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 [...]
Andy Ihnatko on iPad, Multitasking, and lousy tech reporting
Andy Ihnatko’s Celestial Waste of Bandwidth (BETA) » iPad and Multitasking Couldn’t agree more. So it disappoints me to see commentators on TV today dinging the iPad for a lack of multitasking. A tech expert whose mission is to communicate tricky technology to civilian audiences can’t let that pitch go by with a flat “no.” [...]
Anybody reading anything lately?
Here are a few horrifying stats from bookstatistics.com: 58% of the US adult population never reads another book after high school. 42% of college graduates never read another book. 80% of US families did not buy or read a book last year. 70% of US adults have not been in a bookstore in the last [...]
Health Net of Oregon Humane Society now up on Vimeo
Here is the first of four pieces I’m working on for Health Net of Oregon. The video was originally part of a four-part series on the communities that Health Net serves through their customers, intended for staggered launch in 2007. Unfortunately, it took far too long to get the four clients lined up to participate, [...]
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 [...]
DeVry sponsors Webb Alert, shows big ed has nose for new media after all
One of my favorite podcasts is WebbAlert, a technology news show hosted by Morgan Webb, highlighting daily tech news and social media memes. It’s daily, no more than about six minutes per episode, and Webb does a good job of covering the geek news I need with a ripe sarcasm I crave. For the last [...]
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 5: David Marash
David Marash is one of those Emmy-winning journalists who trucks in a different kind of celebrity than the name-trotting sort headlining newscasts today. He’s a genuine article, deep in voice and language, the rare breed of television media personality who believes in the strength of long-format journalism, reporting stories to conclusion, rather than fatigue, and [...]
Chautauqua, Day 4: Juan Williams
National Public Radio’s Juan Williams is funny. No, you can’t tell from the picture. Here he looks angry. Brooding. Somber. Morose. He came out on stage and sat in the chair awaiting his introduction for nearly a full minute looking just… like… this. Scarey. But then, the humor came, delivered secretly in that NPR monotone [...]
Chautauqua, Day 3: Arianna Huffington
In an IM earlier this morning, I told my friend Curt that I would be heading into the Chautauqua lecture by Arianna Huffington. He said, “Heh… make sure you slap her for me.” I admit. I had the same thought. I’ve always sort of ascribed Huffington with the Ivanna Trump vibe — funky accent, firey [...]
Chautauqua, Day 3: Arianna Huffington Lecture Today
More on this lecture after I actually see it. But there was a Huffington editorial in the local paper today and she had this comparison regarding traditional media converging with new media: The shifting dynamic between those two forces is exactly like the relationship between Sarah Conner and the T101 in the “Terminator” movies. At [...]
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 [...]
Chautauqua, Day 1: John Harwood
John Harwood was an interesting choice to have kick off the Chautauqua season, and the week one series of discussions on ethics and the media. His focus, in a sort of round-about way, was that political party polarization both feeds, and is fed by, the drive for viewership of a sensationalism-hungry media.Harwood refers to parties [...]
New Dutch Reality TV Show: Winners Get to Live
Ratcheting up the bar another notch, a new Dutch show aims to sweep all other reality shows through a delightful revisioning of "21 Grams". From NineMSN: In The Big Donor Show, which is set to air this Friday, a terminally ill cancer patient will select one of three patients to receive her kidneys. Viewers will [...]
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