What the $1 Newsweek Sale Says About New Media

While I wasn’t all that surprised to see the sale price of Newsweek (a token dollar, plus the assumption of $70 million in debt), I was pretty surprised to see that a 91-year-old industry titan from the consumer electronics world, JBL and Harman-Kardon founder Sidney Harman, was the only one to step up to the [...]

BREAKING NEWS: LIFE CANNOT POSSIBLY BE LIVED WITHOUT AN iPHONE

I’ve always been a vibrate guy when it comes to cell phones. I hate having a ringer on my phone and I hate other people’s ringers too. Only once, in pre-Razr days of portable phone technology—remember when they were the coolest thing ever?—back when popular songs were first being re-imagined as ringtones, I had a [...]

Don’t get lost on LOST

The sixth and final season of LOST premiered this Tuesday and with it comes some very important questions that hopefully by the course of this season, will finally be answered. Fans known simply as Losties are probably deciphering at this very moment some of the common questions that linger: what is the Island and its purpose? What [...]

CES 2010: 3D Monster Takes Over and Isolation Sets In

In all the noise of CES, 3D is again the main theme of this year’s mega conference. From the “intended” launch of Discovery/Sony/ IMAX New 3D Television Network, the first 3D broadcast of a live football game and the launch of Sony’s 3D Blu-Ray player, to a slew of 3D-ready home systems, life at [...]

CES 2010 – Year of the Livestream, Virtual Launch and 3D?

As I tweeted this morning (@michaelterpin), the showfloor doesn’t even open until tomorrow and I’m already exhausted by CES activity. I wrote two years ago that CES 2008 was the Year of the Blogger (and sure enough, the new blogger lounge and Bloghaus made traditional media seem oh so passé), that CES 2009, for all [...]

Does Twitter Make You More Productive?

Making the most of a day can become extremely difficult with the many shiny things flying in our face on a daily basis. From iPhone apps to hundreds of emails. But, a lot of the time I find I am when I am unmotivated and lacking energy I accomplish even less. Recently, I have begun [...]

Tweeting for Tacos: Social Media and Street Food in LA

Standing in the parking lot of a Long Beach club on a Thursday night, I watched what seemed like an unusually amount of people milling around in small groups, standing in circles or sitting on the rear bumpers of cars. It was “College Thursdays” at the club and groups of glittery clothed and high-heeled girls [...]

Online Journalism and the Future of Paper-and-Ink

In a recent statement, Los Angeles Times Editor Russ Stanton admitted that “I don’t see us as a direct competitor to the New York Times any more.” As the reputation of the LA Times has dwindled in the past years—more-or-less since being purchased by the Tribune Company—it has slowly lost its status as one of [...]

The 1st Annual Streamy Awards – Web Series’ Coming Out Party

Saturday night, Hollywood and online collided and created a beautiful child in the 1st Annual Streamy Awards. Held at the historic Wadsworth Theatre in Los Angeles, the awards celebrated some of the top talents in the web series industry (which, I think we can now call it an ‘industry’). With sponsorship from Kodak, episodic, TubeFilter, [...]

Is Google losing it’s lackluster as the employer of choice?

guest post by Boris Epstein of AskBinc.com
Earlier this week, we went live with our first ever web madness tourney to determine the marketplace’s most sought after employer of 2009. We seeded our companies based on a number of factors but generally according to where we believed they currently rank in the hearts and minds [...]

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