Gawker Founder: The Future of Online Media Is Video. At Monday's IAB Mixx conference in New York, Gawker Media Founder Nick Denton took the stage with AllThingsD's Peter Kafka to discuss the future of the blogging network — and that future is all about images and video. "People don't really want to read text," Denton said. "They want videos, they want images, bigger, more lavish. " In other words, consumers are looking for online media products that more closely resemble TV and magazines. Denton cited Gizmodo's notorious leak of the iPhone 4 as an example, which quadrupled traffic for the blog that week. "There is a huge kind of hunger for that image, for the video we produced," he said. Text, he contended, is more useful for providing context and explanation for more visual kinds of media, rather than serving as the primary medium itself.
Gawker's eight media properties are currently undergoing a redesign to accommodate better delivery of image and video-based content. Image courtesy of The Guardian. Full-scale, fetishtically detailed driveable replica 1966 Batmobiles. Mark Racop works out of a shop in small-town Indiana, turning out incredibly accurate, driveable 1966 Batmobile replicas. The bodies are modified castings from an old Futura and all the fittings and parts are functional and styled to match the prop Batmobile from the series (you can also buy these individual fittings -- "Bat Parts" -- for your modern car). The sell for $150,000, and you can choose between a rebuilt Ford 460 motor, or a new GM 350 crate engine. Fiberglass Freaks Officially Licensed 1966 BATMOBILE Replicas (Thanks, Larry!) Forced Social Media Deprivation: Unethical Experimentation In Disguise!
Provost Eric Darr of Harrisburg University of Science and Technology implemented an interesting policy for the week of September 13-17: he deprived all of his faculty and students on the University Network from accessing several popular social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter and AOL Instant Messenger. His reasons for this censorship, succinct, although misguided, were to remind his students what it was like to live in the "dinosaur age" of a disconnected world (Chapman), but was this really necessary? After all, argues the blogger Alex Priest of Technorati, these websites and others like them only became the cornerstones of the young American's world a mere five years ago, a time most competent college students are likely to recall (1).
However, regardless of Darr's motives, it is nearly impossible for a person informed of contemporary ethics of human experimentation to listen about this censorship with a calm facade. Sources: Online - Romenesko. An “overwhelming majority” of Huffington Post editorial workers asked management Tuesday to voluntarily recognize that they’ve joined a union, the Writers Guild of America, East. Word of a unionization move at the high-profile digital media company surfaced in early October, and Arianna Huffington indicated back then she was agreeable to voluntarily recognize a union if the majority so desired.
Now what the union characterizes as most of the roughly 350 editorial employees, most of whom work in New York City, have signed up with the union, which represents about 4,000 media workers. Those include writers on “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah,” writers-producers in non-fiction TV and network radio and TV copy writers. Voluntary recognition would mean avoiding a formal election process on whether the union was the collective bargaining representative of the workers. Read more Tools: Permalink. RT @TechCrunch: LinkedIn Beefs Up Company Profiles With News Feeds, Career Data, And More by @leenarao. We recently wrote about the fast growing number of company profiles on professional social network LinkedIn (the network has over one million to be exact).
Launched in April, the company profile gives organizations a centralized profile that has the look and feel of a member profile. LinkedIn also added the ability to “follow” companies, much like you would on Facebook or Twitter. In fact, 30 million LinkedIn users are following over 1 million company profiles Today, LinkedIn is expanding the use of company profiles; creating additional ways companies can interact with members on the platform. Why Social Media Feels So Good. Social Media feels good because someone is finally listening to us.
And they are responding. And we don’t have to wait three days for an automated reply. People are talking to people, business are listening to their customers and the primal need to be heard, even about the most trivial matters, is being met. Last week I wrote a piece about how the fitness club Equinox lost me as a customer because of its terrible customer service. At the heart of that argument was one simple fact, the company wasn’t listening to me, even when I was being very explicit about my needs. It isn’t always easy to be clear about our needs. Now there is. I want your supervisor to speak to ME! Check this recent AP Story out of Chicago: When Tony Bosco saw mostly negative reviews about the restaurant Wow Bao, he Tweeted: “Going to ‘business’ dinner (at)Wow Bao. It is the combination of being responded to in the first place the immediacy of that outreach the authenticity of that outreach.
Twitter to Launch "Promoted Accounts" NYTimes: Facebook Working on Technical Issues - Shaun's posterous. Intern Life Skills: Tweeting Your Way to Internship Success. Harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-new-trailer-released from time.com. The latest cinematic trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has hit the web, and it’s sure to have fans counting down the days until November 19. J.K. Rowling’s final novel in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, has been split into two separate movies — to include all the action, and certainly to double the revenue from moviegoers. Though the preview doesn’t give many juicy details, it does provide some gorgeous scenes of London’s busy streets and Voldemort’s always-creepy demeanor. Oh, and if you’re counting — there are 57 days left before the movie hits theaters. (via Mashable) Confirmed: Twitter to Launch Real-Time Analytics Dashboard, for Free. How many times do I have to say it? I'm not an "ISU dining employee" - alexpriest's posterous.
Jim Hoft: Dumbest Man on the Internet? With a few exceptions, the upper echelon of the conservative blogosphere is a mess. Breitbart's "Big" websites traffic in misleading non-scandals and have published people like 9-11 truther Michael Moriarty, racist penis-enlarger/ vagina-tightener Kevin Pezzi, and former SNL actress/spouter-of-incomprehensible nonsense Victoria Jackson. NewsBusters and The Media Research Center spend a lot of time finding the liberal bias in television shows that don't treat their gay characters as ostracized sub-humans. Atlas Shrugs is run by a woman that is haunted at every turn by Islamic crescents, and whose hatred for the president once compelled her to claim that his penchant for "purple" ( actually blue ) neckties meant that Democrats were "Flying the Gangsta Colors at the White House. " But despite all this stiff competition, Jim Hoft (aka Gateway Pundit) stands out as uniquely incompetent. Who are you going to believe - Jim Hoft or your lying eyes?
How about this one: This, of course, is Rev. All about the "onMouseOver" incident. The short story: This morning at 2:54 am PDT Twitter was notified of a security exploit that surfaced about a half hour before that, and we immediately went to work on fixing it. By 7:00 am PDT, the primary issue was solved. And, by 9:15 am PDT, a more minor but related issue tied to hovercards was also fixed. The longer story: The security exploit that caused problems this morning Pacific time was caused by cross-site scripting (XSS). Cross-site scripting is the practice of placing code from an untrusted website into another one.
In this case, users submitted javascript code as plain text into a Tweet that could be executed in the browser of another user. We discovered and patched this issue last month. Early this morning, a user noticed the security hole and took advantage of it on Twitter.com. Other users took this one step further and added code that caused people to retweet the original Tweet without their knowledge. What it means when you say "literally" Auto-complete and Reply to All come to Twitter. 21 September '10, 03:42pm Follow All things considered, the new Twitter is a raging success. However, there are always new features that can be added to make a great thing even greater. Hearing that call, Twitter has implemented two features today that Twitter developer Dustin Diaz hinted at recently. Reply to AllAuto-complete The reply to all function does exactly what you’d think – if two or more names are mentioned in a tweet, your reply button will now reply to all mentioned accounts.
However, the down shot to this is that you’ll have to manually remove people that you don’t want mentioned, as an option to reply to only one is missing. Auto-complete is like bringing Google Instant to your Twitter page. Leadership - Can great leaders be followers, too? | Communications Conversations. Something’s stuck in my craw these past couple weeks. It’s something I’ve noticed for a long time and I’m just to the point where I need to rant about it. It all stems from something I’ve noticed at a number of events over the last year or so. This growing (in my opinion) trend where speakers at an event come in, do their thing, and ditch the event. You know what I’m talking about. These people who are too smart to think they couldn’t learn a thing or two from anyone else at an event or conference. These people who are way too busy to sit in an audience and listen to someone else talk about their area of passion or expertise (God forbid anyone else steal the spotlight).
These people who are basically saying, “I’m smart and I have no need to be here other than the fact that I want to tell you how smart I am.” Well, I’m fed up. Now, let me be clear: This certainly isn’t an across-the-board opinion. But funny, this trend seems to carry over to the online world, too. Twitter Mouseover Security Flaw Affecting Thousands of Users [WARNING] Miller Up In AK-Sen With Write-In Murkowski Chasing His Heels. Joe Miller (R) is still in the lead in the Alaska Senate race that was turned on its head after Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R) announced she was mounting a write-in bid, according to a new survey of the state’s voters by Rasmussen Reports . The poll shows Miller with 42%, Murkowski 27% and Democratic nominee Scott McAdams with 25%. The methodology used illustrates the challenge of Murkowski’s bid, with the pollster only asking about Miller and McAdams since only their names appear on the ballot.
The survey of 500 likely voters has a ±4.5% margin of error. Last month Miller led McAdams, mayor of Sitka, Alaska, by just six points in a Rasmussen poll, prompting the pollster to move the race from “Solid Republican” to “Leans Republican.” Rasmussen writes : Polling for write-in campaigns is always challenging, so results should be interpreted with caution. Miller picks up a solid majority of Republican voters, while McAdams wins most Democrats. Our coverage of the race is here .
How One Band Acquired 3,000 Facebook Fans For $0.08 Each. Many musicians try things like running competitions, giving away free music or creating viral videos to grow their fanbase, but few ever consider advertising. For the most part, they have good reasons. I’ve yet to see a musician run an effective Google Ads campaign, the cost is too high and the sales are too low. But Facebook ads are different. We’ve run dozens of campaigns for artists all over the world and each and every time the results have been outstanding.
Advertising won’t be the answer to all your prayers – but investing a few hundred dollars to get a few thousand fans for your band’s page is a great way to start. If you are trying to build a successful Facebook page for your music (or any other art form, for that matter), here’s how we do it step-by-step: 1. If you’ve ever shopped on Amazon you’ll be familiar with this concept. If you do a cover version of a hit classic, or collaborate with an established artist, you should always use this as the “hook” in your ad. 2. 3. 4. 5. Generic Ballot Virtually Tied. Defend Video Games with Stan Lee | Video Game Voters Network. Newsweek's Howard Fineman to Join The Huffington Post. Sweden elections end in hung parliament, exit polls suggest.
Who’s picking up the tab for the tea party? The Internet as a human right. Social Media News and Web Tips – Mashable – The Social Media Guide. The Tea Party movement has two defining traits: status anxiety and anarchism. - By Jacob Weisberg. Nissan: Innovation for All, Polar Bear | Ads of the World. Future of Journalism as Seen Through Computer Science. Vacation rentals, private rooms, sublets by the night - Accommodations on Airbnb. ABC's New iPad App Syncs with TV for Interactive Programming.
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