Digital Media

When Food is War: Media Battles Over the Dinner Table

Elissa Altman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Print Media, Digital Media, Melissa Clark, Death of Gourmet, Amanda Hesser, Saveur, Roger Smith Food Conference, Media News

The food writing world is a strange amalgam of civility and arrogance, conviviality and snark, anger, pomposity, delusion, and fear; I've always said ...

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Attention -- The Internet Is Killing Ours: An Interview With Rachel Dretzin, Producer of Frontline's Digital Nation

Alex Pasternack | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cell Phones, Pbs, Web 2.0, World Wide Web, Digital Media, Documentary, Internet, Technology News

While some of the best documentaries draw our attention to little-known corners of the world, producer Rachel Dretzin has been blowing up our preconceptions by training her lenses on the what's around us right now.

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21st Century Citizenship

Stephen Balkam | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Digital Media, Clinton State Department, Family Online Safety Insitute, Clinton, Chinese Government, Hillary Clinton, Censorship, State Department, Chinese Censorship, Stephen Balkam, Technology News

The concept and practice of 21st century statecraft will have profound implications for how we think of ourselves as citizens -- of both our own country and of the digital world we increasingly inhabit.

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Inspire a New Generation of Game Experiences for Children

Connie Yowell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Digital Media, John D. And Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Mass Effect 2, Avatar, Impact News

A recent survey indicated the 90% of U.S. teenagers have played video games. It's time for the nonprofit world to harness this power and make gaming an engaging learning experience.

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Are We (Virtually) There Yet?

Stephen Balkam | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pbs, Digital Media, Family Online Safety Insitute, Stephen Balkam, Frontline, Video Game Addiction, Digital Nation, Internet Addiction, Growing Up Online, Video Games, Technology News

Recent research found that kids consume 7.5 hours of media per day. Add in multi-tasking (texting while watching TV while listening to music, for instance) and the figure reaches an amazing 11 hours.

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A Newspaper Editor Against Pay Walls

Alan Rusbridger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Old Media, Newspaper, New Media, Digital Media, Print Journalism, Online Journalism, Pay Walls, Media News

In a recent lecture, Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger said that universal pay walls were bound to remove journalists from the information revolution.

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Kids and Media: Joined at the Hip

Ellen Galinsky | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Digital Media, Early Childhood Education, Kids and Media, Kids and the Internet, ParentMind in the Making, Parenting Advice, Blogher, Healthy Living News

A brand new study from the Kaiser Family Foundation finds that among young people 8-18, use of every type of media has increased over the past 10 years, with the exception of reading.

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Learning Social Media Lessons from Brown v. Coakley

Lauren DeLisa Coleman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Scott Brown, Digital Media, Social Media, Mobile Phones, Massachusetts Senate Race, Social Media Networks, Diversity, Martha Coakley, Media News

Facebook, Twitter and YouTube were, seemingly, used more effectively by state Senator Brown to promote his campaign and connect with supporters.

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Who Sent the Original Retweet?

Ben Arnon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Digital Media, Social Media, Sms, Twitter, Retweeting, Microblogging, Tweets, Retweet, Viral, Blogs, Micropublishing, Blogging, Technology News

Retweeting is a Twitter convention created by users. Because of its speed of delivery and its potential reach, retweets are fast becoming the most viral way to spread ideas in human history.

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TV Everywhere! Or Big Brother: The Beta Version

Eric Lurio | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pay-Tv, Digital TV, Digital Media, Tv, Uhf, Privacy, Big Brother, Cel Phones, Entertainment News

A few days ago, I was at DigitalWire's conference on the "Future of Television" and what I heard chilled me to the bone. The right to privacy is goin...

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Lawyers, Anthropologists, and Revolutionaries

Paul Lippe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Web 2.0, American Revolution, Law, Digital Media, Newspapers, Technology Adoption Life Cycle, Netscape, Anthropology, Law Firms, Technology, Synopsys, Technology News

In the mid-'90's, when I was General Counsel of a Silicon Valley software company called Synopsys, my friend Roberta Katz had a similar role at Netsc...

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MSM vs. Digital in 2009: The Times' Brian Stelter Weighs in on Who Won the Big Stories

Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Digital Media, Afghanistan, Cnn, Balloon Boy, Obama First 100 Days, Msm, Kabul, New York Times, Brian Stelter, New Media, Iranian Election, Cnnfail, Media News

Who's on top, the MSM or Digital Media? Who's leading the discussion, why, and is it a good thing? To help us navigate this tricky landscape, we asked New York Times reporter Brian Stelter.

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Kill Your Web 2.0 Self -- Or Change It? (VIDEO)

Jose Antonio Vargas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wikipedia, Iphone, John Mayer, Ipod, Digital Media, Mashable, Twitter, Apple, Jav on Tech, Digg, Digital-Lifestyle, Iran, Al Gore, Facebook, Techcrunch, Technology News

We just left the decade of the "Me-on-Web" generation. We are now beginning the "We-on-Web" generation. And it's not about killing your Web 2.0 self but changing it -- less about "you" and more about "us."

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Digital: Beyond Our Control, But Within Our Reach

Chris Curtin and Bob Greenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Digital Experience, Digital Media, Twitter, Nike, Publishing Industry, Advertising, Digital Advertising, Hewlett Packard, Consumer Spending, Youtube, Fiat, Publishers, Okrut, Telemarketing-Campaigns-Iowa, Media News

Marketers should create campaigns and branded platforms that explain how to get more value out of products, and "why" someone should have them in the first place.

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How to Combat Distracted Walking

Ben H. Winters | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Digital Media, Death of Newspapers, Walking, Politeness, Distracted Driving, Twitter, Direct Action, Technology, Satire, Magazines, Comedy News

Now that the horror of "distracted driving" has been brought thoroughly to light, it is time to turn our collective attention to a related and equally heinous societal scourge: distracted walking.

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Time Inc. Assembles Team Of Rivals To Harness Digital Media

The New York Observer | John Koblin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Squires, Digital Media, Conde Nast, Itunes Magazines, Hearst, Hearst Magazine, Time Inc, Media News

Some of the magazine industry's biggest names are on the verge of forming a new company that would allow them to take the digital future into their ow...

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Obama's "Naughty" and "Nice" Takes On The Internet

Art Brodsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Digital Media, Internet, Piracy, Joe Biden, Alec Ross, State Department, Net Neutrality, Technology News

No one likes "piracy," but Biden's over-the-top meeting put so much of a focus on the issue, and pandered so much to the assembled multitudes that it lacked any credibility whatsoever.

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Climate Lobby Investigation Goes Global — and Digital

Tracy L. Barnett | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: International Journalism, Digital Media, Twitter, Corporate Globalization, Climate Lobby, Lobbyists, Climate Change, Environment, Globalization, New Media, Investigative Journalism, Media, Corporate Greed, International Reporting, Facebook, Investigative Reporting, Green News

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has been raking in the awards for its international tobacco smuggling investigation. Now it's targeting the lobbying effort to influence the treaty on climate change.

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Digital Divine Mind

Sheila Shayon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Deepak Chopra, Internet, Digital Media, Mary Baker Eddy, Communication, Mobile Phones, Technology News

The digital world of communications is the nearest thing to heaven on earth. The smarter we get about the true nature of matter -- the smaller, faster, and more powerful it becomes in our hands.

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Online Journalism How To Guide: Launch Your Own News Site

mashable.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Media Startup, Digital Media, Online Startup, Independent Journalist, How to Be a Writer, Citizen Journalism, Independent Journalism, Startup Journalism, Web Journalism, Online News, Journalism, How to Be a Journalist, Online Newspapers, Technology News

These bootstrapping indie journalists are learning to run their own small business, including tending to many details they never had to worry about be...

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Hey, People! Buck the !@#!$ Up!

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Death, Doom, Books, Magazines, Digital Media, Newspapers, Gloom, Business News

Stuff changes. And there will be losers. But to be the harbingers of doom about your own business? Aren't there plenty of others around to do that job?

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Six Pixels of Clarity

Hugh McGuire | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Podcasting, Social Media, Digital Media, Mitch Joel, Review, Sales, Books, Twist Image, Digital, Marketing, Blogging, Books News

Mitchell Joel's Six Pixels of Separation is written as the story of a business owner and entrepreneur, and not as a pundit.

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DLC: The New Black! The Second Coming of Expansion Packs

Theodore Bergquist | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Digital Media, Apple, Beatles Rock Band, Videogames, Rock Band, Digital Downloads, Music Business, Entertainment Industry, Gamersgate, Business, Video Games, Downloading, DLC Video Games, Dlc, Media News

There's been a lot of talk about downloadable content for video games recently. There is no doubt that we are in the midst of a significant, fast growing trend here.

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Video: Lionsgate Realizing 95% Margins on Digital Business

Daisy Whitney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Digital Media, Lionsgate, Break.com, Web Video, Cinemanow, Weeds, Hulu.com, Mad Men, Amazon.com, Itunes, Saw Movies, Youtube, Lionsgate Digital Media, Natpe, Hulu, Media News

Lionsgate's digital business is realizing 95% profit margins across new media venues like iTunes, Amazon, CinemaNow, Hulu, and YouTube.

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Google Posts Advertising 'Spin Document' Online

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Digital Media, Video, Business News, Transparency, Google Operating System, Privacy, Internet Privacy, Google, Eat the Press, Media News

Yesterday, we reported that Consumer Watchdog had obtained, and provided satiric annotations for, a "spin document" that Google had presented as a par...

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