"Dodgers Owner Mark Walter Explores Possible Purchase of L.A. Times, Chicago Tribune." By Bill Shaikin of The Los Angeles Times.
"The days of anonymous commenting on the Huffington Post are numbered. Founder Arianna Huffington said in Boston Wednesday that the online news site plans to require readers to use their real names to comment on stories, beginning next month. '
Freedom of expression is given to people who stand up for what they’re saying and not hiding behind anonymity,' she said.
"The success of the Netflix model – releasing the entire season of 'House of Cards' at once and online – has proved one thing: the audience wants the control. They want freedom. If they want to binge then we should let them binge. And through this new form of distribution, I think we have demonstrated that we have learned the lesson the music industry didn't learn: give people what they want, when they want it, in the form they want it in – at a reasonable price – and they'll more likely pay for it rather than steal it. Well, some will still steal it, but I believe this new model can take a bite out of piracy."
"We don't want to come off as pretentious—we once published an image gallery called "Boobs on Things That Don't Normally Have Boobs," and would do it again. But we would like to distinguish a Cracked list from most internet lists. The average user is buried under so many links and headlines that they like being told exactly what they're getting: "14 Pictures of Cats Wearing People Clothes." Cracked uses the Internet's love of lists to ease people into reading about subjects they otherwise would never have cared about. Last year we did an article called "The 6 Most Aggressively Badass Things Done by Pacifists," which is sitting at 865,000 pageviews."
"Apple, Closer to its Vision for a TV Set, wants ESPN, HBO, Viacom and others to come along." By Zachary M. Seward, Gina Chon and Kevin J. Delaney of Quartz.
Passer Passer from Cartoon Brew on Vimeo. A film by Louis Morton debuting online exclusively in Cartoon Brew's 4th annual Student Animation Festival.