Steve Brill took issue with Amazon's plan to take the lion's share of revenue from newspaper subscriptions coming through the Kindle, likening it to Sony demanding HBO pay a share of its subscription fees for people who watched its shows on Sony TVs. At the Wired conference earlier this week in New York, Bezos didn't claim that the Kindle could 'save" newspapers, as some have suggested, but said the device and other e-readers would be increasingly part of how people get newspapers. Bezos, who's never been a fan of ad-supported models, said the key problem for online publishing is …

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Because, by the time you finish reading it, a new online publishing platform will have been created. That's right a new online destination is created every few seconds. Some of you may have read, or heard me say this before, and I apologize for any redundancy, but I think that fact deserves repeating this morning, just before the OMMA Publish conference gets underway in New York. Of course, all the new blogs, personal social media pages, microsites, etc., that have been created even as you read this won't necessarily compete with the big, premium content publishers that depend …

The panelists agree that the human factor will always be part of the curation process, though automation has a role to play. If companies like Netflix, or Hollywood as a whole could reduce audience tastes to algorithm, they would've abandoned any human overisght long ago. Has anyone won that Netflix contest yet to come up with a better recommendation engine. Based on my experience, they have a long way to go in developing a formula for movie preferences.

Curating online video is the subject of the days final panel--how media companies online filter the ocean of Web video clips and longer programs for the benefit of viewers and advertisers. With National Geographic and the Sci Fi Channel/Digital on the panel, one that strikes me is that curating for branded media properties like these is a lot easier than trying to sift the entire UGC Web for good stuff and organize it into manageable, easy-to-access groupings. The audience for Natl Geographic and Sci Fi is essentially already established, where general video-sharing sites like Dailyy Motion are constantly trying to …

Yup, Sci Fi (soon to be known as Syfy) Channel's Graig Engler says the hottest genre on the channel is paranormal reality, a genre that didn't exist five years ago. After "Battlestar Gallactica," Engler said Sci  Fi's "Ghost Hunters" is the top show to air on the channel.

But wait, there's more. The latest food analogy from Barbieri: crab. "The shell is really hard to crack and it has lots of compartments. But the meat is very sweet." Who knew mobile could taste so good? The good news, according to Barbieri, is that the mobile landscape is starting to open up with the success of the iPhone opening eyes to what a user-friendly mobile experience can be. The best aspect to Discovery Communication's Doug Craig is that the mobile video audience comes on top of existing viewers. "the beauty of mobile is that it taps into …