media

Media Companies: Go Mobile or Become Social Media Serfs

October 31, 2014

Media companies are having a hard time trying to get people to pay for digital news. When there are so many sites that just provide headlines and a few paragraphs of sensational context (which is what most people want, anyway), it’s difficult to convince readers that “news” is a product that’s worth any money. That’s…

For Writers, Virtual Philosophy

Facebook, journalism, media, mobile, new york times, social media

How eBooks Can Save Journalism

April 7, 2013

At the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC), Michelle Bachmann said a lot of things that weren’t true. She said she got the information from a self-published book, Presidential Perks Gone Royal. It’s written by a Republican lobbyist. Bachmann trusted a book’s facts. Nothing wrong with that. However, with the filters for publication down, lies and…

Culture, For Writers, Politics, Rantography, Rants, Technology

ebooks, journalism, media, politics, self-publish, writing

Journalism Isn’t Terrible, We Are: Selective, Celebrity Tragedy

February 22, 2013

Rantography

journalism, mass media, media, Oscar Pistorius

Media, The Reality Funnel

August 23, 2011

Reading Time: ~5 minutes Did anyone else feel a kind of dull depression when the stocks first dove recently? Or an exhiliration when they seemed to rise again? Are you a stockbroker? Probably not. We’ve reached a point where the things we feel don’t have to have any impact on us whatsoever, because we instead feel…

Culture

contemporary, media