GM Doesn’t Like Old Media, Either

Earlier this week, the car maker said it was bailing out of Facebook. Today, it’s the Super Bowl.
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Harvey Geller, Universal Music Group’s Top Lawyer, Is Out

Harvey Geller, Universal Music Group’s longtime lawyer, left the company earlier this week. A person familiar with Universal said Geller was now headed for another job but didn’t have other details. His name will be familiar to many digital-media companies, since he often led fierce and sustained battles against them on behalf of the world’s biggest music label.

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Content Is No Longer King

“Content is king” has been a long-lived mantra of media. And in the 1990s and early 2000s, it was true.

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Get Yer Subscription Xbox for $99 (And $15 a Month)

Microsoft will sell the Xbox 360 game and media console, with the Kinect sensor, for $99 as part of a two-year, $15 per month “Gold” contract. The news was first reported last week by The Verge. Interested takers, however, will have to live near one of the 21 Microsoft stores across the U.S. to opt in to the deal.

There’s No Tomorrow

The reason for the change is that articles are no longer written only for the newspaper. Breaking news is posted immediately on the Globe’s websites; stories are then fleshed out, posted again, then put into the process for the next day’s paper and the next day’s web entries. With all that traffic, a reliance on “yesterday,” “today,” and “tomorrow” is an invitation for error.

Charles Mansbach, Page 1 editor of the Boston Globe, on why the paper will no longer use the words in stories

What Kind of Digital Consumer Are You?

Most people now consider themselves “digital device adopters.” But what’s your digital personality? IBM’s latest study aims to find the answer.
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Social Media Memory App Timehop Adds “Pinterest for Your Past”

Timehop, which sends daily reminders of where you checked in and what you tweeted a year ago, will now allow you to pin your favorite past posts to its site. Surprise! It looks a lot like Pinterest.
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Lying Apple Gadfly Mike Daisey Still Doesn’t Get It

Mike Daisey — the lying, Apple-attacking monologuist — is still trying to seize the moral high ground on the matter of Apple, Foxconn and workers’ rights in China.
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The Failures and Fallacies of Mike Daisey’s Apple Attack and the Media

Now we have to start the conversation about Apple and Foxconn and workers’ rights all over again, this time with real, verifiable facts at our command. Is that so much to ask?
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Telling iPad Stories

It’s funny that people think iPad stories generate ad revenue for media companies. That’s not how it works.

– The Atlantic’s Alexis Madrigal, via Twitter

My So-Called Social Super Bowl