Ina Fried in Dive Into Media on January 31 at 2:18 pm PT
The magazine’s editor says that tablets are great, and that even phones offer new opportunities for long-form content.
Peter Kafka in Media on December 5, 2011 at 10:20 am PT
A story about embargoes. No, wait! Where are you going?
Peter Kafka in Dive Into Media on November 29, 2011 at 5:30 am PT
Time to introduce another
D: Dive Into Media speaker, and this one’s very timely: The first onstage interview with the new head of cable TV’s MVP.
There is a very cathartic crisis that’s gone on, and it’s not clear where it’s going to go. But at least everyone knows things are rotten. We’re in a much better place than when things were rotten and everyone thought things were great.
Facebook investor and futurist Peter Thiel, profiled in the New Yorker (article only available online to subscribers)
Peter Kafka in Dive Into Media on November 14, 2011 at 8:12 am PT
North meets South, tech meets content, and the rest of the world gets a rare opportunity to meet one of Google’s most important — and least known — players.
Peter Kafka in Dive Into Media on September 22, 2011 at 6:30 am PT
All Things Digital‘s newest conference: Two days of smart, provocative talk with the media industry’s most important people. (And did we mention the jaw-dropping ocean views?)
Peter Kafka in Media on August 8, 2011 at 6:11 am PT
The magazine’s “Goings on About Town” app is exactly what you think it is — which is a good thing. More important, it’s an encouraging sign of experimentation.
Kara Swisher in Media on July 4, 2011 at 7:07 am PT
Well-known New Yorker writer Ken Auletta has taken on Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg in the magazine, with a largely glowing profile titled provocatively: “A Woman’s Place: Can Sheryl Sandberg Upend Silicon Valley’s Male-Dominated Culture?”
My short answer is: No, she can’t. But good for anyone for trying!
Peter Kafka in Media on May 17, 2011 at 9:01 pm PT
A year after Apple started selling digital magazines on the iPad, a consortium of publishers opens its own newsstand, via Google. It only works on some Samsung Galaxy tablets for now, but it’s a start.
Liz Gannes in Social on May 17, 2011 at 3:01 pm PT
Writer Sherman Alexie has a wry take on Facebook in this week’s New Yorker. In a sonnet that’s not exactly Shakespearean, Alexie comments on the compacted and awkward nature of Facebook interactions.
