The Return of Media Notes: Why Print Beats Kindle, and Google’s New Flipper

At long last, another round-up of media notes from the world over:
Red All Over – Slate’s Farhad Manjoo on how print newspapers are still better than the new Kindle. Oh — and so’s getting your news on the iPhone.
They Call Him Flipper – Google’s working on another new tweak to Google News called “Flipper,” a [...]

Media Notes: Blogfight! Plus, Google in Talks With Major Newspapers

More media notes for folks who love them some media!
Brummett v. Everyone – John Brummett quotes David Simon re: “newspapers, you’re gonna miss ‘em, etc.” and stirs up some lively debate from The Arkansas Project, Blake’s Think Tank and their respective commenters. It’s even inspired this helpful chart.
Micro Machines – The Wall Street Journal is [...]

Google Profiles: A Facebook Killer?

If you don’t read Farhad Manjoo in Slate, you’re missing out. His coverage of the Web and tech is among the best out there.
Today, Manjoo checks out Google Profiles, which Google bills as a tool by which you can manage your online reputation. But Majoo thinks there’s another facet to Google’s strategy:
Why would Google want [...]

Media Notes: Tourism Ad Spending, Yellow Kids and the Setting Sun

A weekly look around the world of mediadom:
Spreading the Wealth: Arkansas Business media writer Mark Hengel takes a look at how CJRW of Little Rock is spreading around that $10 million advertising budget for the state Department of Parks & Tourism. What does he find? Arkansas Business Publishing Group is getting its share ($40k!), but [...]

Final Edition: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

The final edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which is done printing after a 146-year run. The newspaper will now be reborn online.
Commentary & Coverage

Jack Shafer, Slate – What the online P-I might become
Newsosaur – Free advice for the new online P-I
Wall Street Journal – A new laboratory for a Web-only edition
New York Times – The [...]

Whither Twitter? It’s No Google, and It’s No Facebook

Slate writer Farhad Manjoo considers Twitter and recent claims, by its founders and folks like Mike Arrington, that the microblogging service everyone’s talking about (but no one has clue what it is) is the next Google-killer.
That’s quite a turnaround from how most folks used to view Twitter — as a joke:
It wasn’t too long ago [...]

Innovation, Not Alms Hold the Key to Journalism’s Future

Thanks to the Think Tank for the shout-out this morning. The occasion? This piece from Slate media writer Jack Shafer, who comes down against a foundation model for major news organizations like the New York Times.
Shafer’s piece comes on the heels of other op-eds (by people much smarter than me) who advocate a new nonprofit [...]

Chattanooga Newspaper Marks 10 Years Under Wehco Ownership

The Chatanooga Times Free Press this week marks a decade under the ownership of Walter Hussman’s Wehco Media, which of course also owns the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. The Times Free Press plans a whole week of anniversary coverage, and the first story in the series is available here.
While you’re there, take note of that Web site. [...]

Jack Shafer: The Odds Are Against Newspapers

From Jack Shafer’s column in Slate today:
Newspapers embraced the new platform when it arrived in the mid-1990s, but they weren’t very inventive. All the great innovations in advertising, search, and social networking have come from outside the newspaper industry, which, given its 20 percent margins, it could have afforded to fund. Today, with the Web [...]

Slate’s Big Money: Magazines Gloss Over the Web

Slate’s Big Money Web site today ponders why magazines, particularly the big names in the Condé Nast stable, don’t “get” the Web. This, after the company laid off more than three dozen online staffers from its “CondéNet” division, which oversees sites like Epicurious.com and Style.com.
Many magazine editors seem to believe that digital is the future but [...]