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Comedy Central first with Rumsfeld news
Muhammad Saleem over at Mu Life — a great new blogger I’ve recently discovered who focuses on social media — posted something about how Digg and Netscape had the news that Donald Rumsfeld had resigned long before Google News (long in this case being 20 minutes). His post was noticed and linked to by Steve [...]
Remixing media — get ‘em while they’re young
In this era of YouTube and Revver and video “mashups,” it seems like remixing media is the order of the day, and now there are half a dozen online video-editing tools like Jumpcut, Eyespot, MotionBox and VideoEgg that allow users to upload and edit video quickly and easily. It would be easy to dismiss this [...]
A shameless plug for my employer
I don’t often do this on my blog, but since several different blogs and news sites have mentioned the Washington Post’s introduction of reader comments on news stories, I thought I would mention that the newspaper I work for in Toronto, the Globe and Mail (www.theglobeandmail.com) has allowed reader comments on every story we publish [...]
And where is that attention going?
As a kind of followup to my previous post about how new media is attention, it’s worth looking at where that attention is going, and a recent survey by Ofcom (the media regulator) in Britain gives us a snapshot of that. As summarized by Staci over at PaidContent — a great example of new media [...]
New media is attention
While scanning the headlines at I Want Media, one of my favourite media-news aggregation sites, I came across an interview with Jared Kushner, the 25-year-old who recently bought the New York Observer. For anyone who doesn’t know, the Observer is a pink-coloured tabloid that provides a wonderful mix of politics, art, commentary and other stuff, [...]
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