I love election night. It’s my favorite non-holiday night every other year. For 25 years, I spent it at someone’s campaign headquarters. Working at Poynter has led to severe election withdrawal, and I was looking forward to an evening in… Read more

> PBS goes mobile to grow revenue streams for local stations (Mobile Marketer)
> MobiTV Aims To Avoid Fate Of FLO TV (MediaPost)
> The RIM PlayBook is Riding on AIR (Streaming Media)
> More… Read more

ReadWriteWeb
We’ve known this was coming, but new research announced today from Canalys makes it official: Android is now the largest selling smart phone operating system in the U.S., with nearly 44 percent of the market, and it’s making inroads… Read more

It can be tough to find new ideas for election coverage that shed light on what people are thinking. But there are some new Google tools that may help give both journalists and the general public ways to make sense… Read more

Streaming Media
News producers — especially broadcasters — should pay attention to a couple of recent studies that highlight the importance of video on the iPad.

More and more consumers are “time- and device-shifting” their video consumption; 13 percent… Read more

NielsenWire
In a post on the NielsenWire blog, Venkatesh Bala, chief economist for The Cambridge Group, points out that the demand for news and information via mobile devices is growing fast globally.

Mobile phone adoption, he writes, is less… Read more

NielsenWire
A new Nielsen Company study on Internet and mobile Internet use says e-mail is still what Americans spend the most time doing on their mobile phones.

Visiting portals is the second most time-consuming mobile behavior, followed by… Read more

It’s oversimplified to call it a right-brain, left-brain difference, but it’s clear that while programmers and journalists need each other, they don’t always find it easy to work together. Differences in project needs and personal styles can add to the… Read more

MoBlog
Flash for mobile is here! Flash for mobile is here! Well, almost.

Adobe has released the much-discussed Flash version 10.1 designed for mobile platforms, and will be available for Android, Blackberry, WebOS, Symbian and Windows Phone 7… Read more

Wall Street Journal
At the Wall Street Journal’s All Things Digital conference this week (#d8, if you’re following it on Twitter), Qualcomm Chief Executive Paul Jacobs told attendees that its Flo TV is not getting the hoped-for audience.… Read more