The Studios Look For An Island In The Set-Top Storm
The MPAA turns the DSTAC volume up to 11. Read More …
Tag: apps
Apple's media strategy: There's an app for that
It’s here. After nearly a year of carefully orchestrated speculation and hype, Apple has finally unveiled: the “iPad,” thus causing millions of women across the blogosphere, in unison, to go, “eewwww.” (Are there no women in the marketing department at Apple?) Among the less lunationally sensitive, the verdict has been more mixed, but the rough consensus seems Read More …
Could online ad exchanges work for news, too?
Last week, Google launched its long-expected bid to conquer the online display advertising business to complement its domination of the search ad market by unveiling the new, auction-based DoubleClick Ad Exchange, built on the ad-serving company it acquired in 2007 for $3.1 billion and has spent the two years since steering through the regulatory process. Read More …
Selling the news
The most depressing, if least surprising aspect to the flap over the Washington Post’s now-abandoned plan to sell access to public officials and its own editorial staffers in the form of big-money “salons” for lobbyists was the Post’s naked fetishizing of “those powerful few” who “actually get it done” on Capitol Hill. I live and work in Washington, Read More …
I linked the news today, oh boy
I’m assuming a judge and scholar as smart as Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals doesn’t really believe copyright law should be extended to cover the paraphrasing of news reports without the permission of the copyright owner, as he seemed to suggest in a recent blog post (h/t TechCrunch). Instead, I’ll assume he Read More …