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4-Minute Roundup: #AmazonFail; Journalism Online; Ashton Kutcher Speaks!

Here’s the latest 4MR audio report from MediaShift. This week I look at the controversy surrounding #AmazonFail, a protest that formed on Twitter when the giant bookseller delisted thousands of gay-themed books from its bestseller lists. Amazon eventually said it was a mistake by an employee in France, but the PR damage was done. I also look at the unveiling of Journalism Online, a new effort by some big names to extract payments from people who visit mainstream news sites online. Finally, Ashton Kutcher beat out CNN in their private battle to see who could amass 1 million followers on Twitter first. Hear what he had to say after winning last night. Check it out:

Background music is “What the World Needs” by the The Ukelele Hipster Kings via PodSafe Music Network

Here are some links to related sites and stories mentioned in the podcast:

#AmazonFail search on Twitter

Why Amazon Didn’t Just Have a Glitch at TechCrunch

The Failure of #AmazonFail by Clay Shirky

Amazon’s Fail: Not Using Social Media to React to #AmazonFail Meme by Mark Hannah at MediaShift

Journalism Online press release

Journalism Online Part of the Web $2.0 Goldrush by Ken Doctor

Ashton Kutcher’s Live Webstream

Aston Kutcher’s Twitter feed

Aston Kutcher Punks Twitter — A Giant Million Follower PR Stunt at NowPublic

Here’s a graphical view of last week’s MediaShift survey results:

Also, be sure to vote in our poll about #AmazonFail on MediaShift!

Mark Glaser :Mark Glaser is founder and executive director of MediaShift. He contributes regularly to Digital Content Next’s InContext site and newsletter. Glaser is a longtime freelance journalist whose career includes columns on hip-hop, reviews of videogames, travel stories, and humor columns that poked fun at the titans of technology. From 2001 to 2005, he wrote a weekly column for USC Annenberg School of Communication's Online Journalism Review. Glaser has written essays for Harvard's Nieman Reports and the website for the Yale Center for Globalization. Glaser has written columns on the Internet and technology for the Los Angeles Times, CNET and HotWired, and has written features for the New York Times, Conde Nast Traveler, Entertainment Weekly, the San Jose Mercury News, and many other publications. He was the lead writer for the Industry Standard's award-winning "Media Grok" daily email newsletter during the dot-com heyday, and was named a finalist for a 2004 Online Journalism Award in the Online Commentary category for his OJR column. Glaser won the Innovation Journalism Award in 2010 from the Stanford Center for Innovation and Communication. Glaser received a Bachelor of Journalism and Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of Missouri at Columbia, and currently lives in San Francisco with his wife Renee and his two sons, Julian and Everett. Glaser has been a guest on PBS' "Newshour," NPR's "Talk of the Nation," KALW's "Media Roundtable" and TechTV's "Silicon Spin." He has given keynote speeches at Independent Television Service's (ITVS) Diversity Retreat and the College Media Assocation's national convention. He has been part of the lecture/concert series at Yale Law School and Arkansas State University, and has moderated many industry panels. He spoke in May 2013 to the Maui Business Brainstormers about the "Digital Media Revolution." To inquire about speaking opportunities, please use the site's Contact Form.

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