December 2010
15 posts
iTunes now holds 66% of digital music market →
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13. Worst Sandwich | Eat This, Not That →
Ohmygodhereitcomes:
… if the Cheesecake Factory has taught us anything, it’s that its cooks are capable of defying the laws of nutritional science with the dishes they create …
Josh Chiles Using Social Media to Try to Become... →
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WikiLeaks Taps Power Of the Press →
David Carr delivers the best piece of media analysis I’ve seen all year. The entire column is worth a read, but I was struck by points Carr makes in the following paragraph:
Julian Assange, WikiLeaks’s founder and guiding spirit, apparently began to understand that scarcity, not ubiquity, drives coverage of events. Instead of just pulling back the blankets for all to see, he began to limit...
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You, Too, Can Own a Piece of The Onion : CJR →
These are the kinds of opportunities that emerge when you focus on developing unique content. Note to general news providers: This won’t work for you.
From Columbia Journalism Review:
In exchange for a weekly licensing fee, franchisees and partners can choose from three bundles of content to sell print and geo-locational web ads against: the national “news” stories, the national A.V....
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Google Maps & Label Readability →
oreillyradar:
This excellent post shows how subtle tweaks make Google Maps more readable than the competition.
The following image (from the post) contrasts Google Maps with Bing:
(Click to enlarge image.)
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Wikileaks and the Long Haul « Clay Shirky →
The impulse to shut WikiLeaks down is what we need to fight. Clay Shirky articulates this well:
I think the current laws, which criminalize the leaking of secrets but not the publishing of leaks, strike the right balance. However, as a citizen of a democracy, I’m willing to be voted down, and I’m willing to see other democratically proposed restrictions on Wikileaks put in place. It may even be...
What's in a name? Man goes from Smith to Awesome
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Choose Your Own Adventure: If Groupon Were... →
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When’s the Best Time to Publish Blog Posts? →
“And by publishing posts early in the day, but tweeting them later in the afternoon, we can stimulate both Facebook shares and retweets.”
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The new Gawker Media →
Goodbye CPMs. Even if Gawker’s new approach falls flat, I admire the boldness of their thinking:
To break out of the current painful loop, Denton has decided to emulate his beloved television and move to “a programming grid which owes more to TV than to magazines.” Gawker Media has a rudimentary calendar for its current sites, but that will become vastly more sophisticated post relaunch:...