On Where the Web is Going: The Great Magazining
The people creating the content and the web designers at the companies behind these efforts are far more in love with this concept than the readers are.
There's a disconnect between how people want to be delivered their content and the people who create it.
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On Someone Got 'The Daily Show' in My Jezebel and Together They Taste A Little Weird
It was meant to be hyperbolic, but I think some of the outrage here towards The Daily Show is equally hyperbolic.
Their cast is virtually a United Nations of ethnic backgrounds, not by design, but because they are some of the funniest people in comedy right now.
Can anyone point to a woman who was denied the opportunity to be a cast member who had the comedy chops to be on the show, regardless of gender?
The women who had short tenure on the show were not very good, regardless of gender. Samantha Bee is maybe the funniest person on the show, outside of Stewart himself. That's why she's there, not because she is or is not a woman.
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On Cat Expert: The Shocking Truth About 'OMG Cat'
First they came for the Scottish Folds, and I said nothing.
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On How Tight-Knit And/Or Incestuous Are You, Blogger?
I'm trying to connect them with my iPad but it's not working. Is this in Flash?
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On How Web Writers Get Held Responsible for the Lawyers, the Sales Guys and Even the Coffeemaker
Gawker's Erin Pettigrew just posted an interesting piece on how they're focusing more on branded traffic, which is their core audience, and how to grow it, rather than the less valuable passerby's.
http://advertising.gawker.com/5486668/strengthening-our-core-readership
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On How Web Writers Get Held Responsible for the Lawyers, the Sales Guys and Even the Coffeemaker
Do the advertisers care about clickthrough rates or are they simply concerned about impressions? If they want clickthroughs, you're talking about the least savvy of web users, the ones who don't care who John Carney is and are mindlessly clicking through slideshows.
I say this as someone who appreciates what John Carney does and prefer to read him, but the trade off is I have to deal with a website subsidized by gimmicks.
Unfortunately for me, the industrial complex created by ad sellers who have had their asses handed to them by buyers who have dictated that web traffic is somehow massively less valuable than someone flipping through a magazine or newspaper in 1984.
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On Where the Web is Going: The Great Magazining
I disgree. I think the NYTimes homepage looks like shite. (design-wise)