Pando Daily, the self-described “fiercely independent” technology website, is shifting to a subscription revenue model. “From today, the newest articles on Pando will be available to members first,” editor-in-chief Sarah Lacy and editorial director Paul Carr announced this week. “Membership costs just $10 a month (or $100 a year, if you pay upfront) and members also get unlimited access to our entire video archive and to our real world events, in person and via livestream. We’ll be rolling out a whole bunch more member features over the coming weeks.” As part of the subscription shift, Pando will let subscribers unlock certain.
- 6/24/2015
- by Jordan Chariton
- The Wrap
Yammer CEO David Sacks's 40th Birthday party this past weekend -- held in the wake of recent word that Microsoft would purchase the company for $1 billion and which Business Insider reports cost an estimated $1.4 million -- had two defining themes.
The first was "Let Him Eat Cake," a nod to the Marie Antoinette-esque 18th Century costume attire guests wore and Sacks being the eater of said cake as the birthday boy. The second theme might similarly be described as, "Don't let them post about the party on social media" -- them being the partygoers, that is.
As Forbes noted, it's pretty tough to keep a lavish party secret in the age of social media, and not surprisingly, tweets, pictures and blog posts surfaced before the party even started.
"Let's them eat Cake party tonight...we've been told,using social networks is banned!!.#Snoop#FleursDeLys#DavidSacks#18thCentury" Victoria Hervey, a...
The first was "Let Him Eat Cake," a nod to the Marie Antoinette-esque 18th Century costume attire guests wore and Sacks being the eater of said cake as the birthday boy. The second theme might similarly be described as, "Don't let them post about the party on social media" -- them being the partygoers, that is.
As Forbes noted, it's pretty tough to keep a lavish party secret in the age of social media, and not surprisingly, tweets, pictures and blog posts surfaced before the party even started.
"Let's them eat Cake party tonight...we've been told,using social networks is banned!!.#Snoop#FleursDeLys#DavidSacks#18thCentury" Victoria Hervey, a...
- 6/19/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
John Kuczala
By Paul Carr
For years I’d told myself I wasn’t an alcoholic. I never drank alone. I didn’t wake up with fierce cravings, and sometimes I went for one or two days without drinking. A need to drink all day, every day, was never my problem.
My problem was that once I had a drink—whether it was at 7 p.m. or 9 a.m.—I couldn’t stop until my body shut down and I...
By Paul Carr
For years I’d told myself I wasn’t an alcoholic. I never drank alone. I didn’t wake up with fierce cravings, and sometimes I went for one or two days without drinking. A need to drink all day, every day, was never my problem.
My problem was that once I had a drink—whether it was at 7 p.m. or 9 a.m.—I couldn’t stop until my body shut down and I...
- 3/19/2012
- by WSJ Staff
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Paul Carr didn't just bite the hand that fed him -- he also managed to shake a little money loose from it. The former TechCrunch columnist -- who resigned last week in protest over TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington's ouster -- has started a new company. And he's using his former employer's money to do it. Carr announced his new venture on his blog Friday, noting that it's being funded with seed money from CrunchFund -- which, while run by Arrington and Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh, receives half of its funding from AOL. Also...
- 9/24/2011
- by Tim Kenneally
- The Wrap
Has the TechCrunch mutiny arrived? Paul Carr, a prominent tech writer and TechCrunch columnist, has resigned from his post in a note posted on the site, marking the first of what could be many departures. Ever since Carr and a few other TechCrunch employees made their displeasure with Arrington’s imminent ouster clear, there were questions about what the staff would do when the site’s editorial future was settled. Also read: TechCrunch-aol-Michael Arrington Dispute Comes Down to the Staff Readers now have their first answer since the AOL Huffington Post Media Group named Erick...
- 9/16/2011
- by Lucas Shaw
- The Wrap
Earlier this week, a big stink was raised about an email that was sent by Movefone, under the direction of Summit Entertainment, to a blogger over at TechCrunch, asking that blogger to tone down the snark in her coverage of the promotion for the movie, Source Code. The fact that even that streamlined synopsis of events (that leaves out the common link here, AOL, which owns Moviefone and Techcrunch) can be so convoluted speaks to how many conflicts of interest are natural in the existing corporate media structures. It'd take a graph to better illustrate what happened, but it raises a lot of questions about media ethics, journalism, and conflicts of interest, questions that have been well explored mostly on the tech blogs this week, but the movie blogs -- at least from what I can see -- have been mostly silent on the issue. Why?
But before we address those issue,...
But before we address those issue,...
- 3/17/2011
- by Dustin Rowles
Arianna Huffington, whose Huffington Post was just snapped up by AOL for $315 million, is a master of reinvention-from conservative activist to gubernatorial candidate to liberal Web entrepreneur-but she tells Howard Kurtz her new position will be her "last act." Plus, some of Huffington's most-devoted users are livid about the sale of their favorite news site to AOL, according to a Daily Beast survey of their commenters.
AOL's surprise purchase of The Huffington Post is, without question, a triumph for Arianna Huffington, for online media, for new and shiny over old and stodgy, and perhaps for AOL, a former powerhouse that is now a hodgepodge of popular and not-so-popular sites.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Nice Rhetoric, but Need Real Results
But the deal also raises a slew of inevitable questions about what happens when an entrepreneur builds something that catches on and then sells it to a big corporation.
AOL's surprise purchase of The Huffington Post is, without question, a triumph for Arianna Huffington, for online media, for new and shiny over old and stodgy, and perhaps for AOL, a former powerhouse that is now a hodgepodge of popular and not-so-popular sites.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Nice Rhetoric, but Need Real Results
But the deal also raises a slew of inevitable questions about what happens when an entrepreneur builds something that catches on and then sells it to a big corporation.
- 2/8/2011
- by Howard Kurtz
- The Daily Beast
Media companies have been gaga for online video this year, and the trend is showing no signs of letting up. And it makes sense. Most of these outfits, old and new media alike, already have the pieces in place—solid brand, sizable daily audience, top notch content, and competent ad sales teams. So it’s no surprise that everyone from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and now TechCrunch, Silicon Valley’s daily must-read, have launched their own networks of original web series. Dubbed TechCrunchTV, the network launches with six web shows, one daily and five weekly, featuring regular personalities from the popular tech blog like Sarah Lacy, Mg Sielger, Jason Kincaid and of course founder Michael Arrington. Evelyn Rusli anchors the only daily show so far, a tech news and discussion show called TechCrunch Now. A handful of outsiders were tapped for their own shows, like Keen On,...
- 6/29/2010
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
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