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| Users Stay Longer on Tumblr Than Facebook, Says David Karp | | Wednesday, April 17, 2013 6:16 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| Tumblr users spend an average of 14 minutes per visit, Tumblr founder and CEO David Karp revealed on stage at a paidContent conference in New York City Wednesday. That's about a minute-and-a-half longer than the average Facebook visit, and a few minutes longer than the average Twitter visit, he said. "Does Mark [Zuckerberg] know that?" Karp's interviewer, GigaOM senior writer Mathew Ingram, asked.
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| FBI Scolds Media for False Reports of Boston Arrest | | Wednesday, April 17, 2013 4:05 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| The Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a statement Wednesday afternoon essentially scolding several media outlets after they incorrectly reported that an arrest had been made in the investigation of Monday's bombing attacks against the Boston Marathon. "Contrary to widespread reporting, no arrest has been made in connection with the Boston Marathon attack," reads the FBI's unusual statement.
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| David Karp Elaborates on Storyboard Shutdown | | Wednesday, April 17, 2013 3:34 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| In a tersely written post to Tumblr's staff blog last week — one that inspired a winning satire from The New Yorker's Caitlin Kelly — Tumblr CEO David Karp announced that Storyboard, a company-sponsored blog that chronicled the people and creative work of Tumblr, was shutting down immediately.
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| 'Epicurious' Enrages Followers With Boston Bombings Tweets | | Wednesday, April 17, 2013 2:19 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| Twitter accounts are frequently run by "social media managers" — that is to say, qualified specialists in social media — and yet, nary a crisis goes by without a distasteful tweet or Facebook post in response. The latest example comes from Conde Nast-owned food website Epicurious, which used the Boston bombings on Monday to promote two breakfast recipes to its more than 385,000 followers.
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| 'The Guardian': We're Not Planning on a Paywall | | Wednesday, April 17, 2013 12:30 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| Newspapers worldwide are putting up metered paywalls at a record pace in an effort to convert their large, free-reading online audiences into paid subscribers. In the UK, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Financial Times, The Daily Telegraph and The Sun, among others, have all implemented (or announced plans to implement) paywalls — but The Guardian, which reported a pre-tax loss of £75.6m in 2011, has no plans to join them.
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| Ev Williams' Medium Buys Journalism Startup Matter | | Wednesday, April 17, 2013 12:14 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Medium, the publishing platform launched by Twitter's co-founder Ev Williams, has acquired a long-form journalism startup called Matter for an undisclosed sum, the two companies announced Wednesday. Matter raised more than $140,000 from a Kickstarter campaign in early 2012 — nearly three times its original goal — to produce in-depth science and technology stories, and published its first piece in November.
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