March 13, 2025 How you can help save declining butterflies BY The Conversation If the joy of seeing butterflies seems increasingly rare these days, it isn’t your imagination. From 2000 to 2020, the number of butterflies fell by 22% across the continental United States. That’s 1 in 5 butterflies lost. The findings are from an analysis … Continue reading How you can help save declining butterflies
March 01, 2025 A ‘Moby-Dick’-inspired opera opens at the Met BY Associated Press When Leonard Foglia was invited to direct an opera based on Herman Melville’s masterpiece about a white whale, his first reaction was: “Moby-Dick. That’s great!” “Then I ran to a used bookstore and got the book,” he recalled, “and I thought: Oh my God, what … Continue reading A ‘Moby-Dick’-inspired opera opens at the Met
When Some[thing] Shows You [What It Is], Believe [It] The First Time by Joe Mandese @mp_joemandese, February 17, 2023 Fun fact: I actually struggle with headlines. But when I began drafting this column after reading The New York Times column about one of its writer’s conversations with Microsoft’s new AI-powered chatbot “Sydney,” this one just came … Continue reading When Some[thing] Shows You [What It Is], Believe [It] The First Time
What’s going on in the world of measurement in 2023 Nielsen strikes a deal with Netflix as third-party alternatives look to gain ground. ByKelsey Sutton , Friday, January 20, 2023 There’s no way around it: conversations around media measurement aren’t exactly, well, sexy. But in a year where marketing budgets stand to face scrutiny … Continue reading In The World Of Measurement–2023
What Psssst You Off In 2019 by Richard Whitman , Columnist, December 31, 2019 Here I sit, on the last day of the year, the industry still on its one-to-two week year-end hiatus, wondering what to fill this column with. Then, like a bolt from the blue, it struck me. Why not a review of … Continue reading What Psssst You Off In 2019
Trump Joins Twitch Live-Streaming Platform by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, October 11, 2019 Several weeks after Amazon Twitch launched a campaign that tells the world the platform was designed for live-streaming anything, not just gaming, President Donald Trump launched a channel on the platform. The president used the platform and public channel for the first time during … Continue reading Trump Joins Twitch Live-Streaming Platform
Brady Fletcher — August 1, 2019 Follow @tsx_tsxv — August 1, 2019 One of the biggest problems faced by businesses today is maintaining liquidity or access to public funding. This is most true for startups, which often take funding from wherever they can get it in order to bring their business plans to life. Small … Continue reading Start Incubating on a Public Market
Turn Asks Judge To Dismiss Suit Over ‘Zombie’ Cookies by Wendy Davis @wendyndavis, May 18, 2018 Ad company Turn is seeking dismissal of a lawsuit accusing it of using a controversial tracking technology to recreate cookies that users deleted. The company — which previously settled Federal Trade Commission charges related to its tracking technology — … Continue reading Turn Asks Judge To Dismiss Suit Over ‘Zombie’ Cookies
On Thursday, we told you about how proposed attempts to regulate over the top (OTT) players could fast become ludicrous. It’s a sentiment widely shared in the tech space and which is rapidly spreading to South African population as a whole. Further evidence of antipathy towards regulating OTTs has emerged in the shape of an … Continue reading Petition launched to save WhatsApp from OTT regulations
James ClearOctober 15, 2015 It was my senior year and I was pitching against the #3 team in the country, the College of Wooster. The first batter of the game was making my life difficult. He fouled off a pitch. Then another. And another. I threw a ball outside, hoping he would bite on it. … Continue reading The Fight Is The Reward
