Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Welcome to the world of “mok-bang,” a mash up of the Korean words for “eating” and “broadcast.” Earlier this year, people online in South Korea were streaming themselves stuffing their faces at dinner.In February, as tipster Sang points out, people online in Korea were praising actors, such as Jung Woo Ha, for their ability to…
Takeaway: Zucker-Scharff has built a ‘narrative map’ of CFO’s content to better match audience preferences with digital content. At 25, Aram Zucker-Scharff is a media jack-of-all-trades. Prior to joining CFO Publishing as a full-time content strategist in August, he’d consulted for the brand, was a primary developer for PressForward—an innovative content-aggregation tool—and masterminded two…
View this image › Valerie Jarrett with Bill Daley, David Plouffe, and Jay Carney. Official White House Photo by Pete Souza Valerie Jarrett is hard to find. Outsiders catch only short glimpses of her — a public conversation with Natalie Portman at a campaign event for women in Las Vegas, a wire photo with Will.i.am…
Why did the Orange County Register send reporters and photogs to cover 40 — yes, four-zero, 40 — high-school sporting events in one weekend? No, it’s not another news mob. Nor is it a one-time thing. At a time when many newspaper companies are starting to think digital first, the Register is investing in print. The…
Much like our own recent housing crisis, the European financial mess is unfolding in a foreign language. It is the lingua franca of financial obscurity — “sovereign credit spreads” and other terms that most people don’t need, or care, to know. Yet the bottom line is simple: Europe’s problems are a lot like ours, only…
Those of you who watch a lot of Hollywood movies may have noticed a certain trend that has consumed the industry in the last few years. It is one of the most insidious and heinous practices that has ever overwhelmed the industry. Am I talking about the lack of good scripts? Do I speak of…
plsfield:descriptionTOKYO, Jan. 20 — Sony missed out on potential sales from MP3 players and other gadgets because it was overly proprietary about music and entertainment content, the head of Sony Corp.’s video-game unit acknowledged Thursday.Ken Kutaragi, president of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., said he and other Sony employees have been frustrated for years with management’s…