Harper's Bazaar will come out 10 times in 2012 with a combined December/January issue, a reduction in frequency that follows this year's cut down to 11 annual issues. It will also increase its trim size. These are the first changes Bazaar's publisher, Hearst, has made to the pub since Hearst bought a competingg fashion glossy, Elle, from Hachette four months ago.

Has Canoe Ventures -- the consortium of major cable companies formed three years ago to allow advertisers to buy targeted TV ads -- fizzled? That's what the New York Post's Claire Atkinson reports, citing such evidence as the loss of key execs like CEO David Verklin. And despite Canoe's gains -- which include "improving ad insertion on video on demand TV shows" -- still "after three years, few viewers have seen an interactive ad, and pinpointed ad sales have not gained traction," writes Atkinson.

The new WSJ Social feature will filter Journal content onto Facebook, allowing users to curate what stories they want to see to create their own personalized stream, which can be shared with others. Dell's one month sponsorship will make all the content behind the WSJ paywall available for free, though it will revert back to a paid system once the month is over.

The season premiere of "Two and a Half Men" -- which killed off the Charlie Sheen character and introduced Ashton Kutcher as the billionaire who will eventually become one of the two "men" -- broke at least two ratings records, reports TV Guide's Douglas J. Rowe. The episode earned the highest-ever ratings for the show (10.3 among 18-to-49-year-olds), and, with its "American Idol"-like number of viewers (27.76 million), was the "most-watched scripted debut since Desperate Housewives' second season start." Of course, maximum viewer interest and curiosity was inevitable, following the buzz around the Sheen breakdown. But we doubt the …

Time.com will add up to five new blogs as part of its two-year-old "vertical strategy," in which niches from military news to politics and technology get their own "mini-publications in their own right," according to Jim Frederick, the site's managing editor. The new blog topics will include entertainment, an opinion blog, and possibly criminal justice, society and family.Check out David Kaplan's piece for more on Time's digital strategy.

Most major newspapers, "relatively late to the mobile commerce party," are now beta-testing the mobile app iCircular, which, the brainchild of the Associated Press, offer "one of [newspapers'] healthiest revenue sources -- preprinted inserts -- in a mobile format," writes Rick Edmonds. Still, iCircular "only is a real fit for those who do print inserts already and have a customer base that uses them or at least remembers them," he writes.

We've taken to avoiding shows like the Emmys, playing catch-up later by reading recaps like Alan Sepinwall's, who was as happy as we were to see "Friday Night Lights" honored in two categories, Best Actor, Drama (go, Coach Taylor Kyle Chandler) and Outstanding Writing for a Drama (yay, "FNL' creator Jason Katims!)The broadcast also included a stunning moment in time/TV travel that should particularly amuse those tracking the rise of newfangled vs. trad media. Crashing the set of "Mad Men" during her opening number, host Jane Lynch tells the cast what's in TV's future: watching shows on the phone. John …

Blogger-pundits around the Web are reacting to Netflix's announcement that it is splitting into two companies, Qwikster and Netflix, to handle the mail-in and streaming media businesses separately. Many say it's a dumb move."The thing I'm worried about... is the user experience," writes Ryan on gdgt. "Moving... to a system where we [are] managing two media queues with two separate availability timelines on two different services that apparently won't talk to one another is a really weird choice.""Netflix's business is delivering entertainment as easily as possible, over any viable means and at the most attractive price. Rather than separating streaming …

New York magazine's pop culture site, Vulture, introduces Clickables, a free iPhone app that, as on the site itself, provides quick links to the videos, pictures or songs causing the most current buzz. For example: "Watch Taylor Swift and Nicki Minaj Duet On 'Super Bass.'"

The cable industry's current problems (rising content fees, fewer subscribers) might be eased by "shifting [its] focus from traditional pay TV services to offering broadband services as their anchor products," writes Ryan Lawler. Some companies are considering this tactic -- including Cablevision, whose COO, Tom Rutledge, told an investor conference the company could offer streaming services from companies like Netflix and Hulu, along with a current product that already allows consumers to stream Web and TV video from their computers to their TVs ."Our goal is to put everything that's on the Internet on all the screens in the house," …