Media Decoder Blog: Digital Notes: Madonna’s Super Bowl Bounce
The new album from Madonna, Sunday's halftime performer, has gotten off to strong start more than a month before it is set to be released. (Advance sales have taken it to No. 1 on iTunes's rankings in 35 countries.)
Daniel Kreiss: Yes We Can (Profile You): A Brief Primer on Campaigns and Political Data
Campaigns are increasingly tailoring political communications down to narrowly defined segments of the electorate, even as they undermine privacy and democratic practice.
Whoops
Chris Davies, SlashGear:HTC “dropped the ball” on its 2011 devices, the company’s CFO has
admitted, with LTE-equipped handsets simply too thick and offering
insufficient battery life. Speaking on the company’s financial
results call today...
The Best/Worst Super Bowl Ads … For Animals
Commercials are arguably the best part of Super Bowl Sunday (although Puppy Bowl comes in at a close second). Many of the ads feature animals,...
Chris Ladd: Surviving the Death of Objectivity
Britain is a successful democracy whose journalistic establishment has never, beyond the BBC, pretended any objectivity. Yet they suffer nothing like the polarizing ideological blindness we currently endure.
The iOS-ification of Apple’s Ecosystem
Federico Viticci:The iOS-ification of OS X is, at this point, inevitable, and
anyone who doesn’t see it, or tries to neglect, is either
software-blind or has some kind of interest in that way of
thinking. ★
Prime
Terrific short film by Ben Wu and David Usui about Prime Burger Restaurant, a midtown Manhattan institution. (Via Rusty Blazenhoff.) ★
CNN Names New National Political Correspondent
CNN's Jim Acosta has been named a national political correspondent for the network. CNN made the announcement on Monday. Previously, Acosta served as a correspondent...
Woody Harrelson Mocked By Reddit Users
Woody Harrelson participated in one of Reddit's "Ask Me Anything" (AMA) threads Friday, but perhaps someone should have told him it wasn't called "Ask Me...
Paul Holdengraber: Colum McCann Discusses 9/11 on the Launch of My Show (Video)
For YouTube's new original channels initiative, Intelligent Television has launched "The Paul Holdengraber Show," which premiered this past Friday, February 3, 2012.Acclaimed novelist Colum McCann discussed 9/11, storytelling, Obama & Freder...
