May 2011
3 posts
Spotify takes on iTunes →
A significant update of the Spotify player sees it take on iTunes to become the user’s primary digital music management and download tool.
Through a new ‘devices’ tool in the Spotify client sidebar, users can now manage their iPod collection via the player (rather than via iTunes), syncing all their downloads.
The updated software will scan a user’s digital music...
WikiLeaks cable reveals the US offered to pay... →
terryblakey:
Hey US Congress, please stop trying to write our laws for us, we’re all grown up people capable of governing ourselves without your help (or bribery).
April 2011
1 post
“further developed types of media never replace the existing modes of media and...”
– Riepl’s law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via iamdanw)
March 2011
7 posts
“In the last five years, full-fledged adults have seemingly given up the...”
– Don’t Call Me, I Won’t Call You - NYTimes.com (via ohgrowup)
“In the last five years, full-fledged adults have seemingly given up the...”
– Don’t Call Me, I Won’t Call You - NYTimes.com (via ohgrowup)
The Newspaper Guild Calls for HuffPo Boycott : CJR →
inadvisable:
copyeditor:
The Newspaper Guild of America, which represents 26,000 media workers across the country, has called for a strike of unpaid writers against The Huffington Post. The Guild is joining the art publication Visual Arts Source, which represents fifty artists and had also called for a boycott several weeks prior.
Well!
ebooks on borrowed time →
nostrich:
Ebooks were supposed to be indestructible. Where you had disk-space, you had literature – in perpetuity. Which is bad news for publishers now deprived of that extra round of sales revenue engendered by books being dropped in baths.
HarperCollins has got wise to this: it has announced that US libraries will be allowed to lend ebooks only up to 26 times. Its sales president, Josh...
Nokia: We depend on uninformed customers,... →
“Millions of consumers are oblivious to the announcements that we have made,” she said. Those consumers value Nokia’s brand, she said, and will continue to buy devices provided the company keeps making competitive products.
February 2011
4 posts
“By 1920, one journalism critic noted, there were nearly a thousand ‘bureaus of...”
– News & Current Affairs: Schudson on Objectivity (via paulbradshaw)
Schudson is such an irredeemable liberal.
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US starts Farsi Twitter account aimed at Iranians →
infoneer-pulse:
The U.S. State Department began sending Twitter messages in Farsi on Sunday in the hopes of reaching social media users in Iran.
On the Twitter account, USA darFarsi, the department told Iranians, “We want to join in your conversation.”
The second and third tweets were more pointed. The State Department accused Iran’s government of illegalizing dissent while praising Egyptian...
January 2011
4 posts
The Newsonomics of Mr. Murdoch's Daily →
So if the cost run-rate is about $15 to $18 million a year, and subscription revenues net at $7 million, News Corp. would need $8 to $11 million a year in ad revenues to break even. Certainly possible, if that 200,000 number is hit and sustained, but also a tough proposition as tablet newbies sample widely and are confronted by a world of paid choices.
“Google isn’t a web application company—they’re an advertising company. That’s...”
– Android Isn’t About Building a Mobile Platform | TightWind (via shaneguiter)
Knowing Your Audience: Lessons from the Gaming...
52weeksofux:
This week’s guest author is Matt Ventre, a user experience designer at MessageFirst in Philadelphia, PA.
Now that we’re settling in to play our new, more-amazing-than-ever video games procured over the holidays, it makes sense to ask: “What can the UX folks learn from the wildly successful gaming world?”
In a word: audience. The video gaming marketplace’s vibrant success over the...
December 2010
1 post
November 2010
3 posts
The Times’ Paywall and Newsletter Economics « Clay... →
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Anti-piracy tool Will Harvest and Market Your... →
kateoplis:
Aralia Systems, who specializes in piracy tracking devices - including CCTV cameras and anti-camcorder systems that shine infrared light beams into a movie-watching audience - has teamed up with Machine Vision Lab in what seems like a massive invasion of your privacy beyond “in the name of security.” Machine Vision Lab’s Dr Abdul Farooq told PhysOrg:
“We plan to build on the...
October 2010
3 posts
Minimalist Profile? Facebook Knows About You, Too →
infoneer-pulse:
You think you’re so clever. You think you’re gaming the system. You hardly put any information on Facebook anyway—you just use it to lurk and occasionally “poke” people—so how can Facebook be mining data, targeting ads, or making money off you at all?
Think again.
» via Fast Company
September 2010
7 posts
“Within recent days, Murdoch is reported by my sources to have consulted Tony...”
– Michael Wolff on rumours of how Rupert Murdoch is dealing with the phone-hacking scandal
Mass movements that matter for media: Tea Party... →
redguard:
Last fall, when tens of thousands of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender activists and their allies marched on Washington in a grassroots rally for equality, media gave it far less coverage than the similarly sized, largely corporate-funded Tea Party protest in Washington just a month earlier (Extra!, 12/09). So it came as little surprise that the Tea Party Convention this February...
Apple to announce subscription plan for newspapers →
Apple is expected to announce soon a new subscription plan for newspapers, which hope tablets like the iPad will eventually provide a new source of profit as media companies struggle with declining print circulation and advertising revenue.
Apple did not respond to a request for comment. But Roger Fidler, head of digital publishing at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute in Columbia,...
“The goal of the copyright industries is to make sure that digital goods have all...”
– Court limits right to sell used software (via azspot)
Google Instant Makes SEO Irrelevant →
Here’s what this means: no two people will see the same web. Once a single search would do the trick - and everyone saw the same results. That’s what made search engine optimization work. Now, with this, everyone is going to start tweaking their searches in real-time. The reason this is a game changer is feedback. When you get feedback, you change your behaviors. Think about it. When you push a...
August 2010
7 posts
“Content owners claim they are doomed, because in the digital environment, they...”
– Is the Sky Falling on the Content Industries? by Mark A. Lemley, Stanford Law School (via publicknowledge)
“In other words, to avoid creating tiered access on the internet and dealing with...”
– Google, Verizon Propose Open vs Paid Internets | Epicenter | Wired.com (via publicknowledge)
CBC.ca | Ideas | The Origins of the Modern Public,... →
Publicity was once the exclusive property of men of rank. They alone, by virtue of their stations, could make things public. During the 18th century it became meaningful to talk about “public opinion” as something formed outside the state. Today anyone with a Twitter account can make a public. In this series IDEAS producer David Cayleyexamines how publics were formed in Europe, between...
“A security researcher involved with the Wikileaks Web site — Jacob Appelbaum, a...”
– suraj.sun writes with this news from CNET (via buffleheadcabin)
“Publishers have two sets of customers, readers and advertisers. They can...”
– Michael Learmonth (via soupsoup)
Leaked files indicate U.S. pays Afghan media to... →
July 2010
4 posts
US Copyright Group Caught Red Handed Copying... →
infoneer-pulse:
US Copyright Group — the publicity seeking effort from DC law firm Dunlap, Grubb & Weaver that is suing tens of thousands of people for alleged copyright infringement in an effort to get them to pay up via “pre-settlement” letters — appears to have a bit of a problem with understanding copyright itself. TorrentFreak is showing how USCG appears to have blatantly copied the...
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Murdoch's paywall: playtime is over
I don’t know if backlash has an antonym - frontlash, maybe - but Rupert Murdoch’s erection of paywalls around the Times and Sunday Times websites seems to have attracted one. The original announcement last year, the erection of the paywall, the recent, eye-watering traffic data, has been accompanied by a steady, vuvuzela chorus of derision, disbelief and disapproval. Now, at last,...
BP Gulf Oil Spill Photos Show What BP Doesn't Want... →
moorewr:
alexanderpf:
People need to know what is being done to humankind, flora and fauna in this part of the world! Please forward this, more further evidence of ecocide and genocide.
“Washington’s blog points us to the the photos below showing just why BP and the Federal Government have suspended the constitution and has made it a felony crime punishable by jail time and a $40,000 fine for...
Pentagon Increases Control on Media Contacts →
kateoplis:
Following the debacle involving McChrystal and Rolling Stone, military officials will now have to get approval from the Defense Department before talking to the media.
Because clearly, it isn’t enough to have “the single largest public relations apparatus on earth – spending $4.7 billion on P.R. in 2009 alone and employing 27,000 people, a staff nearly as large as the ...
June 2010
6 posts
“Well, there is a war on journalism. There’s long been a war on journalism....”
– John Pilger (via azspot)
“‘At this moment,’ the letter says, ‘we are facing our biggest challenge ever....”
– ASCAP Declares War on Free Culture
In its ongoing march toward complete irrelevance, ASCAP calls on its members to fight the free culture movement, including voluntary licenses like Creative Commons.
(via shawnyeager) (via infoneer-pulse)
Anti-Hezbollah campaign to face lawsuit →
clingtomymouth:
Earlier last week, the lawmaker said USD 500 million had been spent by the US and certain Arab countries to bribe people into criticizing Hezbollah.
He also noted that the money was spent through the United States Agency for International Development.
Why the Golden Age of Mobile and Online... →
shaneguiter:
Morgan Stanley analyst Mary Meeker, head of the firm’s global technology research team, says the mobile market is growing at a phenomenal rate, that online advertising could finally be entering its “golden age” and that online commerce is also slated to take off, thanks in large part to the growth of mobile. Meeker, one of the most prominent brokerage analysts during the early days...
On Corporate Responsibility
notational:
stocassticity:
claytoncubitt:
“Can anybody bring them to account? It is next to impossible to do so. If you undertake it you will find it a game of hide and seek, with the objects of your search taking refuge now behind the tree of their individual personality, now behind that of their corporate irresponsibility.” -Woodrow Wilson, 1913