Who’s your Adrian Holovaty?

Back when most people thought text, video, a message board, photo gallery, related links and a poll comprised a darn good web news story, Adrian went way beyond, showing us how to make massive amounts of data interactive. Now, it looks like more companies are on board, hiring their own versions of Adrian.

Cory adds: “The problem, quite frankly, is that many media companies have their own version of Adrian, but they’re not empowered or even allowed to pursue bold new ideas.”

6 comments March 3rd, 2007

Fox News’s failed attempt at comedy: so what?

What is it about failed comedy that makes people angry? Fox News’s “1/2 Hour News Hour” certainly ceases to be funny immediately following one’s reading of its moderately clever title. So? Why, exactly, are people so steamed about this show? Why are the reviews so gleefully bad? And while we’re on the topic - why on Earth do people continue to insist upon the notion that comedy is somehow politically biased? (More, after the jump…)

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Hitwise: YouTube beats network sites combined

Hitwise released these stats a week or so ago, but I just came across the graph:

Hitwise combined the share of 56 broadcast and cable network websites — not including news, weather, sports and shopping networks — and compared it with YouTube. On the week of February 3rd, YouTube surpasses the networks. Again, these are Hitwise stats, which are approximations of actual traffic, but the point is a powerful one.

3 comments March 3rd, 2007