October 2011
5 posts
Leaders and Bosses
Those who don’t know the difference between being a boss and being a leader are destined to be neither.
“In any event, I see this as, if not a watershed moment for WebGL, at least a...”
– 3D Web hits the big time: Google Maps on WebGL | Deep Tech - CNET News
“you don’t have to necessarily know how to install Apache or solder a chip. All...”
– notes on “hackers” (thanks to @jayrosen_nyu)
3 tags
“Once you start depending on metrics, it can become much harder to make intuitive...”
– Savage Thoughts
September 2011
5 posts
4 tags
Doesn't Sound Like a "Hotel" to Me
newsweek:
“Her cell was 10 by 14 feet. It had no bed. The lights were always on. Neon lights. It was part of the torture.”
—
Ramin Setoodeh, in a compelling narrative about the American hikers who’ve spent 775 days in Iran’s most notorious prison, accused of espionage. On Monday, Iran said the hikers would be released. Today they said the release is not imminent.
“Like...
“I follow the 3/3 rule, whereby I speak with someone no more than three times,...”
– The Top Five Social Media Mistakes | Entrepreneur.com
“you really don’t have the hustle unless you’re the owner. If you aren’t the...”
– peHUB » Rafat Ali on Mike Arrington: “You Just Have to Move On”
“Most people make money pointing to content, not creating, curating or collecting...”
– Deluge of Content on the Web Swamps Yahoo - WSJ.com
“the transaction — however profoundly distasteful to me — was part and parcel of...”
– CrunchFund? No Matter What You Call It, It’s Business as Usual in SV. - Kara Swisher - Media - AllThingsD
August 2011
2 posts
“You need to start listening to that voice inside your head.”
– The Ten Biggest Lies of B-School - Forbes
“Oh it’s nothing against Flash; we just prefer HTML5’. Well, Flash can actually...”
– Trip Hawkins on Apple - Edge Magazine
(Relates to what I was saying on MediaFlect.
July 2011
4 posts
“LinkedIn is showing massive growth in terms of referrals (to TechCrunch, at...”
– With Google (And A Tweak For Analytics), The Social Sharing War Is Fully On | TechCrunch
“While the incredible growth of mobile apps and desktop clients and their...”
– Twitter drives 4 times as much traffic as you think it does | awe.sm: the blog
“a few students said that they didn’t see blogs as journalism, because...”
– MediaShift . College Students Miss the Journalistic Potential of Social Media | PBS
Silicon Valley Trouble Selling to Brands
“I don’t know [if we’re a media company], and to be honest,
I’m not that interested in the answer,” says a slightly annoyed David Fischer, Facebook’s vice president of advertising, who sold $1.8 billion.
May 2011
2 posts
“Memorization was once a tool for preserving information. But today the more...”
– New York Times Editor Is A Horrible Troll Who Doesn’t Understand The Modern World - Gizmodo
“… Instead he focuses on the short form, and its rapid fire nature. He...”
– New York Times Editor Keller Is A Horrible Troll Who Doesn’t Understand The Modern World - Gizmodo
March 2011
3 posts
“the Times will also lose access to valuable subscriber data for those sales, too”
– New York Times Agrees To Apple Terms For Paywall Plans | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD
“Generally speaking, what’s best for human beings, to find and understand...”
– CJR Column Mentions The Simpsons : CJR
“The past few days, sitting at home and in my office in New York, it felt like I...”
– MediaShift . How Social Media, Internet Changed Experience of Japan Disaster | PBS
February 2011
3 posts
“We have an array of apps representing some of our newspapers, as well as...”
– MediaShift Idea Lab . iPhone or Android? Key Tips for Publishers Considering Apps | PBS
“The changes are strategically in line with what AOL is trying to do already,”...”
– Huffington Post Deal Dovetails With AOL’s Strategy | Neon Tommy
“Nearly every other trend of the year could be squeezed into the Open vs. Closed...”
– MediaShift . 2011 Flash Points: Open vs. Closed, Google vs. Apple | PBS (by Dorian Benkoil)
January 2011
3 posts
“It was always assumed that one day Page would be C.E.O. Now that he is about to...”
– News Desk: Why Is Eric Schmidt Stepping Down at Google? : The New Yorker
“in academia, the number of PhD positions is unrelated to the number of job...”
– Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic | The Economist (HT @rafatali)
“If you’re a media professional, you’ll want to hedge your bets and...”
– MediaShift . 2011 Flash Points: Open vs. Closed, Google vs. Apple | PBS by me
December 2010
6 posts
“Lost in this orgy of nay-saying was the mounting evidence that the M.B.A. Oath...”
– I Pledge to Write Funnier Columns on Goldman: Michael Lewis - Bloomberg
“Blacks and Latinos are not used to getting it all. They know how it feels to be...”
– What Progressives Don’t Understand About Obama - NYTimes.com
“what is enormously positive about this latest round of efforts is that they all...”
– The Future of Media Gradually Coming Into Focus - Seeking Alpha - By @lkramer (Larry Kramer)
Sponsoring Something That Doesn't Exist
“People don’t like to sponsor something they can’t see for an audience they have to imagine. That’s called investment or funding.”
“Gowalla did not work with Foursquare on this integration; it was all done...”
– Gowalla Turns the Tables, Integrates With Foursquare
“NYU media guru Jay Rosen is announcing a new partnership between his Studio 20...”
– ProPublica and Jay Rosen’s Studio 20 class at NYU team up to build — and share — “a better explainer” » Nieman Journalism Lab
November 2010
8 posts
“even if we never get color e-Ink screens, if publishers never experiment with...”
– eBooks Ready To Climb Past $1 Billion | Forrester Blogs
“On the business side, news organizations can structure deals in which local...”
– Poynter Online - Top Stories by @dbenk
“Media people are all egomaniacs. You either bow to that or not bow to that. If...”
– Michael Wolff to Lead a Stable of Trade Magazines - NYTimes.com
“Magazine editors and publishers are excited about tablet devices like the iPad....”
– MediaShift . Are Magazine iPad Apps Profitable in the Long Haul? | PBS (by Dorian Benkoil)
“If you have two businesses—one of them that runs on the Web and one that...”
– The Web Is Reborn - Technology Review
In Mom's Kitchen With Russ Feingold
In, I think, 1991 I was back in New York, visiting mom. She introduced me to Russ Feingold, who was sitting at her kitchen counter. She said he was running for U.S. Senate and was in New York on a fundraising and lecture tour. My brother, a student at the U of Wisconsin, had volunteered for Feingold, who was then a state legislator there. Feingold was at our house because he really was on a...
“If you can’t read and write you can’t think.”
– Salon.com People | Ray Bradbury is on fire!
“Wake up, journalists. You have no magic exemption from the requirements of...”
– “I’m committed to the destruction of the old media guard.” ABC News and Andrew Breitbart. » Pressthink
October 2010
8 posts
“It’s more interesting to think about our redesign as a form of...”
– The Meaning of Our New Designs - Technology Review
“In order to keeping our content top notch, we keep bringing top-notch people....”
– Okay, We Got More Money: Tech News
Congrats to Ryan and nice to see what GigaOm says about tech in NY
“This is a big win for the Luxembourg-based Skype, which is currently readying a...”
– Facebook, Skype Poised to Announce Wide-Ranging Partnership | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD
“Gmail has replaced Yahoo as the most preferred email service for sharing.”
– SocialTwist: Social Media Sharing Trends 2010
“E-commerce promises to dramatically alter the structure and processes of...”
– “Doing Business in the Wired World” by Ajit Kambil, IEEE Computer, 1997 (no link because accessed through closed database. Rings true 13 years later, no?
“Barry Salzman, Google’s managing director for media and platforms for the...”
– “As Social Media Grows, What Will Become of the Plain Old Banner Ad?” By Dorian Benkoil Poynter Online - E-Media Tidbits
“Behind the collapse of the Tribune deal and the bankruptcy is a classic example...”
– At Sam Zell’s Tribune, Tales of a Bankrupt Culture - NYTimes.com
“The random guy on youtube who can hold one million viewers’ attention for a few...”
– The Walls Have Crumbled And Facebook Was Built To Exploit That
September 2010
18 posts
“Netflix switched [to Amazon hosting] in order to “focus our innovation around...”
– Companies Slowly Join Cloud-Computing - NYTimes.com