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Ruth Bourdain: acerbic, androgynous, foul-mouthed, totally fictitious and now...? James Beard Foundation winner.

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A video journalist who served more than seven months in federal prison for refusing to surrender footage of a San Francisco street protest has gotten in trouble for reporting on another demonstration.

For journalists, transparency can be hard. Social media makes it easy, technically, but opening the door to listen to your audience can be uncomfortable or downright terrifying. Enter New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, who posted this to his 211,000 fans on his Facebook page today. Of course, you could argue this is a safe [...] Related posts:

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In a blog entry just posted to the Google News blog, the system's founder, Krishna Bharat, offers a fascinating comparison between between Google's "coverage" of 9/11 and the news it provided of Osama bin Laden's death earlier this week. "We have certainly come a long way in the last decade," he notes. "Indeed, Google News now has over 70 editions in over 30 languages, and sends over 1 billion clicks a month to news publishers worldwide."

In his post, Bharat lays out the general insights that informed Google News' creation and evolution. I spoke with him this afternoon to learn a little more about those lessons.

After 16 years in the newspaper business, it’s hard to imagine doing anything else, but that’s just what I’m going to do, starting at the end of this summer. I am very excited to announce that I have accepted an offer from the [...]

Guardian media and technology editor Dan Sabbagh reports this afternoon that reporters’ and newspapers’ Twitter feeds are expected to brought under the regulation of the Press Complaints Commission later this year. According to Sabbagh’s report, Twitter accounts that include the names of publications and are clearly “official” – he cites @telegraphnews and @thesun_bizarre as examples [...]

Hundreds of suggestions and countless tweets later and we have finalised our PeerIndex list of the most influential UK journalists. We have used PeerIndex, which ranks social capital. It does this by algorithmically mapping social networks, including Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. We decided to go one step further and put the list of top journalists [...]

Listen below for this week’s news round-up from Journalism.co.uk’s senior reporter Rachel McAthy and sign up to our iTunes podcast feed for future audio. This week’s jpod reports on the BBC’s announcement of 45 more job losses within its News division, the unanimous vote for a ballot on strike action at Newsquest South London and [...]

The Derby County midfielder is looking forward to a 'normal' life after his 631st and final match on Saturday

Robbie Savage was never likely to go quietly. Earlier this week at Derby County's training ground, the players and staff organised a surprise retirement party ahead of Saturday's trip to Reading, the 631st and final match of Savage's colourful and often controversial career. Savage has captured everything on his camcorder, including the skeleton complete with blond wig that greeted him in the canteen and was supposed to resemble football's favourite pantomime villain.

It is difficult to think of another player over the past 15 years who has taken so much pleasure from using every trick in the book to wind up opponents and get under the skin of fans. Savage has thrived on the stick he has received, so much so that he is genuinely worried Reading fans may break with tradition and decide to be nice to him because it is his last game. "I wouldn't like to go out like that," Savage says, smiling. "It wouldn't be right. I'd like to go out with them booing me."

That sound has been familiar during a career he started as a trainee at Manchester United in 1991 and included spells at Crewe Alexandra, Leicester City, Birmingham City and Blackburn Rovers before finishing up at Derby, where he has enjoyed a renaissance under Nigel Clough. "It's been fantastic," Savage says before reeling off his favourite statistics. "I'm in the top 50 Premier League appearances [346], the third-most booked Premier League player [89] and have still got the record for being the most booked player in a season [14] along with Mark Hughes, my idol [and Olivier Dacourt and Paul Ince]."

Savage, in other words, has left his mark on the Premier League. He spent 11 years in the top flight and admits he has "probably overachieved because there have been thousands of players out there with more ability than me". Yet what the Welshman has lacked in finesse, he has more than made up for with his work ethic and passion for the game. Savage lives and breathes football, which is why retirement, even at the age of 36, has been such a big decision.

"I could play for a team in League One or League Two, somebody around the north-west area [where he lives]. But the type of person I am, if I played poorly or if I get frustrated, my life would be even worse than it is now. I see that Michael Bridges has retired. He had a fantastic career. He played for Leeds United when they were good, he played for Sunderland – he probably played for bigger clubs than me, but he's had one line in the paper. I'd rather blow up than fizzle out. I don't want to fade away and go down the leagues.

"When you have played with Benni McCarthy, Roque Santa Cruz, Giggsy [Ryan Giggs], Gary Speed, Tugay and [Christophe] Dugarry, the further you go down the harder it is. And last Saturday, standing in the shower [after the 2-0 defeat by Bristol City], I was thinking unless I went to a top Championship team, which is not going to happen, it's the right time to go. And I'm not feeling as bad as I thought I would. That's a weird thing to say, because in my book I said I was going to be dreading it. But I am actually looking forward to it."

One of the reasons Savage is so sanguine about the future is because his next career is already up and running. During his final 12 months at Pride Park, Clough has allowed him to combine playing for Derby with an increasingly demanding media schedule. The highlight has been co-hosting Radio 5 Live's 606 phone-in on a Saturday night, which has proved to be such a success that Savage will be at Sony's Radio Academy awards on Monday night, after he was shortlisted in the "rising star" category.

"The majority of people say 'we love what he's doing because he tells it how it is'. And I will continue to do that," Savage says. "I'm not the most articulate guy in the world or the most educated but whatever I get into I'm passionate about and give everything I've got. I could never have been the best footballer but I believe I can be the best at what I am doing next. In football, you can't get along without knowledge, and I think I've got more knowledge than a lot of them.

"I'm also a grafter. I haven't got to where I am, presenting 606, without doing my apprenticeship first. I did games on a Monday night for Sports Extra at late notice and on my wife's birthday. I just dropped everything because you have to do that. I'm not a Gary Neville or a Jamie Carragher, or somebody who doesn't need to do their apprenticeship in the media and can go straight into it because they've played for massive clubs. I've had to work at it but I believe I am better than them."

Savage's reputation for being a joker precedes him but he is desperate to be taken seriously, and for that reason will be careful about the opportunities he accepts, especially when he has his eyes on becoming a regular pundit on Match of the Day and a captain on Question of Sport. "I've been offered Celebrity Big Brother but that's not the way I want to go," he says. "Skating on Ice is not really me either, but Strictly Come Dancing is a wonderful show. I'm horrendous at dancing but I think if you do Strictly, you go on to another level, and that's a level I have never been at."

His status, though, has already changed. He senses an "amazing turnaround" in the way he is perceived because of his media work and wonders, with a mischievous sparkle in his eye, whether he can become "the housewives' favourite". Twitter has also helped his profile. He has more than 260,000 followers, which ranks him fourth among British footballers. He loves the fact that people such as Lord Sugar tweet him although, Savage being Savage, he gets his share of abuse. "I'll have about 1,000 tweets a day and 500 of them will call me a wanker and 500 will be nice.

"There was one guy on Twitter who absolutely came for me one night. He hammered me with obscenities, so a lot of my followers had a go at him. He was naive enough to leave his website on there, so they bombarded his boss at work with emails. The guy tweeted me and said he had kids and that he could lose his job. I felt bad then so I sent him a direct message and got his number. He asked me to ring his boss, so I did that and said that he had just had a few too many drinks. That's me. I'm a decent guy."

It is a story that sums Savage up. He has, by his own admission, been "a bit of an egg" at times. He has "dived and cheated and done stuff which I'm not proud of", in particular the incident in the 1999 Carling Cup final, which now causes him to cringe with embarrassment when he watches how he got Tottenham Hotspur's Justin Edinburgh sent off while playing for Leicester. Yet anyone who believes Savage is the same person off the pitch has never spent any time in his company.

It was impossible not to be moved by the sight of him walking out at Pride Park last Saturday with his two sons, Freddie and Charlie, and his father, Colin, who was attending his first game since just after he was diagnosed with Pick's disease, a degenerative brain illness similar to Alzheimer's, eight years ago. "My dad – what a guy," Savage says. "He's a hero. To see a guy who was like me and you a few years ago ... to see him like that on Saturday was really hard."

Savage knows that it will be another defining day at the Madejski Stadium. "The surreal thing is that at 4.45pm, I'll be 'Robbie Savage ex-footballer', and I'll be crossing that road. The life you are in now, the word 'no' doesn't exist. You get your bottom wiped for you, you don't queue, one of the tables miraculously becomes available when the restaurant is fully booked, you get things for nothing when you've got more money than a lot of people – it's bizarre. But after the Reading match, it's going to be a normal world."

Guilty verdicts for practicing journalism are the stuff of authoritarian nations — and now, apparently, UC Berkeley. A campus disciplinary panel has concluded that journalism student Josh Wolf should not have been present for an 11-hour student occupation even though, the panel acknowledged, he was filming the protest as a journalist. His punishment? To write an essay to help the administration establish a clear policy on the rights of student journalists.

April was another strange month of mixed messages in the labor market. The payroll survey came in surprisingly strong, with 244,000 jobs added, the largest monthly gain in five years. The household survey, however, went in the opposite direction, with the unemployment rate increasing from 8.8% to 9.0%. This increase in unemployment was not due to formerly sidelined workers deciding to look for work, because the labor force increased by only 15,000.

For Immediate Release: May 6, 2011 Washington, D.C. — The sealing of court records and proceedings in an Ohio corruption case was not only unconstitutional, but also unnecessary to ensure . . .

The International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) has just launched rNews, a consistent, machine-readable way of expressing news metadata in RDFa (a linked data language). This post explains some of the differences between rNews and hNews and why, if you publish news on the web, you ought to be using one or the other.

In a now infamous incident at Cambridge University back in October 1946, mid-way through a seminar, the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein is said to have threatened the philosopher Karl Popper with a red-hot poker (the exact circumstances and use of the poker are still disputed, 65 years on). The argument? Over whether there are, or are not, such things as philosophical problems. Popper said there were, Wittgenstein said there were only puzzles.

Step into the similarly rarefied world of online publishing languages and, though you might not be threatened with a red-hot poker, someone will almost certainly wave its online equivalent at you -- as we found when we were developing hNews -- a news microformat -- with the Associated Press.

We started, back in 2008, with a problem: Very few online news stories had consistent, machine-readable information about their provenance (i.e. basic stuff like who wrote it, who published it, when it was first published, etc.). This was a problem because without this information -- or metadata -- it was incredibly difficult to differentiate news from other content on the web, or to figure out where news had come from.

Two Solutions to the Problem

We searched about for a solution to the problem, thanks to grants from the Knight and MacArthur Foundations, and found not one but two. The first was microformats -- which are straightforward, open mark-up formats built on existing standards. The second was RDFa, a method of embedding full RDF, the linked data language of the semantic web.

We made a decision to use microformats. We did this for highly pragmatic reasons. We figured that most news organizations (and journalists and bloggers) were not yet ready to make the big leap to linked data. The easier we made it to integrate consistent metadata, we thought, the more likely news organizations were to do it. Our chief concern was less about exactly how people made the provenance of online news more transparent, just that they did it.

The Associated Press came to a similar conclusion, and together we developed hNews. Our pragmatism has so far borne fruit. The hNews microformat has since been integrated in about 1,200 news sites in the U.S. This means that there must now be a hundred-plus million news stories on the web with hNews. And, the AP has based its new news registry business and its forthcoming rights clearinghouse around hNews.

This did not stop some semantic web evangelists from waving their metaphorical red-hot pokers, or from suggesting we were not born of parents in wedlock or other less warm and fuzzy responses.

So, when we learned that the IPTC were launching an equivalent of hNews in RDFa we were over the moon. Hooray! Now people have a choice to mark up their news in microformats or in linked data.

The Ambitious rNews

"Equivalent" is not quite right. rNews is more ambitious than hNews. If hNews is like a ham sandwich then rNews is like a baked Alaska. rNews covers lots of aspects of provenance and content. You can, if you want to mark up additional aspects of news stories, mix-and-match rNews with other RDF ontologies (i.e. different linked data vocabularies). It's also more "correct" than hNews, but as a result more verbose and intrusive. It's a much bigger change to existing HTML pages than hNews. That said, it is, by RDF standards, pretty straightforward. All this makes it a very good alternative way of creating consistent, machine-readable mark-up for news.

The big difference between two is in their complexity. Making a ham sandwich is much simpler and requires less expertise than cooking a baked Alaska. The same goes for hNews and rNews. As a result, my prediction is that rNews will be the format of choice for big news organizations who want to do things fully and properly and are willing to commit the time and resources (like the New York Times -- which was central to the development of rNews). In the same way it will probably suit high end proprietary content management systems. For smaller news organizations, journalists and bloggers, hNews goes a good part of the way there and is much easier to integrate and lighter to use.

In other words, the two complement each other rather well, and ought to provide the foundations for consistent, machine-readable metadata for news.

Pros and Cons of Each Approach

The AP's Stuart Myles was one of the creators of hNews and worked with the IPTC on rNews.

"The fact that hNews and rNews have similar names is no coincidence," Myles told me via email. "To me, microformats and RDFa are two different technical approaches to the same challenge. Each approach has pros and cons and many tools that support one also work with the other."

Evan Sandhaus of the New York Times, one of the original authors of rNews, also emphasizes the compatibility of the two standards: "rNews was designed from the start to provide publishers with many of the same features offered by hNews.  And future versions of the rNews will likely bring the standards into even closer alignment," he told me via email.

Should you care about hNews and rNews? If you publish news on the web then you most certainly should. The arrival of rNews and the continuing take-up of hNews show that metadata is central to the future of digital news. Consistent, machine-readable metadata makes your news easier to find, more distinguishable, more straightforward to check, more programmable, more targetable, and less hard to track. If you are not yet publishing your news with metadata then don't be surprised if someone soon comes at you flailing a red-hot poker.

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The Carnival of Journalism has been going on the past few months, and I’ve missed posting to them. However, this month’s topic is very interesting, and I feel like I have something to contribute, if a little bit past deadline.

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Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week’s top stories about the future of news and the discussions that grew up around them. This week: Osama bin Laden's death gives social media a breaking-news victory lap; publishers sign on with Apple; The Daily reports a loss; a blank social media policy; more changes at AOL; and this week's required reading.

I have been invited to be an official blogger at this month's Next Conference, in Berlin. And given the subject - Data Love - how could I possibly refuse? Data is a significant part of our business here at...

UK citizen journalism site Blottr.com is to expand into five new cities this month, as the company behind the site celebrates securing funding of £1 million. The platform, founded by Adam Baker, enables users to create and break news stories, as well as contribute towards other peoples’ posts. The company this week closed a round [...]

Reuters reported this week that digital publishing company Yudu has launched a service which means magazine publishers can evade the 30 per cent cut which Apple takes when subscriptions are charged through the App Store. Yudu, whose online publishing tools help companies tailor their content for tablet computers, smartphones and ereaders such as the Amazon [...]

Publishers now able to report smartphone and tablet figures as well as website and print statistics

Newspapers and magazines with apps on the iPhone and iPad will soon be able to report traffic figures alongside print and website figures.

The Audit Bureau of Circulations, which reports the audience figures of most of the UK's national and regional media, began measuring smartphone app activity on 1 May – a sign of the booming importance of mobile publishing.

All of the UK's major national newspapers have iPhone apps, with most also having a product for the iPad. On Thursday, the Daily Telegraph launched an updated iPad app using Apple's strict subscription scheme.

It is not clear how many publishers have signed up to the scheme, or how many intend to report app traffic on a monthly basis, alongside website and print statistics.

ABC will measure how many "unique devices" – like unique users, but one user might mean more than one device – access the app, page impressions, the average duration of app visits, as well as ad impressions requested by each device.

Most national newspapers report their print circulation and website traffic monthly, although News International titles – the Times, Sunday Times, Sun and News of the World – pulled out last year ahead of launching website paywalls. Magazines report their circulation on a half-yearly basis.

ABC in the US began measuring iPad apps alongside regular magazine editions in March last year.

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Startup's software offers identification and recommendation tools, as well as easy-to-build apps for galleries

Of the startup pitches I've heard in the past five years, ArtFinder must be the most ambitious yet believable of them all. Art, the co-founders tell me, is a sector that seems to have defied the rise of consumer internet services and remains almost entirely unexplored. Given that perspective, it's not surprising that armed with a substantial chunk of funding from venture firms Wellington and Greylock – and a crack team of some of London's best developers – ArtFinder is preparing to stake out a major chunk of this space for itself.

There's barely a startup that doesn't offer a parallel of some part for ArtFinder's plans. Think of movie details site IMDB, music recommendations service Last.fm, gig tracking site Songkick, online mixture site Muxtape (RIP) and Shazam, the music identification service all as shorthand for some aspect of ArtFinder is trying to do.

First, there's the IMDb-style database. ArtFinder co-founder Spencer Hyman describes the art sector online as a white space: "It hasn't been digitised. Nobody has done any of the stuff you'd expect in either a Web 1.0 IMDb way, or in a Web 2.0 way, like Last.fm." Hyman, who spent three years at Last.fm as chief technology officer, wants to bring his experience of recommendation science to ArtFinder. Unlike last.fm, ArtFinder can't base its recommendations on tracking or 'scribbling' services like iTunes, so has had to create that database of art before it could begin to think about building recommendation tools. Now that database is established, users can begin to note work and artists they like, which means the system can begin to build connections between people's tastes and ultimately recommend work.

Working with galleries and museums, ArtFinder has been building a central database of artworks and estimates it now has around half a million, covering nearly every collection from nearly every major institution. Given the volume of artwork that exists in every medium from painting to video to sculpture and time-based media – and the flexibility of interpretation when it comes to defining 'art' – it's impossible to say how many more artworks there are to digitise. ArtFinder sees this is a permanent ongoing task.

Sharing tools are another important area, particularly for recommendation. "There's no equivalent of Desert Island Discs for art, so how would you make a mixtape?" said Hyman. "Wouldn't it be tremendous if you could make a mixtape of art for your friends?"

For co-founder Chris Thorpe, art discovery has to begin with making it easier for people to become art lovers. "The emphasis on art history and institutes has taken away the visceral, emotional experience of art. That experience and excitement should make you what to know more and deepen your engagement with it – if it all started with art history, no one would ever go to a gallery."

If Songkick wants to create an IMDb (although with far slicker design) for live music information, then ArtFinder wants to do the same for art exhibitions. In the space between recommendations and events is a partnership being developed with Foursquare, which will mean that users will be notified about work and artists they like that happen to be on show nearby. Thorpe is clearly excited by this idea because it adds a touch of serendipity back to art discovery: ArtFinder's ultimate goal, he says, is to get people to see more original artwork in venues. The first stage of working with Foursquare has been to harmonise the venue databases of the two systems, which is now around a third of the way through.

"It means that when you're in Gateshead, the ArtFinder app can suggest that you go to the Baltic. But on a finer grain, because we know where the pictures are held, we can say the next time you're at Moma, remember to see Starry Night by Van Gogh."

Hyman adds that it also means the app can notify users when work they like comes to the UK, like the Thomson Collection, which is currently being loaned to Dulwich. Add to that recommendations from friends on Facebook and Twitter, and that's a compelling way of building a collection of your favourite digital art.

Apps are a major part of what ArtFinder is offering to galleries. Where galleries have previously used clunky audio guides and largely been unconfident in their use of supportive multimedia, ArtFinder has created a simple app-building tool. Called Fountain – referencing Marcel Duchamp's infamous readymade piece – it has designed to be as easy to use as WordPress, allowing users to upload a basic a spreadsheet of the catalogue, add titles and location details and add gallery logos. Fountain allows an HTML5-based web app that can then be 'adjusted to fit' for Apple, Android, Nook, WebOS and BlackBerry's platforms, and can be finished in under four hours. About 20 galleries and museums in the UK and US are already testing it.

A key part of the apps is an image recognition tool – the Shazam part of the plan – so users can use a device's camera to identify the work, and find out about the artist and work in the context of that collection or show. Oxford's Ashmolean, the V&A;, the National Portrait Gallery and the National Maritime Museum are among those testing a bespoke ArtFinder app.

There's another key aspect, and the one that could be most lucrative – updating the traditional end-of-exhibition postcard tradition. ArtFinder is exploring the established – and lucrative – world of limited edition lithographs and books from shows that ArtFinder says it can promote to a wider audience, and run with venues on a revenue share. And with most potential of all is poster printing on demand; Ikea is currently the biggest high street retailer of art in the UK, but through ArtFinder, users could order a print of a favourite work, with a revenue share benefiting the art institution rather than a retail chain.

With so much on the to-do list, how does ArtFinder prioritise what to work on next? "We don't yet know which bits will take off and fly," said Hyman. "What we do first is what we think users will react to most, and then we respond to the metrics and try to make certain that we focus on what it is people like."

When I meet the pair for the second time, Thorpe is deep in a new app feature that lets users zoom into pictures an explore at a resolution of 7,500 x 7,500 pixels, and will eventually be able to reach 15,000 x 15,000 pixels. He demonstrates on a Matt Collishaw work of a crushed butterfly. With quality this good, it's the digital equivalent of inspecting the brushstrokes in a painting that is just inches away. When retina display reaches iPad, the experience will be flawless.

U.S. House Republicans have demanded that the National Labor Relations Board provide information about its decision to file a union-retaliation complaint against Boeing Co. for building an airplane factory in South Carolina. The board has until May 19 to submit documents and communications between a regional office that investigated the case and the national office.

One week has passed since Dorothy Parvaz was last seen, boarding a quick flight from Doha to Damascus. On Tuesday, it was confirmed the U.S. ambassador to Syria had met with a senior Syrian official about her. According to al-Jazeera, for whom Parvaz was working, Iranian officials have also been in contact with their Syrian counterparts over the matter — a fact that may prove crucial to securing her release, given Iran’s influence.

A pay-equity plan that has finally been approved at The Montreal Gazette will see about $2.5 million in back pay and penalties doled out to workers. David Wilson, the CWA Canada staff representative who has been involved with the pay-equity file in Montreal since the beginning in January 2000, says workers who were "grossly underpaid" will now be properly compensated, some as much as $50,000. Clerical jobs were the source of some of the greatest discrepancies.

The Washington Post Co. reported a two-thirds drop in first quarter earnings, hurt by falling enrollment numbers at its Kaplan Higher Education unit and by a $30.7 million write-down of an investment in Corinthian Colleges, a troubled career-oriented post-secondary education firm. The company said that “operating results declined at all of the Company’s divisions for the quarter, except for a small improvement at the newspaper publishing division.”

One by one, they told their tales. Mass protests in Wisconsin. A petition drive to kill anti-worker measures in Ohio. A ban on collective bargaining for Tennessee teachers. And a right-to-work bill sent to New Hampshire’s governor — who will veto it, with unions lobbying lawmakers to uphold his decision. These and other “tales from the front lines” of the war on workers were related by several hundred nurses as they gathered for their annual legislative conference.

Yesterday’s net neutrality hearing took 10 seconds to turn adversarial, as Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) opened the House Judiciary Committee meeting with a series of broadsides against the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC’s legal argument authorizing the rules amounted to a "Rube Goldberg theory of regulation," said Goodlatte, in which a long chain of events might eventually produce a legal policy decision. "You don’t grow an industry by regulating it."

Business Blitz, an exciting new one-day educational workshop launched by NPPA, will kick off in June in McLean, VA, and make five stops across America before November, NPPA executive director Mindy Hutchison announced.

Maddie McGarvey, a junior in Ohio University’s School of Visual Communication (VisCom), is the new Student Board Representative for the National Press Photographers Association. McGarvey will be a non-voting member of the NPPA board of directors, and during her term she will be the voice for students for the organization.

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The future of the journalism relies heavily on understanding the ways people consume news online. But mastering that information is challenging. Behavior is changing quickly, and the metrics can be elusive and even contradictory. In a new study, PEJ examines Nielsen data from the top 25 most popular news sites to offer insights about how people get to news sites; what they do once there and where they go when they leave.

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Welcome to the sixth episode of "The Mediatwits," the new revamped longer form weekly audio podcast from MediaShift. The co-hosts are MediaShift's Mark Glaser along with PaidContent founder Rafat Ali. This week's show looks at the way the news of Osama Bin Laden's death played out over Twitter and other new media, making minor celebrities of @ReallyVirtual and @KeithUrbahn.

Our guests this week were two vice presidents at Demand Media, Larry Fitzgibbon and Jeremy Reed, who talked about a new direction for the network of sites -- moving away from user-generated content and adding longer features. Plus, Apple relented on some of its strict terms of service for magazine publishers who want to publish iPad editions, letting Hearst and Conde Nast get access to the data on subscribers. (Note: This show was taped yesterday, on May 5, so hence the references to Cinco de Mayo.)

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Intro and outro music by 3 Feet Up; mid-podcast music by Autumn Eyes via Mevio's Music Alley.

Here are some highlighted topics from the show:

Rafat loves the Indian Film Fest

2:00: Rafat marks one year since leaving PaidContent

2:30: MediaShift hires new editors: Courtney Lowery Cowgill and Desiree Everts

2:49: Rundown of topics on the show

Bin Laden news via Twitter

4:10: Rafat watches White House video feed on mobile phone

6:20: Sohaib Athar becomes reluctant Twitter celebrity for live-tweeting raid

8:38: Debate on role of Twitter

Interview with Demand Media execs

10:30: Background info on Larry Fitzgibbon and Jeremy Reed of Demand

12:40: Demand removing many user-generated stories

15:30: Not everyone can write without an editor

17:50: Cracked.com is an example of social content

20:10: Demand pushing for more brand advertising

23:15: Mark and Rafat react to Demand's moves

25:55: Rafat expects Demand to buy a company in the social space, maybe Digg?

Apple makes deal with Hearst, Conde Nast

27:00: Apple backs off demands to keep data from publishers

28:30: Rafat notes that tablets still won't be the savior for mag publishers

31:30: Publishers need to have guerilla development teams for apps

More Reading

Why the Main Who Tweeted Bin Laden Raid Is a Citizen Journalist at Poynter

A Twitter Timeline on the Killing of Osama Bin Laden at PBS MediaShift

Panda Aftermath: eHow Loses 42% of Google Search Visibility at Search Engine Watch

Data: Demand Media's Post-Panda Search Rankings Illustrate Why Their Stock Has Recently Plummeted at Conductor.com

Demand Media says traffic hurt on eHow.com at Reuters

Why Demand Media Should Focus on Profits Rather Than Page Views at Seeking Alpha

Live-Blogging Demand Media's Q1 Earnings: Perky Perfecting! at AllThingsD

Hearst, Conde Nast Race to Sell Subscriptions on iPad at AdAge

Hearst, Apple Reach iPad Deal at WSJ

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