With some pretty damning evidence, both FSJ and Gizmodo are shouting at AT&T, which claims that they’ve upgraded their network although they’ve spent less each quarter on upgrades since the iPhone was introduced in 2007. [...] They’ve consistently made more money (80% more revenue compared to Q4 2007) from wireless data, yet on average, AT&T has spent less each quarter for network improvements.
Prior to an interview on Friday about Twitter’s “staying power,” Caitlin Murphy (KIRO intern, UW grad) asked me that question. In preparation for our meeting, I tweeted: “Why do you like Twitter? Which is your favorite, Twitter or Facebook?” 
I also looked at some of the answers to the question “What would you say to a friend who asked you about Twitter?” from our spring survey. Continue reading
Earlier this month, after reading Renay San Miguel’s article on Facebook application access to private information, I posted:
I’ve removed 80 percent of my FB applications and double-checked/changed permissions on the remaining few. Most of the [remaining] apps are there for my convenience: they allow me to post to FB from “outside” but none can access my data unless I’m using the application.
My announcement came in the wake of Facebook’s apparent effort to push members to share their postings by setting “everyone” as the default audience for four categories of information:
It wasn’t too hard to figure out how to make this amazing YouTube clip “on topic” for WiredPen: the description contains an incredibly awkward typo. As I poked around YouTube, trying to find out more information about the performance, I was reminded of a mini-rant I shared with Mike this weekend: why don’t posters provide basic details about the clips they upload? It’s not as though they were limited to 140 characters!
Tips first, then the Swan Lake pas de duex.
Nielsen Business Media announced today that it is closing Editor & Publisher and Kirkus Reviews and selling eight other publications: Adweek, Brandweek, Mediaweek, The Clio Awards, Backstage, Billboard, Film Journal International and The Hollywood Reporter. The move comes as the publishing industry — news, books, magazines — flounders in response to market disruption caused by practically-free distribution via the Internet.
Paid Content (Guardian Newspapers property) lets us know the effort to sell the 108-year-old E&P had been in work for a year. (E&P was founded in 1901; in 1907, it merged with The Journalist, which was founded in 1884.)
The other shuttered publication, Kirkus Reviews, was founded in 1933. Its focus: book reviews. Yesterday’s announcement that two publishers are experimenting with withholding ebook distribution until after the hardcover illustrates the book industry’s reluctance to embrace friction-free distribution.
The NYT reports that AdWeek broke the story; the story was unavailable due to server overload due to poor URL coding at NYT (8.55 am Pacific). Note to AdWeek: tell your web devs to fix your incredibly horrible URL syntax:
http://www.adweek.com/aw/content_display/news/media
/e3icf90084764d1ef2d4ab9be4342d72e78
Update: E&P on the closure; Columbia Journalism Review with E&P’s Greg Mitchell
