Nick Bergus Thoughts on what media do, and can do better, and other things

Skeletor, Gargamel, Cobra Commander or Wile E Coyote Umair Haque’s “Is Your Business Useless?” Business supervillains have something in common with the cartoon supervillains above: they rarely win. That’s because socially useless business is built on shoddy, poor economics — and like most things too good to be true, it rarely lasts for long. The [...]

Wild boars or something; I mean, you don’t want to die with your dick hanging out, do you see what I’m saying? Primary Colors The French Revolution John McQuaid, on Twitter (here, here and here) When I say “citizen journalism” has a French Revolution vibe, I mean a couple of things (1/3) Citizen journalism/French Revolution [...]

An ocean adventurer who bears a resemblance to Christopher Columbus or Odysseus Pat Bagley of the Salt Lake Tribune

An industrial giant in bankruptcy Jack Shafer’s “How Condé Nast Is Like General Motors,” in Slate Although the privately held Condé Nast isn’t as financially distressed as the bankrupt General Motors, and although the magazine business couldn’t be more unlike the car business, the two distraught companies share woes. Both succeeded in segmenting the market [...]