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more about #thefuture more comments → triplethreat: Really a masterful series of insights here. Maybe I just set my sights too high after that great party post yesterday. Then again, maybe I didn't. Som... more » ihatetwitter: I hear there's an InStyle Wii demo. Quick, catch those bracelets! Ah, magazines!!! more » GlasgowRose: Ha: "Today, four prestigious magazine publishers, and News Corp..." Appreciate Murdoch's not in the mag biz, but still qualifies as a veiled swipe in ... more » Magister: I only know what's in the post and under the link and yes, my initial instinct was to make a Pathfinder joke. But I don't see why this couldn't compl... more » Gabriel Snyder: You shouldn't let the horrible buzz words make you too bearish on the e-Reader versions of magazines. What magazine people are good at -- making prett... more » sweetpickles: I feel like we're going back to the future with all this stuff. I don't think anyone's going to pay for digital mags unless they sell it in bundled pa... more » Perhaps Not: The gambling potential of this device is just limitless. Also, if they can create proprietary files for their comic book content (Time Warner owns DC ... more » ihatetwitter: Assuming some of you Garofalos work in media it's disheartening and predictable to see you mock and ridicule one of your industry's brightest hopes fo... more » manchops: With the exception of Keith Kelly and Michael Riedel (yup I'm gay) I stopped reading anything but the headlines in the NY Post years ago. The Wall Str... more » smithhimself: Rupert has extended his time on earth by drinking the blood of virgins and munching on freeze-dried placenta. But this might not be enough as he moves... more » unclevanya: I don't ever say this about anyone but: Well, hopefully he'll die soon. more » resipsaloquacious: With his excess of skin, he seems to have been bred for fighting. more » nirreskeya: Eternal December. more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: They are breaking the internet by filling it up with crap NOT AOL will be the default google search more » daveyjonesisdead: "There I was, having a quiet day at home, when my crib recalled the day it was put together..." Like that? I could do that. more » -
#media
The New iTunes for Magazines (Or an Irrelevant Venture) Is Here!
Today, four prestigious magazine publishers, and News Corp, officially announced their new "digital storefront" for magazines and stuff. Buy it and put it on your E-reader! Are you sick of E-readers yet? You will be! And you'll be using one. More » -
#thingsweactuallylike
Soft Porn for Media Junkies: The Nifty Tablet Demo from Sports Illustrated
This is a pretty darn cool video from Time Inc. about its forthcoming tablet. Cool, that is, if you can forgive the gratuitous feature for fingering half-naked models. More » -
#fights
Rupert Murdoch: Pugnacious
Rupert Murdoch is simply a man who likes to fight. End of the psychological profile! He has big plans to fight the New York Times. He has big plans to fight Google. And he could win both. More » -
#theinternet
AOL's Big Plan: Robot Traffic Whoring
The internet needs more hot search keyword-driven advertorial "content" about as much as the internet needs AOL. So, welcome to the "linchpin" of AOL's growth strategy: Hot search keyword-driven advertorial "content" crap! More » -
#media
The Coming Search Engine Media Wars
News Corp, ever the online contrarian, is considering pulling all of its news content off of Google and doing an exclusive deal with Microsoft's Bing. For this, Rupert Murdoch would receive a pittance. Welcome to the future of paid media. More » -
#thefuture
New Yorker Cartoons Now on XBox, For Some Reason
A tipster points out that fancy Xbox Live "Gold" subscribers are offered an amazing selection of animated New Yorker cartoons. Animated! What better target audience that Xbox Live addicts? Click to watch this completely inexplicable media crossover in action. -
#pullquote
Peter Thiel —
the PayPal co-founder and artificial intelligence enthusiast, explaining to Business Insider that Luddites may well be the first up against the wall when the robot revolution comes. The new order "could be very good, it could be very bad." -
#picoftheday
Funny Thing Is People Are Still Trying to Eat at Sardi's. Why?
[A vision of a Utopian future in which commuting through Times Square involves more charm, less elbowing of Wicked and Toys R Us-destined tourists in the face. Images by Studio Lindfors via BLDGBLOG. More here. ] -
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#thefuture
Everything Bad About the Web Was Once Said About Television
This 1945 pamphlet on the "Future of Television" is awesome. But who would have thought we'd be having the same tired discussion 65 years later? The table of contents is a template for every contemporary new media debate: More » -
#brandcalledyou
Advertising Gives Up
You people always have something slick to say about our ads. You think you're so fucking smart? You figure out the ads, then. We'll just sit here while you work for free. Uh, we mean...Do the Dewmocracy™! More » -
#media
The Great Newspaper Firewall Is Coming. And?
Newsday is going to start charging for its awful website. One columnist there quit over it. The New York Times says it will make a decision on charging for its (good) website "within weeks." Then what happens? More » -
#magazines
Esquire Betting it All on Flashing Electronic Doo-Dads
When you think "Esquire's Greatest Achievements in Its 70+ Years of Design Innovation," you think "Hidden ads on the cover" and "That other weird flashing electronic cover gadget." Until this new doohickey! More » -
#media
Conde Nast's Big Bad Gamble
This year, Conde Nast hired McKinsey, folded several magazines, and instituted across-the-board budget cuts and layoffs. Clearly, the fancy days are over. Right? No, says the company. This is just a temporary blip. More » -
#media
New York Magazine Seeks Money-Losing Rich Kid
The rapidly evolving conventional wisdom about the hazy future of New York magazine continues to evolve rapidly! Perhaps Bruce Wasserstein's family would be less likely to sell off the mag if they had, say, an extra $188 million? More » -
#media
What Next For New York Magazine?
New York magazine owner Bruce Wasserstein died yesterday. So did a clear vision of New York's stable future. Who's next to control one of the city's shiniest media properties? More » -
#magic
Newspaper Lady to Explain Internet, In Book
This "The Internet" thing is nice, but we often think: What it really needs is a self-proclaimed arbiter of its cultural relevance to undertake the preposterouslyimpossibleambitious task of explaining the entire internet. In a book. Hello, Virginia Heffernan! More » -
#progress
Annoying Pop-Up Ads Come to Magazines
CBS has successfully created the world's first video ad inside a print magazine (Entertainment Weekly). It's really loud and plays clips from shows like Two and a Half Men. Also, insanely expensive: More » -
#journalismism
Chris Anderson: Asshole Interviewee
Wired editor Chris Anderson has fully morphed from a journalist, who knows what it's like to have to interview other people, into a celebrity, who has no time for these fucking reporters and their boring questions. "Journalism," what's that? More » -
#aporkalypsenow
Stay Tuned for Sports, Traffic, and Swine Flu
The dreaded Mexican Pig Flu will be back. Oh yes. Of that, there is no question. A few months from now, you will wake up to hear daily Swine Flu Reports sandwiched between weather and traffic. Not a joke! More » -
#themysteriousteen
Some Kid's Media Mash Note is Hottest Thing on Wall Street
Teenagers—what crap are they looking at, and how can we make money off them? Wall Street's most sophisticated analysts have cracked this code: they had a 15 year-old kid write down what teens like. This is huge. More »
