the 19th-century painting that inspired blockbuster movie posters (and other adventures in social networking)
Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
Plus: Has the flopping of Arthur killed 80s remakes? Can Robert Pattinson kill Edward with Water for Elephants? Can we send M. Night Shyamalan back to film school?…
Working for “exposure” is bullshit. But even if there were some value in “exposure” for writers, Huffington now admits that those unpaid bloggers aren’t getting any exposure at all…
Huffington collects something like $40 million, and the people who create the HuffPo content get nothing… except the promise of even more income for Huffington based on even bigger audiences. Are these writers masochists, or what?
…and on Newsweek’s fawning profile of Huffington, which declares that “The Huffington Post may have figured out the future of journalism.” And that future — though Newsweek will not say it, and barely even acknowledges this fact — is that journalism will be the purview of the idle rich, and not a field in which … more…