shouting loudly

It turns out that beverage companies and shoe manufacturers aren’t the only ones trying to reach TV-disconnected males, ages 18-34. Presidential candidate Barack Obama is making history again, buying campaign ads in Microsoft X-Box Live games. This is the first video game ad buy for a political campaign. The ad buy reaches gamers in swing states [...]

The publishing industry is terrified of moving from the print-and-ship meatspace model to digital distribution. Over at HuffPo, Hugh McGuire tells publishers to embrace the digital transition. He discusses why and how book publishers should eschew the music industry’s fear-driven tactics and meet customers where they are with what they want.

Why are media and power always a bad combination? Whether it is the elite who is abusing the media for its own purposes (in the words of Chomsky and Herman, to ‘manufacture consent‘) or whether it is the media themselves who are powerful, often heard as in ‘the media are biased‘, the message seems clear [...]

The New York Times has an interesting article about the problem of people getting locked out of their inboxes. In particular, the article singles out Google, who don’t do much to help people get back in if they get locked out. Which is too bad; a few hundred call center reps would be a very [...]

In an earlier post, I argued that Obama should say something to rebut the McCain/Palin smears. Now, having gotten wind of a new round of planned smears, the Obama campaign is really playing smart ball. The campaign preemptively released an ad, charging: Whatever McCain says is a dirty trick intended to distract voters from McCain’s [...]

An NYU Law School think tank, the Brennan Center for Justice, has just released a study condemning the problems with voter purges. The study’s author, Myrna Pérez, condemns the unaccountable, unreliable hodgepodge of systems that states use when purging voters from the voting rolls. While Pérez believes it is reasonable to remove voters who have moved to another [...]