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May 2008 - Posts
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Friday, May 30, 2008 7:18 AM
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A few weeks back, I saw the first set of stories on the so-called Dunkin' Donuts ad controversy, read the first few lines, and said, "meh" and moved on. Today, I see the ad has been pulled, which I consider to be a pretty boneheaded and shortsighted move, Read More...
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Monday, May 26, 2008 7:44 AM
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Glen Greenwald writes about the evolution/devolution of political reporting, and along the way makes some good points about the intersection between quick and important news. His main point is that the obsession with "first" and "hot" drives behavior Read More...
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Friday, May 23, 2008 6:19 AM
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Mickey Kaus has a great piece looking at the interplay between the MSM and blogs. (click the link, scroll down past the political screedings to "model two isn't everything" and begin reading. Couple of key nuggets: There's an implicit model underneath Read More...
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Thursday, May 22, 2008 9:46 PM
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It is so odd to find a print publication as aloof from the web as Harper's. As I've written before, Harper's is not all that happy to be part of the web . Which is a bummer, because there is some good stuff in there, and their brand would be a lot more Read More...
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Monday, May 19, 2008 7:02 AM
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David Carr writes about Conde Nast in this week's column, and makes some very good points about the potential future for journalism and the ability to tie together print and the web. In particular, he notes the success the company is having in both print Read More...
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Saturday, May 17, 2008 6:43 AM
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See this page 1 story in the WSJ today -- a better example of both astroturfing and mowing it down would be hard to find. Astroturfing , of course, is the tactic of someone (usually a corporation) of pretending to be someone else -- often something that Read More...
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Monday, May 12, 2008 8:03 PM
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Super cool new effort from the folks at Microsoft Research -- I saw this a few weeks back and was blown away (but I didn't cry ;) ). Here is the NYT article , and here is a link to check it out yourself -- which I would really recommend. Nothing communication Read More...
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Friday, May 09, 2008 6:55 AM
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A common theme I've been striking for a few years is the impact transparency has on the world we live in. It's harder to hide the truth than ever before in an era of videos on YouTube and people with cell phone cameras and access to the web, and the availability Read More...
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008 7:33 AM
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Things have been a bit busy, so I've been behind a bit in blogging. Two stories over the last few days are worth pointing to. The first, in the Economist, looks at some of the underlying economic trends driving disruption in the media overall -- it's Read More...
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Sunday, May 04, 2008 7:19 PM
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My brother and I were in Vancouver today for the marathon -- lots of training to get ready for this one. Our goal was 3:30. Pat finished at 3:32, and I finished 65 percent of the race, dropping out after mile 17. It was pretty frustrating, on our last Read More...
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Saturday, May 03, 2008 7:57 AM
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See here. Way more interesting than anything that will likely appear in the US press today -- to include the endless presidential campaign we're being inflicted with. I thought that Timothy Noah over in slate did a good job of capturing some of the madness....the Read More...
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