Tag Archives: YouTube

Charlie Brooker — How To Report The News

Brilliant decon­struc­tion of tele­vi­sion news, which I learned about from Peter Kafka on MediaMemo. It makes me a lit­tle sad to think that tele­vi­sion news can be so eas­ily skew­ered. I’m pretty sure my ide­al­ized men­tal image of Edward R. Murrow would scowl dis­ap­prov­ingly. However, I har­bor a lit­tle inter­nal, print-centric glee that tele­vi­sion news [...]
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News director threatens blogger, asks blogger to remove tweet

Sad, silly sit­u­a­tion out of Oregon this week. The (cur­rently) anony­mous blog­ger behind Oregon Media Central was threat­ened with legal action over a tweet, by a news director. The blog­ger heard about some embar­rass­ing behind-the-scenes footage of the news staff that had been posted to YouTube by some­one who pre­sum­ably works at or used to [...]
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Jason Calcanis on how to kill Google

This smacks of car­tel, but only if the pub­lish­ers work together to start charg­ing for the right to index their con­tent. If they did it sep­a­rately, it would just be smart busi­ness — find­ing a way to charge for their online content. “New York Times, only avail­able on Bing.” The hor­ror, the horror! Of course, [...]
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Chance for YouTube fame decreases the more videos you post

A study by Fang Wu and Bernardo Huberman tells us that the most pro­lific posters on video sites like YouTube are less likely to become famous, while the one-shot won­ders are more likely to crack the top-1-percent bracket of YouTube views. Their abstract: A hall­mark of the atten­tion econ­omy is the com­pe­ti­tion for the atten­tion [...]
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