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The Washington Post: Amazon story lands big for small paper

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Erik Wemple: "There’s a good lesson for newspapers in [Pennsylvania newspaper the Morning Call's] detailed and compelling investigation [into conditions at Amazon.com’s Lehigh Valley warehouse facilities]: If there’s a name brand employing lots of people in your coverage area — Amazon certainly qualifies — take a look at how it treats its employees."

Salon.com: More Joe Lieberman-caused Internet censorship

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Glenn Greenwald: "If people -- especially journalists -- can't be riled when Joe Lieberman is unilaterally causing the suppression of political content from the Internet, when will they be? After all, as Jeffrey Goldberg pointed out in condemning this, the same rationale Lieberman is using to demand that Amazon and all other companies cease any contact with WikiLeaks would justify similar attacks on The New York Times, since they've published the same exact diplomatic cables on its site as WikiLeaks has on its [site]."

ProPublica: Reporting Recipe: Using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk for Data Projects

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Amanda Michel: "we began experimenting with mTurk last spring to clean, de-duplicate and reformat data. We’ve since used the tool to collect or proof more than 28,000 data points, from the names of companies that received stimulus money [6] to the categorization of answers to our home loan modification questionnaire [7]. We’re impressed with the speed and accuracy of its results. For example, a project we estimated would take a full-time staffer almost three days to finish was completed on mTurk overnight for $37, with 99 percent accuracy."

Hitwise Intelligence UK: Facebook the most searched for brand in the UK

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Robin Goad: "Facebook’s UK Internet traffic has more than doubled over the last year and it is now the second most visited website in the UK after google.co.uk. The social network accounted for 1 in every 24 UK Internet visits during the month of February and traffic to the site has already increased by 18.6% during 2009. ... The remaining four brands are all online retailers: eBay, Amazon, Argos and Tesco. eBay and Amazon remain the most popular online retail brands, but the more traditional high street players are gaining on them all the time. "

paidContent:UK: Daily Mail Keen On Kindle, In Both US And UK

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"Does the Daily Mail know something we don’t? Mail Online MD James Bromley tells NMA he’s talking with Amazon to launch the British paper on to the US-only device “and the UK version” “in the near future”. What “UK version”? Despite Kindle 2.0 having been unveiled in America, there’s still no public commitment from Amazon to launching either version in Europe"