John Gruber: DigiTimes is the tech news equivalent of a supermarket tabloid. The difference is that everyone knows that supermarket tabloids are full of shit, whereas DigiTimes continues to be treated as a reputable news source.
By Stephen Hackett
Category Archives: Journalism
First!
Dave Caolo: The race to be the first to post a story online 1 frequently causes problems. For example, this morning I saw a headline on Boy Genius Report (BGR), “New Jersey bans texting while walking”. BGR linked Huffington Post as the source, so I clicked the link for more of the story. HuffPo’s headline [...]
Speaking of Sources…
Philip Elmer-DeWitt, on the story that Foxconn CEO Tery Gou leaked Apple’s upcoming “iTV” product: What none of these reporters mentioned (or apparently bothered to consider) is that Gou — whose factories assemble 40% of the world’s electronic devices — is one of the industry’s most secretive executives. He is privy to the future product [...]
DigiTimes Sucks as a Source
TUAW wins the Internet today.
Why I Run Ads
There’s been a lot of talk about advertising on independent websites this week, so I thought I’d outline my thoughts on the subject. I run two types of advertising here on 512 Pixels. The first is a sidebar ad, provided by the Fusion Ad network. The income generated from this ad covers my monthly hosting [...]
Ars Turns 7.0
One of my favorite websites just got a huge facelift.
More on Ads
Ben Brooks: I’d argue it’s not working at all, as evidenced by the race to the bottom nature of advertising revenues, the exploration of pay-wall systems in big publishers to help pad advertising revenue (because ad revenue isn’t enough), the fact that more than a few blogs I know need the extra money from members [...]
The World’s Second-Oldest Profession
Ben Brooks: Ads are likely not the future, or the answer, because as readers we have many, many, tools that allow us to ignore, gloss over, or outright remove ads from content. Even if an advertiser still registers a page view on their ad, when they stop seeing returns on their advertisements they will no [...]
4 A.M.
As soon as I felt it vibrate, I pulled my phone out of my pocket. It was just after 4 a.m. on Monday, October 7, and I was walking across the University of Memphis’ main campus with my college newspaper’s managing editor, lugging a box of papers and a tape gun, thinking about the body [...]
