“You know, I have so many people to thank for being here, but I really have to thank Facebook. When I first heard about the campaign to get me to host Saturday Night Live I didn’t know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is I have to say it sounds [...]
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The Changing Media Landscape
Thanks to Mashable for drawing our attention to the fascinating video below from “The Economist.” The video, which deals the fast-changing media landscape, contains some great and interesting statistics about the rapidly-changing media landscape. Here’s our fave stat from the video: “More video was uploaded to YouTube in the last two months than if ABC, [...]
Effective Copywriting for the Web
Mashable has a good post about tips for writing effective copy for the Web. Much of the post seems obvious — but the simple rules are often violated. We urge you to read the full post, but wanted to highlight the following excerpt: One study found that users only spend about 4.4 seconds on a [...]
Murdoch’s Pay-for-Content Move Leaves Door Wide Open for the Rest of Us
Last week, international news mogul Rupert Murdoch made headlines himself by announcing all the properties of his News Corporation would start to charge for all online content. He is betting that by leading the charge in pay-for-content (his properties include Fox News, Sky News, Wall Street Journal, to name a few), his competitors will all [...]
Tweeting the #iranelection … by the numbers
We’ve posted here before (here and here) about the use of Twitter to share information and news about the recent protests over the fraudulent Iranian elections. Thanks to Mashable, we’ve learned that the Web Ecology Project has published a detailed analysis of The Iranian Election on Twitter — and the findings are pretty remarkable: From [...]