What the New York Times website looked like ten years ago.
(Via Buzzfeed)
One of the images from our image-heavy Morning Bell today. Check out how Obamacare will affect you and others here.
What is the point of this image? To suggest a majority’s taxes will go up because of Obamacare? To garner sympathy for the small number of wealthy taxpayers who will actually be affected by the new taxes? Where is the image showing the low-income employee with the caption, “Thanks to Obamacare, I can afford health insurance for my children.” Or the image showing a cancer patient with the caption, “Thanks to Obamacare, insurers can no longer reject me.”
The sometimes frivolous campaign against Obamacare plays a part in why so many are so misinformed about the law. It’s most popular provisions are the least well-known.
I loved the Arrested Development series and am pumped for the documentary, but I’m not sure how I feel about donating to its KickStarter fun. At Slate, Sam Adams outlines the argument against crowdfunding big-budget movie projects.
Sponsored Content Causes Editorial Grumbles
Within many newsrooms, there’s a growing disquiet over the shift to “native” advertising, where sponsored messages come in the form of content that looks and feels like the publication’s editorial.
The argument boils down to feeling the ads on the site should be clearly and emphatically different from the editorial content. At the end of the day, allowing advertisers to have a voice, even giving them the same tools as the edit department, risks further undermining audience confidence in publisher brands.
“We’re treading lightly,” BusinessWeek.com editor Janet Paskin said at the Digiday Publishing Summit in Scottsdale, Ariz. “Our credibly and integrity, for all journalists, is sometimes harder to defend than it should be. We don’t want to compromise that or allow for that perception.”
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Together, the Gmail experience, the death of Google Reader, and the closure of Picnik all have me questioning whether I want to keep investing time and energy in “free” Google products or whether I need to start looking for paid services that are explicitly making money off the thing I am paying them to do.
—Ezra Klein on Google’s trust problem (via thisistheverge)
(via thisistheverge)
You may not notice ads on Tumblr, but they’re here. Around 20 percent of the suggested reading that pops up to the right of your dashboard and prime real state in the Spotlight section are reserved for sponsored content, according to Tumblr marketing and revenue consultant Mark Webb.
(Via Business Insider)
Just wrote about real-life cyborgs for the latest issue of Fast Company magazine. (via What It Takes To Build A Bionic Man | Fast Company)
