Earlier this week at the Founder Showcase, a Silicon Valley start-up pitch contest, I sat through a number of lukewarm ideas for new companies. But one that made me sit up was a presentation by Gene Massey, CEO of MediaShares.

A couple of weeks ago, I visited BitTorrent’s headquarters in San Francisco for a briefing with CEO Eric Klinker. This was a routine appointment that turned out to be far more interesting that I expected.

This morning, I was reading the New York Times story on why location-based services might be a hard sell for mainstream users. This echoes some of my own thoughts, which I wrote about recently here: Telling the world you’re here, there and everywhere…

Facebook made a big splash last week by unveiling its new Facebook + Media page. The page focuses on the best practices that Facebook’s relatively new media team has compiled after working with a number of large media companies over…

NPR’s Hour-By-Hour Audience By Platform

A Visit to the Online-Only Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD

Flipboard customizes mix of social, news feeds
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Benny Evangelista writes: “Although the app is only available on the iPad for now, Flipboard is perhaps the best example of how personalization technology could change the way people consume information from the Web. After all, in an…

Has Arianna Huffington Figured Out the Future? — Newsweek

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Daniel Lyons writes: “What began five years ago as a spot for Huffington and her lefty celebrity friends to vent about the Bush administration has become one of the most important news sites on…

MediaShift . While Others Shrink, KQED Expands Cross-Platform News | PBS

Fact Checking: Gateway Drug for Citizen, Community Journalists | Knight Digital Media Center

Digg, the crowd-sourced news aggregation site that was once a Web 2.0 darling, is on the cusp of a dramatic overhaul of its site.

MediaShift Idea Lab . How Training Citizen Journalists Made a Difference | PBS