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Mediatwits #73: Yahoo Buys Summly!?; Douglas Rushkoff’s ‘Present Shock’

This week’s Mediatwits podcast includes a Yahoo, a shocking book, an academic appointment and a D.I.Y. magazine kit. Our roundtable includes Mark Glaser hosting, along with Seattle Times’ Monica Guzman, Guardian’s Ana Marie Cox, Reuters’ Felix Salmon and USC’s Andrew Lih. Our special guest is author and digital thinking Douglas Rushkoff, whose latest book, “Present Shock,” looks at our overloaded, overmediated lives. We also wonder what Yahoo is doing, buying the Summly app and its 17-year-old CEO for $30 million, and considering a purchase of Dailymotion. Plus, Columbia appointed its new dean, Steve Coll, who took flak for not having tweeted, and Flipboard 2.0 lets anyone create their own digital magazine quickly and easily.

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Mediatwits Bios

Ana Marie Cox is a senior political columnist for The Guardian. She is the founding editor of the Wonkette blog and has covered politics and the culture of Washington, DC for outlets including the Washington Post, Playboy, GQ, Mother Jones and Elle. She is the author of the novel Dog Days and lives in St. Paul, Minn. Follower her on Twitter @anamariecox.

Mónica Guzmán is a columnist for the Seattle Times and Northwest tech news site GeekWire and a community strategist for startups and media. She emcees Ignite Seattle, a grab-bag community fueled speaker series. Mónica was a reporter at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and seattlepi.com, its online-only successor, where she ran the experimental and award-winning Big Blog and drew a community of readers with online conversation and weekly meetups. Follow her on Twitter @moniguzman

Andrew Lih is a new media journalist, and associate professor at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism where he directs the new media program. He is the author of “The Wikipedia Revolution” (Hyperion 2009, Aurum UK 2009) and is a noted expert on online collaboration and journalism. He is a veteran of AT&T Bell Laboratories and in 1994 created the first online city guide for New York City (www.ny.com). Follow him on Twitter @fuzheado and buy his book here.

Felix Salmon is the financial blogger for Reuters. He was named one of Time Magazine’s 25 Best Financial Bloggers, and offers his frank view on the maneuverings of Wall Street, Washington and popular culture. Watch him on Felix TV or follow him on Twitter @felixsalmon.

Special Guest

Douglas Rushkoff is a world-renowned media theorist whose 12 books, including “Life, Inc.,” have won prestigious awards and have been translated into 30 languages. He is a commentator on CNN and a contributor to Time, Discover, and NPR. He also made the PBS documentaries “Merchants of Cool,” “The Persuaders,” and “Digital Nation.” Follow him on Twitter @Rushkoff.

More Reading

1. Yahoo buys Summly, may buy Dailymotion

Is This Story Less Than the Summly of Its Parts? by Jack Shafer

Here’s Why Marissa Mayer Is About to Spend $200 Million on a YouTube Wannabe at Business Insider

Why Summly’s Acquisition Was a PR Stunt at PR Newser

What’s Actually Wrong with Yahoo’s Purchase of Summly at Hacking, Distributed

Yahoo in Talks to Buy Stake in Video Site Dailymotion at WSJ

2. Present Shock book by Douglas Rushkoff

Present Shock website

Present Shock excerpt

New York Times’ Janet Maslin Reviews Present Shock

Obsessed with Now: Douglas Rushkoff and the Threat of Present Shock at The Verge

3. Columbia’s new dean doesn’t tweet

Michael Wolff: Columbia flunks relevancy test at USA Today

Steve Coll Named Columbia Journalism Dean at NY Times

So the Columbia Journalism School’s New Dean Doesn’t Tweet; So What? at PandoDaily

Why I Am Paying for J-School at Future Journalism Project

4. Flipboard offers customized mags

Flipboard 2.0: Now With Pinning, People Tagging, Search and Ecommerce at Mashable

Flipboard 2.0 looks to make everyone the editor of their own magazine at the Guardian

Flipboard 2.0 refreshes apps’ look, now lets everyone run their own magazine at The Verge

Poll

Be sure to vote in our weekly poll, this time the future of Yahoo:

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 and fiancee Renee. You can follow him on Twitter @mediatwit. and Circle him on Google+

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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