It’s become clear to me that I have one social media pet peeve bigger perhaps than any other: brands using Facebook to automatically post to Twitter. In and of itself, it’s not a problem, as its most basic form simply tweets (I assume) the first 120 characters of a Facebook status, with a link to [...]
The (Not So) Secret History Of The Cabin In The Woods
It’s one thing that almost every single reporter, critic, and blogger out there misreports the original release date for The Cabin in the Woods as having been February 5, 2010. While that irks me, and shouldn’t happen, it’s not the end of the world. But this week Kelly Gray of WPIX takes it to a [...]
Will Web Series Do Comic-Con Right?
Last year’s San Diego Comic-Con International included only two events focused on web series [see updates at end], one of which of course was the understandably-packed panel for The Guild. The only other representation of web series was a rather lamentable panel on Thursday. 6:30-7:30 From the Computer Screen to the Silver Screen — Learn [...]
Theater Critics Fly High
Apparently there’s some sort of hullabaloo over two theater critics reporting on the Spider-Man musical during its prolonged and problem-plagued preview period, well before any critics were slated to be invited in to review the show. I’m not going to belabor this, but the reasoning behind the critics purchasing tickets in order to report on [...]
How Wired Is Damaging Itself, And Journalism
Once upon a time, Glenn Greenwald of Salon examined the “strange” case of Bradley Manning, Adrian Lamo, WikiLeaks, and Wired. Recently, he returned to the matter. Shortly after, Evan Hansen and Kevin Poulsen of Wired issued a non-response, prompting Greenwald to respond to that as well as respond to Wired’s attacks against him. I really [...]
The Social In Media Has Changed
Derek Powazek argues that in some sense the term “social media” doesn’t mean much (or at least not as much as it’s made out to mean) because “all media is social”. He goes on to describe the social aspects of running a newspaper in the early 90s. I ran a newspaper in the early 90s, [...]