April 2010
March 2010
Prince at First Ave in 1983, "Purple Rain"
Part 1
Part 2
Amazing.
from Gimme Noise, who has more background on the video.
“While most people track Gawker Media’s influence via reach metrics like...”
– from Gawker media’s look at metrics and traffic/sales measurements
“But here’s the problem: with a broad and expanding universe of content...”
– from “It’s Time for a Content Identification Standard” in mediapost
“Whenever possible, Obama positioned himself to speak to the American people...”
– a pretty interesting quote from “The White House Scrambles to Tame the News Cyclone” in Time magazine
“If social tools were creating real economic gains, we’d expect to see a...”
– from The Social Media Bubble by Umair Haque in The Harvard Business Review
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Watchwearethedigitalkids
Re-blogged for all you Bon Iver fans and folks who want to see what I’d look like exactly if I cut my hair short again.
“Qwest says it wants to build infrastructure to link over half a million...”
– from “Big telecom Qwest wants broadband stimulus bucks”
“It doesn’t let up, the message of Liz’s ugliness. The entire conception of her...”
– Tiger Beatdown, “13 Ways of Looking at Liz Lemon”, an incredibly good look at the sort of anti-feminism of Liz Lemon
“Exposure” is not a useful measure of consumer attention or engagement, and...”
– Tom Kasperski, “TV Ad Exposure Exposed”
Definitely go read Kasperski’s post on “exposure” as a metric for audiences and TV, it’s got a great take on some real data about how long audiences are currently exposed to some advertising and how effective it is.
“But then, at this point in Pawlenty’s all-but-declared presidential campaign, he...”
– Tim “The Chairman” Gihring has some words for Tim “the panderer who clocked in 4th at CPAC” Pawlenty on arts funding, one of the many areas of our state f’d by the Governor’s ideologically driven mismanagement of the state. [fr iteeth]
“Does our generation have an “entertainment entitlement” problem? Does the Web...”
– Barrett Sheridan, “And the Heart Says ‘Meh’” (via newsweek)
“Joe and I sit and stare at the wall of the building. The building is beige, but...”
– From “Just Before the Black”, the new fiction in Esquire from actor James Franco.
(Note: Esquire continues to be an incredibly terrible magazine.)
WatchDave Loomer loves you, so he filmed the last evar Awesome Snakes show.
“Once targeted based on their behavior, influencers can be engaged with a...”
– MediaPost says new reports show that influencers aren’t all that and a bag of chips.
“Popular bloggers, smart companies and even media have designs on creating and...”
– Christopher Angus, guest posting on Future Buzz, about “Viral Marketing 101 - Seeding Your Campaign”
This is for Peter, who’s working towards his green belt at the temple of the gif.
“With the decentralization of resources for music, music bloggers are the new...”
– Greg Swan of Perfect Porridge recapping the SxSW State of Music Blogs panel
Viva la Prensa!
utnereader:
According to a poll commissioned last year by New America Media, an association of more than 2,000 news organizations, ethnic media outlets saw their audiences grow 16 percent between 2005 and 2009. All told, 82 percent of African Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans tune in to these media outlets regularly.
From Utne.com: Ethnic Media Thriving
The four trends that will define interactive for...
I’m going to keep this post short and sweet, with the intention that if you’re interested in this stuff, shoot me a note and we can rap about it more. (I should’ve done this as a prezi presentation for you folks, but it’s nice out, so screw it.) Portability and application convergence The days of content restricted to a single CMS or a primary format are waning. Now...
STREET BONERS and TV CARNAGE » 7 PROBLEMS WITH... →
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““It’s such an icky boomer-like exercise, obsessing over your own...”
– Zach Baron, “Flux=rad: The Pavement reunion and the Baby Boomer cultural hegemony”, in Slate
1st Ave. + Newly 2-Way Street = $32 Parking Ticket... →
marrina:
I work right by Target Center and I can’t tell you how many times I had to tell people to move their car or they’ll get towed. Seriously, the BIKE LANE sign could not be bigger, and yet, people keep parking in it.
freshmn:
dmdhashw:
Some drivers in downtown Minneapolis are quickly learning that there is a fine line between parking safely and getting your car towed. That’s...
“In 2003, Israel built a cement barrier around the West Bank. The United States...”
– Marcello Di Cintio, writing in the Fall 2009 issue of Geist (via utnereader)