Random Media Notes

Stephen Elliott bio ↓  ·  December 24th, 2008  ·  filed under Other
picture by Daniel Cheong

picture by Daniel Cheong

10 of the 13 million digital tracks available online failed to find a single buyer last year.

The last issue of the Globe and Mail book section has been published. (via)

The L.A. Times may outsource its foreign and national coverage.

Non-profit news outlets are experimenting with community funding (cultural websites too!).

Here we go: The Washington Post and The Baltimore Sun are going to share news coverage.

Layoffs at Rolling Stone. Managing Director Will Dana says, “It was not a matter of cutting the fat.”

Gatehouse sues Boston.com for linking to its site. See also, “a danger to journalism.”

Rupert Murdoch’s biographer: MySpace’s value might go down to nothing. “If you’re on MySpace now, you’re a [expletive] cretin. And you’re not only a [expletive] cretin, but you’re poor. Nobody who has beyond an 8th grade level of education is on MySpace. It is for backwards people.”

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Stephen Elliott is the author of seven books, including the memoir The Adderall Diaries, the novel Happy Baby, and the erotica collection My Girlfriend Comes To The City and Beats Me Up. He is the editor of The Rumpus. Sometimes he twitters. More from this author →

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