The Media Drop

Greg at greg.org directs us to a very interesting item at the New Yorker. In the piece, Louis Menand critiques “Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation,” making us all realize that just because someone’s book sat on top of the best seller list does not mean that the book is […]

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In this week’s episode of “Weblogs can be good for PR,” Steve Rubel points out yet another story of blogger contacts company, company doesn’t want to talk to blogger, blogger writes about rebuttal.
This time around, it was Mike from Hacking Netflix who tried to score an interview or two, only to get rebuffed by the […]

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CNN/Money notifies us that USA Today’s newsstand price will be going to $.75 this September, a 50% increase. But before you complain, keep in mind that the paper’s price hasn’t risen in 19 years.

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Recently, changes to the methods in which the BBC puts news stories together and reports them on air were announced, and the public was given a chance to comment - here are some responses.
The new policies were installed in response to the Neil Report, which put forth “recommendations and guidelines to strengthen BBC journalism in […]

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Reuters’ Tim Gaynor reports on the fatal shooting of an editor from Zeta, a Mexican newspaper with a history of being on the “wrong side” of the country’s criminals. Francisco Javier Ortiz Franco’s car was surrounded by unknown gunmen this afternoon while driving in the city of Tijuana. The gunmen proceeded to […]

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The AP’s Gary Gentile writes this evening about Neilsen’s big defense of their “Local People Meter” technology, which many critics said would dramatically undercount certain portions of the population - specifically the Hispanic audience. This time around, Neilsen has clarified that a lawsuit filed against them may be purely because one company who stands […]

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One of the reasonably useful blog indexing tools out there, BlogRunner, seems to be missing in action right now. I’ve tried to send email to the address available on the site, but have received no response just yet.
I had noticed some change in its accuracy and responsiveness in the last month or so, so […]

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I was just watching the Drudge Report site load, as it refreshes every so often if you keep it open, when I noticed a delay and saw the URLs in my browser’s status bar for images that were loading very slowly on the page. First it was one for Yahoo! images, then it was […]

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Yesterday, I had lunch at a local Burger King, and my colleague and I couldn’t help but notice the tri-fold standups on the tables all around the dining area. Outside of a little branding confusion caused by half of the place having “Spider-Man 2″ materials and half having “Simple Life 2″ ads, it wasn’t […]

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Okay, so the title is a little lacking, but it’s the content that counts, right?
This morning, I received an invitation from a contact of mine to go to the MoveOn.org website and pledge to go see Michael Moore’s new film, “Fahrenheit 9/11″ this Friday. A few emails later, I received an email from a […]

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