June 2010
May 2010
“So at hockey camp in nisswa minnesota, shit gets kind of off the wall. You have...”
– I don’t know wtf is going on here, but it’s from Deadspin.
WatchLocal boys Iron Thrones - who won the Scion No Label Needed contest - get their very first photoshoot. Adorable.
“On the BP oil spill, Pawlenty said: “I think it is premature to lay blame...”
– From Rachel E. Stassen-Berger’s recap of David Gregory’s “This Week” interview with T-Paw
“As BP makes its latest attempt to plug its gushing oil well, news photographers...”
– Newsweek: “BP’s Photo Blockade of the Gulf Oil Spill”
A truck transporting millions of honey bees from... →
“Differences between the social media and mainstream press come into clearer...”
– from the Pew Center’s “New Media, Old Media: Social media’s agenda versus the MSM, week to week”
“Zuckerberg needs your data. His business is built upon it. The most important...”
– Lyons, on Facebook (via newsweek)
The LOST finale was as good as the last two seasons of LOST, so you know what I’ll take it.
“There are two reasons why TV advertising is still bigger than the Internet: 1)...”
– This Amazing Video Is Why TV Is Bigger Than The Internet (via marrina)
There are some fundamental problems with this Business Insider article. First, the idea that people “spending a ton of time on TV” is the same as spending a ton of time online is wrong. Spending time on TV can be...
“We’re putting our brains into neutral, and revving the engine. We’re digitally...”
– Lyons, on why Obama’s right on that whole ‘put down your iPad’ thing. (via newsweek)
Check out Julia Ioffe’s piece from this week’s issue of The New Yorker on Chatroulette, the latest social media site to enter the mix.
(via newyorker)
Who would’ve guessed that the future of news was The...
“As we’ve explained before, “quantum teleportation” is quite...”
– Quantum teleportation achieved over ten miles of free space — AND BLOWS YOUR MIND GRAPES
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Poynter's interactive "200 Moments That Changed... →
“We already have gotten a hint of what the future could hold. Acting to trim...”
– from Part 2 from Newsosaur on “The potential economic threat to local TV news”
Both of these are great pieces, but the one thing I don’t get is: was the media really all that great before, say, 1992? Are the glory days of the media — the time that so many in the industry...
Mefi: "Help me help friend in DC." →
You HAVE to read this. Best thing on the internet in a really long time.
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George Dub Step
beckylang:
Download it here
I told my friend Conrad (DJ Picnic Basket) to make a mix called “George Dub Step” to introduce kiddies to dub step, which is sort of like techno made in the loch ness monster’s personal swampy rave club. So he did it! I made the artwork. George Bush is biting a Facebook “like” sign.
Me and my friend John are going to make some art about the word “gay.” I like...
“How do you see the competitive set changing, in terms of digital communications...”
– Weber Shandwick’s Chris Perry talks shop on mediabistro
[from Greg Swan on Facebook]
In Which Romano Profiles Michelle Bachmann, and...
newsweek:
The lede from his story “Tweet the Press”:
My editor had just stepped into my office to discuss a new assignment. The NEWSWEEK brass is interested in Twitter, he told me, but they’re looking for an original way to cover it—which is where you come in. OK, I thought. Fine. For a youngish reporter like me, this is standard operating procedure. We are expected to understand things like...
I can't even begin with this one →
“The New York Times, which tested Foursquare during the Winter Olympics, recently...”
– Big Publishers Circling Foursquare
Sounds like THA FUTURE A NEWZ
“As the Information Age barrels forward, a new role has emerged. While new...”
– -The Art of Editing (via wearethedigitalkids)
I’ve been thinking about this article lately, since it really didn’t sit right with me after the initial reading.
We’re not all editors. In fact, the role of an editor is narrowing, even in the broad sense used in this piece, and...
“Gather the wind
Though the wind won’t help you fly at all
Your...”
– Ronnie James Dio, “Die Young”
