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"In the world of plenty, the only currency is attention and attention is what defines “media."

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:17:09 -0500

“In the world of plenty, the only currency is attention and attention is what defines “media.””

- Om Malik, on GigaOM buying PaidContent. Two brands with serious authority that command attention.

Why we are buying paidContent — Tech News and Analysis

"The rules: everyone stacks their phones face-down, and if a person at the table reaches for their..."

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:52:17 -0500

“The rules: everyone stacks their phones face-down, and if a person at the table reaches for their device before a meal is over, they have to pay the whole bill.”

- Participated in a phone stack last night. No one cracked, though we did almost reach for The Google to settle some arguments. Zeitgeist!

Yes, Cell Phone Stacking Is Now a Thing - Trendwatch - Eater National (via etagwerker)

Popped this for New Year’s Eve — was better than...

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:07:54 -0500

Popped this for New Year’s Eve — was better than Champagne. Great drinking and a lot of fun.

brewnoob:

I’ve been saving Infinium in my fridge as well, and have been saving the beer for the best occasion to open it and share with fellow beer lovers.

via notyouraveragebeersnob:

I can’t wait to drink this!!! Samuel Adams and Weihenstephan Infinium Ale. It’s been sitting in my garage, if it tastes half as good as it looks I’m into it.

When beer prices get out of hand, head to social media

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:20:45 -0500

NYC pricing is a real problem for craft beer. Certain grocery stores are especially ridiculous in marking prices up to and above corner deli levels.

brewyork:

We’ve written lately about beer prices getting out of hand at bars in New York City. With the growing popularity of craft beer in the city, it’s no surprise that some businesspeople might try to take advantage of the boom by driving up prices.

How do we combat this?

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"If you’re a pure economist and following the laws of supply and demand, the argument is that if..."

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 15:48:41 -0500

““If you’re a pure economist and following the laws of supply and demand, the argument is that if someone is willing to pay a price, then it is not excessive,” said Liran Einav, an associate economics professor at Stanford. “But that all depends on the type of long-term relationship you want to build with your customers.””

- When standard economics meets behavioral economics. This week: dynamic pricing bites back.

Disruptions: Taxi Supply and Demand, Priced by the Mile - NYTimes.com

"There has never been a mass market for good journalism in this country. What there used to be was a..."

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:03:23 -0500

“There has never been a mass market for good journalism in this country. What there used to be was a mass market for print ads, coupled with a mass market for a physical bundle of entertainment, opinion, and information; these were tied to an institutional agreement to subsidize a modicum of real journalism. In that mass market, the opinions of the politically engaged readers didn’t matter much, outnumbered as they were by people checking their horoscopes. This suited advertisers fine; they have always preferred a centrist and distanced political outlook, the better not to alienate potential customers. When the politically engaged readers are also the only paying readers, however, their opinion will come matter more, and in ways that will sometimes contradict the advertisers’ desires for anodyne coverage.”

- Clay Shirky gets into it. Bonus points for use of “anodyne.”

Are Newspapers Finally Figuring Out How To Reward Their Best Customers? | paidContent

"In short, micro-pub is a combination of old fashioned newsletter, blog and a directory service,..."

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:36:00 -0500

“In short, micro-pub is a combination of old fashioned newsletter, blog and a directory service, managed by one to ten people. This is a model which is sustainable and perhaps makes more sense than some of the idiotic models proposed by hype meisters of the dot-com era.”

- Interesting read from Om Malik. For those interested in a niche covered by a micropub the value is tremendous — PaidContent is my go-to source for media/publishing news.

And, according to Om, PaidContent founder Rafat Ali is making more off it than he did as a journalist.

The Dawn of the MicroPubs — Tech News and Analysis

evangotlib: courtenaybird: More evidence that different...

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 16:44:16 -0500

evangotlib:

courtenaybird:

More evidence that different devices fuel news consumption at different times

Computers get used during the workday (that big plateau from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.)

Tablets get used at breakfast, during commutes, on the couch, and in bed (peaks around 8 a.m. and 10 p.m.)

Smartphones get used in spare moments throughout all waking hours.

Amazing to see my own device usage so clearly as part of a larger consumption pattern.

City foliage (Taken with instagram)

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:01:35 -0500

City foliage (Taken with instagram)

Apparently (pun intended) if one wants to read the New York Post...

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 13:35:29 -0500

Apparently (pun intended) if one wants to read the New York Post on an iPad, one must download the application instead of using the browser. Makes sense from a publisher perspective: get downloaded, get user data, turn casual visitors into more frequent readers. After all, casual readers — like me — are not that valuable (even though they do boost traffic stats). I haven’t seen this elsewhere, but it is consistent with News Corp.’s strategy.

I didn’t download it. Maybe next time.

A week old, but a helpful guide to the benefits of HTML 5. Key...

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:57:12 -0500

A week old, but a helpful guide to the benefits of HTML 5.

Key message? More features, no plugins, less connectivity required.

Score.

(via HTML5: The Technology Changing the Web - WSJ.com)

“Go get ‘em, n00b.” Official Call of Duty:...

Sat, 05 Nov 2011 17:00:00 -0400

“Go get ‘em, n00b.”

Official Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - The Vet & The n00b (by CALLOFDUTY)

Proud to be a New Yorker. (But I still hate the Yankees.) A...

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:58:07 -0400

Proud to be a New Yorker.

(But I still hate the Yankees.)

A Year in New York (by Andrew Clancy)

"I like craft beers, too. Have you ever had Blue Moon?"

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:01:00 -0400

“I like craft beers, too. Have you ever had Blue Moon?”

- Everyone I’ve ever hated, ever. (via labombaantieverything)

Ha.

"Conde Nast, Wired’s parent company, saw a 268 percent spike in subscriptions since the Newsstand app..."

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:35:00 -0400

“Conde Nast, Wired’s parent company, saw a 268 percent spike in subscriptions since the Newsstand app landed. “It’s clear that the focused attention and greater discoverability that Newsstand provides our brands has been embraced by the consumer,” said Monica Ray, Executive Vice President of Conde Nast.”

- I’ve been loving iOS5’s Newsstand because it’s convenient and reminds me to update my news: just the right amount of motivation without being intrusive. Discoverability, as one commenter points out, is huge.

Still, are publishers getting any data from their new subscribers? I’m guessing not much. I’d also be curious to know the break-even number of new subs required to match Apple’s share from each sale vs. selling directly to consumers.

The WSJ app still stands alone — and it’s good enough to be able to. Too bad it can’t automatically download new issues each morning.

Apple’s Newsstand a Huge Success for Digital Publishers | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

"When you’re dressed as an 8-foot sausage, you can really lean."

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:24:00 -0400

“When you’re dressed as an 8-foot sausage, you can really lean.”

- Rules of the Race:

It’s an honest contest

“Sausages don’t talk”

To get in “You need a connection, and then a connection and then another connection”

In Brewers’ Sausage Race, They’re All Wieners - NYTimes.com

fastcompany: Steve Jobs: A Mega, Meta Mashup in Tweets

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:07:04 -0400

fastcompany:

Steve Jobs: A Mega, Meta Mashup in Tweets

New York Mets to use 'dynamic pricing' for seats in 2012 - ESPN New York

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:51:53 -0400

New York Mets to use 'dynamic pricing' for seats in 2012 - ESPN New York:

Now this is cool.

“We have a sense going in that an early or a late midweek game isn’t as desirable as a summer weekend game — peak vs. off-peak, so to speak — and the reality is as you get into the season things happen,” said Dave Howard, Mets executive vice president for business operations. “Sometimes marketplaces will tell you that you probably should reduce this price even further, or you probably can raise the price here because the demand is very high because you have a key pitching matchup in a critical game. It just allows us to make real-time adjustments based on those factors.”

Also of note from the Pew Research study “How People Learn...

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:07:00 -0400

Also of note from the Pew Research study “How People Learn About Their Local Community:”

Nearly half of adults — 47 percent — get some local news and information on mobile devices.

Neither social media nor mobile apps yet rate as a leading source of local information. Newspaper websites are more valued than those of broadcast outlets but “do not score highly as a relied-upon source on any topics.”

(via New study: Americans rely on newspapers for local coverage of crime, community events, government | Poynter.)

What does it feel like to fly over planet Earth? Amazing.

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 17:34:59 -0400

What does it feel like to fly over planet Earth?

Amazing.