http://www.nytimesconversations.com/
Very slick. You can’t link to the flashy videos, or I’d point to the one with Padma Lakshmi’s beautiful bod. T+A, complete with cleavage. Very nice. But very Times? Hey, when your whole industry is being bulldozed off the cliff… whatever works, I guess.
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March 13, 2009 at 8:20 pm
Sheila Lennon
Tsk, tsk.
You could not watch. Eyeballs drive revenue.
Marketing’s age old musical question: What will people vote up with their attention?
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March 14, 2009 at 7:15 am
Doc Searls
Right. Going mainstream means going for celebrities, tits, ass, pecs, octo-mommies and the rest of it.
People Magazine used to be about interesting people, period. Now it’s about celebrities, and — relatively speaking — rakes in the dough.
CNN headline news is wall-to-wall crap. And CNN itself isn’t far behind. When the going gets tough, the fearful get desperate.
Eight years ago, The Onion nailed it.
Bonus link.
March 14, 2009 at 1:41 pm
Jakob
You can link to videos. If you use the left side menu, you can send a link to a video by mail to a friend and share on social networks. Link to the Padma Lakshmi video is http://www.nytimesconversations.com/?person=PadmaLakshmi&videoindex=1