Posted in General | August 13th, 2010 | Comments Off
1. A fantastic piece: Seven Years as a Freelance Writer, or, How To Make Vitamin Soup
2. Richard Morgan on payback, freelancing and the myth of the “made man”
3. I noticed this and it really sucked. Rendered my browser useless
4. Gizmodo summarizes a reporter’s work and buries a tiny link at the bottom. Cashes in on 200,00 pageviews
5. Twitter: The Movie
6. Facebook Ad Sales to Hit $1.2 Billion This Year
7. The Tabloidy Goodness of TBD
8. This isn’t the first time Deadspin has burned a source. I recommend NEVER sending them news tips
9. I like Poynter, but this blog post was pretty funny
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Posted in General | August 12th, 2010 | Comments Off
1. For the first time in a decade, a living novelist is on the cover of TIME. Guess who it is
2. Great ads
3. How Mediaite ignores fair use in aggregating copyrighted clips. They say networks don’t mind…
4. MoveOn Blasts Target in Online Ads
5. Here’s How The Media Industry Will Grow Faster Than The US Economy Through 2014
6. 4Chan Founder Gives Palin Courtroom Lesson In Slang
7. Is Bloomberg refraining from posting corrections because of HR reasons?
8. Virology Journal withdraws paper about whether Christ cured a woman with flu
9. Greenwald once again eviscerates The Atlantic’s Goldberg
10. The Newsonomics of TBD
11. Cool to see web traffic trends across several major tech blogs
12. Craigslist Starts To Roll Out…Gasp…A Slightly New Design
13. The Food Network and LA Times are teaming up
14. Interesting revenue techniques for Starbucks’ free wifi
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Posted in General | August 11th, 2010 | Comments Off
1. If you weren’t a Steven Slater fan already, read this
2. The News Merchant: The inside story of how tabloid TV news is made, bought, and paid for
3. No thanks
4. GE Execs Encouraged CNBC Staff to Go Easy on Obama?
5. CBS News Boss Touts Web Growth
6. How to stop being a grammar Nazi
7. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert lookalikes
8. NYT On The So-Called “Ground Zero Mosque.”
9. Facebook, AOL quietly talking online ad hookup
10. How is this Wikipedia page being considered for deletion?
11. Can someone alert James O’Keefe that the Census returned $1.6 Billion?
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Posted in General | August 10th, 2010 | Comments Off
1. Brainy Bike Will Tweet Its Feelings
2. The Franklin Center and National Review Partner For Election Coverage
3. NSFW: Inception-Themed Craigslist Rim Job Posting
4. Christopher Hitchens Tells Jeffrey Goldberg That He Fears No Foxhole
5. Rand Paul campaign threatens GQ mag yet still hasn’t denied its charges
6. This is great
7. New filing discloses that ProPublica editor-in-chief Paul Steiger’s 2009 salary was $571,687.
8. D.C.: Where Reality TV Comes to Die
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Posted in General | August 9th, 2010 | Comments Off
1. Sorry for my absence, I was in the Outer Banks for a week.
2. Gawker Settles Copyright Suit Over “McSteamy” Sex Tape
3. Why does Fox News’ website perform so badly compared to CNN?
4. Skype Is A Real, Live Growth Company
5. More positive signs for newspapers
6. Twitter, Foursquare and Qik Used in Geeky Marriage Proposal
7. Did someone declare it Shitty New York Times Columnist week and not tell me?
8. Magazine circulation down 2.3% in first half of 2010. Reader’s Digest is biggest loser (25% decline).
9. David Carr says New York magazine is doing swell
10. A major mass market paperback publisher goes all digital
11. How TBD will function
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Posted in General | July 29th, 2010 | Comments Off
1. The war for Helen Thomas’s White House press seat heats up, with activists getting involved
2. Fashion magazines going from experimenting with “plus size” models to obese ones
3. The fantasy world where all websites load at the same speed
4. Why video games matter
5. I actually disagree with most libel cases, but I think Sherrod has a strong legal case against Andrew Breitbart
6. Julian Assange Is Angry The NYT Didn’t Link To WikiLeaks
7. What are the Web’s Top Sources of Referral Traffic? (they leave out blogs, email, news sites, message boards)
8. OUCH: Slashdot Struggles to Remain Relevant in The Social Web (I’m skeptical)
9. Journalism activists bring Pew Research polling under fire
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Posted in General | July 28th, 2010 | Comments Off
1. How Google pollutes the web
2. The contest to find the most boring article in the world
3. OH: “Did someone order 25 copies of Politico?” I assume this is how bad DC-based porn begins. — Charlie Meisch
4. I wonder if this guy appreciates the irony that he’s calling for a “slow news movement” on the Politics Daily website
5. Huffington Post is now profitable but only bringing in fraction of revenue compared to big print players
6. Hey #tcot sheep, get yourself a conservative email so Michael Reagan can pry more money from his father’s cold dead hands
7. After reading this Foursquare horror story, my first thought was “you reap what you sow”
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