You had to watch closely, but the inevitable convergence of traditional print and broadcast media with digital new media was particularly evident this past week. First, the old guard broadcasters continued to turn to the web’s new maven for polling analysis. Nate Silver, a baseball statistics super fan-turned FiveThirtyEight.com political pollster, astounded everyone by calling the presidential election results down to a tenth of a percent. So with three U.S. Senate races still uncalled – Alaska, Georgi
a, and Minnesota – traditional media readily turned to Silver at week’s close for his thinking on the Democrats’ chances for a Senate super majority.
FiveThirtyEight.com has become…
Researchers at Michigan State University have found that 90 percent of TV commercials contain some type of music and yet the use of jingles is declining.
David Allan analyzed more than 3,400 ads from one week of programming on ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX. Allan, whose work appeared in the Journal of Advertising Research, said he believes the increased use of music is due to music-file sharing on the Internet. He noted music companies are realizing that their stars’ music in ads is a type of product placement and advertisers are realizing the star power of some performers.
Of course, not every musical…
With a Pew Research survey just days before Barack Obama’s election finding the Internet is now second only to television as a primary campaign news source for Americans, election night seemed the perfect time for a coverage comparison. For the new media side, I chose my personal favorites, Markos Moulitsas’ Daily Kos and Arianna Huffington’s Huffington Post online journal. For TV, I took my personal favorites NBC/MSNBC and perennial standby CNN.
Somewhat surprisingly – at least for me – TV largely annihilated the Internet and digital new media players. It was a reversal of the 2006 congressional election coverage, when the politically savvy Moulitsas and company ran…
After years and years of lawyers telling users to pull down copyrighted content from YouTube, MtV and Viacom have changed their minds.
YouTube has announced they will start using a service called Auditude, a file identifying service that matches voices and videos with television shows and videos already in their database. It’s been reported that within seconds of uploading content, Audible can scan and tag the clip, and then identify which show it might have originated from. The end result is an identified video, and YouTube can then use the information to monetize the video by posting an ad over…
When I said in August newspapers are doomed, I didn’t realize how fast the demise is progressing. According to a new Pew Research survey, the Internet is now second only to television as a primary campaign news source for Americans.
Many more Americans are turning to the internet for campaign news this year as the web becomes a key source of election news. Television remains the dominant source, but the percent who say they get most of their campaign news from the internet has tripled since October 2004 (from 10% then to 33% now).
Contrasted to the web’s considerable growth for campaign news…
So, I’m searching for a new cell phone. I also am searching for a new laptop. Then, I came across this:
Although my favorite show is “Ghost Whisperer” (supposedly based on a fellow Northeast Ohio resident http://maryannwinkowski.com/html/home2.html) I find myself to be a bit of a skeptic. Maybe that’s why I love doing online searches for haunted houses–the kitsch factor.
parents lost their home a year ago due to predatory lending, so when I read this article http://tinyurl.com/3zz837 I found it especially heartbreaking.
Just days after Garry Trudeau treated web logs to his painfully honest humor, hapless U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann continues to show us the powerful upside of blogs. Trudeau’s “Doonsebury” has fictitious Washington Post correspondent Rick Redfern attempting a private, profitable blog after having regretfully accepted a buy out from the newspaper. Through Redfern’s frustration, cartoonist Trudeau zeroes in on the painful early development of new media:
“It’s tough to leverage a byline in a media environment where anyone who can type gets a byline! I’m competing for eyeballs with millions of narcissists, almost none of whom expect to actually get paid!”
Yet even with my own misgivings,…
I’ve spent the last couple of days trying to get tickets to, and attending a rally for Sarah Palin. I would not have known about it, if not for an email from the McCain campaign. I am not voting Republican, but I thought that my teenager would enjoy the experience, so I found out the best place to get the tickets, and we went this morning.
It got me to thinking about the difference in political advertising in the last decade or so. When I was a kid, we had yard signs and buttons and the occasional commercial on television. Now,…
