Everyone has been pretty upset on Twitter with NBC’s handling of its Olympic coverage, even if it’s not as bad as everyone is making it out to seem. As an end around to NBC protecting Olympic highlights, the WSJ has taken the unusual approach of crafting homemade highlight videos of important Olympic events out of [...]
David Pogue is a well-known tech reporter for the New York Times, which means the only people that care if his iPhone gets stolen are tech/media nerds that read David Pogue. The smarmy Gizmodo gang are just such people and hilariously help him track it down. So, so, so, good.
Will Leitch takes the sane approach: There’s a good argument to be made that networks and corporations should pay utmost heed to what their diehard customers want, rather than just be blandly generalist. If you make your most loyal customers happy, they’ll stick with you during down periods, providing you a solid customer base. But [...]
Well, raise your hand if you saw this coming back when the New York Times rolled out a paywall: “At the company’s big three papers — the Times, International Herald Tribune, and Boston Globe — print and digital ad dollars dipped 6.6 percent to $220 million, while circulation revenue was up 8.3 percent to $233 [...]
Vice Magazine continues its run of high-quality pieces with an examination of Westboro Baptist Church: We followed the story of the Westboro Baptist Church as families split and children were brainwashed into picketing funerals and bashing homosexuals. During that time, we interviewed more than a dozen members of the reviled group, including some of the [...]
Noted neuroscience writer Jonah Lehrer’s best-selling new book Imagine: How Creativity Works, an exploration of the intersection between neuroscience and creativity, contains fabricated passages and has been pulled by his publisher. Tablet Magazine’s Michael C. Moynihan investigated discrepancies within a chapter on Bob Dylan. Once he started pulling at the thread, Lehrer’s dishonesty revealed itself. When I asked about aspects [...]
The LA Times just published an incredibly fascinating five-part series about how our world is coping with the causes and consequences of a world with seven billion people and rapid population growth. There’s video, photos, articles — really enough content to keep you reading and thinking for a week. I could point out a few highlights, [...]
Much was made of Digg being sold for a measly $500,000 a few weeks ago to Betaworks, the company behind Bit.ly, SocialFlow, Chartbeat, and News.me. Well, the News.me team is now in charge of relaunching the once-great site and they plan to do so on August 1. The team says, it’s “taking the first step [...]
David Carr asks the same question I did when Marissa Mayer was introduced as the new CEO last week. I’m going to take a whack at it and say that Yahoo is a media company, mostly by accident (more on that in a bit). Yes, its headquarters in Silicon Valley are filled with technologists and [...]
