studying the media ecosystem
Industry e-zine Paid Content celebrates its sixth birthday this week by biting the hand that feeds it. Deals and the rumors of deals are its stock in trade so kudos to the Content-meisters for touting the New Yorker’s skeptical assessment of CBS’s acquisition of CNet. Financial columnist James Surowiecki uses this media deal as a [...]
Nikki Bazar interviews novelist Jonathan Lethem for LA City Beat. In the intro Bazar says Lethem believes “stringent copyright laws . . . (are) suffocating for creative vitality.” Moreover he puts his art behind his words. Bazar writes:
Lethem initiated a project through his website called Promiscuous Materials that offers up his stories and lyrics [...]
Software reduces art to science and turns judgments into point-and-click routines. Desktop publishing and tax preparation are examples of professional skills that have been boiled down and percolated into general practice.
But professionals still have tricks-of the trade that set them apart from amateurs. Author Robert W. Harris shares the secrets of typography and graphic design in a [...]
Enough already with the blogs-versus-mainstream debate, which erupts yet again over a MediaPost report that summarizes an alleged study* by Lexis-Nexis, the pay-per-view info-warehouse where people can search for articles from leading print publications. The gist of the report is that consumers turn to mass media, not bloggers, for breaking news. Prominent bloggers fumed that [...]
I had a dream the other night, about how blogging could enliven and reinvigorate newspapers. I want to write it down before the memory fades, because it is my sad sense that modern American journalism has all the firmness of white bread dipped in warm milk. And I imagine that a dose of ‘tude from [...]
The “Blogging for Dolars” cover story in Business 2.0 offers tidbits of information on pay-per-click and banner (CPM) advertising rates, but somehow the math doesn’t add up in a piece that dwells on a handful of stars in a breathless, “Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous” tone suggesting that you, too, might grab blogging’s brass [...]
I attended a reception last week at which the hosts provided music chosen by live disc jockeys. When I wandered to the back of the room to see who was playing what I was astonished to see a dual turntable spinning real vinyl record albums. I asked the disc jockey — who turned out to [...]
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