March 2010
11 posts
“It was the rule at Suck, instituted by Steadman and enforced by Cox, that...”
– [The Big Fish]
(http://bit.ly/aJu2DL)
“Web sites should update or shut down; the ones that hang around collecting...”
– [The Medium - Trust Busting - NYTimes.com]
(http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/magazine/28FOB-medium-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss)
“In the end, people don’t buy content or plots, they buy physical or...”
– The new rules for reviewing media
“The ads will begin running in New York City taxicabs this week, but only within...”
– A Look Inside the Dollhouse (Care to Buy a Condo)? - NYTimes.com: http://nyti.ms/bJ1PQR
advertising: real-time bidding - pretty amazing
If eBay finds out that he bought a driver at another site, it can update the ad immediately to start showing him tees, golf balls or a package vacation to St. Andrew’s, Scotland, often called the home of golf. If a woman was shopping, eBay could change the ad’s color or presentation. NYT: http://nyti.ms/cAeZc1
“Using your cellphone during checkout at Target could soon earn you...”
– USA Today, http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/retail/2010-03-09-targetcoupons09_ST_N.htm
Generate Leads with Video Gaming Moms
The concept behind the pay system is called “lead generation,” Schell says, adding: “The idea here is you can do things like sign up for a credit card, sign up for a Netflix account and they’ll give you virtual currency.” The result is that virtual online economies are “becoming real drivers for [the] real economy,” Schell says. Changes are also afoot that...
“We have a spectrum coming on line over the next few years that represents a...”
– The Wired Interview: FCC Chair Julius Genachowski on Broadband, Google and His iPhone | Epicenter | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/03/the-wired-interview-fcc-chair-julius-genachowski-on-broadband-google-and-his-iphone/
“on randy johnson…
it was exhausting, because you knew who you were...”
– Chad Moeller, Journeyman Catcher, Empties His Notebook on Pitchers - NYT: http://j.mp/cUA2k2
“If an advertiser knows a consumer’s preference better than the consumer himself...”
– You’re Sold!
films have evolved to resemble the natural rhythms...
From The New York Times: Movies today are, on average, much pinker than the films of half a century ago. Their shot structure has greater coherence, a comparatively firmer grouping together of similarly sized units that ends up lending them a frequency distribution ever more in line with the lab results of human reaction and attention times. “Roughly since 1960,” Dr. Cutting said, “filmmakers have...