Going up in smoke: the future of the media
Glenn Luther wrote up a really nice post on yesterday’s Future of Media panel at DC week. I posted a comment there and am reposting it here to track back. the elephant in the room was and is, if there is still a value proposition in associating advertising content against editorial content online. then, do [...]
Gallery: Digitizing the past and present at the Library of Congress – Boing Boing
Gallery: Digitizing the past and present at the Library of Congress – Boing Boing.
Startup’s Kits Help You Hack Your Home | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
Startup’s Kits Help You Hack Your Home | Gadget Lab | Wired.com. More interesting family news, Gene Wang – the CEO of the startup mentinoed in this wired.com post - is married to a distant cousin of mine. Nice press!
Casual, free games still rule mobile
ComScore reports that 47.1% of smartphone owners play at least once a month, with 13.3% gaming every day and another 16.4% playing at least every week. By comparison only 15.7% of feature phone owners play at all each month. Of smartphone owners, 27.3% have at least one title installed on their phones, and 9.4% have [...]
Smartphone mobile gaming soaring as regular phones drop out
Mobile gaming is more than ever a tale of two devices: feature phones and smartphones. The U.S. population playing games on regular mobile phones fell by 35% last year to 29.5 million, while the number of smartphone gamers shot up 60% to 21.4 million, according to a new comScore study. The mobile gaming audience overall [...]
Eat that fish: Not online or print, but how to work together
ASNE‘s annual meeting is happening this week in Washington. Several of my students have been there covering it. With low attendance at the conference, a lingering low pressure system of bleak industry news, hot new mobile devices on the market, and recent pew reports, it could be easy to argue that “print is dead” and [...]