February 2012
11 posts
There is no such thing as an ethical smartphone →
The best-designed newspapers
The winners have been chosen [ snd.org ]
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Shock: Quality works, says Salon ed →
Salon Editor @KerryLauerman writes on how quality over quantity produced better results for Internet journalism (& for Salon)
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Premiership "likes" top 50 million
Enough to spend some of that IPO money on TV? [ via Wallblog ]
Apple's labour practices →
Democracy Now spoke to journalists who have placed the spotlight on Apple’s unethical supply chain. Unsurprisingly, Apple were not able to put forward an employee capable of defending the company’s practices.
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The black: Future gets there first?
The magazine and web publisher Future has hit a key target in the media industry’s great transition - UK digital revenues made up for print revenue falls between October and December.
According to the Paid Content website, digital circulation and advertising revenue grew 51 percent from the previous year after the company pushed 65 of its titles to iTunes Store upon Newsstand’s launch early...
Social Media vs Social Meds →
Beware. Your online habit may turn out to be more addictive than tobacco. Connectivity may in the end be acting more as an SSRI than software, the most effective opiate the people have tasted yet. [ ABC ]
* Depressed? Mobile device will act “as a therapist”? [ Mashable Tech ]
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TV: Apple cash mountain vs the rest →
What will Apple do with its cash mountain? Whenever I ask myself who is more likely to make a success of the next generation television, I imagine which brand would do better if competing for some of the big global content rights packages, like English football or Formula 1. Facebook may have the connected user numbers to make a global TV play credible, but it is the maker of the iPhone and iPad...
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Our data is worth more, not us
1 China 1,339,724,852; 2 India 1,210,193,422; 3. Facebook 845 000 000; 3 United States 312,946,000; 4 Indonesia 237,641,326; 5 Brazil 192,376,496. The largest virtual community today aggregates a population which would make it the third largest nation on the planet. And its only currency is our behavioural and experiential data. From today, that data will be worth more than ever. As...
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BMW & Mini reap the whirlwind →
BMW, ever a self-confident brand, seemed to lose its grip recently when a campaign for their Mini used Berlin’s Free University Met Institute’s “Adopt a Vortex” scheme to rename a coming cold snap “Cooper” within Germany. Since then, the “Cooper” cold snap is believed to have killed 112 people in Eastern Europe. [ Business Insider ]
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The median & the mean
Judging by Facebook comments alone it seems that making content free only magnifies the power of stupid exponentially. The responses to pieces posted by even so-called “highbrow” journals like New Yorker, New Scientist or Economist suggests that most of the new readers recruited through social media are basically as dumb as nuts. Their capacity to misinterpret and butcher even the...