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A site that attempts to render the internet down into one easy-to consume mental beverage.
Russian Street Portraitists and Afghan War Vets
We're supposed to be at the LA Times Festival of Books today, but we're having to skip that amazing opportunity to mingle with other ink-stained wretches (and the agents who *love* them), and instead finish up on the editing work on our own ... er ... somewhat overdue...
The Great Digital Migration: A Long, Featureless Trudge Into … What, Exactly?
27 Print Dollars for $1 Digital; Social News; Papers in Trouble; Kodak v. Fuji I posted this picture via Twitpic earlier today, and my digital brethren quickly chimed in on how much they felt like this in their daily lives. And I get it. Working in the media industry...
eBooks Pricing and Antitrust: Pricing Collusion or Draining a Fetid Swamp?
Today's news of the antitrust suit filed by the DOJ against Apple and a consortium of large book publishers raises some interesting questions. First, here's what the government alleges (h/t Wall St. Journal) In a civil antitrust lawsuit, the Justice Department alleged...
We Need Social Media Janitors
OK, I'll admit it. I'm as guilty of assigning myself a made-up title as anyone. But c'mon - "Digital Alchemist" is pretty cool. And it's a nice shorthand for what I do - which is to research, study, broadcast via social media, write case studies, write blog posts,...
The Oscars on Social Media: International Audiences Yawn, US Bloggers Snark
Live-Blogging the Oscars and Tracking the Tweet Clouds I was hoping that the real-time geo-Tweet maps would show something interesting in and around Los Angeles during the Oscars telecast. No such luck. Meanwhile, the rest of the world didn't seem too interested in...
HTML5 Video: “Cap’n! The CPUs Won’t Take Much More O’ This!”
Dep't of Vaporware: New Super-Duper HTML5 Video Players Will Solve All Your Problems I'm starting to get more than a little annoyed at the incessant blithe assurances that keep coming up around the (now) universally agreed-upon proposition that Flash Is Bad, All...