The Internet is crazy, and the things people are doing with it are nuts.
This was originally published on the New Media Strategies blog. That is where I work. Google’s long-rumored awe-inspiring Facebook-killing social networking behemoth was revealed on Tuesday: Google+. And it’s pretty OK. Good even. The suite of tools forms the building blocks by which Google hopes to stitch together a social graph to compete with Facebook’s. [...]
This post first appeared on New Media Strategies’ blog. That is where I work. In the hyperconnected morass that is South by Southwest Interactive, it’s easy to get stuck in the “did I check-in/update/tweet about this panel/party/handshake” infinite loop. With a slew of new apps and sites to check out and an ABGC mindset – [...]
The 20th Century began a long time ago, and a lot of great things wouldn’t've happened without it. One of the the more interesting things that can trace it’s ancestry to the the time is anonymity, a state that no century before shared. As the Internet grew, though, it betrayed anonymity. With that the 20th Century was all but over.
The Boston Globe reacts to the threat of its closure by sending a cadre of reporters out to find people to fawn over them. What they don’t find they imply…
We’ve been told that new media is weakening the old guard, but during this election cycle we saw just how new media would finally break the press.
One of my favorite things to write about here is how the media covers Britney Spears. It should be no surprise, then, that today I’ve chosen to write about how the media covers Britney Spears. David Samuels has a pretty expansive article in this month’s Atlantic where he follows a team of the paparazzi that [...]
I don’t know if you saw the nude pictures of Lindsay Lohan NY Mag printed recently, but chances are you did. This cool story in Forbes tells the business repercussions: “For a site that’s averaged around a million page views a day lately, the results were stunning. NYmag.com recorded a total of more than 40 [...]
I’m sick of people bemoaning the downfall of journalism. We’re in one of the most exciting periods in the history of news since the invention of the printing press. Once the Internet shake-up settles down, journalism will be forever changed and we’ll wonder (even more than already) how we ever lived before. The latest doom-sayer [...]
James O’Shea, editor of the Los Angeles Times, was fired earlier this week. Important because this is the third editor the Times has been through in the past three years, and because O’Shea left with some biting remarks about how the LA Times is run, and about the newspaper industry in general. Everyone seems to [...]
“Now and for the foreseeable future, virtually everything involving Britney is a big deal,” Frank Baker, the [AP's] Los Angeles assistant bureau chief, wrote on Tuesday morning. I was talking (arguing) with a friend of mine the other day about the goals of newspapers, and how they decide what is important. He was saying that [...]