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Hey Unemployed Media Professionals! Read This Post Before You Apply For An Online Media Job!

I’m a journalist by training and communications professional by trade. It’s a sucky time to be doing either of those things right now. A lot of mid-career professionals are getting laid off from traditional media outlets on a daily basis and looking to online media for a new start, and that’s awesome. However, there’s something [...]

Book Review: Authenticity: What Consumers Really Want

While applying marketing techniques in concert with authenticity isn’t something I will be using to help make my non-existent business reach a new level of confidence and power, there’s plenty of interesting stuff in James Gilmore & Joseph Pine’s Authenticity: What Consumers Really Want. Much of the interesting information came in the form of theory [...]

Banking on the 1,000

One of my favorite metal bands, The Dillinger Escape Plan, recently left their record label, Relapse, after their contract expired. According to the following interview with lead singer Greg Puciato, the band has tentative plans to go independent with their next full-length release, inspired by the Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails model: It seems so [...]

Fans Vs. Freaks: Media Coverage of Fandom

It’s always amusing (and mildly annoying) when mainstream media outlets cover fandom and pop culture. The underlying smugness of their commentary often seems to rear its head, even when it’s hardly warranted. Take for example, Yahoo Buzz Log’s recent coverage of the Warner Bros. decision to push the release date of Harry Potter and The [...]