December 2008
9 posts
“The operating policy now, particularly at Condé Nast, basically reads: Revenue...”
– NYObserver catalogues the cuts at magazine websites. Which, depending on how you look at it, are either short-sighted: ceding whatever presence they currently have on the web dooms them to irrelevance later, or tragically spot-on: because they have yet to master the web, they might as well give up...
“Making videos for YouTube — for three years a pastime for millions of Web...”
– says The Times… yeah sure, in the same sense that playing the Lotto — also a pastime for millions — is, theoretically, “a way to make a living”. Sorry to be the cynical half of this duo, but this kind of facile horseshit really chaps my ass. Let’s not hand out...
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“I feel YouTube is my home,” he said. “I think the biggest mistake that any of us...”
– YouTube Videos Pull In Real Money (NYTimes)
Internet advertising up 11% - except newspapers →
“Does anyone still believe that the forms of movies, television, magazines and...”
– Content and Its Discontents by Virginia Heffernan
