulations: your comments will be published instantly from now on

  (tags: community comments)
• New York on a budget: hotels, shops and sights
  From former flophouses to plywood rooms built on stilts…our guide to the best-value places to sleep in the Big Apple
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