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<title><![CDATA[Three Ways Yahoo Can Avoid Screwing Up Tumblr]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/the-media-guy/ways-yahoo-avoid-screwing-tumblr/241582/</link>
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News item: 

Yahoo! to Acquire Tumblr  
Promises not to screw it up 

That&#039;s the actual headline and subhead of Yahoo&#039;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&#039;s strength has always been that it makes it incredibly easy ]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 13:45 EDT</pubDate>
<author>Simon Dumenco</author>
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<title><![CDATA[Take that, Abercrombie! Ad Age's Media Guy on Filmmaker-Crusader's Harsh Viral Video]]></title>
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		Greg Karber -- a self-described "writer, performer, video-maker, cultural critic and entrepreneur" based in L.A. -- doesn&#039;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]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 12:58 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Truth About Reddit]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/the-media-guy/truth-reddit-unnecessary-apology/241277/</link>
<description><![CDATA[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&#039;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]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<author>Simon Dumenco</author>
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<title><![CDATA[See the (Still Astonishing) Just-Named Magazine Cover of the Year]]></title>
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You probably saw this coming: New York Magazine&#039;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&#039;s citation reads:




Shot on the Wednesday evening after Hurricane Sandy hit, Iwan Baan&#039;s photograph of Manhattan, half aglow and half dark, captured the large]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:43 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Manhunt for Media Screw-Ups]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/media/manhunt-media-screw-ups/241007/</link>
<description><![CDATA[Media news, views, data, criticism and a few laughs too. The best media journalists and commentators, and a sprinkling of leading experts, report and analyze all the stories that matter on media planning and buying; TV advertising and programming; web publishing; magazines; newspapers; radio and out-of-home.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[How the U.S. Government Is Screwing Up the War Against Cyberterrorism]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/the-media-guy/u-s-government-screwing-war-cyberterrorism/240613/</link>
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The media coverage last Wednesday came in great, rolling, panicky waves: "Massive Cyberattack Hits Internet Users" (CNN.com); "Global Internet Slows After "Biggest Attack in History&#039;" (BBC); ""Largest Cyberattack Ever&#039; Is Happening Right Now, Threatens Rest of Web" (wired.co.uk); and so on and so forth. 











It had something to do with a d]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Are You More Influential Than Mitt Romney and Kim Kardashian?]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/the-media-guy/influential-mitt-romney/240498/</link>
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I&#039;ve been keeping an eye -- a skunk eye -- on Mitt Romney. Or, rather, @MittRomney, his Twitter identity and his official Facebook page at facebook.com/mittromney. 




If we&#039;re to believe Klout, the self-described "standard for influence," the former governor of Massachusetts and failed presidential candidate is still hugely relevant in social m]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[20 Great, Not-So-Great and Sometimes Scary Moments in the History of Big Data]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/the-media-guy/20-great-great-scary-moments-big-data/240357/</link>
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1) November 1936: The U.S. government starts issuing Social Security numbers. 




2) June 8, 1949: George Orwell&#039;s "Nineteen Eighty-Four" is first published. 












3) Some time in 1971 (the specific date is lost to history): IBM engineer George Laurer creates the Universal Product Code (UPC). 











4) Jan. 23, 1973: Inventor Mario C]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 06:30 EDT</pubDate>
<author>Simon Dumenco</author>
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<title><![CDATA[The Brutal Truth About 'Big Data']]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/dataworks/brutal-truth-big-data/240364/</link>
<description><![CDATA[AdAge&rsquo;s DataWorks will keep you on top of the latest news, trends and issues affecting how marketers put data to work.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<author>Simon Dumenco</author>
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<title><![CDATA[9 Media Things That Should Be Immediately Regulated]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/the-media-guy/9-media-things-immediately-regulated/240233/</link>
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Once again, in keeping with the spirit of this, the Regulation Issue of Advertising Age, your Media Guy has instituted a whole bunch of new laws, bylaws, bi-laws, in-laws and bi in-laws. For the betterment of media, marketing and mankind.  




YOU MUST READ THESE UPDATED TERMS OF SERVICE TO PROCEED: By reading this "ARTICLE," you irrevocably con]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 00:00 EST</pubDate>
<author>Simon Dumenco</author>
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<title><![CDATA[Venti, Venti Annoying: So How Does Starbucks Misspell Your Name?]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/the-media-guy/starbucks-pop-song-head/240104/</link>
<description><![CDATA[A few weeks back I spotted a jpeg on image-sharing site Imgur with the caption "Told the barista my name was &#039;Bryan, with a y.&#039; This is what I got back." It showed a Starbucks cup with a hastily scrawled "Briany" on it. Ha! When I shared the image on Twitter, I heard back from plenty of folks who also thought it was funny -- and were eager to share]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 06:58 EST</pubDate>
<author>Simon Dumenco</author>
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<title><![CDATA[How Stat-Celeb Nate Silver Became the Human Face of Big Data]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2013 00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Uh-Oh. The Tesla Motors vs. New York Times War Has Gone Nuclear]]></title>
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A war of words being waged between an innovative car maker and The New York Times has just gotten uglier. This past Sunday, the Times gave major play to a scathing review of Tesla Motors&#039; Model S battery-powered car titled "Stalled Out on Tesla&#039;s Electric Highway." The story, which was first posted online the previous Friday, fronted the paper&#039;s ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:15 EST</pubDate>
<author>Simon Dumenco</author>
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<title><![CDATA[Should the Obama Administration Execute David Sirota by Drone Strike?]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/the-media-guy/obama-administration-execute-david-sirota/239688/</link>
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When you&#039;ve been a media columnist as long as I have, you realize that cycles of media outrage about government wrongdoing inevitably begin to resemble the movie "Groundhog Day," but without the happy ending. 




Consider one of the media obsessions of the moment: the Obama administration&#039;s ongoing Kafkaesque/Orwellian drone wars. Last week, NBC]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Why the Prosecution of Internet Activist Aaron Swartz Matters to You, Personally]]></title>
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Last week a friend asked me to explain why the death of internet activist Aaron Swartz has become such a media sensation. What he knew is what&#039;s been commonly reported since Swartz&#039;s suicide in New York on Jan. 11: Swartz was an "internet folk hero"&mdash;a brilliant programmer and a leader of the fight against SOPA (the draconian Stop Online Piracy ]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The End of 'Social TV']]></title>
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Before the dawn of the so-called social-TV phenomenon -- the intersection between social media and TV -- things were so much more complicated. Pre-Twitter (which launched in 2006) and pre-Facebook (born in 2004), it was totally a chore to find out what people thought about TV. 




Sure, you could check assorted dedicated blogs and websites (like]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[How Funny Or Die Got 5 Million Twitter Followers]]></title>
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Funny or Die, the comedy site co-founded by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay in 2006, has reached a new milestone: 5 million followers on Twitter (@funnyordie) -- more than the NFL and (sort of) hot on the trail of Google and the Dalai Lama. 



Are you excited? No? Screw you! Will Ferrell is excited. Well, sort of. Here, we&#039;ll let him explain:





W]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:29 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[How Funny Or Die Got 5 Million Twitter Followers]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[

Funny or Die, the comedy site co-founded by  Will Ferrell and Adam McKay in 2006, has reached a new milestone: 5 million followers on Twitter (@funnyordie) -- more than the NFL and (sort of ) hot on the trail of  Google and the Dalai Lama. 



Are you excited? No? Screw you! Will Ferrell is  excited. Well, sort of . Here, we&#039;ll let him explain:

]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 14:20 EST</pubDate>
<author>Simon Dumenco</author>
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<title><![CDATA[Ten Epic Media Feuds of 2012]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/the-media-guy/gawker-murdoch-clint-chair-10-media-feuds-2012/238941/</link>
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ANTHONY VS. PAULA  

When Food Network star Paula Deen, notorious promoter of  obscenely unhealthful grub, announced in January that  she has Type 2 diabetes and, oh, by  the way, had signed an endorsement deal with a diabetes-drug maker, longtime Deen critic Anthony "No Reservations" Bourdain tweeted, "Thinking of  getting into the leg-breaking ]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:00 EST</pubDate>
<author>Simon Dumenco</author>
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<title><![CDATA[The Very First and Very Last (Print) Newsweek Covers]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/the-media-guy/print-newsweek-covers/238918/</link>
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The very first cover of  Newsweek -- which actually started out as News-Week -- was dated Feb. 17, 1933, and included photos of  FDR, Stalin and other newsmakers of  the moment. The very last print edition of  Newsweek features a photograph of  the historic Newsweek building and a coverline that , tellingly, alludes to how we now communicate in o]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2012 10:45 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Most Damaged Big Brand of The Year Is...]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/the-media-guy/damaged-big-brand-year/238760/</link>
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A little more than five years ago on AdAge.com, I called attention to an animated YouTube video titled "zunePhone ad." The iPhone was still new and everyone in tech and media circles was watching to see what Microsoft, Apple&#039;s main competitor back then, would come up with in response. The Zune music player -- Microsoft&#039;s  ultimately ill-fated att]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2012 00:00 EST</pubDate>
<author>Simon Dumenco</author>
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<title><![CDATA[In a BuzzFed, Gawkerized World, Photos of Naked Celebs and Barnyard Animals Are Interchangeable]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/the-media-guy/a-buzzfed-gawkerized-world-image-good/238672/</link>
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As I walked through a show titled "Mario Testino: In Your Face" at Boston&#039;s Museum of  Fine Arts the other day, I felt a vague sense of  apprehension. 




The show is  a major retrospective of  the London-based Peruvian fashion and celebrity photographer whose work you know even if you don&#039;t know his name, given that  he&#039;s taken iconic photograp]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2012 00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[SocialSocializing Is Iterating a Pivot and Rightsizing Redundancies]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/the-media-guy/a-holiday-note-socializer-chief/238557/</link>
<description><![CDATA[EDITOR&#039;S NOTE: Last week in this space, SocialSocializing Founder-CEO Simon Dumenco answered some frequently asked questions about the launch of  his new social-media startup, which he says will revolutionize social engagement by  refocusing on sociability. Almost immediately, rumors began to swirl around the controversial company. Ad Age  obtained]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2012 00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Introducing My Revolutionary Social-Media Startup, SocialSocializing]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/the-media-guy/introducing-social-media-startup-socialsocializing/238422/</link>
<description><![CDATA[

So rumor has it that  you, Simon, are working on some sort of  stealth social-media launch. Does the world really need another social-media platform? 




Yes, it&#039;s true, and yes, I do think the world needs another social-media platform -- a different sort of  social-media platform. Think about the current niches in social media. For instance, th]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2012 00:00 EST</pubDate>
<author>Simon Dumenco</author>
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<title><![CDATA[Crises Have a Way of Bringing a Media Company's Brand Values Into Sharp Focus]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/the-media-guy/crises-a-bringing-a-media-company-s-brand-values-sharp-focus/238106/</link>
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One thing I was reminded of  before, during and after Frankenstorm: In times of  crisis, you really find out who you can count on. And I&#039;m not just talking about my New York friends who kindly lent me their couches when I needed a place to stay, thanks to the minor inconvenience (compared to the absolute horrors that  many thousands of  others en]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2012 00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<author>Simon Dumenco</author>
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<title><![CDATA[Would You Rather Own a Magazine or a Digital Startup?]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/the-media-guy/a-magazine-a-digital-startup/237879/</link>
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On the evening of  Sunday, Oct. 14, Ad Age  Editor Abbey Klaassen and I stood on a small, remote-controlled boat -- one not much bigger than a queen-size bed -- floating in the pool at the Tonga Room & Hurricane Bar at the historic Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. Normally the boat is  where the house band plays, but given that  it&#039;s the one spot]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2012 00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<author>Simon Dumenco</author>
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<title><![CDATA[Ad Age's Magazine A-List: Nancy Berger Cardone Is Publisher of the Year]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/media/ad-age-s-magazine-a-list-nancy-berger-cardone-publisher-year/237717/</link>
<description><![CDATA[Media news, views, data, criticism and a few laughs too. The best media journalists and commentators, and a sprinkling of leading experts, report and analyze all the stories that matter on media planning and buying; TV advertising and programming; web publishing; magazines; newspapers; radio and out-of-home.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2012 00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ad Age's Magazine A-List: Josh Tyrangiel Is Editor of the Year]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/media/ad-age-s-magazine-a-list-josh-tyrangiel-editor-year/237735/</link>
<description><![CDATA[Media news, views, data, criticism and a few laughs too. The best media journalists and commentators, and a sprinkling of leading experts, report and analyze all the stories that matter on media planning and buying; TV advertising and programming; web publishing; magazines; newspapers; radio and out-of-home.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2012 00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Imagine a World Without Justin Bieber, It's Easy If You Try]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/the-media-guy/imagine-a-world-justin-bieber-easy/237742/</link>
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I have a confession: Although I&#039;m not, last I checked, an 11-year-old girl, I&#039;m sort of  a Belieber -- a Justin Bieber fan. 




Wait! Don&#039;t run away screaming! (Or run toward me screaming, if you happen to be an 11-year-old girl.) I&#039;ve got a good excuse, I swear.




But before I explain, I&#039;ll note that  I&#039;ve been thinking about The Biebs lately]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2012 00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Why I'm Mad at Hulu and Not Mad at Hulu at the Same Time]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/the-media-guy/mad-hulu-mad-hulu-time/237624/</link>
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Since its launch in March 2008, Hulu has had a great run -- and CEO Jason Kilar&#039;s star has just kept rising. (He was a top candidate for the Yahoo CEO job; in July he took himself out of  the running for the gig that  Marissa Mayer ultimately landed.) The streaming-video site has gotten a lot of  credit for making its user interface nice and simp]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2012 00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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