has posted an interesting interview with Steve Jobs by Jeff Goodell. “The subscription model of buying music is bankrupt. I think you could make available the Second Coming in a subscription model, and it might not be successful.”

Harvard researcher Ethan Zuckerman is working on a content analysis of several internet (but not internet-based) news sources to quantify the media attention paid to countries around the world. If you go to the main study page you will see the map for a particular source for that day. Reload and see another map based on another news source.

All of which is totally cool, but that’s just a representation of data. Zuckerman goes further and does statistical analyses to try and assess what the predictors of media attention might be. To quote his summary:

GAP research demonstrates that the most accurate predictor of a media outletfs attention is the size of a nationfs gross domestic product. This correlation is significantly greater than the correlation between media attention and the size of a nationfs population, and appears to be the strongest correlation between media attention and 21 factors examined. Generally speaking, violent conflict seems to have less effect on media attention than the size of a nationfs economy does.

an interesting quote about Selling out. Follow the link to Eggers’ Harvard Advocate interview as well – old but still worth reading.

a great rant about CNN, and in particular about Paula Zahn, that muddle-headed cheerleader they have anchoring their morning show.

Connecting the Blips. “But looking back over Sunday ombudsman columns and reader challenges during that time and up through today, there is a pattern in the news pages of missing, underplaying or being late on various blips with respect to public voices of dissent or uncertainty. […] What, if anything, does this add up to? It does not mean Post news coverage is biased…” Right. [via Michael’s refreshed weblog]