Simon Dumenco

News item: Yahoo! to Acquire Tumblr Promises not to screw it up That's the actual headline and subhead of Yahoo's press release this morning. Here are three ways Yahoo can stay true to its promise: 1. Just throw in the towel and learn to love copyright infringement. Tumblr's strength has always been that it makes it incredibly easy ...

Greg Karber -- a self-described "writer, performer, video-maker, cultural critic and entrepreneur" based in L.A. -- doesn't mince words. His YouTube video titled "Abercrombie & Fitch Gets a Brand Readjustment #FitchTheHomeless," starts with the words "Abercrombie & Fitch is a terrible company," and things only get more harsh from there. Scroll d...

1. Reddit has become, simply put, mainstream media. As noted in Ad Age recently, Reddit closed out 2012 with more than 37 billion page views and 400 million unique visitors. Even people who don't check the so-called social-news site regularly -- or at all -- constantly experience the Reddit Effect because ... 2. The mainstream blog media is al...

You probably saw this coming: New York Magazine's Hurricane Sandy cover, dated Nov. 12, 2012, has just been named the Cover of the Year by the American Society of Magazine Editors. ASME's citation reads: Shot on the Wednesday evening after Hurricane Sandy hit, Iwan Baan's photograph of Manhattan, half aglow and half dark, captured the large...

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