[Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week’s news about the future of news and the debates that grew up around them. —Josh]
The iPad’s big reveal: Apple unveiled its new tablet — the unfortunately named iPad — on Wednesday, a week before the Super Bowl, and the buzz was as least as big: The Internet practically broke [...]

[Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week’s news about the future of news and the debates that grew up around them. —Josh]
The Times’ paywall proposal: No question about media and journalism’s biggest story this week: The New York Times announced it plans to begin charging readers for access to its website in 2011. Here’s [...]

[UPDATE, 3:35 p.m.: As this post went up, tr.im announced that it's back in business. But the thoughts below still apply.]
I had the very-2009 experience on Sunday night of losing my URL shortener to a lack of business model. Tr.im, the Nambu Network’s intuitively named and competitively concise truncator of web addresses, announced that it [...]

— If you’re not following our Twitter feed, The New York Times announced yesterday it had 1.04 billion pageviews in October. Which is a lot. But maybe not enough: Analyst Lauren Rich Fine thinks they need 1.3 billion to build a profitable online-only business model. (And, it should be noted, that’s 1.3 billion in an [...]

Two popular news websites are taking different approaches to an ethical question print publications have long faced: whether to run advertisements with which they strongly disagree. Ads supporting California’s Proposition 8, which would amend the state constitution to ban gay marriage, have recently appeared on the technology blog TechCrunch and the political site Talking Points [...]