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4 Minute Roundup: Olympics Tape-Delay Backlash; PleaseRobMe’s Geo-Scare

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Here’s the latest 4MR audio report from MediaShift. In this week’s edition, I look at the backlash against NBC’s coverage of the Winter Olympics, with people on the West Coast angry at the network for tape-delaying the best events until prime time. Plus, a new service called PleaseRobMe.com points out the vulnerability of people who use check-in geo-location services such as Foursquare along with Twitter. And I ask Just One Question to NewTeeVee’s Liz Gannes.

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

What Olympic tape-delay controversy? NBC still doesn’t get it at Seattle Times

Olympic Tape Delays Roil Fans, But It’s Good for NBC’s Business at Wired Epicenter

Query for NBC Olympics on Twitter Sentiment

Where to Watch the 2010 Winter Olympics Online at NewTeeVee

Yahoo Olympics Site Surpasses NBCOlympics.com in Traffic at NewTeeVee

Please Rob Me website causes fury for telling burglars when Twitter users are not home at the Telegraph

Foursquare Responds To Please Rob Me: Please Shut Up at TechCrunch

I’m Here, New York, Please Rob Me at NY Times City Room blog

Please Rob Me Is Not A (Successful) Lawsuit Waiting To Happen at Business Insider

Here’s a graphical view of the most recent MediaShift survey results. The question was: “What do you think of Google Buzz?”

Also, be sure to vote in our poll about what you think about NBC’s Olympic tape delay:

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.

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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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  • I am actually surprised to see that many voted possible on the latest survey there. Would have expected the number to be lower than 8%

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