Articles from June, 2009
Sometimes, I think people either dream with their eyes wide open, or they’re just stupid. A Swedish firm, Global Gaming Factory, acquired The Pirate Bay for 4,6 million euros (about $6,4 million) “in a bid to legitimize the illegal file sharing service”. What does that …
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What we know by now: newspapers are losing audience, sales are going down, internet is growing, it’s a financial crisis, so advertising revenues are falling just as well for the print industry, advertisers go for special projects and online campaigns. Everyone is focusing on efficiency. What is going to happen? Where does the future of media stands? Where are the opportunities in growing your audience? One idea: now it’s the right time to focus on consumer oriented subjects.
Martin Sorrell is the CEO of the WPP Group. Someone thought it would be really funny to mock the big chief at WPP. How? By creating him a Twitter account and respond to people, one one hand in a really funny arrogant way. If you want to have some fun, you should follow the guy.
When it comes to journalism, we all know that every reporter working for a newspaper has to follow a set of rules in order to publish an article. You might heard of the “inverted pyramid” model, as well as you may know about some of the basic rules of journalism.
I have this problem with talk-shows: they always resume to pointing a finger and saying “That’s really, really, really wrong, I mean it, it’s so stupid”. And that’s it. Maybe I’m not watching enough international talk-shows, but the ones I see and there are politicians invited, they alwayshave to be limited at sticking a finger in your eyes. No one comes with solutions, for example.
Twitter’s slogan is “What are you doing?”. Lately, I understood what some people do in general and what they do on Twitter in particular: repost the same tweets, ignore everybody, pose as gurus though they’re not and other similar crap they probably enjoy. Twitter is a great marketing tool, but not used in excess. I think it’s time to compile a short list of what you shouldn’t use Twitter for.
Washington Post publishes an article from The Associated Press regarding a start-up in San Francisco. AP reports that Steve Brill, formerly known as the founder of Court TV and American Lawyer, is going for a “news business”. What does that mean? His news start-up, Journalism Online, is supposed to get news from all kind of sources and give them to the internet users throughout subscriptions. Users will supposedly pay $300 a year for reading news from publications all over the world. Why do I think it’s going to fail, read below.
While browsing, I couldn’t notice that once again, some smart guys proclaimed the sudden death of blogs. Once more, blogging is dead. But this time, the killer is called Twitter, “the king of speed”, so to speak. While saying such a stupid thing, I remembered a similar claim: classic media is dead, blogs killed it. Right. And I’m the Pope, ain’t I? Let’s see if that’s true.
As you might have heard, Nikki Finke’s blog was sold to Mail.com Media Corporation for no less than 10 million dollars. That’s actually huge for such an ugly blog. I might say, that’s one of the ugliest websites I have ever seen in my 25 years lifetime. Still, DeadlineHollywoodDaily.com is ranked 455 by Technorati.com, which means it’s in Top 500. It probably worth the money
![[Michael Jackson] The king is dead. Long live the king](http://tonify.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/michael-jackson-145x150.jpg)
I think it was 1994. We had a lame one cassette tape stereo player with radio and some recording options. I was in my room, listening on medium volume “Black or White”, dancing, jumping in the bed, trying to copy Michael’s moves. I was 10 years old and the borrowed cassette tape was the coolest thing I had done that month. “It’s too loud, turn it off! I hate that monkey music!”, my dad yelled from the kitchen. Instead of that, just like Macaulay Culkin in the video, I pumped up the volume to max.
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