Even when I don't have time to write I still read. Here are bookmarks I've saved in Delicious.
Bookmarks for 05/17/2009
Valleywag Understands How Content Works

Valleywag highlights the new Time cover and makes the most excellent observation about how self-important the media is (see How Not to Save Newspapers). The problem with micropayments is not technology. It's that consumers are fundamentally uninterested in paying per article. Isaacson dismisses the problem of "mental transaction costs," but it's quite real. It's almost [...]
Bookmarks for 01/29/2009
Speaking of Media Bias
The Media Fund Hits the Ultimate Low
I've been analyzing the negative rhetoric coming from the political campaigns. I'm disgusted with the Media Fund's latest ad campaign that insultingly takes the low road to appeal to African Americans. The Media Fund has not placed any of these ads on their Web as of today, and I doubt they will. But that hasn't [...]
2004: The Year the Media Changed
So much has been written about the CBS forged memo story (read a good summary here). I have never seen so much discourse surrounding the actual reporting of a story versus the story itself. I personally declare 2004 to be the year of the media shift. It's the year that the blogosphere kicked "Dan Rather's" [...]




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