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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 […]
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.
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 […]
Australia’s The Age demonstrates why newspapers needn’t be boring. Nor parochial. They just need creativity. And maybe video.
A scramble intersection stops all traffic. Pedestrians cross every which way. Tokyo has one. So does Toronto, at the corner of Yonge and Dundas streets. Everything about this makes my head spin and drift inward in wonder: the compression of movement and mass through time lapse, the blink and it’s gone, the birds-eye view, the […]
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 […]
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Right? Somehow newspeak in The New York Times reeks just a little bit more when it’s from The New York Times. April 2008: Pulitzer prize winners Linda Greenhouse and David Cay Johnston, pioneering multimedia producer Naka Nathaniel, and many others, are among some 100 journalists trimmed […]
The magazine Editor & Publisher has long been the must-read trade rag for anyone in the U.S. newspaper business. Which is another way of saying: Like the industry it covers, Editor & Publisher in print has been fading for years. E&P in print switched from a weekly to monthly in 2004, while its web site […]
“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 […]
If you’re bored with the talking heads, check out the action on the streets of St. Paul. Police there conducted “a pre-emptive strike against disruptive protests” ahead of the Republican National Convention, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Liliana Segura writes for AlterNet that the raids targeted video activists. Which leads to at least one […]
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:
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, […]
We have a special rate of $284/night available for We Media attendees at The Sonesta Bayfront Hotel (2889 McFarlane Rd) in the charming and funky neighborhood of Coconut Grove. Availability is on a first-come basis and reservations must be made by January 25, 2009 for the rate to be honored. To make your reservation online […]
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 […]