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Discovery Pushes Its Podcasting Stars in Front of the Camera: How the “Stuff You Should Know” Guys Got on TV

Peter Kafka in Media on May 21 at 3:30 am PT

A few years ago, Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant were unknown writers. Now they’re podcast big shots. Next year they could be cable TV stars.

Cable Fee Fight Takes Another Turn as Dish Networks Uses iTunes, Netflix and Amazon as Weapons

Peter Kafka in Media on May 7 at 12:07 pm PT

Wait long enough, or pay enough, and you can see repeats of last night’s “Mad Men” in lots of places. So why pay to see it on cable last night?

What Kind of Digital Consumer Are You?

Lauren Goode in Media on April 16 at 11:55 am PT

Most people now consider themselves “digital device adopters.” But what’s your digital personality? IBM’s latest study aims to find the answer.

Maybe You’re Going to Have to Pay for Cable After All, Silicon Valley

Peter Kafka in Media on April 4 at 11:47 am PT

Bravo’s upcoming seasons feature two shows — and maybe more — all about you! Or at least a version of you, brought to you by Randi Zuckerberg and Ben Huh.

News Byte

New York Times Game Lets You Blow Up the New York Times

Peter Kafka in News on April 4 at 7:47 am PT

Now this is how you promote a long, thinky story on the Web: Tack a free, super easy shoot-’em-up game at the top. The story is a new piece in the New York Times magazine, about the rise of casual games like Angry Birds. The game lets you destroy, Asteroids-style, most of the Web page surrounding it, including the ads. Poynter’s Steve Myers has more.

Voices

Four Weird Things the Internet Is Doing to Our Understanding of Television

Eric Spiegelman, Contributor, The Awl in Voices on February 16 at 3:21 pm PT

People seem really intent these days on fusing television with the Internet. On one level this makes no sense.

News Byte

Inkling Rolls Out New E-Book Publishing Platform

Peter Kafka in Media on February 14 at 7:00 am PT

E-book maker Inkling is introducing new software it says will make it much easier to produce sophisticated textbooks and other digital tomes. Inkling is positioning its Habitat software as a more professional option for book publishers than Apple’s new iBook Author. Until now, the start-up’s books have been created with the iPad in mind, but Inkling says an HTML5 option will allow publishers to work on multiple devices.

Voices

IPO Mafias, BODM and Brands Born From the U.S. Election: Three Mobile Trends Starting to Unfold

Dinesh Moorjani, CEO, Hatch Labs in Voices on February 13 at 1:20 pm PT

Here are three trends that are starting to unfold and should define the year of mobile technology.

Get Ready for More TaskRabbit, With New Open API

Lauren Goode in Commerce on February 10 at 8:00 am PT

There would be an obvious pun here about how TaskRabbit is going to multiply, but the New York Times already used it.

Get Ready for Lots of Streaming Arianna With HuffPost Video Network

Lauren Goode in Media on February 2 at 3:58 pm PT

The latest entrant in the video-newspaper category comes from none other than Huffington Post, which unveiled plans to stream 16 hours of live video on its site daily.