The Media Drop

Jay Rosen has some more great input on the Karen Ryan / HHS “news” report originally discussed here. Looks like she’s been interviewed a couple times and is feeling like she’s scapegoated. Kind of funny that she’s out in the wind right now and no one’s pulling her back in the window.

“But the […]

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ResearchBuzz leads us to Marketer’s Portal… You’ll never guess what kind of information is available on that site…
Well, yet another source to add to the growing list of reads….

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CNET’s Stefanie Olsen writes that 180solutions (perhaps you’ve removed their software once or twice) is going forward with new adware-lite, as one might call it. Yet another way to get free music downloads while ads make their way across your screen.
And, amusingly enough, this article opened up to a window-sucking Verisign advertisement that I […]

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Props to the folks at Dead Parrot Society for pointing out how funny it is when someone leaves something good behind in public and then it lands on the Internet.
Here is the UPI article about Pentagoner Eric Ruff leaving his notes on how to rebuff Richard Clarke’s statements about the Bush Administration’s tactics towards al […]

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This morning I had seen on the television news that EMI was making some big changes, namely getting rid of 1,500 jobs and outsourcing (oooh, buzzword) a good portion of their work…
But most interesting is not only that they are getting rid of jobs, but they’re dropping 20% of the artists on their label.
[I finally […]

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So I have a few minutes to check in online this afternoon from the in-hotel cyber cafe place, and what do we have in the history but Gawker and Gothamist… I got a big kick out of that…. So some New Yorker is down here, probably at the same event I´m at!

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Eszter at Crooked Timber is writing about the use of the terms “weblog” and “blog” in media sources…. And is looking for some assistance from the number crunchers in the audience to see how many “mainstream” publications refer to weblogs as sources….. Any thoughts from the peanut gallery?

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I always wanted to have a `blogging away message´ before, and now I do, sort of.
I´m in Brazil for a couple days on business, so I won´t be on the usual schedule (whatever that means)… All I know is, I gotta figure out what to do with the lack of a quote key on […]

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CNNMoney reports that Viacom has decided to wake up and join the party, and has tasked MTV honcho Tom Freston to create a plan to launch what might be (if they get it done fast enough), the first gay-themed network in the U.S.
I think this will be a boon to advertisers and marketers who have […]

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That’s what Rory O’Connor is saying about news networks in an article over at mediachannel.org. What’s disturbing is, quotes and theories we all have in our heads about how the news is giving us….well, news are painfully unrealistic. In the article, CBS News President Andrew Heyward says the most important issue is that […]

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