media on MaisonBisson

Membership-driven news media

Fri, 23 Oct 2020 14:23:09 -0700

From The Membership Guide’s handbook/manifesto: Journalism is facing both a trust crisis and a sustainability crisis.

Political bias in social media algorithms and media monetization models

Thu, 22 Oct 2020 13:26:04 -0700

New reports reveal yet more structural political biases in consumption and monetization models.

Media monetization vs. internet advertising

Fri, 14 Aug 2020 14:54:53 -0700

Structural problems The internet is structured in favor of ad networks. Ad spend grows approximately at the rate of inflation, but the inventory of pages on which those ads can appear grows with each new Instagram post (about 100MM per day).

Editorial efforts at scale

Mon, 23 Sep 2019 15:48:59 -0700

Anywhere you can find content—even user-generated content—you’ll find a content strategy and editors ensuring that content aligns to strategy (and to community standards).

Parable of the Polygons is the future of journalism

Fri, 19 Dec 2014 17:35:13 +0000

Okay, so I’m probably both taking that too far and ignoring the fact that interactive media have been a reality for a long time.

Meet the new media

Wed, 28 May 2014 14:30:59 +0000

On the future of media, at The Awl: Of course a website’s fortunes can change overnight.

html5media – Project Hosting on Google Code

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:27:12 +0000

I was wondering when somebody was going to do what html5media does: HTML5 video tags make embedding videos into documents as easy as embedding an image.

Google Minus Google

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:06:46 +0000

From The Register: Inspired by a recent New York Times piece that questioned whether the Mountain View search monopoly is morphing into a media company — which it is — Finnish blogger Timo Paloheimo promptly unveiled Google minus Google.

stand alone AppleTV?

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:38:48 +0000

New 160GB AppleTV. How far away are we from a standalone unit that can download from iTunes store directly, sync iPods, and write to USB-attached burners?

This Is The Liberal Media?

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 23:43:43 +0000

What Liberal Media author Eric Alterman arrested, mocked at GOP debates.

David Halberstam On Competition

Wed, 02 May 2007 16:02:34 +0000

Speaking at UC Berkeley’s School of Journalism last month, David Halberstam struck the chord of competition journalists must struggle with.

Pranks International

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 03:15:41 +0000

Matt tells us the office pranks he masterminded a couple weeks ago got reported in Saturday’s Daily Mirror (scan above):

Warren (and Dog Sledding) On TV Tonight

Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:53:18 +0000

The folks at WMUR‘s Chronicle are featuring my friends Joe and Wendy and their dog sledding tonight.

The Bathroom Reader

Sat, 10 Dec 2005 17:44:20 +0000

Somebody at Gizmodo found this Agence France-Presse story about the intersection of American surfing and bathroom habits in The Hindustan Times.

FrontRow For Everybody

Fri, 09 Dec 2005 03:22:01 +0000

Via an IM from Ryan Eby: a pointer to Andrew Escobar‘s directions on how to install Apple’s Front Row.

Tech Tuesdays: Blogs and Blogging

Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:30:00 +0000

Note: these are my presentation notes for a brown bag discussion with library faculty and university IT staff today.

James Torio’s Blogging Thesis

Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:31:53 +0000

James Torio has been working on his masters in marketing and took a strong look at blogs for his thesis.

What Bloggers Need To Know About Cahill v. Doe

Wed, 12 Oct 2005 16:04:10 +0000

Wendy Seltzer alerts us to the Delaware Supreme Court’s ruling last week in Cahill v. Doe, a case that tested our rights to anonymity online, as well as the standard for judging defamation.

If I Close My Eyes, Does It Go Away?
Can Bush Censor His Shame Away?

Fri, 09 Sep 2005 06:50:02 +0000

Reuters: FEMA accused of censorship: “It’s impossible for me to imagine how you report a story whose subject is death without allowing the public to see images of the subject of the story,” said Larry Siems of the PEN American Center, an authors’ group that defends free expression.

Fox and Conservative Pals Out Spreading More Slander and Libel

Tue, 13 Jul 2004 14:24:30 +0000

Welcome the flacks. I don’t get many comments on stories here at MaisonBisson, so I was interested when I found a comment to my story about the Outfoxed documentary just an hour after I’d posted it.

WNYC’s _On the Media_ does sex show.

Tue, 03 Dec 2002 15:52:11 +0000

On the Media’s recent show on November 29th and a piece in All Things Considered explored the relationship between technology and pornography.