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Sips from the Firehose

...because internet overload makes your face look funny

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Language:	English
Tags:	New Media, Video, Journalism
Description:	A blog about how Traditional Media is evolving into New Media, with all the random capitalization that that process entails.
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Popularity:	7 Followers

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2009-12-23

Buying Music to Sabotage Pop Culture: A Webconomics Puzzle

Music purists who despise the pre-packaged “X-Factor” (British version of “American Idol”) songs always hitting #1 on the charts are buying Rage Against the Machine’s ...more

2009-12-18

The Music Video Is The Advertisement: Lady GaGa Goes Post-McCluhan On Us All

Her “Bad Romance” music video features prominent product placement for stuff she designs & sells – and has garnered 38 million views.The song itself is kinda beside the point ...more

2009-12-16

Leaf Boats

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2009-12-14

Facebook Changes Privacy Policies; Notice Shows Reason Why – Spammers Flood Comment Thread

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2009-12-03

This Week in Paid Content: Thanksgiving Week

In the spirit of the season, I hereby give thanks that there is such an open and vivid discussion about the core issue of monetizing online content. If we’d had this kind of focus on actually taki...more

2009-11-30

Who Am I Really? Kaiser Permanente’s Curious Confusion

Online KP.org password sign-up confuses me with other people with the same name, asks for data on people I haven’t seen for years. Against the advice of almost everyone I know, I recently swi...more

2009-11-29

Wallflowers at the New Media Dance: Newspapers Can’t Decide On Paid Content

Due to some intense consulting projects, multimedia presentations at national conferences, and BizDev meetings with like-minded New Media entrepreneurs, there has been quite a gap in my updates on ...more

2009-11-19

Newspapers’ Dying Swan Song: SF Chronicle Tries Glossy Paper, Splashy Color

Print die-hards claimed that all that was needed to reverse the audience migration to the internet was to make newspapers more “lively” in appearance. Early verdict: looks pretty, but t...more

2009-11-12

Transcript of Kazakh Journalist Interview

Beatings, midnight phone calls and a culture of fearThis is the transcript of my interview with an independent journalist in Kazakhstan. He was commiserating with me about my hospital stay, and me...more

2009-11-05

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