Thoughts on Apple ‘Antennagate’ Press Conference: Apple throws Blackberry, Nokia, Samsung under bus
AppleInsider | RIM, Nokia respond to Apples “Antennagate” press conference Clearly, Steve Jobs is pissed. I would be, too. You pour thousands of hours collectively into a project like this and you want people to just use the damned thing, enjoy it, and have it change their lives on some level. That the media has [...]
Incredible Singapore Grand Prix Pix
Some of these shots blow me away. This is about as close to “Speed Racer” as we can probably get. These are from the first night race in Grand Prix history. http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/09/the_singapore_grand_prix.html Of particular note, make sure to look at 11 and 23, both taken with a tilt-shift lens to great affect.
The market for real journalism will continue to change; What’s coming will be better
Jeri Cartwright posted this at the Media Relations blog (excerpted here) regarding a recent stretch of layoffs in Utah — her home turf. Many interesting things to think about in a few short passages. Content is still king. Talk all you want about new media, but someone has to write the content, and someone has [...]
More on that cute Sarah Lacy: Why she is a fuse connected to a stick of toilet paper
This is a good summary from Jason Calacanis summarizing his take on “Scoble’s Law” (wow, I can’t believe Scoble is coming up with a law behind his name): “The less you talk about yourself, the more folks will talk about you.” This is more of a cardinal law of organic self-promotion, and less of a [...]
Sarah Lacy: Modern Journalist
It is hard to describe the disaster that befell Sarah Lacy at the SxSW conference in Austin this week. In an interview with the often-tight-lipped Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Lacy managed to single-handedly turn her audience into an angry mob, wielding Twitter posts like pitchforks and torches, all aimed at her head. Zuckerberg rarely steps [...]
Social and Mainstream News Interests are Different — says Project for Excellence in Journalism
This came in courtesy of Irina Slutsky’s Pownce feed this morning: The Project for Excellence in Journalism compared stories on user-news sites with content from traditional news sources. A key finding: The news agenda of the user-sites — Reddit, Digg and Del.icio.us — was markedly different from that of the mainstream press. Many of the [...]
Chautauqua, Day 2: David Westin
Let me start by saying that, as far as executives inside major corporations go, my experience heretofor has been that company lawyers are about the last folks you want to invite to the big chair, to Presidencies and Chief-Executiveships. That’s not to say that savvy business people can’t be lawyers too, but those folks who [...]
