Listen to Metal on Metal and Everything Will Be Okay
Just because you don’t succeed the way others define success, you’re not a failure. You just chose to take a different path. And who’s to say that’s wrong? I just…
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Newspapers in New York: News Is a Verb
If you won’t read a newspaper on a New York City subway, where will you read it? As zeitgeist, as canary in the mine, the habits of New York subway…
Making Out in the Back of Horseless Carriages!
Teen hysteria, courtesy of the February 14, 1925 issue of the New York Evening Journal:
Random Media Notes
This has been a season of false starts for news organizations. “Newspapers Across the Country Show Steep Declines in Circulation” Redesigned CNN.com: More Opinion, Entertainment and Oprah “Newspaper sites are…
Conversations About the Internet #3: Jonathan Zittrain on Civility and Freedom Online
I think we’re really at a place where it’s hard to predict the future, where governments haven’t fully realized just how much power is falling into their laps, nor have…
Random Media Notes
New York Times posts 35.6 million dollar loss (apparently that’s good news). Two deals were made yesterday that could finally mean cash for Twitter. Should needy newspapers accept donations? Analyst…
Random Media Notes
“New York Times to Layoff 100 Newsroom Staffers” “Glamour, Wired Take Latest Condé Hits” (via MediaBistro) The Washington Post has been redesigned. Amy Hertz, HuffPo’s new books section editor, says…
The Death of the Music Industry Foretold With Shapes
And other (the truth about Twitter) elegant (venn diagram of drugs) infographics (a time-line of media scare stories). Because information must be free — and beautiful.
Whatever Entrepreneurs Can Dream Up…
…con-men have thought of first. Wandering through Old Bailey records, I found an 1889 investor scam worthy of a dot-com:
Random Media Notes
“New York Times San Francisco Edition Launches Today” Condé Nast continues to cut staff. Ted Turner says he would like to run CNN again. Nick Denton: “At meetings at Gawker,…
Random Media Notes
Journalists who covered Iran’s election protests are fleeing the country in fear of retribution. Metro Desk at The New York Times cancels all newspaper and magazine subscriptions. “Facebook Asks Page…
Random Media Notes
Just how much will Conde Naste lose this year? Time’s Joel Stein publishes Rogue Journalist: An Even More American Life (links to full text), his 49 page memoir completed in…