Netflix is hardly the only company using tons of meta-data to organize, target and recommend content. Yet, its approach appears to be particularly worthy of investigation. “If Netflix can show such tiny slices of cinema to any given user, and they have 40 million users, how vast did their set of ‘personalized genres’ need to be to describe the entire Hollywood universe?” The Atlantic’s Alexis Madrigal wonders. 

ABC has begun to limit immediate access of new complete episodes of its shows on ABC.com "to customers of pay TV providers that it has signed to TV Everywhere authentication deals," writes Steve Donohue. That means subscribers of major pay TV systems such as Time Warner Cable, Dish and DirecTV will find ABC shows off-limits in the week after their premiere.

The New York Daily News has hired Jotham Sederstrom, formerly of The New York Observer, as editor of its boroughs coverage."The move will no doubt reassure News staffers who had been worried that 'New York’s hometown newspaper' might be pulling back on the comprehensive local coverage that has helped distinguish it from the New York Post over the years," writes Joe Pompeo.

The New York Times ended the year on a high note: "Shares in the [company] climbed above the $16 mark [on Dec. 30] and look poised to end 2013 at their highest levels in more than five years after rising more than 90% since the start of the year," writes John McDuling. That "might seem curious, [though,] given that advertising revenue at the company fell for the 12th straight quarter in October, to its lowest level since 1998."

Radionomy, a Brussels-based aggregator of online radio stations, has reportedly agreed to buy Winamp and Shoutcast from AOL. “Radionomy has some 6,000 stations in its catalog already, with an emphasis on a do-it-yourself platform that anyone can use to create a channel,” TechCrunch reports. “Shoutcast’s 50,000-strong catalog of radio stations will be a major boost on that front … Winamp’s media playing software could be used to help program those radio stations and offer additional services.”