What Mass Media Consolidation Offers

Media consolidation offers tradeoffs for studios and publishers, their managers and employees.

Namrata Patel: There’s a massive opportunity to reimagine the retail experience on the demand side

Namrata Patel, VP of Product at Minted, wrote an insightful analysis and prediction about the changing climate for direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands in April that I think we will see play out in real life in the coming months and years––to historic proportions. Allow me to explain. What struck me about the essay is that it becomes…

Amy Hoy: the chronologically organized web is “a decent servant but a terrible master”

Amy Hoy writes about how the style of chronologically organized, stream updates for websites swallowed up the entire web: "...the damn reverse chronology bias — once called into creation, it hungers eternally — sought its next victim. Myspace. Facebook. Twitter. Instagram. Pinterest, of all things. Today these social publishing tools are beginning to buck reverse chronological sort;…

Short Film: The Interview, with Josh Malina and Alicia Hannah

Starring Joshua Malina, Alicia Hannah, Karen Epstein, Norman Epstein, and Kenneth Stephens. Written by Travon Free, Mikel Jollett, Randi Mayem Singer, and Danny Zuker.

Humans FTW

The story of who controls curation on the web (and how they do it) has entered a new chapter.

Slate on Facebook’s “retreat” from news

I spoke to Slate reporter Will Oremus on the double-sided coin that is the modern web for a feature about how referral traffic from Facebook has tanked for many web publishers (including, sadly, Slate): For every five people that Facebook used to send to Slate about a year ago, it now sends less than one.…

The “gig economy” hasn’t really changed since, well, forever

As a side note, whatever "gig economy" does exist, it very well may offer different opportunities for men compared to women.

Social media as product management

I hope this helps anyone who is curious about how they can apply my learnings about product management to their work.

Deleting thousands of my own tweets

I've been having a lot of conversations about the difference between relevance and usefulness in terms of what the world will leave behind on the web for future generations to parse through. I thought I'd take a shot at deleting some of many tweets I've produced since joining Twitter, particularly because tweets no longer feels…

Christopher Wylie: Privacy rights threatened by Cambridge Analytica’s “grossly unethical experiments”

"It allowed us to move into the hearts and minds of American voters in a way that had never been done before."