curated: it’s not only *digital* journalism that the free market kills…
We’ve known for decades that for-profit capitalism and public-serving journalism are incompatible.
Huffington Post
curated: the implosion of Channel Awesome
Reader Jurgan notified me about the scandal currently unfolding regarding Channel Awesome, an online media company that hosts video shows revolving around stuff of geek interest…
why ads have returned (and other reconsidered priorities)
After years of trying many different things in an attempt to boost traffic and induce readers to subscribe, it’s back to basics. Reviews, and little else.
Entertainment Weekly is hiring writers! as long as those writers don’t want to get paid
Because why on Earth should a multibillion-dollar global corporation like Time Inc. have to pay its employees? That’s an unnecessary burden on a business.
Huffington Post has no shame
Stuff like this is why I refer to the site as HuffPOS.
evening clickbait: the debut of the “exclusive review”; the worst way to celebrate Doctor Who; Citizen Lego
Stuff I found on the Net today.
why the *hell* is Michael Musto talking to Huffington Post?
It’s precisely because of sites like HuffPOS that content has been devalued and writers like Musto find themselves considered expendable. So what in the actual fuck is Musto doing supporting them by speaking via them?
fun stuff from FlickFilosopher stats week of Apr 27-May 3 2013
Actual unretouched phrases that people plugged into search engines this week that led them to this site (with some commentary from me)…
I normally employ a total ban on linking to Huffington Post…
But this is a wonderfully ironic kick in the ass for a writer at HuffPOS (as I like to call it).
check your surfing for plagiarism and recycled press releases with Churnalism
I wonder if it blows up when it checks the fanboy geek sites and Huffington Post?
