The Year's Funniest Commercials
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Since 1974, The One Club has handed out awards for the year's best advertising, and on May 6, they'll name the winners for 2009. View eight of the nominated commercials.
While a nice idea, the Apple TV is a pretty useless device unless you buy a ton of TV shows from the iTunes store (which I do not). In an effort to change that I installed Boxee which turns your Apple TV into a proper media center, letti...
Noah Brier is a geek. He is head of strategy for The Barbarian Group. He blogs at NoahBrier.com and built Brand Tags, an experiment in brand perception.
In recent years we've more or less overdosed on fictional depictions of youth and privilege in Manhattan (and I'm not going to lie, I love Gossip Girl as much as anybody) but Whit Stillman's Metropolitan is really worth watching. It's al...
Caroline McCarthy is the editor of The Social, a blog about new media on CNET News.
The Next Great Media War
Larry Kramer is senior adviser at Polaris Venture Partners, a venture-capital firm. He served as the first president of CBS Digital Media. Prior to joining CBS, Kramer was chairman, CEO, and founder of MarketWatch Inc. Kramer spent more than 20 years as a reporter and editor at the San Francisco Examiner, the Washington Post, and the Times of Trenton.
Who will win the battle between content providers like Viacom and distributors like Time Warner Cable? Viewers, of course.
While a nice idea, the Apple TV is a pretty useless device unless you buy a ton of TV shows from the iTunes store (which I do not), so in an effort to change that I installed Boxee, which turns your Apple TV into a proper media center, l...
Noah Brier is a geek. He is head of strategy for The Barbarian Group. He blogs at NoahBrier.com and built Brand Tags, an experiment in brand perception.
How to Save Newspapers
Peter Osnos is a senior fellow for media at The Century Foundation. Osnos is the founder and editor at large of PublicAffairs Books. He is vice chairman of the Columbia Journalism Review, a former publisher at Random House, and was a correspondent and editor at the Washington Post.
The newspaper business may be broke-but we can fix it.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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