2 posts and columns on anime

Whiskey Media's (And Former CNET CEO) Shelby Bonnie Talks Content and More!

in News on May 20, 2010 at 12:39 am PT

Yesterday, BoomTown caught up with Shelby Bonnie, the former CEO of CNET who is now running Whiskey Media, the social publishing start-up. Sausalito, Calif.-based Whiskey is debuting its latest site today, called Screened, focused on video entertainment, which will combine both professional and user-generated content, much as its other four sites–Anime, Vice, Giant Bomb, Comic Vine and Tested–do. It’s yet another twist on the creation and distribution of content and another example of how quickly the publishing industry is changing.

The Omega Men of the Internet?

in News on June 4, 2008 at 5:00 am PT

BoomTown hates to miss any possible opportunity to reference a Charlton Heston movie and, thus, was struck by a report by a Wall Street analyst that Google and Amazon will be the sole survivors of the most recent digital age. Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay said as much in a 310-page report, “U.S. Internet: The End of the Beginning” he penned, noting that only the search giant and the e-commerce pioneer had legs.
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