CBS will debut the first video-in-print advertisement in September’s issue of Entertainment Weekly. Only a few lucky subscribers in New York and L.A. will see the video version, though the actual ad will run in all copies, Wired reports: The CBS foray into a print-digital alliance plays full-motion video at a crisp resolution. The ad, dubbed [...]
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[via Steve Buttry, stats from Socialnomics]
Morning is the Internet’s drivetime/primetime reports NYTimes.com. The rush results from American’s few hours of sleep each night, which causes what the Times coined as “network deprivation.” Arbor Networks, a Boston company that analyzes Internet use, says that Web traffic in the United States gradually declines from midnight to around 6 a.m. on the East [...]
Riders on the Invertigo Roller Coaster at the Great America Theme park – 24 to be exact – were stranded mid-air Monday. Hey! That’s an opportunity for on-the-scene twitporting! It appears Twitter user @cynful1 began tweeting from the coaster during the incident, although a closer look from a local news outlet reveals a potential attention [...]
From the Associated Press: “Guatemala apologizes to Cuba for Bay of Pigs“
Tom Daschle is out as President Obama’s pick for health and human services secretary. Obama’s calling it a boo-boo. The visual presentation on CNN.com shows the importance of the story, as seen in this screen capture moments ago: What other pressing things are facing Americans today? Auto sales tanking. Multiple political changes and appointments. And, [...]
Diverse skill sets – and the ability to pester the hell out of a hiring manager – are key(s) to landing jobs in today’s news world, a group of newspaper executives (a.k.a., editors and publishers) have proclaimed. The information is part of a five-state survey of news managers, released at today’s Indiana journalism job fair. [...]
Known in fear-mongering circles as “sexting,” today’s youngsters are using their hip new mobile devices to send sexual messages to each other. You know: Just like you did with notebook paper way back when! The most recent public example of awkward teens going through puberty: Two cheerleaders were suspended from their Seattle-area high school squad [...]