Can video games make pro football more interesting?
Earlier this week I was mesmerized by two young adults playing Madden NFL 09 on a big screen at the neighborhood Best Buy. The experience was a lot more fun than watching the Skins-Giants snoozer on NBC last night, even with analysis from Madden hisself.
This Sunday, ESPN merges video game graphics with real-life analysts on [...]
Now on TV: Why Microsoft is so PC
Ah, I’d rather go to the Apple site for the Mac-PC ads. Microsoft’s lame campaign about nothing is about as creative as watching Bill Gates try on shoes.
WSJ mag’s metaphors: Fragile futures and Sarah’s run
The Wall Street Journal launches its new luxury magazine this weekend with coincidental choices. Its advance cover-story wraps a model in newspaper (with a self-referential nod to The Journal) in a piece about fashion’s fragile future. Perhaps not the metaphor intended by a newspaper.
But, look, inside .. isn’t that you-know-who? Before she was picked to [...]
Image is everything. Why newspapers need a new one.
Australia’s The Age demonstrates why newspapers needn’t be boring. Nor parochial. They just need creativity. And maybe video.
To GOP: Sorry about the news. Blame us, buy the shirt.
The news media is taking heat for reporting on politicians who lead or want to lead the country. The president doesn’t like it. John McCain, who ought to be grateful for the vetting, doesn’t like it. Bill O’Reilly doesn’t care for it. But Sarah Palin shows she can take it.
The GOP has found its issue [...]
Google’s shine on Chrome just creeps me out
“Launch early and literate,” comes word from Googlezon on its new browser. An online comic book explains the technical aspects, which the Digital Daily had to explain to me. There’s no shortage of instant analysis on the sudden release: more than 8 million search results by mid-afternoon Tuesday. And that doesn’t include the Mac and [...]
Wag the dog: We’re keeping score
Roosevelt had radio. TV helped make Kennedy. Movies gave us Reagan. Are we ready for a We Media president? Our first scorecard from the campaign:
Charles Blow blogs by the numbers
Our friend and former colleague Charles Blow has joined the blogging brethren with a discussion on all things statistical. A visual Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times, Charles served as the paper’s graphics director and as Design Director for News prior to leaving to become Art Director of National Geographic. Back in the day, [...]
“I know I asked for ice, but this is ridiculous”
Steering into the iceberg, the Troubled Tribune company rearranges the deck chairs on the Titanic. The redesign of Trib’s Baltimore Sun and prototypes of the new Chicago Tribune are distress calls. This is what we get from the new captains, former shlock-radio execs: talk-radio on newsprint, passed off as innovation. The ghosts of Mencken and [...]
We Media, convention-style: more moonshine than history
Last night was “a night for history.” USAToday said so this morning.
I guess the Nation’s Newspaper thought I missed it, marginalized as it was. The editors probably thought I was too busy switching between the convenient coverage by the networks (musn’t pre-empt America’s Got Talent). Or shouting at the mind-numbing graphics and prolific pundits [...]
News you can’t use, so step up to the bar
The first trend from the cable networks is upon us: to cover the Democratic convention, you must drink heavily, act stupid and behave badly.
Gawker shows you where you can hang with the Ken and Barbies of the cable “talent” crowd.
Convention coverage: Awaiting the You Tube moment
Four years ago, a handful of of bloggers received credentials to cover the Democratic National Convention. The controversial credentials, opposed by MSM, were mocked as gimmicks.
Silly, we opined back then, because nearly everyone attending the 2008 conventions would be a blogger.
Our forecast is at hand. This will be the most blogged, v-logged, streamed, and photographed [...]
Barack, I’m at my one home. Text me.
The text thing is more than cool. But does it demonstrate a new kind of leadership? I want more follow up than a form to donate money. Still, I’m happy to get the message about your veep candidate at the same time as everyone else, dude. And what a tool for voter turnout in November [...]
What went wrong keeps going wrong for newspapers
Alan Mutter, an astute analyst who formerly served as editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, now puts the combined value of ten major news companies at only $3.6 billion. Mutter documents the $3.9 billion plunge in the value of newspaper stocks since the first of this month - a period marked by successive new lows [...]
