After months of planning and some real-time programming, paidContent 2011; The Next Decade in Digital will convent first thing Thursday morning in New York. If you’re unable to join in the on-site networking and the hallway dealmaking at TheTimesCenter, you can stay up to speed with thoughtful programming by following our live stream starting at 8:30 a.m. Eastern. The lineup is a mix of timely Q&As and panels centered on key issues facing the industry, from ad targeting and paywalls to the impact of Google’s algorithm tweak and the search for hyperlocal dollars. Lauren Zalaznick will fill us in on the Comcast-run NBCUniversal; Dan Rose will talk about Facebook’s role as a media portal and partner; Nick Denton will explain the decision to remake Gawker—and to row it back, Arianna Huffington and Tim Armstrong will update us on AOL’s acquisition of The Huffington Post; Greg Clayman will shed some light on The Daily one month in.
Peter Kafka at All Things Digital
Rupert Murdoch leaned heavily on Apple to launch the Daily, and for now the iPad is the only place you can read News Corp.’s new digital newspaper. But that exclusivity will end in a few months: Sources tell me The Daily is prepping for an Android tablet launch in the second quarter of this year.
Listen up, all you lovers and fuckers. I’ve got some killer news. I’m pleased to announce that I’ve been tapped to be the advice columnist for The Daily, Rupert Murdoch’s new iPad newspaper.
That’s right. I done sold the fuck out to the man.
I’ll be writing a Wednesday and Sunday column in the Arts & Life section called Dear Coquette that will be every bit as shady as Dear Coke Talk. It’s great. Not only do I get to stay anonymous, but they really are letting me do whatever the hell I want.
If you don’t have an iPad, now you gotta reason to go get one. If you do have an iPad, download The Daily app. Do it now. Don’t worry, it’s free for the first two weeks, and after that it’s only 99 cents a week. You know I’m worth it, bitches.
Go ahead, read my shit in today’s special Valentine’s edition. It’s a column about laziness, monogamy, and hot MILF action. Good times.
Just so you all know, I’m about to hop on a plane to New York City for fashion week. I’m gonna take a few days off from the blogs while I’m whore talking it up around Manhattan, but don’t worry, I’ll be back soon.
Happy V Day, bitches.
Awesome
(Source: coketalk)
If I didn’t know any better I would have thought this was done by The Onion (via @kmaverick)
Photograph by: STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Image, VS
Introducing “The Daily”
I was surrounded by men in suits. Embarrassed by my outburst, I staggered backwards until I hit the solid wall. Over the edge, I peered down. The museum’s center skylight was dark and wet. The sea of the lowliest bloggers below, kept from the ceremony, peered up at me with supportive eyes. I turned to face my interrogators.
Damon Kiesow does some detective work and compiles a list of roughly half the people who will be working at Rupert Murdoch’s iPad only “newspaper”
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