Yet another company shows how ads can work

Yesterday I wrote both here and on my home blog about two different types of advertising campaigns that both use video to engage us as a way to promote their products. With both posts ... Read >

Australian News Corp chief attacks Google, bloggers

John Hartigan, the Chief Executive of News Ltd, the Australian arm of News Corp has joined in with his colleagues in the United States today in bashing Google and bloggers. In a wide ranging lecture about how News ... Read >

WSJ publisher practicing ‘digital stupidity’

There’s nothing like a good dose of rhetoric to galvanize the troops to fight the enemy. It doesn’t matter if there is any truth in the rhetoric. As long as you can do everything ... Read >

Some people just don’t have a clue, this includes the Newspaper Licensing Agency

Just as we think that people are beginning to understand how things work on the web along comes idiots like this. It was ridiculous when an organization like the Associated Press (AP) said that ... Read >

Sanford affair emails published, local newspaper sat on them since December

Emails between disgraced South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford and his Argentinean mistress obtained by The State Newspaper have been published online today, despite the newspaper having obtained the emails in December 2008. The emails, dated July 2008 clearly ... Read >

The Netherlands considering internet tax to prop up newspapers

The Dutch Government is considering a proposal to tax internet access to prop up the local newspaper industry. The report, compiled by a Dutch Parliamentary committee, proposes a 6% tax on ISP fees which would go directly to ... Read >

Is Barack Obama a nerd by John Hodgman

Actor and writer John Hodgman (known from The Daily Show and Apple ads) was the headline speaker at the Radio and Television Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington, D.C last Friday. The theme of his speech was "nerds" and ... Read >

Citizen journalism agency Demotix brings Iran footage to the world’s media

UK based citizen journalism agency Demotix has signed deals with some of the world's biggest media outlets to supply images from the protests in Iran. Demotix acts as a middleman between citizen journalists and the media, collating and ... Read >

NYT Grooms Readers for Impending Paywall, with Unmarked Advertorials

Clark Hoyt, the public editor over at the New York Times web site published an article on Saturday, June 20 that I'm having a few problems with. Well, I guess using the word 'article' would be a ... Read >

Walter Cronkite Gravely Ill, Near Death

Legendary American news reader Walter Cronkite is said to be gravely ill and near death. A report from Media Bistro suggests that CBS News has begun updating Cronkite's obituary in preparation for his death. The same report notes ... Read >

It’s time for Newspapers to put out, or shut up about Google

Another day, and another breakout among newspaper publishers of lets blame Google for our ills. Today's round comes from the United Kingdom, where Trinity Mirror CEO Sly Bailey, with the support of the Guardian Media Group's CEO ... Read >

Palin outrage boils over, spawns firedavidletterman.com

A rally is planned outside the Ed Sullivan theater in Manhattan on Tuesday following calls by Sarah Palin supporters to "fire David Letterman." Letterman drew a considerable amount of outrage after a controversial crack at Yankee Stadium that Bristol Palin ... Read >