Mar 3, 2009

Yesterday’s New York Times featured an article on content/information sharing on the Web. The gist of it was that a number of traditional media outlets-that also share their content online-are beginning to resent the fact that popular blogs and content aggregation sites (like The Huffington Post) are excerpting their best content, thereby drawing away...

  Oct 7, 2008

I was watching Rick Sanchez’s coverage of Hurricane Gustav on CNN a little over a month ago when something awkward happened: he looked down at a strategically-placed laptop and began reading “tweets” from readers who were responding to his news coverage in real time on Twitter. Seconds later, proof that he was active on...

  Sep 10, 2008

About a month ago we shared details of our night out with Bob Guccione Jr. At that time, Bob was at the tail end of his guest editorship with Media magazine, for which he was curating the ‘Future of Media’ special issue. Last night we attended the launch party for the issue (more on that later today) and were able to snag a few copies for the ...

  May 16, 2008

On Wednesday night, we hosted PostAdvertising.com‘s debutante ball at The Back Room on the Lower East Side. PostAdvertising.com is a new website intended to help advertisers help themselves. Or something like that. Touted as the site’s baptism, we invited friends, media folks and various social outcasts to “christen it in booze.” And...