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Why Doesn’t Dennis’ Brand of Common Sense Sell?
Editors Can Star
The American Society for Magazine Editors is whacked. According to Folio, the trade association is bent out of shape because XXL editor-in-chief Elliott Wilson appears in a Roccawear ad on his magazine's back cover. “No person on an editorial staff should ever be involved in producing or participating in advertising,” says ASME executive director Marlene Kahan. “[The XXL ad] appears to be a violation of ASME …
Same Cake Asked To Feed More Mouths
Disruptive upstarts in the online media sphere have Time Warner-types on the run. The New York Post has more: Analysts and ad execs say established Internet sites - namely, the big portals and large content providers - are starting to feel the pinch after years of charging top dollar for space on their sites. The pricing pressure is apparent in AOL's most recent results, in which ad growth slowed to 16 percent from …
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Rovebot Becomes Walking Ad
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Content Just Wants To Be Free (Even When It Belongs to The Gray Lady)
According to The New York Post, New York Times executives - including publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. - made the decision to end the paper's subscription-only TimesSelect service. While other online publications were abandoning subscriptions, the Times took the opposite approach in 2005 and began charging for access to well-known writers, including Maureen Dowd, Frank Rich and Thomas L. Friedman. The decision, which …
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Sensational Headline Tops Yet Another Facebook Story (YAFS)
BusinessWeek had the effrontery to run yet another Facebook story (YAFS) with the sorry headline, "Fogeys Flock to Facebook." I may be over 40, but damn, I am in no way prepared to handle the unbearable weight of that description. So screw BusinessWeek. I could point out, as the article does, how Facebook signs up 150,000 new users a day or how the 35-and-up crowd now accounts for more than 41% of all Facebook …
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Labor Unions Attempt To Organize Chaos
According to Associated Press, a loosely formed coalition of left-leaning bloggers are trying to band together to form a labor union they hope will help them receive health insurance, conduct collective bargaining or even set professional standards. While bloggers work to organize their own labor movement, their growing numbers are already being courted by some unions. "Bloggers are on our radar screen right now for …
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