Post-Race Blues: HodgePodge for Oct. 2

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Block party

How much are ads on major news sites costing consumers (in time and bandwidth)? The New York Times did the math.

Is there anybody out there?

How many of those bandwidth clogging ads actually work? According to a study cited by Bloomberg Business, 11 to 25 percent of online ads are viewed by software, not people.

Medium large

Citing posts from the local supervisors all the way up the White House, Business Insider’s Biz Carson calls Medium “this generation’s PR Newswire”.

Extra medium

Speaking of Medium, Dave Pell (proprietor of Next Draft, a newsletter to which you should subscribe) writes about disruption and journalism in a compelling essay titled “News is Different”.

Pinch me

Of course, all this business disruption in journalism means opportunities for innovation. Like the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which is outsourcing editorial writing to a service called Opinion in a Pinch.

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Tony Scida

A Hodges veteran who has been with the firm for more than a decade, Tony lends his creative talents to a range of clients. With a degree in arts management and as an accomplished musician, Tony has an ear for helping tell client stories.

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