Does Anyone Really Care about those end of years lists?

from WeMedia.com

Question of the Day: List-mania

By Brian Reich

The end of the year is rapidly approaching, which means the media world has once again become obsessed with lists. There are top ten lists popping up in newspapers, magazines, and on radio and TV for everything: crises and controversies, news stories, celebrity train-wrecks, movies, songs, books, and tv shows, iPhone applications, games (both video games and sports games), scientific breakthroughs, even blunders. Just in time for the holidays you’ll find books featuring the top magazine stories of the year, best fiction or sports writing. One columnist wrote up his top top ten lists for the year. Time Magazine published a whole issue devoted to lists. Read more

Mixing it up in NYC: Obama 2.0 and We Media

A special shout out to Dale Peskin for a fantastic write up about our event on Thursday (November 13th) at Samsung. This was the first of what we plan to be many exciting events with iFOCOS and
We Media.

Many thanks to Bill Sobel, the New York: Media Information Exchange Group and bright-eyed and just-plain-bright conversation leaders at our first breakfast club discussion at the Samsung Experience in NYC on Thursday. Read more

NY:MIEG Panel on November 13th

Moderator Ellis Henican

Panelists Michael Oreskes, Rachel Sterne, Amanda Michel and Brian Reich

First off…a thank you to our incredble panel at our event “The President & The Media: Who’s In Charge Here?” featuring 5 of the best speakers we ever had. Read more