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Well-Deserved: Times-Picayune Wins Pulitzer For Hurricane Katrina Coverage

I have several close family members in Mississippi and Louisiana who were greatly impacted by Hurricane Katrina; some, such as my twenty-something cousin who bought her home a few months prior, lost their homes. If you also consider my general interest in how new and social media are changing the old media landscape, you can understand my interest and excitement over the Times-Picayune’s winning of a Pulitzer, journalism’s highest honor, for its breaking-news coverage and public service during Hurricane Katrina.… Read the rest

What Really Drives Our Love for Netflix?

I was at a media and technology roundtable a few days ago, where Seth Haberman, President and founder of Visible World, made a very good point:

What is it that really draws us to Netflix, and, similarly, digital video recorders like TiVo? It’s the permanence of the queue – it represents piece of mind for a lot of people.… Read the rest

What I Don’t Like About The Holiday Season

As we proceed into spring, I was just pondering how nice it is that the 2005 holiday season is past us, and the 2006 holiday season is still pretty far away. Why? Here are trends indicating the percent of total blog mentions with the keywords Divorce ("divorce"), Depression ("depression" or "depressed") and Gifts ("gifts" or "presents").… Read the rest

My Adventures In MySpace…Chapter 2…My Wife’s MySpace

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In continuation of my MySpace ethnographic adventures, this morning I logged in to my home PC — which I don’t do very often — and was shocked when the MySpace homepage fully loaded: my wife’s email address and password were auto-filling the respective forms.… Read the rest