Has there ever been so much public blowback from a magazine’s own writers about a site redesign?

via Gillian Reagan, Atlantic Bloggers Blowback On New Site Design, Editors Say The Site Is User-Friendly, Needs To Make Money.

[T]reating blogs as a series of headlines, designed to maximize pageviews, is a deep misunderstanding of blogs, their reader communities and their integrity. I hope they get restored to their previous coherence, and these amorphous “channels” gain some editorial identity. I hope writers like Fallows and Goldberg aren’t treated as random fodder – anchors! – for “channels”. I believe in the Atlantic as a place for writing. The redesign seems to me to ooze casual indifference to that and to the respect that individual writers deserve.

via Andrew Sullivan, quoted by Adrian Chen, Borg-like Atlantic Redesign Sparks Blogger Identity Crisis – The Atlantic – Gawker.

He also says that ultimately MSN will customize its content to a users’ interests. Already, the site is testing topic-centric versions of its home page. However, Jorgensen says that the site could eventually automatically customize content based on a user’s behavior and interests. (more…)

The idea for Media Cloud emerged through a series discussions between faculty and friends of the Berkman Center. The conversations would follow a predictable pattern: one person would ask a provocative question about what was happening in the media landscape, someone else would suggest interesting follow-on inquiries, and everyone would realize that a good answer would require heavy number crunching. (more…)

Magnify.net is expected to announce tomorrow a partnership with New York magazine’s nymag.com to build and deploy a Web 2.0 video service. Magnify will build a custom video player and provide encoding, discovery and “curation.”

via New York Magazine to Build Out Video Content – emedia and Technology @ FolioMag.com)