The old news media believes that all of the stuff it's been giving away for free for a decade or more it ought now get the reader to shell out for.
Karen Leland | Posted 05.16.2009 | Living
My computer had become the junk drawer of my electronic life.
John DeBellis | Posted 04.30.2009 | Comedy
I got tired of getting messages from people I hadn't heard from in twenty years, who still haven't figured that I didn't want to hear from them until I read their names in the obituary.
Dave Astor | Posted 04.30.2009 | Comedy
Many Americans don't care that newspapers are hemorrhaging jobs, but laid-off journalists wandering the streets could become a quality-of-life issue.
Paul Dailing | Posted 04.24.2009 | Comedy
The more you self-reference, pick feuds and talk about the failure of TimesSelect, the better you're doing. If you make it sound like you're the one who figured out newspapers are dying, you win.
Michael Conniff | Posted 04.11.2009 | Media
The conventions of the book require an obvious organizational structure. The multi-media web is the new book--the Supernovel --and it is inherently open-ended.
Michael Conniff | Posted 04.02.2009 | Media
Every time a newspaper folds, something inside of me dies. As a man who loves newspapers and all they represent, it makes me want to cry.
Hugh McGuire | Posted 03.30.2009 | Media
I love my Saturday newspaper, but I love it as an enjoyable hour spent in the morning. It has almost nothing to do with news. For news (like, I suspect, most of you), I go to the web.
www.mochiads.com | MochiAds | Posted 03.15.2009 | Comedy
The world of tabloid journalism is a dirty one. And to get a decent story these days, you've got to bend the rules. Set out on your hunt for the biggest story of the year by giving the celebrities a taste of their own medicine for once. Slap and clap your way through four levels of superstar smackage.
www.mochiads.com | MochiAds | Posted 03.12.2009 | Comedy
Is your head feeling a little fuzzy? That cup of coffee not doing the trick? Give your brain a workout with this online puzzle game. Slap your chip-eating, couch-lounging, flabby excuse of a brain back into shape with this new game from doof studios! The four mini games will push your brain to the limit. Just follow the in-game instructions to play.
Stefan Deeran | Posted 03.02.2009 | Media
Conservatives are currently better connected than progressives on Twitter through their use of hashtags, a code users paste inside each tweet which tags posts that are relevant to specific audiences.
Scott Lachut | Posted 02.28.2009 | Media
At some point the anonymity of the Internet transformed into a social networking clearinghouse of daily minutiae and most of us opted in. Is this the existential crisis of our modern age?
Raafi Rivero | Posted 02.23.2009 | Business
YouTube has become the default TV of the Internet. This is remarkable considering that a) It did not exist during the last presidential campaign and b) so much of the content is by non-professionals.
Sigtryggur Magnason | Posted 02.22.2009 | World
Icelanders don't have the culture of crowds. There are no subways, no train stations, so Facebook has made a great social impact and has played a vital role in the days since the economic crash.
Jack Myers | Posted 02.19.2009 | Business
Our industry is faced with an advertising depression, a rapid acceleration of media fragmentation, and audience shifts to non ad-supported media.
Jack Myers | Posted 02.13.2009 | Business
The day-to-day realities facing television networks, which are certainly feeling the pain of both economic and systemic challenges, are still not that troubling.
Meredith Broussard | Posted 02.07.2009 | Style
My college students would find me on Facebook in about five seconds flat. Can I really get up in front of a classroom and command authority if my students know I helped make a fruit turkey?
Jonah Peretti | Posted 01.31.2009 | Media
The web changed forever the moment that Iraqi journalist threw his shoes at President Bush. Or at least it changed for two or three days as the animated gifs and games flooded the Internet.
Kety Esquivel | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics
NCLR has joined other civil rights and Latino leaders to urge Congress and the new administration to make passage of the "Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act" a priority.
Hillary Newman | Posted 01.18.2009 | Style
The idea behind Twitter that anything can be said in that small amount of space. For you Facebook users, think of twitter as the status space on your profile.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 01.08.2009 | Media
The true sign of the times in the media industry: It was announced today that, for the first time, Web-only news outlets will be eligible for Pulitzer Prizes.
Roseanne Colletti | Posted 01.04.2009 | Living
By all accounts, yes even from the pessimists, online shopping Thanksgiving weekend was a blockbuster, up 13% from last year. But let's take a little time out for safety, security, and common sense.
Roseanne Colletti | Posted 12.22.2008 | Business
Have you noticed how many bargains have sprung up online? If you have money to spend, you have tremendous opportunity for buying a lot with less.
Kety Esquivel | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics
Gruver was attacked by Klansmen at a Kentucky fair in 2006. He was in line at a concession stand at the Meade County Fair when two Klansmen... threw whiskey in his face.
Wired | Ryan Singel | Posted 12.13.2008 | Business
When Classmates.com told user Anthony Michaels last Christmas Eve that his former school chums were trying to contact him, he pulled out his wallet an...
Michael Wolff | Posted 05.18.2009 | Media