Igor Delovski Board

[TomCruise]

Radio is dead. Movie theatres are next!

"How do you kill the movie industry? Well, first you make it so you don’t
have to actually go anywhere to watch the movie. Then you bring the
movie into peoples homes for only one third of the cost of what it would be
to go to the theatre. Then, you sell a device that allows people to take the
movie with them so they can watch it anywhere, anytime, and you sell it at
a great price."

[XNote]

The Internet’s Biggest Google Whores

"The following is a list of the Internet’s eight biggest Google AdSense
publishers. The information was compiled from interviews and articles
found on the Internet."

[XNote]

Google Announces Website Optimizer

"Google AdWords advertisers will now have access to a self-service site
optimization tool that helps them determine what content works best to
sell their products."

[Ike]

Digg: Beginner's Guide to Digg

"An in-depth overview on Digg that covers everything from Digg's history
to submitting stories. It also covers things such as the Digg effect, Digg Spy,
Digg tools, Digg labs, My #1, Friends, top users ..."

[delovski]

The New Media Establishment - 50 people shaping online journalism

"Who are the "new establishment" of online journalism in Britain? Who
are the people shaping the latest developments in bringing journalism to
new digital platforms?"

[Ike]

Seth Godin: Pencil Drop (The end of Digg as we know it?)

"So, the latest bit of civil disobedience from the seventh grade is the pencil
drop (nothing new). Word goes out that at exactly 2:04, everyone drops
their pencil.

Teachers hate this."

[Ike]

Digg: 6 E-Mail accounts worth having, and why

"A collection of several e-mail services, starting with the old, well-known
Yahoo! and GMail, and ending with some that are less known, but far more
interesting. Which one do you like best?"

[XNote]

Anatomy of a Successful Social Network

"If my statistical software is correct, 80% of the people visiting this page
will leave within the first 30 seconds of their visit [2]. Such is the attention
span of today's web user. Now, as I glide through the many social networking
sites, I can hardly come across one that is inherently easy to navigate
through. I have an incredible attention span of about 5 minutes; if I can't
figure out how to edit my profile within that time frame, I will simply leave
the site.

[delovski]

thomasfitzgerald.net - Reaction to the iPhone reveals how the electronics
industry failed to beat the iPod

"Well, much of the reaction to the iPhone is the same as the reaction to
the iPod when it was released. Manufacturers are assuming it will be a
failure because they offer devices with similar functionality for less money."

[delovski]

Music CD, I'm just not that into you

"There are only so many hours in a day for each of us -- the consumers of
entertainment - to consume entertainment. Various new forms of entertainment
that catch on have to displace some of the time we spent on our former diversions."

[delovski]

How Ads Really Work: Superfans and Noobs

"What I realized when I looked at my Google Analytics reports was that the
majority of ad clicks are coming from these one-time visitors looking for
information. I do it myself when searching, especially if it's for a product of
some type. "

[delovski]

Ten Questions with CmdrTaco: Slashdot, Digg and Conspiracy Theories

"Rob Malda, aka CmdrTaco and founder of Slashdot, kindly agreed to be
interviewed as part of my series on influential and interesting people in
the software industry. We talked about Slashdot, Digg and conspiracy
theories."

[XNote]

bbc news - Citizens offer new take on news

"The report - released by the Project for Excellence in Journalism - took a
snapshot of news stories from the last week in June 2007.

It compared the stories making the headline in 48 mainstream news sources,
including TV, radio and online, to that of three user-driven news sites - Reddit,
Digg and Del.icio.us."

[delovski]

Slashdot: Why the BBC's iPlayer is a Multi-Million Pound Disaster

"As part of 'Beeb Week', The Register discusses the 'multi-million pound
failure' that is the iPlayer. 'When the iPlayer was commissioned in 2003,
it was just one baffling part of an ambitious £130m effort to digitise the
Corporation's broadcasting and archive infrastructure. It's an often
lamented fact that the BBC wiped hundreds of 1960s episodes of its era-
defining music show Top of the Pops, including early Beatles performances,
and many other popular programmes ...

The iPlayer was envisaged as the flagship internet 'delivery platform'. It
would dole out this national treasure to us in a controlled manner, it was
promised, and fire a revolution in how Big TV works online. For better or
worse it's finally set to be delivered with accompanying marketing blitz
this Christmas - more than four years after it was first announced.'"

[Ike]

Slashdot: What Makes Something "Better Than Free"?

"In a very thought-provoking essay entitled 'Better Than Free' Kevin Kelly,
Senior Maverick at Wired, probes the question of how thoughts, ideas and
words that are so constantly, easily, and casually copied can still have eco-
nomic value.

'If reproductions of our best efforts are free,' he asks, 'how can we keep
going? To put it simply, how does one make money selling free copies?'

He enumerates and explains eight qualities that can, indeed, make some-
thing financially viable — 'better than free.' A very timely article in light of
the constant discussion of RIAA/piracy/copyright issues."

[delovski]

ars - Contemplating the Consumerist sale and the adpocalypse

"In conclusion, the online advertising experiment in which so many of us have
engaged is really only ten years or so old. Those who say that it's 'mature'
are not only mistaken, but they drastically underestimate what a true break
the web is from the offline media that came before. We've had a few hundred
years to learn to monetize print, over 75 years to monetize TV, and, most
importantly, millennia to build business models based on scarcity. In contrast,
our collective effort to monetize post-scarcity digital media have only just begun."

[Ike]

time - The Men Who Stole the World

"In the first half of the 2000s, TIME interviewed each of these programmers.
At the time, it looked as if they were poised to dismantle the entire media-
entertainment complex and bring about a digital apocalypse that would ma-
ke it impossible to charge money for movies, music or TV ever again. Art-
ists would no longer get paid for their work, and the huge entertainment
conglomerates, Time Warner among them, would be bombed flat. The pi-
rates were coming for corporate America.

"After all," we wrote in 2003, "you can't have an information economy in
which all information is free." And if the apocalypse was coming, Fanning,
Johansen, Frankel and Cohen were the four horsemen."

[Ike]

Slashdot - Just completed a project to move users to ipads

"I was approached by the Sr Partner in the firm to come up with a way for
him to use his new toy back in August. I was then given an iPad and list of
"requirements". It needed to be able to send and receive email, edit word
and pdf's, sync with the firms docket calendar, record dictation in a stan-
dard format that would be emailable and would be foot pedal compatible
and access documents back in the office."

[delovski]

slashdot - So Long, CmdrTaco, and Thanks For All The Posts

"With CmdrTaco moving on to his temporary retirement home, the Slashdot
editors who will continue to poke and prod at reader submissions (the heart
and soul of this site: without readers, there'd be nothing to talk about as well
as no one to talk about it) would like to offer an extended 'Thank You' to Rob,
and offer some thoughts on the years so far, as well as what comes next."

[Ike]

dyske.com - It’s Not China; It’s Efficiency That Is Killing Our Jobs

"Even big corporations are now struggling because the American consumers
are broke. This is because the same corporations laid off these consumers."

[Ike]

nytimes.com - How the Tech Parade Passed Sony By

“It’s almost game over at Sony,” said Yoshiaki Sakito, a former Sony
executive who has worked for Walt Disney, Bain & Company, Apple and
a start-up focused on innovation training. “I don’t see how Sony’s going
to bounce back now.”

[Ike]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/20/opinion/i-was-a-digital-best-seller.html?_r=0

I Was a Digital Best Seller

[Ike]

yahoo.com - What Kim Kardashian Going Full Frontal Means for
the Magazine Industry

"The reality star has 25 million Twitter followers and almost as many on
Instagram. Just one of her selfies has more reach than most mags can
hope for in one issue. Paper tag-lined their Winter issue “Break the Inter-
net” and while this certainly didn’t come true, with just 140 characters
from Kardashian, Paper is now an entity that everyone knows about."

[delovski]

motherjones - Pop Goes the Digital Media Bubble

"None of the New Things has answered the burning question of how to pay
for journalism - especially the feet-to-the-fire kind that democracy needs to
function."

[XNote]

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/03/27/opinion/sunday/my-shared-shame-the-media-helped-make-trump.html?_r=1&referer=

[delovski]

r - Massive British PR firm caught on video

"We've got all sorts of dark arts...The ambition is to drown that negative
content and make sure that you have positive content online. They discuss
techniques for manipulating google results and creating/maintaining 3rd-
party blogs that seem independent."

[Ike]

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/5w17yu/bbc_among_news_media_blocked_from_white_house/de6r1ae/

/u/FattestRabbit explains in meticulous detail the progression of media manipulation & control undertaken by Putin in Russia which mirrors steps taken by Trump so far

Hyello, comrade good buddy! You see, Trump loves your fair press! Here, let me show you how fair press in Amyerica is! Here is Russian propaganda machine broken down into points:

[Ike]

guardian - Robert Mercer: the big data billionaire waging war on mainstream media

"These Facebook profiles - especially people's 'likes' - could be correlated
across millions of others to produce uncannily accurate results. Michal
Kosinski, the centre's lead scientist, found that with knowledge of 150 likes,
their model could predict someone's personality better than their spouse.
With 300, it understood you better than yourself. 'Computers see us in a
more robust way than we see ourselves,' says Kosinski."

[Ike]

https://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2016/05/30/reddit-knows-your-dark-secrets/#.tnw_fpUmpvLt

[delovski]

r - u/mrv3 nails prediction that reddit is slowly becoming social
network akin to facebook with recently updated New Reddit layout

"Reddit is an ugly complicated piece of shit. Small buttons, no colour. I love
it, infact for me it's TOO user friendly. But for the people they are looking to
attract it needs to be SIMPLE. Real fucking simple."

[Ike]

smallwarsjournal.com - Nine Lessons of Russian Propaganda

"First impressions are known to be extremely sticky. They persist even
after subsequent evidence is conclusive. Consequently, Russian propa-
ganda seems to fight hard for the first impression and then relent.

When opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was assassinated, they quickly
spun several elaborate theories which played on Russian news.

Their propaganda about neo-Nazis dominated coverage of Ukraine's
revolution, even after multiple statements and an open letter from the
leaders of Ukraine's Jewish community. In support of the Nazi narrative,
Russian state television even reported fake results of Ukraine's 2014
election, stating that now-President Poroshenko lost the race to Right
Sector leader Dmytro Yarosh. (In reality Yarosh received about 1.5%
of the vote.) Obviously, anybody paying attention would find out this
was nonsense within days, if not hours, but being proved wrong does
not seem to matter to them."

[Ike]

r - The Dark Arts -- Winning Debates and the Breakdown of Credibility

"You're now screwed. Not because I'm right, but because I managed to
construct a coherent narrative of events you don't have the expertise to rebut.
This isn't some high level, super manipulative technique. However, I think this
describes most of the dark arts. It's actually quite boring if you really think
about it, requiring no real effort. (In fact, it's actual intellectual conversations
with genuine engagement that I find more effortful.)"

[Ike]

Y! - Why Does No One Understand the Real Reason Trump Won?

"And this year, Fox and the rest of the right-wing media elected him. I
discussed all this Thursday with Matthew Gertz of Media Matters for America,
who watches lots of Fox News so the rest of us don't have to. He made the
crucial point--and you must understand this--that nearly all the crazy
memes that percolated into the news-stream during this election came not
from Trump or JD Vance originally, but from somewhere in the right-wing
media ecosystem.

The fake story about Haitian residents of Springfield, Ohio eating cats and
dogs, for example, started with a Facebook post citing second- and third-
hand sources, Gertz told me; it then 'circulated on X and was picked up by
all the major right-wing influencers.' Only then did Vance, a very online
dude, notice it and decide to run with it. And then Trump said it himself at
the debate. But it started in the right-wing media.

To much of America, by the way, this is not understood as one side's view of
things. It's simply 'the news.' This is what people--white people, chiefly--
watch in about two-thirds of the country. I trust that you've seen in your
travels, as I have in mine, that in red or even some purple parts of the
country, when you walk into a hotel lobby or a hospital waiting room or even
a bar, where the TVs ought to be offering us some peace and just showing
ESPN, at least one television is tuned to Fox. That's reach, and that's power."