Things worth reading for May 15th through May 18th:
It is alive! The Death of Email Has Been Severely Exaggerated – Nice piece by Rapleaf CEO Auren Hoffman– finally a defense of email!
Netflix Owns The Evening Web | Fast Company – Interesting data– note, though, that Netflix owns the DATA part of the evening’s media consumption: the research doesn’t triage that number against the still staggering amount of one-way cable content consumption, and there are still folks on terrestrial tv as well.
Gaining Authority in the Age of Digital Overload – “Rubel proposes that as of 2010, the Internet has entered the Validation era, in which Internet users are beginning to “find the signal in the noise” and hold on to only those pieces of information and people that are most important to them online. The rise of intimate social networks such as Path, and group messaging apps such as GroupMe, Beluga, Fast Society and Kik, is an indicator that “people want to be closer to people they care about and let all the riffraff set aside,” says Rubel.”
Literary journalism finds new life with Byliner, the Atavist, Virginia Quarterly Review – latimes.com – Great piece by David Ulin on new business models for long-form journalism. It gives me hope, which is rare.
Defend Your Research: We Can Measure the Power of Charisma – Harvard Business Review – “The finding: It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it. It’s possible to predict which executives will win a business competition solely on the basis of the social signals they send.”
The Bestsellers: Fortune Article ‘Inside Apple’ Beats Out Full-Length Books | paidContent – I wound up subscribing to the magazine because of this fascinating move on their part.
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