Chuck Culpepper will go anywhere for anything, damn it, and good for him
I could be totally wrong about this, but it feels like digital media is just beginning to figure out that it’s, in the vast majority of cases, supposed to be something altogether different than media...
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‘Now Reading’ is a collection and sharing of online stories and is meant for minimal consumption by the few readers of this blog. Topics include books, food, culture, photography, media and technology...
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Apropos of nothing, over the weekend I was thinking about the mere hours a significant amount of content is relevant on the Internet. It probably was spurred by the deluge of stuff around the Super...
View ArticleNow Reading: Eric Church, Bill Murray’s career, Netflix vs. HBO, Michael Sam,...
A selection of stories I read around the Web today … What did you read? Eric Church profile I stumbled across the profile linked above through this shorter post from Patrick Doyle in Rolling Stone on...
View ArticleNow Reading: True Detective, journalism in the new media world, Elisabeth...
A selection of stories I read around the Web today … True Detective finale Slate’s David Haglund and Willa Paskin exchanged emails immediately after the finale and break it down … Haglund is more OK...
View ArticleNow Reading: digital video and Bloomberg Media, Anne Hull reporting tips, Bounty
A few things I read around the Web today … Bloomberg Media’s new direction Relatively new Bloomberg Media CEO Justin Smith recently detailed his vision for the company and its strategy for expanding...
View ArticleNick Bilton’s ‘Hatching Twitter,’ part I
We’ve got two new books in the mix currently, and let’s start with the one I’m most excited about (and thoroughly enjoying): Nick Bilton’s ‘Hatching Twitter: A true story of money, power, friendship...
View ArticleNow Reading: El Chapo, TV writing, Mad Men’s Pete Campbell, pageviews, David...
Clearing out some open tabs on my MacBook Pro … The hunt for the world’s most notorious drug lord This piece from Patrick Radden Keefe in The New Yorker is incredible. “The hunt for El Chapo” is the...
View ArticleJohn Oliver crushes net neutrality on HBO
Net neutrality is an admittedly chewy topic. In the simplest of definitions, it’s the belief that the flow of Internet traffic from content creators to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) should be...
View ArticleThe New York Times innovation report in three takeaways
The New York Times innovation report has been described as one of the most important documents ever for the digital media business. Given where we are in digital media – a place that has seen media...
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