Some Wednesday links
Here are some media-related links for your amusement:
1. For political cartoonist, how do you draw caricatures of Obama and Clinton and not come off as racist or sexist?
2. I’m late to the party, but apparently Sam Zell, new owner of the Tribune Company, recently said “fuck you” to one of his own journalists.
3. Now this is a way to go out in style. A Yahoo employee who gets laid off twitters his entire last day at work.
4. Has anyone else noticed that with ebook/Kindle and its recent purchase of Audible, Amazon is quickly changing its sales product from real-world objects to digital bits?
5. Kevin Kelly argues for why we need online editors. In other words, crowd sourcing isn’t valuable unless there’s a leader.
6. HarperCollins to release books for free on the web. Too bad they’re doing it on silly terms.
7. And as a follow-up about Sam Zell, apparently his workers aren’t given the same profanity privileges.
