February 2009
2 posts
“inexcusable. this is what happens when total fucking morons go into business...”
– Ma.gnolia Suffers Major Data Loss, Site Taken Offline
Feb 1st
January 2009
15 posts
“The notion that the enormous cost of real news-gathering might be supported by...”
– News You Can Endow
Jan 29th
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Streaming video cannibalizing DVD rentals, says... →
Jan 27th
video made by / for Science (the journal) isn't so... →
I really wish it was better. I love Science. I guess everyone’s got to start somewhere.
Jan 19th
News is now officially dead
Yahoo News’s latest syndication partner? PR Newswire. That’s right: now PR is news. Example.
Jan 15th
“A quick analysis [of Scoble’s 1000+ videos] reveals some get no links,...”
– Why Text Remains King of the Web
Jan 15th
Youtube stripping the audio from clips with... →
Jan 14th
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TRACING THE HISTORY OF FAKE RAP →
“One aspect of fake rap that we haven’t addressed yet is just how fucking depressing it is.”
Jan 11th
“I think the magazine publishing companies that will be most successful will be...”
– What this year holds for magazines
Jan 8th
CBS kills sort of OK show, puts creators on...
Turns out the producers of MobLogic are now doing a show called Novel ADVNTURS. Besides the positively mongoloid name, this show has the distinction of laboring under one of the most prima-facie awful premises ever: a book club that “lives the books they’re reading.” <blockquote>And so, the four women start a new kind of book club, picking a “novel adventure”...
Jan 7th
CBS pulls plug on Wallstrip, pulled plug on Mob... →
The lesson, as usual: overhead is what kills shows, not lack of popularity. Popularity takes time — enough time that any show that is a significant drain on the bottom line will be killed long before it becomes an “overnight” success. Plan for 1-2 years before something serialized in the news format becomes a hit — always. (And even then, that “hit” may only be...
Jan 7th
Why most online media properties are wildly... →
Jan 6th
Time Spent Watching Online Video Jumps 40% in One... →
Jan 6th
Internet-Ready TVs Usher Web Into Living Room →
“A key factor in the push are new TV sets that have networking connections built directly into them, requiring no additional set-top boxes for getting online.”
Jan 6th
Conde Nast on why it creates ads for clients at... →
Jan 4th