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
January 2009
15 posts
“The notion that the enormous cost of real news-gathering might be supported by...”
– News You Can Endow
Streaming video cannibalizing DVD rentals, says... →
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.
News is now officially dead
Yahoo News’s latest syndication partner? PR Newswire.
That’s right: now PR is news.
Example.
“A quick analysis [of Scoble’s 1000+ videos] reveals some get no links,...”
– Why Text Remains King of the Web
Youtube stripping the audio from clips with... →
TRACING THE HISTORY OF FAKE RAP →
“One aspect of fake rap that we haven’t addressed yet is just how fucking depressing it is.”
“I think the magazine publishing companies that will be most successful will be...”
– What this year holds for magazines
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”...
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...
Why most online media properties are wildly... →
Time Spent Watching Online Video Jumps 40% in One... →
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.”
Conde Nast on why it creates ads for clients at... →