Web media needs to move to TV metaphor - with full-screen imagery and other content interrupted with full-screen ads.
Nick DentonYour writers write these pieces about meaningless startups, meaningless apps and meaningless companies.
Nick DentonI think people are sort of waking up to it now, how probably the biggest change in Internet media isn't the immediacy of it, or the low costs, but the measurability. Which is actually terrifying if you're a traditional journalist, and used to pushing what people ought to like, or what you think they ought to like.
Nick DentonNo picture, no footage, no story. The people these days require some visual evidence in order to believe what they read.
Nick DentonApple makes beautiful products. I own a Mac Pro, a Mac Book, a Mac Mini, an iPad, an iPhone, pretty much the entire collection.
Nick DentonCritics say Internet advertising suffers from limitless inventory, which depresses prices. These exclusive front-page sponsorships are not limitless. If HBO doesn't move quickly enough, Showtime can buy out Gawker and Jezebel for the key fall TV season. On any individual day, there isn't room for both of them; and that's healthy.
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