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How The Aughts Killed America’s Malls and Newspapers – With One Stone
Mediaite —
Authority: 780
Photo by Flickr user Leofan7 DeadMalls.com is celebrating a decade of recording the death rattles of American shopping malls. Chronicling the nasty and brutish lives of malls throughout the fifty states with pictures and anecdotes, the site launched in 2000 and celebrates its first ten years next month. It seems a ...1 day ago -
When ads become spoof-worthy
Bhatnaturally —
Authority: 477
Parodies are very common in movies: either trashing a particular genre (like in Scary Movie or Airplane!) or paying tribute to something that is timeless – ‘I’ll be back’ dialogue or scenes from The Godfather. In advertising too, parodies are common. Popular iconic brand campaigns – Absolut , MasterCard’s ...5 days ago -
Can the Economist Buy Half a Million Facebook Fans?
The Big Money —
Authority: 682
The Financial Times is reporting today that its sister publication the Economist is trying to boost its social media presence . This means, according to the paper, having an audience on Facebook of at least 500,000 fans six months from now. Which may not be quite as hard as it sounds, given that it already has a ...1 week ago -
The Social Economist
twopointouch —
Authority: 122
The FT reports that The Economist plans to make headroads into social networks: The Economist newspaper plans to acquire 500,000 fans on Facebook and 750,000 followers on Twitter within six months, in another sign that traditional publishers are looking to social media as a substantial source of web traffic and ...1 week ago -
Kal, The Economist and the Daily Show’s John Oliver
Sketchblog —
Authority: 109
Recently in Washington DC, The Economist held a fabulous event titled The World in 2010 Festival. It featured a diverse and exhilarating group of speakers speculating on the events and trends for the upcoming year. Among the guest’s was John Oliver, correspondent for The Daily Show . He delivered a terrific ...1 week ago -
Richard Mayne obituary
The Guardian - guardian.co.uk —
Authority: 985
International civil servant, broadcaster and literary journalist Richard Mayne was remarkable in that he had two parallel careers: as a high-ranking international civil servant and as a freelance writer, literary journalist, critic and broadcaster. His death, at the age of 83, removes from his wide circle of friends ...1 week ago -
Glenda Cooper: When lines between NGO and news organization blur
Nieman Journalism Lab —
Authority: 616
[Not too long ago, it was clear who was a producer of news — and who were the sources who fed them. Not so in a world where the production of media has been democratized, and the rules that governed that production are up in the air. In this essay, journalist Glenda Cooper examines several cases where those lines ...1 week ago -
Online Ad Rates: Kim Kardashian’s Tweets Worth More Than Any Website
Mediaite —
Authority: 780
For those who follow the online economy, especially journalists and bloggers, CPMs reign supreme — and for everyone else, they hardly register. But the CPM figure, described by Ad Age as “the term ad buyers and sellers use as shorthand for the cost for 1,000 impressions,” will come to dictate a lot about the ...1 week ago -
The forces driving The Economist to Facebook
Thought Gadgets —
Authority: 498
Word came across the pond today that stiff-upper-lipped Economist.com plans to acquire half a million Facebook fans in the next six months. Publisher Ben Edwards told The Financial Times that making The Economist more social is "the core of our strategy." What gives? Lets view the world of publishing competition as ...1 week ago -
Economist looks to social networking
Talking Biz News —
Authority: 597
Tim Bradshaw of The Financial Times writes Monday about how the Economist is looking to social networking sites such as Facebook to boost readership and revenue. Bradshaw writes, “Readers of The Economist’s website will soon be able to log in and make comments using their Facebook identity, through ...1 week ago -
Christmas Giftgiving, The economist vs. The anthropologist
Grant McCracken —
Authority: 516
This is the week in which we move from inklings of alarm to flat-out panic. Have we done our shopping? No, we haven’t done our shopping. Economist to the rescue. Joel Waldfogel has been arguing since 1993 that seasonal gift giving is dodgy and that we ought to rethink the exercise. Quizzing students in his ...1 week ago -
An Open Letter to Ben Edwards at the Economist and why LinkedIN fails
Social Strategy & Design by @KarlLong —
Authority: 449
Hi Ben, here’s a note I tried to send you recently via Linkedin: “I recently read about your decision to make social a core part of your strategy, which as an ‘on and off’ subscriber to the economist I’m thrilled to hear. I’m also professionally interested as I’ve been writing about social strategy at ...1 week ago -
FT.com: Economist eyes social network cash boost
Martin Stabe —
Authority: 135
"The Economist newspaper plans to acquire 500,000 fans on Facebook and 750,000 followers on Twitter within six months ... Readers of The Economist’s website will soon be able to log in and make comments using their Facebook identity, through Facebook Connect. ... The Economist’s discussion forums will remain free. ...1 week ago -
The future (and history) of newspapers, continued | tomstandage.com [del.icio.us]
Adrian Monck —
Authority: 116
If I was setting up a newspaper today I’d want it to look a lot like Bloomberg: global network of reporters, cash-cow terminals/financial information business to pay the bills, and (now) a consumer brand in the form of BusinessWeek.1 week ago -
WordPress: Plato’s Academy Today
The Hannibal Blog —
Authority: 118
Some of you may have noticed that my thread on Socrates was going strong all through the summer and then, seemingly, stopped. Something similar, you might have thought, occurred with my thread on America . Well, no, the two threads did not stop. They went into overdrive, albeit in a different form. Indeed, they ...1 week ago -
E-reader Technology: E Ink, SiPix, Bridgestone
BOOK SA - News —
Authority: 485
Now that the Amazon Kindle is finally available in South Africa , can we start to be more discerning about which e-reader technology we choose? Over 90% of existing e-readers use a display technology called E Ink, made by a firm of the same name that was spun out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in ...1 week ago -
Norway Central Bank Hikes Rates By 0.25% To 1.75%, Gives Clueless Bernanke A Hint
zero hedge —
Authority: 739
While Bernanke is preparing to hit the TV circuit (after hiring Obamas exhausted teleprompter team) to cash in on his Time Warner accolade, even as he is set to do nothing at all about the liquidity bubble forming in every aspect of the economy, the much more logical and efficient country of Norway is doing the right ...2 weeks ago -
David Nicholson in The Economist
High Quality Care For All —
Authority: 116
David Nicholson, NHS Chief Executive NHS Chief Executive David Nicholson spoke to The Economist about the achievements of the NHS and how, in a harsher economic climate, it plans to improve quality and reduce costs. You canlisten to the interview at economist.com . As ever, thoughts and comments welcome. ...2 weeks ago -
Quiet (December 2009) Tuesday
Kanlaon —
Authority: 137
Self simply in no mood to go anywhere. Oh, she did venture to Woodside Plaza and stocked up on some of son’s favorite food (Self expects him this weekend), but after that she went straight home. Now, she is multi-tasking: watching The Food Network (Yesterday she was on The Animal Planet and watched a very ...2 weeks ago -
Poorly Made in China
Kelsey Timmerman —
Authority: 118
Earlier this year I got an email from Paul Midler . His book Poorly Made in China was about to be released by Wiley (my publisher). He’s a first-time author as well and we’ve become quick friends talking about first-time author experiences — things like how to best fight off mad hoards of groupies. (If ...2 weeks ago
