Daily Archives: Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Sequestered information about a famously private person’s son

Posted on Tuesday, October 10, 2006 by Rex Hammock

This morning, when I blogged the absurdity of its founder suggesting that Facebook users can “sequester” information about themselves and “can prevent ‘even their siblings’ from seeing certain photos they post,” this is the type of sequestered information I assume … Continue reading →

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New media lessons from major league baseball

Posted on Tuesday, October 10, 2006 by Rex Hammock

New media lessons from major league baseball: From Alan D. Abbey on Poynter Online comes this quote in praise of the coverage of baseball found on MLB.com: “When the sponsoring organization does better than the news media in covering events … Continue reading →

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Sorry, ‘content is king’ has no clothes

Posted on Tuesday, October 10, 2006 by Rex Hammock

Scott Karp, in a typically insightful post, lobs a grenade disguised as a statement-in-the-form-of-a-question at the end of the post. He writes, “Does media have anything to do with content anymore, or is it all about aggregating people’s attention by … Continue reading →

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Quote of the day from Susan Mernit

Posted on Tuesday, October 10, 2006 by Rex Hammock

(From the post, “What Google didn’t buy“) “(For $1.65 billion) Google could have bought the New York Times…(That Google) bought YouTube, not a media company, and the fact that doesn’t even surprise anyone one anymore and that it makes perfect … Continue reading →

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The future of Facebook

Posted on Tuesday, October 10, 2006 by Rex Hammock

From an interview with Mark Zuckerberg, 22, founder of Facebook, with Fortune magazine senior editor David Kirkpatrick, comes a couple of snippets I find interesting. Quote: “Zuckerberg says the ($200 million advertising deal with Microsoft) frees Facebook to focus on … Continue reading →

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