Google, Facebook, et al are in reality media companies and must accept the responsibilities that go with it Attention, like snow, comes in two varieties; the fun, beautiful kind, and the “wrong” kind, the kind that stops trains and freezes democracy. Recently the seemingly unstoppable digital behemoths of Google and Facebook have been at least temporarily derailed by the wrong kind of attention. First we had Facebook being unmasked as the world’s largest repository for made-up stories and “fake news”, and now we have Google fighting a rearguard action over apparently putting advertising from respectable companies alongside deranged hate speech videos on YouTube. Advertisers, including the Guardian and the British government, have been withdrawing from Google’s digital ad exchange after discovering their ads alongside videos for, among other things, American white supremacists and violent extremists. Related: Are we finally reacting to the disruptive supremacy of Facebook and Google? | Will Hutton Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2017-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
News tagged with:
#largest repository
#fake news
#british government
Sephora has released a makeup line based on the upcoming movie 'Divergent,' adapted from the young adult book of the same name by Veronica Roth. Fellow young adult franchise 'The Hunger Games' also had tie-in makeup products, as well as a clothing line. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#upcoming movie
#veronica roth
#hunger games
#makeup products
#clothing line
George Lossius, one of the most visible advocates in urging publishers to embrace technology, will step down as chief executive of Publishing Technology plc “in the near future.” Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#publishing technology
#george lossius
#urging publishers
#embrace technology
We are now living in a history glut; the Internet has muddled the line between past and present. As our past gets closer and closer to the present and the line separating our now from our then dissolves, we're approaching an odd sort of asymptote. Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2014-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#google books
Tribune Co. announced a restructuring of its publishing business Wednesday to focus on its digital efforts and streamline operations, resulting in nearly 700 job losses across the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times and six other daily newspapers. Continue reading at Baltimore Sun
[ Baltimore Sun | 2013-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#chicago tribune
#digital efforts
#streamline operations
#daily newspapers
At Berlin's E:PUBLISH conference last week, one felt German publishing had finally fully embraced digital as a means of helping the industry and literature thrive. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#publish conference
Hilton Als' 'White Girls' is a magnificent collection of essays that mixes criticism and memoir, fiction and nonfiction.Hilton Als' "White Girls" is as much about white girls as the author's previous effort "The Women" was about femininity — which is to say quite a lot and not at all. Like its... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
When Vice first appeared on Ad Age's Magazine A-List in 2010, it raised more than few eyebrows among industry stalwarts. For one thing, it was the first free-distribution magazine Ad Age had ever honored. And another thing—OK, the main thing—Vice is a cheerfully irreverent, quasi-rude... Continue reading at Crains New York
[ Crains New York | 2013-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#distribution channels
#$175 million
#$1 billion
#heavy metal
#million copies
When Vice first appeared on Ad Age's Magazine A-List in 2010, it raised more than few eyebrows among industry stalwarts. For one thing, it was the first free-distribution magazine Ad Age had ever honored. And another thing -- OK, the main thing -- Vice is a cheerfully irreverent, quasi-rude... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2013-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#cheerfully irreverent
#hbo --
#news magazine
#ad pages
#global distribution
The U.S. Department of Justice has opposed requests by Facebook, Google, Microsoft and other companies to publish the number of surveillance requests they receive from the National Security Agency and other agencies. Requests from five Internet companies, also including Yahoo and LinkedIn,... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2013-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#intelligence community
#national intelligence
Storify, a digital storytelling tool used by journalists to surface conversations that originate on social media, has been acquired by the Web publishing services company Livefyre. Livefyre plans to fold Storify into its StreamHub product, which offers Web publishers tools for commenting, live... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2013-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#live chats
#publisher clients
#user-generated content
#potential implications
Poland's Kwiaty Orientu publishing company delivers translated editions of South Korean literature to a Polish speaking audience. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
Melbourne, FL – Atex, a leading supplier of Content Management, Advertising and Audience workflow solutions (www.atex.com), is pleased to announce that Omnipress, provider of educational content solutions for associations, has released its ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#content management
Why does HarperCollins need a VP of Innovation? Ana Maria Allessi, who holds that very title, tells us about a future in which books look a lot like apps. Ana Maria Allessi is somewhat of an oddity, for someone who’s worked at a publishing house for almost 13 years. While publishing is rife... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2013-06-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#joined harpercollins
#audio books
#technology company
#technology companies
#tech world
In the last year, plenty of media and content companies have started publishing ebooks for the first time. In a panel at the Publishers Launch conference at Book Expo America on Wednesday, several of them discussed what they’ve learned from ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#media companies
#ve learned
#toronto star
#chicago tribune
#content companies
The Daily Mail's Marcus Rich is among the executives lined up for the Professional Publishers Association's annual conference, which will examine how to boost digital revenues and explore whether content is still king. Continue reading at Media Week
[ Media Week | 2013-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#daily mail
#marcus rich
#annual conference
News Corporation’s new publishing company will get an infusion of $2.6 billion in cash and will have no debt when it separates from the company’s higher-growth cable channels and Hollywood studio this summer. In a filing with the ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
At the Guadalajara Book Fair, Bill McCoy of the IDPF and Pablo Defendini of Safari Books encouraged publishers to abandon DRM, and set their own prices. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2012-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#tech companies
#bill mccoy
Sayville, Long Island, October, 2012 – Brainworks Software, the leading provider of newspaper advertising and circulation systems for North America has announced that the Times Publishing Company has selected Brainworks to provide their pro ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#long island
#leading provider
#newspaper advertising
The Albuquerque Publishing Company – the advertising sales, production and distribution agent for New Mexico’s largest and most read newspaper, the Albuquerque Journal – is live with Atex Advertising. The Atex syst ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#advertising sales
The publisher has bought a Bloomington, Ind.-based company called Author Solutions, which so far has attracted 150,000 authors releasing their own books. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2012-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |