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Mediatwits #2: AT&T Buys T-Mobile; ‘Tweets from Tahrir’ Authors

Welcome to the second episode of “The Mediatwits,” the new revamped longer form weekly audio podcast from MediaShift. The co-hosts are MediaShift’s Mark Glaser along with PaidContent founder Rafat Ali. This week’s show looks at the repercussions of the $39 billion buyout of T-Mobile USA by AT&T. Rafat has had both services and will stick by AT&T, but Mark is making the move from AT&T to Verizon. Plus, Nadia Idle and Alex Nunns, the authors of the book Tweets from Tahrir, were special guests on the show, explaining how they got their book to print so fast. Finally, MediaShift poll results showed that nearly 90% of respondents would not pay for NYTimes.com content at the current high prices.

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Intro and outro music by 3 Feet Up; mid-podcast music by Autumn Eyes via Mevio’s Music Alley. “iPhone Blues” by The Temps.

Here are some highlighted topics from the show:

AT&T buys T-Mobile

2:20: Mark sings the “iPhone Blues”

3:40: Rafat compares T-Mobile in L.A. to AT&T in NYC

5:50: Media companies will lose a big cell phone advertiser

7:20: Google makes deal to supply Sprint with Google Voice

10:20: Rafat will stick with AT&T

“Tweets from Tahrir”

Nadia Idle

13:10: Nadia Idle talks about her trip to Tahrir Square

17:45: Alex Nunns says they got permission from all tweeters to use their tweets in book

21:15: What’s up with the @HosniMubarak feed?

24:30: Nadia will return to Egypt in May with books in hand

26:00: Mark and Rafat discuss print-on-demand aspect of the book

NYTimes.com pay wall

29:50: NY Times execs pooh-pooh people hacking the wall

33:50: MediaShift poll results on people paying for access to NYTimes.com

35:45: Rafat happy that companies are trying revenue models

More Reading

What does AT&T’s T-Mobile merger mean to you? at News.com

Lawmaker: Make Net Neutrality A Condition Of AT&T/T-Mobile Merger at MediaPost

AT&T’s Pitch for Free Mobile at WSJ

“Tweets from Tahrir” book from ORBooks.com

‘Tweets From Tahrir’ Collects Egypt Posts in a Book at NY Times Media Decoder

New York Times Paywall Breached With Four Lines of Code at PC Mag

A Note to Our Readers on the Times Pay Model and the Economics of Reporting at NY Times

Be sure to vote in the MediaShift poll about the AT&T/T-Mobile buyout:

Mark Glaser is executive editor of MediaShift and Idea Lab. He also writes the bi-weekly OPA Intelligence Report email newsletter for the Online Publishers Association. He lives in San Francisco with his son Julian. You can follow him on Twitter @mediatwit.

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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