Inspired by one of last week’s OMMA panels, here’s the full text of my latest MediaPost column. Evan Brown’s comment in the MediaPost discussion forum represents precisely the sort of liability I’m talking about.… Read the rest
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Knight Rider Returns: A Historic Revival
Yesterday was the best day I had all week. I learned that NBC is bringing back Knight Rider, the television series based on the the super-cool 1982 Trans Am, named KITT (Knight Industries Two Thousand), originally driven by crime-fighter Michael Knight (David Hasselhoff).… Read the rest
Our Inability To Think Rationally
A recent episode of NPR’s On the Media posited a dour explanation of how people process messages, rooted in truth, myth or lies. In an interview with Bob Garfield, Shankar Vedantam, columnist at the Washington Post, explained:
… Read the restThe mind relies on a number of rules of thumb, and one of the rules of thumb that it uses is that things that are more easily recalled are true even if the context in which they originally heard the statement was that the statement is false.
Please, No More Online-Dating Ads In Social Networks!
Remember those explicit ads for the True online dating service? As a self-identified male in my young thirties, they used to follow me around constantly inside of MySpace. Below is one such example.
(an advertisement served to me in MySpace in 2006)
I’m not sure what’s happened to True, but now its category sibling Singlesnet.com… Read the rest
The Future Of News
Steve Baker at Businessweek offered his prediction on the future of newspapers:
… Read the restEditors will go the way of the linotype machine. Increasingly, human editing will be viewed as an expense and a delay that few can afford. Algorithms, editing software and seach engines will handle much of the work.