Evening Link for March 12th: PEJ’s State of the News Media 2007 is out!

March 12, 2007

You should be sure to check out the Project for Excellence in Journalism’s “State of the News Media” annual report. What is it, you ask? “The State of the News Media 2007 is the fourth edition of our annual report on the health and status of American journalism. Its goal is to gather in one [...]

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Thought of the Day: Media “Snacking,” or Something Else?

March 12, 2007

As the ever-pseudo online sociologist that I pretend to be, I’m constantly pondering psychological and sociological reasons for the current state of media. Today, as I returned home from Philly, I picked up a copy of this month’s Wired magazine. I found the cover feature to be pretty intriguing: the notion that we’ve become “snackers” [...]

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Morning Links for Mar. 9th

March 9, 2007

1. Sesame Street Videos on iTunes (link opens iTunes): The Muppet Newsflash points to a new iTunes channel featuring 6 “Learn Along with Sesame” video podcasts. Excellent gift from the Sesame Workshop. It makes you wonder what kind of cool things can be done when the new Fraggle Rock movie comes out (and yes, Henson [...]

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The Grand Resurgance/Quick Links for March 7th

March 7, 2007

Oy! A week of being sick, a week of hard work, and a week of writing contribution deadlines. But alas, I’m back, I’m healthy, and I’m blogging. If you think this has been easy, let me just tell you that after not booting my RSS reader for a few days, and opening it to find [...]

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Zeroes: Brilliant NBC YouTube Video

March 7, 2007

On February 8th, a user named “Digestor2365″ uploaded a “Heroes” parody, entitled “Zeroes” onto YouTube. It’s been viewed a total of 153,589 times as of this post (although YouTube says this number, I’ve seen a number of 1.5 million through a variety of other sources, so, you pick the metric!), and it’s some really funny, [...]

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Almost-Weekend Links for March 2nd

March 2, 2007

Four more hours to go, and then the weekend! Hope it’s great for you all! My big plans? Sitting on my couch. 1. Early Presidential Campaigning: 3 Reasons Why It’s a Bad Idea: Interesting one from the Bivings Report — while candidates are pressured to “get in early,” does it affect their overall viability? I [...]

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Viral Videos for Promoting Causes

March 1, 2007

How do you convince Internet geeks to shut down their computers for an entire day? By doing this: Friggin’ hilarious, but if I shut down my computer for an entire day, I’d probably be fired. For some reason, INCOME > Social Experiment.

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Morning Links for Feb. 28th/Overdue Links for Feb. 27th

February 28, 2007

Good morning, all! My apologies for the lack of posts yesterday — I was writing a column for a new politics-based online magazine to be unveiled by one of my friends in the coming weeks. Details to come soon, and I’m excited to share them as soon as I can — but unlike one of [...]

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How to Handle a YouTube Problem

February 28, 2007

How you handle a YouTube problem the right way: Edwards, in an interview with WNYC Radio’s Brian Lehrer, said that YouTube was “very good for democracy,” and that “there shouldn’t be, with very rare exceptions, any limit on people’s ability to express those opinions. It’s a marketplace of ideas and a new opportunity for grassroots [...]

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Afternoon News for Feb. 26th

February 26, 2007

1. BitTorrent Entertainment Network: Not available for the Mac, because of Microsoft DRM (digital rights management), says TUAW.   So much for that. 2. AlGore.com updated: Patrick Ruffini reports that Al Gore’s website has an interesting new sign-up splash page, designed for the purpose of collecting e-mail addresses.  Should we read into this one?  Maybe?  What’s [...]

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