I sometimes stumble when meeting new people. At a conference, for instance, a well meaning person will eye my badge and ask, "What's AdPulp?" There's no succinct way to say AdPulp is an industry website that reaches thousands of people around the world every day...but...
Obama Promised Hope And Change, But Preserving The Status Quo Is All He Can Do
President Obama is an enigma. People on the right call him a socialist; yet, his critics on the left can't believe how much ground he's given on fundamental liberal issues. One critic on the left, Drew Westen, a professor of psychology at Emory University, author and...
Is That Spotify In Your Pocket, Or Are You Just Happy To See Me?
I've been playing with free streaming music service, Spotify, for a few weeks now (ever since the Stockholm-based service launched in the U.S). I now wonder if there's a reason to buy music ever again. Spotify does not have every track one might desire in its library...
Information Wants To Be Expensive, And At Jstor It Is
The New York Times just introduced me to Jstor, a not–for–profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive of over one thousand academic journals and other scholarly...
Newspapers Serve The Whole Menu, But Readers Only Want The Steak
For newspapers, the following graphic from Pew Research Center pretty much says it all. As if declining revenues aren't enough, Pew also concludes that media businesses are not innovative enough to drive change, nor are they even in the driver's seat. In the 20th...