satire
Inside the mind of the fake Jeff Jarvis Paid Members Public
I really enjoyed this profile of Rurik Bradbury [http://digiday.com/platforms/profjeffjarvis-thinkfluencing/], the man behind the amusing Jeff Jarvis parody account @ProfJeffJarvis [https://twitter.com/ProfJeffJarvis]: > A main target of Bradbury’s satire is the Orwellian lengths to which major tech players go to distort language. […] Bradbury’s
Facebook helps out the satire-challenged Paid Members Public
This has been lurking in my tabs for a while. Facebook is starting to experimentally mark satirical articles [http://mashable.com/2014/08/17/facebook-satire-tag/] – from The Onion in particular – as such: > “We are running a small test which shows the text “[Satire]” in front of links to satirical
When advertising goes native Paid Members Public
So, this happened while I was away: Yes, we need new sources of income in digital. But I’m deeply unconvinced that “native” advertising is the future. We’re essentially running a huge experiment to see if the old view – that compromising editorial values with paid content would erode the
Every corporate meeting ever Paid Members Public
Weird Al, again, from his new album, Mandatory Fun [http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&field-keywords=mandatory%20fun&linkCode=ur2&sprefix=manda%2Caps%2C182&tag=omhb-21&url=search-alias%3Ddigital-music]
The Subs' Desk song Paid Members Public
This one goes out to subs desks everywhere… Weird Al [http://www.weirdal.com], of course.
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Buzzfeed writer resigns in plagarism shocker [http://www.theonion.com/articles/buzzfeed-writer-resigns-in-disgrace-after-plagiari,32616/] : > The 26-year-old Mills, a once promising young writer in BuzzFeed’s Animals division best known for authoring the popular posts “First-World Bear Problems” and “Seal And Owl Are BFFs,” admitted this week that he copied captions
Friday chill out: The iPhone 5 - everything you ever needed Paid Members Public
Please tell me how much fun I’m having…
