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• The Media Equation: Telecom’s Big Players Hold Back the Future

  David Carr @ NYTimes Media - 7 minutes ago

  A law school professor is on a permanent campaign to argue that the telecom and cable industry has been overtaken by monopolists who resist innovation and overcharge consumers.

• Otellini’s Striking Confession

  Jean-Louis Gassée @ Monday Note - 3 hours, 28 minutes ago

  We know Intel shunned ARM processors and played virtually no role in the smartphone revolution. But we now learn Steve Jobs asked Intel to build the iPhone microprocessor. Paul Otellini, Intel’s departing CEO, admits he should have followed his gut – and made the smartphone world a very different place.

• Why Google Will Crush Nielsen

  Frédéric Filloux @ Monday Note - 3 hours, 28 minutes ago

  Internet measurement techniques need a complete overhaul. New ways have emerged, potentially displacing older panel-based technologies. This will make it hard for incumbent players to stay in the game.

• Vevo boss Nic Jones: 'We're at the pointy end of labels' activities'

  Jemima Kiss @ MediaGuardian - Television - 5 hours, 25 minutes ago

  What the majors want from the video hub, what he learned from MySpace – and why mobile is more than just phones.

• Open door: The readers' editor on ... why chocolate and peanuts left a sour taste

  Chris Elliott @ MediaGuardian - Newspapers & Magazines - 5 hours, 26 minutes ago

  Triage is the action of sorting by quality, most often associated with dealing with wounded on the battlefield. Hospitals use it as a way of assigning the appropriate priority to patients to ensure effective treatment. On a very busy day in the readers' editor's office it is a very useful practice to adopt when dealing with 120 emails involving complaints and queries, where each person or group expects an immediate response, no matter how serious the issue.

• Report: Yahoo’s board agrees to pay $1.1 billion for Tumblr

  Laura Hazard Owen @ PaidContent - 5 hours, 53 minutes ago

  Yahoo’s board of directors has agreed to acquire Tumblr for $1. 1 billion, the Wall Street Journal and AllThingsD reported Sunday. The deal is expected to be announced Monday.

• Media Monkey's Diary: Graham Norton pokes fun at BBC, Mail's imperial plans

  MediaGuardian - Television - 6 hours, 26 minutes ago

  ✒Is it too soon for the BBC to carry jokes about the Jimmy Savile scandal? Apparently not, as long as it's Graham Norton that's making them. At last weekend's Bafta TV awards Norton's opening monologue was run in full, although some of the gags, for example about Television Centre and "the stories that building could tell" ("well, it's shut now, let's leave it") or some stars' recent experiences ("we want to finish before any of our winners or nominees are unavoidably detained"), were naughty.

• Times foreign editor Richard Beeston dies of cancer

  Caroline Davies @ MediaGuardian - Newspapers & Magazines - 7 hours, 33 minutes ago

  Foreign correspondent and editor of 30 years standing witnessed events in world's troublespots from Chechnya to Halabja.

• Google chief Eric Schmidt criticises politicians over tax row

  Telegraph.co.uk - Media and Telecoms news - 8 hours, 32 minutes ago

  Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt has urged the Chancellor to lead reform of the international tax system after his company was savaged by MPs for avoiding billions in British taxes.

• Miliband promises action on Google tax avoidance

  Telegraph.co.uk - Media and Telecoms news - 13 hours, 53 minutes ago

  Labour leader Ed Miliband has said he will write new rules to tackle corporate tax dodgers if he wins the next election even if there is no international consensus for action.