Media

Software

Jotly For iPhone: Rate EVERYTHING

10:00AM December 13, 2011 | Roberto Baldwin

What do you think about that restaurant? More importantly, what you do think about that spoon over there? Or, maybe that plant next to the door. Seriously, that plant is starting to piss me off. Thankfully I can tell the world what a huge arse that plant is with the Jotly app. Use the app to rate anything. Anything! I’m rating this keyboard right now. My God it’s filthy. More »


Gaming

Mainstream Media Gets Video Games Badly Wrong

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12:30PM November 28, 2011 | Alex Kidman

Yeah, I know. That’s not a news story. Not original, and sadly, all too expected. But over at Kotaku, Mark’s got an excellent challenge for the mainstream media when it comes to games coverage. Not so much in terms of which campaigns to run, but a more simple plea — would it be possible to get some coverage that’s actually up to date and accurate? [Kotaku]


Geek Out

Meet The US Tech Publicists Who Secretly Control The Media

1:45AM July 30, 2011 | Mat Honan

The publicists and communications managers in the technology industry have tough jobs. They have to spin crap products into good stories. And let’s face it, most of them are powerless. But not these dozen PR pros. More »


News

The Media’s Awkward Attempts Explaining What LulzSec Means

7:20AM June 24, 2011 | Sam Biddle

LulzSec’s recent chaos-spree has earned it a lot of press coverage, some of which is spent painfully attempting to explain just what in internet god’s name LulzSec means. Here are few (painfully struggling) highlights: More »


Entertainment

Audyssey’s Lower East Side Media Speakers Want To Blast Your Apple TV

2:32PM June 23, 2011 | Kelly Hodgkins

Audyssey’s new Lower East Side Media digital speakers pack a wallop thought they aren’t much bigger than your average paperback book. True to their name, they include both digital optical audio and 3.5mm inputs—craving that little black puck. More »


Cameras

White House To Press Corp: Are You Happy Now?

2:43PM June 2, 2011 | Kelly Hodgkins

The White House has finally decided how it will handle official photos now that it canned fake photo shoots. From now on, one and only one photographer will document a historic speech as it happens. More »


Online

Hey Banksters, The New York Times Is In Ur Emailz LOL!

4:20AM June 2, 2011 | John Cook

A New York Times story this morning about poor Fabrice Tourre, the colossal dick who sold fraudulent mortgage securities for Goldman Sachs, is based in part on secret emails between Tourre and his attorneys that the Times obtained from some weird ex-hippie artist who says she got them from some dude who found them in the garbage… hey, wait, what? More »


News

NYT’s Front Page Before Someone Shouted ‘Stop The Presses!’

5:00AM May 3, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

The last time this happened it was during the first Gulf War two decades ago, so I got all giddy when I learned that someone actually had to shout “stop the presses” last night at the New York Times. More »


Online

NYT Paywall Deflecting Up To 30% Of Reader Traffic

3:14AM April 14, 2011 | Sam Biddle

In non-surprising news that confirms everything we already knew about human beings and the internet, a study by Experian says the NYT’s post-paywall traffic was down between 11 per cent and 30 per cent in the 12 days after the wall went up. [Experian]


Entertainment

Amazon Cloud Player Goes Live, Will Let You Upload And Stream Your Music For Free

3:15PM March 29, 2011 | Rosa Golijan

As we’ve speculated it might, Amazon has announced its own media streaming service. It’s called the Amazon Cloud Player and you can start using it right now. More »