Post-Race Blues: HodgePodge for Oct. 2
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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