… at the intersection of media, technology, business and the web
Posts tagged as:
Matt Bai, who is starting a new political blog next week covering the U.S. election campaign, has a piece in the New York Times today about what might loosely be called Politics 2.0 — the use of blogs and Facebook and other social media as part of a campaign. He says the major parties have [...]
{ Comments }
Interesting piece in Ad Age magazine about how Nickelodeon has noticed huge traffic to some of its Nick Jr. shows, including one psychedelic Teletubby-style offering called Yo Gabba Gabba (wonder if The Ramones are pondering a trademark suit). The show has accumulated about 4.4 million TV viewers since June, according to Nielsen, but more than [...]
{ Comments }
Steve Spalding over at How To Split An Atom reminded me of something I’d been meaning to mention: Mashable’s new Open Web Awards have begun. It’s kind of like a crowdsourced award program, in which people get to nominate and then vote on the entrants in different categories such as Social Bookmarking or Photo Sharing. [...]
{ Comments }
There were rumours even before the U.S. writers strike started that it might lead to one of the networks picking up Quarterlife, the new Web drama about twentysomethings created by Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz, the team behind Thirtysomething and My So-Called Life, and now it appears that those rumours have come true. NBC, which [...]
{ Comments }
Two pieces in the latest issue of MediaPost magazine take opposite views on the issue of print’s longevity (or lack thereof). One, by Adam Penenberg — who has written for Forbes, the New York Times and Wired magazine — argues that print will almost surely disappear over time, simply because digital content is so much [...]
{ Comments }
