Posts tagged “News”

Oh hello globalization

Hyundai built 300,000 cars in Montgomery last year and sold most of them in the United States.

NYT

Tags: News
Feb 19 2011

To follow the daily or hourly news cycle is the media equivalent of day-trading: it’s frenzied, pointless and usually unprofitable. I’d much rather read an item which just showed me the photos or documents. And if you’re going to write some text, take a position or explain something to me. Give me opinion or reference; just don’t pretend you’re providing news. That’s not news.

Nick Denton: What I Read | The Atlantic Wire

You mean make something? This should be the mantra of everything that get’s published on a blog. I’m tired of reading nothing for the sake of someone writing something. 

Tags: News Social Media
Feb 7 2011
when I sat down with Andrey Ternovskiy, the 17-year-old founder of the site, for a One on One interview, I asked him if there was a single moment when traffic spiked on the site. Mr. Ternovskiy said that growth was just continual. There wasn’t a single news site, blog, or social network that created a spike in the number of users.

Viral has gone viral. If the new news isn’t instant than it might as well not be breaking news. 

Tags: News Viral
Mar 30 2010

I dislike Michael Arrington, so I never read anything on TechCrunch (even when they write about me or my products) and have taken technical measures to ensure that I never even land there accidentally and give them whatever tiny profit that one pageview is worth.

Marco.org: News flash

Marco has excellent thoughts about entitlement but this quote is hilarious. Brilliant.

Tags: News Filter
Mar 10 2010

Michael Wolff makes the case that the NYT piece is the beginning of the end for Fox News head Roger Ailes.

The process of losing your job at News Corp. takes about a year. They talk about you, and isolate you, and then you understand that you’ve been exiled from the tribe.

Tags: News Analysis
Jan 12 2010

“This is a historic moment in which new media has truly come of age.” - Steve Case

Historic indeed.

Tags: News AOL
Jan 11 2010

The hyper partisan media. “Are people really smart enough to understand what color filter is over the lens?”

I’m highly skeptical.

Tags: News
Nov 3 2009

A damn thorough examination into Apple’s relationship with Intel and proprietary ports.

Tags: News Apple
Sep 30 2009

Incredible journalism to track the ownership of a single house in Detroit. Quite the story of America.

Tags: News
Sep 28 2009

The imaginary world if Lehman had survived?

Some other bank would have died so says the Economist and the NYT.

Tags: News Finance
Sep 18 2009