April 2016 - Chronoto.pe

I reported on Washington’s biggest party for journalists. Now I’m an outcast. – The Washington Post

Patrick Gavin9 years ago014 mins

The White House Correspondents’ Association’s annual dinner has grown into a nearly week long event. In the documentary “Nerd Prom: Inside Washington’s Wildest Week” Patrick Gavin exposes a private world of excess and extravagance surrounding the celebration. (Patrick Gavin) During last year’s White House Correspondents Dinner, I remember nodding along with my television set when Christi Parsons,…

Pop Goes the Digital Media Bubble | Mother Jones

Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery9 years ago4 years ago018 mins

You don’t always hear the bubble burst. Often, it’s more a gradual escaping of air, signaled by nothing more than the occasional queasy feeling you bat away: One house for sale on the block, oh well. Two, three—maybe just a robust market? Five, six, seven—and suddenly everyone’s underwater and the sheriff is at your door….

Media Websites Battle Faltering Ad Revenue and Traffic – The New York Times

John Herrman9 years ago4 years ago08 mins

Advertisers adjusted spending accordingly. In the first quarter of 2016, 85 cents of every new dollar spent in online advertising will go to Google or Facebook, said Brian Nowak, a Morgan Stanley analyst. The power shift was made clear last week as the Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg took the stage for the company’s annual…

Genius | Journalism Professor Will Go to War for Free Speech, as Long as It Doesn’t Mock Him

J.K. Trotter9 years ago019 mins

Image via Getty and Shutterstock You may have heard about the latest dustup between Jeff Jarvis, a media futurist and journalism professor, and his satirical online alter-ego, @ProfJeffJarvis, who was created several years ago by a software developer named Rurik Bradbury to mock the jargon-laden prognostications for which Jarvis and his ilk are known. The…

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Is @ProfJeffJarvis Twitter’s best parody or its least repentant troll? Possibly a bit of both. – The Washington Post

Caitlin Dewey9 years ago013 mins

(Twitter) For more than four years, the much-beloved Twitter account @ProfJeffJarvis has skewered and satirized the “thinkfluencers” of the Web. But in a the next few days, the handle will disappear. Its creator is finally changing it. Rurik Bradbury, the man behind @ProfJeffJarvis, hopes the name change will settle his raging four-year fight with the real Professor Jarvis. Jarvis, a…

Media

Enough — Redefining Rude — Medium

Jeff Jarvis9 years ago06 mins

I finally had it tonight. Again. The parody account that uses my name showed up as the byline on a piece at Esquire that praised a ridiculous and much-ridiculed op-ed in which Jim VandeHei called for a third-party candidacy led by Mark Zuckerberg. VendeHei’s op-ed was self-parody enough but that didn’t stop Esquire and this…

East Village – This East Village Eatery Has Side-By-Side Toilets to Ward Off Loneliness – Neighborhood News – DNAinfo New York

Allegra Hobbs9 years ago02 mins

The Cloister Cafe’s men’s room, where stalls are enemies of friendship. View Full Caption Aram Zucker-Scharff Are you and your best friend close? The Cloister Cafe gets you. The medieval-themed restaurant and hookah bar at 238 E. Ninth Street has placed its toilets in their bathrooms side-by-side, uninhibited by walls — so that you and your…

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Teatox Party – Racked

CHAVIE LIEBER9 years ago035 mins

A few months later, requests for sponsored posts from brands of all kinds began to trickle in. Among those getting in touch with Trigg were companies that sold tea promising to detoxify your body; they were called teatoxes. First, brands reached out through email, and then through Instagram itself, once direct messaging was introduced. “The…

How Americans pretend to love ‘ethnic food’ – The Washington Post

Roberto A. Ferdman9 years ago035 mins

(Amy King/The Washington Post; images from iStockphoto) There is a lie we like to tell ourselves, a bending of the truth that permeates most of the food world in the West. We like burgers and fries, and other quintessentially American dishes, but we also love foreign cuisines, the vast and varied bucket of foods we rush to…

Why We Need Zero Hedge

Joshua M. Brown9 years ago011 mins

Bloomberg reporters Tracy Alloway and Luke Kawa managed to get one of Zero Hedge’s ex-employees to tell them some inside stuff about what it’s like to write for the site. It’s a big story on the financial web today. Zero Hedge clapped back with a deeper look at the disgruntled ex-employee’s background and possible motives…

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What Peter Thiel, J.D. Vance, and Others Are Learning From Curtis Yarvin and the New Right | Vanity Fair

Mark Zuckerberg Finally Admits Facebook Content Is Worthless, Glasses are the new phones or whatever

Is That AI? Or Does It Just Suck?

Retailers Are Opening Themselves To Programmatic – But Will They Regret It? | AdExchanger

What we know about Google’s upcoming adtech antitrust trial – and how it might play out | The Drum

September 2024

I reported on Washington’s biggest party for journalists. Now I’m an outcast. – The Washington Post

Pop Goes the Digital Media Bubble | Mother Jones

Media Websites Battle Faltering Ad Revenue and Traffic – The New York Times

Genius | Journalism Professor Will Go to War for Free Speech, as Long as It Doesn’t Mock Him

Is @ProfJeffJarvis Twitter’s best parody or its least repentant troll? Possibly a bit of both. – The Washington Post

Enough — Redefining Rude — Medium

East Village – This East Village Eatery Has Side-By-Side Toilets to Ward Off Loneliness – Neighborhood News – DNAinfo New York

Teatox Party – Racked

How Americans pretend to love ‘ethnic food’ – The Washington Post

Why We Need Zero Hedge