The Media Drop

In the wake of various television networks’ inability to deal with YouTube, The Onion had some fun things to say about Viacom’s thoughts on YouTube “stealing” its viewers.

[Read more →]

TVNewser points to a CNN item detailing how Jeff Koinange, an Africa correspondent, was robbed outside of CNN’s Johannesburg offices this weekend. [via Netscape]

[Read more →]

For those of you into social bookmarking site Digg, you’ll appreciate this comment from “actionscripted” back on August 24, 2006:
“Who cares? Our drug laws really haven’t changed and Macs haven’t gotten much cooler, but they both make front page all the time.”

[Read more →]

Technorati Profile

[Read more →]

Sometimes it kind of bugs me that I link to the free articles in the WSJ so much, but maybe it shows how valuable of a publication that newspaper is. In any case, here’s the latest. Sarah Ellison and Dennis Berman have the lowdown on what is up with Tribune Co., and they inform that […]

[Read more →]

Taking a page out of the slacker handbook this week is apparently The Australian’s Frank Devine, who finds that sources are much more easy to get quotes from when you just Google the topic you are looking for, make a few key changes to the exact quotations and information that someone else acquired, and print […]

[Read more →]

Chris Thilk just pinged me to let me know about Nikki Finke’s post about how Cartoon Network boss Jim Samples has walked the plank after the whole Mooninites / Boston / Adult Swim ish.
As Portland Press Herald staffer Justin Ellis quotes local graphic designer Sean Wilkinson as saying, “I think we should give our government […]

[Read more →]

Here’s a quick blurb I just had on IM that I figured you’d all appreciate.
[10:51] Tom: turner, marketers giving boston $2 million
[10:51] Chris: why?
[10:51] Chris: for the city to buy basic cable?
[10:51] Tom: LOL

[Read more →]

Don’t forget to vote for the top ads over at YouTube or AOL!

[Read more →]

I’m not sure I need to say much more. I was just over at the incredibly annoying to read superadfreak blog featuring a host of top marketing folks, and it seems that Seth Godin had so much to say that he just couldn’t contain himself, and quit at 9pm after four “updates.”
I’m sorry, but didn’t […]

[Read more →]