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Why don’t books carry ads?
My holiday entertainment was watching an endless caravan of rain clouds cross the skies of a Breton peninsula. As an occasional diversion, I read a French guide book from 1909. Its pages were full of ads for grand hotels with casinos and spas where automobiles could be hired and fun could be had. All just…
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How television made money
A brief account of how network bosses make money from Dan Lyons at Forbes, aka Fake Steve Jobs: What the fuck is a television network? It’s a system of affiliates designed to help carry a broadcast signal across the wide continent of America on airwaves and into television sets owned by millions of people. In…
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Advertising, content and discontinuity
I was just reading Vin Crosbie‘s latest post in which he repeats the line that newspaper circulation has been falling for 30 years. (Leo Bogart noted that it was 1971 when total US newspaper circulation dropped below total number of households.) Since the 1980s TV has been facing similar decline. Crosbie says it’s all about…
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Blog-vertorial
In case you’ve been dozing, the blogosphere is filling up with the reactions to Valleywag‘s revelation that notable tech bloggers have been dropping Microsoft slogans into their copy. My reaction to the scandal? Well, I’m lovin’ it. Next time, however, the bloggers concerned should think different. Just for the record, you won’t be seeing undercover…