One of the major themes of the coming year will be recommendations, as more and more web sites try and personalize the content they deliver to users.
Today the New York Times rolled out a new recommendation page that delivers a stream of articles based on user’s past behavior.
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In her upcoming memoir, Laura Bush talks about her teenage car crash for the first time. She also criticizes George W. Bush’s critics for “calling him names,” and says that she and the president may have once been poisoned in Germany. Spoken From the Heart comes out early next month. [NYT]
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What to make of yesterday’s newspaper circulation numbers? Look on the bright side and “replace the world ‘bloodbath’ with ‘strategy,’” writes Ken Doctor. “The print paper is becoming the Starbucks buy, well up-market from the Dunkin Donuts of cheaper, free, digital media.” Hmm. [paidContent]
Jack Shafer on Rupert Murdoch’s motives: “Perhaps Read More
Coming soom: the memoirs of George W. Bush, entitled Decision Points and due out from Crown on November 9th. “Since leaving the Oval Office, President Bush has given virtually no interviews or public speeches about his presidency,” the publisher said in a statement. “Instead, he has spent almost every day writing Decision Points.” Read More
Can Bloomberg Businessweek rival the Economist? Fortune says there’s no way to know, but it’s clearly a good thing for Bloomberg’s brand awareness in the non-terminal-owning world. And the magazine can afford to lose a lot of money while they figure things out. [Fortune]
Nick Denton says the iPhone scoop didn’t Read More
The New York Times Compay announces its first quarter earnings at 11 this morning–things are expected to look a little better than this time last year. [TBI]
Taking a peek at the re-revamped Bloomberg BusinessWeek. [paidContent]
Two Overseas Press Club Awards apiece for The Times and The Washington Post. Read More
Craig Newmark is in favor of fact checking–for the news, at least; no word on Craig’s List. [HuffPo]
Masthead openings at Real Simple. [WWD]
Jon Stewart and a gospel choir tell Fox News what’s what. [NYMag]
The Food Network aims for younger and “hipper” viewers with the Read More
Nick Denton on checkbook journalism and the iPhone scoop: “Any decent journalist ought to be willing to sell their mother for a story like this.” [Village Voice]
Comedy Central signs Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert through 2012. [NYT]
Janet Maslin reviews the new Henry Luce biography. [NYT]
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Vogue‘s Sally Singer might be replacing Stefano Tonchi at T. [WWD]
Facebook lets you “Like” the web–but will they use your likes for advertising? [FT]
It looks like Hearst will buy digital marketing firm iCrossing. [WSJ]
The ProPublica success story. [WaPo]
David Remnick is bringing Read More
Larry King can’t leave CNN “because he owes alimony to so many different wives.” [NYP]
The Weinsteins gave Disney a window to buy Miramax. [The Wrap]
Martha Stewart Living wants younger readers. [WWD]
The Rolling Stone archive goes online. [AP]
An IPO for content farm Read More
