New media

A Porn Site Bought Vidme, and Now There’s Porn on the Washington Post, HuffPost, and More

An unexpected acquisition has flooded websites across the internet with hardcore pornography from a company called 5 Star Porn HD.

Print Books Are Still Outselling eBooks, Study Finds

According to a study by Statista’s Advertising & Media Outlook, ebook sales are still trailing physical book sales globally, especially during the dog days of the covid-19 pandemic. The study, which asked respondents to describe their book purchases in 2020, found that ebooks still haven’t replaced paper in most countries. “In the United States for…

Twitch and Facebook Gaming Are Having One Hell of a Year. YouTube Gaming? Eh, Not so Much

As the world descended into lockdown last year, people overwhelming tuned into livestreams to connect with others and stave off boredom while stuck in their homes. And that pandemic-fueled growth shows no signs of slowing down even as the world attempts to return to business as usual, with both Twitch and Facebook Gaming seeing record…

Why Did CNN Just Buy a Totally Useless App?

This morning, CNN announced that it had acquired Beme, YouTube vlogger Casey Neistat’s middling, authenticity-obsessed social media app. Neistat, co-founder Matt Hackett, and the app’s team will all join CNN’s ranks, where they’ll “launch a new media brand dedicated to timely and topical video content powered by bleeding edge mobile technology.” As part of the…

Snapchat is Hiring Journalists to Document the 2016 Presidential Race

In its latest attempt to brand itself as a media entity, Snapchat is now hiring journalists to cover the 2016 presidential race. To Snap the race, more accurately. The wildly popular photo-sharing platform has been working to fashion itself a news service since earlier this year, when it launched “Discover”, a feature that doesn’t actually…

The NY Times has probably the coolest graphics on an article we’ve seen in quite a while.

Human Art Project Questions Whether Technology Is to Blame for Your Failed Relationship

Eric Siu is the Hong Kong-based new-media artist behind “Touchy”, a human art project that aims to questions whether our umbilical relationship to technology will destroy our ability to maintain fulfilling human connections. Siu designed the Touchy camera-helmet to respond to human touch by opening its two shutters, allowing the person wearing it to see…

48 Hour Magazine: The Six Minute Movie

48 Hour Magazine was an incredible project: thousands of contributors using online tools to create, print, and ship a magazine in two days. First: read Joel’s interview with the creators. Then: watch how it all happened. [Vimeo via Laughing Squid] https://gizmodo.com/48-hours-1-000s-of-contributors-1-magazine-5530008

48 Hours, 1,000s of Contributors, 1 Magazine

Can you make a magazine in a weekend? Of course you can. But can you make it good? That’s the question 48 Hour Magazine is trying to answer, using online media tools to make an old-school rag in two days. I talked to the collaborators, a group of San Francisco-based writers and creators who have…

Direct-to-Web Show Is All Greenscreen

Can a hi-def sci-fi show succeed by going direct to the Web? Stage 3 Media is gambling that it can. In an interview at VIdFest in Vancouver, Stage 3 CEO Damien Kindler talks up the audacious gamble that is Sanctuary. Sanctuary is the highest budget direct-to-Web show ever, and the first show to be made…