Steve Rubel has posted an interesting series of images illustrating ten common phrases that are fading from use.

We recently covered what the internet is killing and this video we came across shows through various statistics how the internet is changing our lives.

Hugh MacLeod has an interesting thought piece on his site Gaping Void about why some blogs get more popular than others. He argues that blogs like BoingBoing are popular not just because of great content but also because of having “sociality” baked in. He says that BoingBoing’s content is fun to share – that the posts are social objects. MacLeod says:

We live in the age of omnipresent reporting.  From live-blogging to citizen journalism, it’s almost impossible for most events to slip through the cracks. The story of New York Times reporter David Rohde is one of the few examples of successfully keeping news from spreading and with good intentions.
Just over a week ago, David Rohde escaped from the Taliban after being their hostage for seven months.  It came as a surprise to the public, but soon the amazing story of media cooperation surfaced.  When Rohde was captured along with another local reporter and a driver, The New York Times feared [...]

At the NY Tech Meetup in February, we got a peek at a new mobile service called omgicu. After its launch a few weeks back, there has been a lot of buzz–and debate–about it. omgicu can be described as a real-time version of Gawker Stawker, enabling anyone to “spot” celebs and blast it out Gossip Girl-style to anyone who has opted in for area alerts. We recently sat down with Hugh Dornbush, the company’s founder, to talk about the evolution of celebrity media, our genetic drive to gossip, and birdwatching.

What inspired you to create the service?
I was in mobile for [...]

The ease in which YouTube has allowed users to share digital video has helped enable a variety of projects that exist as offshoots of the service: the video mashup, web vlogging stars, and now, frame by frame visualization tool yooouuutuuube.com. Perhaps a little less known is You 3b. A project of former Eyebeam fellows, You 3b allows for the live remixing of YouTube videos.
On May 16th at Postmasters in New York, the  Artists Meeting collective will be using the program to live-remix YouTube videos into media art tryptichs.
They explain:
Today anyone can be a star. The famous, the infamous and the [...]

The Spring 2009 issue of LTD is now available to the lucky few who can get their hands on it.  LTD Magazine is a limited edition lifestyle magazine, which is distributed exclusively to a pre-selected group of tastemakers and available at premium boutiques around the world.
Printing at most 10,000 copies of each issue, subscriptions ($100 / 4 issues) are by invitation only and must be approved by LTD. The content of the magazine covers a wide range of topics including brands, products, fashion, photography, design and interviews. The print magazine is a publication of LTD+, a New York boutique marketing [...]

In March, PSFK gave the reigns of its Good Ideas Salon to Brett McFarlane and Matt Nelson over at DDB Canada in Vancouver.  Brett and Matt hosted a great event focusing on good ideas in media, with expert panelists Rob Newell, Director of Planning at DDB Canada, Steve Pratt, Director CBC Radio 3, and Grace Carter, Media Specialist at Invoke Media.  Check out video footage from the salon:

Be sure to check back soon for Brett and Matt’s thoughts and findings from the salon.
Janet Jones, in association with Capitol C in Toronto will be hosting their own Good Ideas Salon April [...]

In an alarming but not all too shocking article, the New York Times revealed that the average American adult is exposed to screens (TVs, cell phones, G.P.S.s) for about 8.5 hours a day. In addition, they are subject to 61 minutes of TV ads and promotions a day. Although most of this exposure is from television, computer usage has usurped radio as the second most common medium.
The fact that the number of minutes spent with media is about equal across age groups (with the exception of 45 to 54 year olds, who spend an hour more than others) is a [...]

Format wars are commonplace in the modern history of electronics. Even Thomas Edison had to deal with political and corporate wrangling for the format of his early wax audio cylinder records invented in 1877.  The dispute over which audio recording format would become the standard continued until 1918 when Emile Berliner’s patent expired for his competing disc format.  Companies immediately put the far superior laterally cut discs into production and the format war was settled.  Most recently, Sony’s Blu-Ray disc beat out Toshiba’s HD-DVD after years of tussling for major movie studio support.  Some have argued that this format war [...]

This past January, PSFK held a Good Ideas Salon in London bringing together the most forward-thinking tastemakers, innovators, and experts from around the world to discuss key areas steering innovation and opportunity.  In addition the the good ideas presented, we wanted to hear what our audience had to say, so we’re doing a series of posts containing feedback and comments from the event sourced from blogs, magazines, and twitter.  We’ve distilled the commentary, now you tell us which is the best idea…
The day ended with a talk from Simon Waldman, head of digital at the Guardian. Simon spoke about the [...]

Spun from the Berlin-based illustration and design organization and festival Illustrative e.V., the new art and culture magazine Objects–Journal of the Applied Arts grabbed attention from the global creative industry when it launched this past fall. Presenting international trends in design and discussing the duality inherent in “applied arts”, publishers Pascal Johanssen and Katja Kleiss are fascinated with both the physically produced object and craft as a process in itself.
Evidence of their interest in both angles, the first issue features new creative work from European illustrators, as well as academic essays from critics and designers across the globe.  Publisher Pascal [...]

As magazines try to survive the economy and evolving tastes of their audience, Conde Nast UK daringly launches a style magazine that offers up a new version of sexy – LOVE Magazine. A nude Beth Ditto, singer and gossip columnist for The Guardian, graces the mint green cover with flaming red hair and bubblegum pink tutu to match – the caption reads “Icons of Our Generation”.
The bi-annual publication covers style and celebrities, with a noticeable emphasis on edgy and fashion-forward photography. LOVE editor Katy Grand on Beth Ditto for the cover: “Everything about the way that Beth looks reminds us [...]

Kachingle is a new service that looks like it could bridge the gap between scattered micropayments and free content. Many old media pundits have been suggesting micropayments as a solution to monetizing dying newspapers and other online content, but historically, micropayments don’t do as well as they should. It’s a hassle to pay every time you want to read an article, and you can often find the same content for free elsewhere.
Kachingle acts as a distributor of microdonations. Member sites would sign up and place a Kachingle badge on their page. Readers pledge to send a monthly payment to Kachingle [...]