Category: General

ValleyWag does some math: After Yuri Baranovski’s Web TV series Break a Leg reached two million views on YouTube, Google cut him a $1,600 check. In advertising math, that translates to an $0.80 CPM, or cost per thousand views. Taking what NewTeeVee knows about YouTube’s partner program, disgraced stock analyst Henry Blodget suggests that YouTube […]

Sure it’s political – but there’s nothing like watching an online backlash in progress. I’ve quit watching the debates they are completely devoid of any cogent analysis or articulation of the US’s economic and foreign policy problems. Instead we focus on Obama’s halo and Clinton’s shiftyness. Much of the debate’s first half had Senator Obama […]

I don’t want to be a Debbie Downer, but is anyone else completely freaked out about the economic state of the world? I have dozens of bookmarks of articles and news items but am never sure if I should share them or not. Anyway: Soybean prices up 87% in the past year. Wheat up 130%. […]

The wizards at Six Apart – I can see them from down the hall actually – have done it again. BlogIt allows you to post from Facebook to Twitter, TypePad, Vox, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, WordPress.com, self-hosted WordPress, Pownce, Tumblr and more services on the way. It doesn’t matter where you blog and what platform […]

Symbols, icons and movements of love and hate are all cohesive when we see them in the media or magazines – but who does the leg work? The costuming? The white robes and pointy hats are unmistakable. But who makes them? Mother Jones has an article and photo essay, Aryan Outfitters: Ms. Ruth is a […]

Each morning on my walk to Six Apart down Folsom to 4th I pass the Mexican consulate with usually about 3 dozen men, women and children waiting in line for the offices to open at 9. Just as you pass the building you see a sign on the sidewalk that says ‘Pasaportes Fotografias’ (might be […]

Please stay in view: Targeted ads might be a brass ring for the online marketers, but consumers just aren’t buying it. According to a recent Harris Interactive survey, 59 percent of Americans take exception to Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo tracking their online activities for marketing purposes. Yes trust Google and Yahoo – they certainly have […]

From the Oregon Center for Public Policy: This tax season, a minimum wage worker who was employed full-time last year and raising one child will pay about $321 in state income taxes. That’s equivalent to the cost of about a month’s worth of food based on Bureau of Labor Statistics data. For a single parent […]

I’ve been talking about RSS for like 5 years now and it seems like the adoption rate is still painfully slow. Brian writes: When I first started Copyblogger, I was a huge RSS evangelist. Over two years later, email is still very much alive. That fact is most evident with my other projects, but even […]

So much for that boom: The bigger problem is that the now-finished boom was, for most Americans, nothing of the sort. In 2000, at the end of the previous economic expansion, the median American family made about $61,000, according to the Census Bureau’s inflation-adjusted numbers. In 2007, in what looks to have been the final […]