Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Gawker Destroyed Nikki Finke. So Why Doesn’t It Matter?
For a few days, I waited for the other shoe to drop after Gawker’s John Cook pretty much destroyed Deadline Hollywood blogger Nikki Finke.
For a few days, I waited for the other shoe to drop after Gawker’s John Cook pretty much destroyed Deadline Hollywood blogger Nikki Finke.
Last week, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman officially launched her campaign for governor of California, hoping to clinch the Republican nomination.
Oh, those clever birds at Twitter. When the microblogging service announced recent changes to its terms of service, its executives knew exactly how to spin the news.
I have just seen what may end up being a cinematic landmark.
What if the privately held Huffington Post is worth not $200 million–a cracked-out number floated last year–or even $100 million, but, say, $2 mil? This is not entirely an academic question, given that in December HuffPo astonished media watchers by securing $25 million in additional funding from Oak Investment Partners, a Palo Alto, Calif., venture capital firm.
I’ve got a few questions for American magazine publishers: Are you in or are you out? Do you still believe in the very act, the very business, of publishing? And do you still believe in presenting carefully selected words and pictures–expertly produced information–for a targeted audience?
Bill Gates doesn’t get a lot of credit these days for being a visionary. But when it comes to his relationship with Facebook, he may still be a step ahead of the rest of us.
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