LA Times Brand X Blog Goes Live, Just in Time for Coachella
Thursday, April 16th, 2009Following up on my [somewhat] harsh post last month, LA Times launched BrandX yesterday. An events blog for the kids. Yawn.
“It’s content sharing on an extremely local level and will bring our great work to an audience that does not currently see it,” explained Times editor Russ Stanton in an all-hands memo.
So far it’s good [...]
LA Times Announces Brand X Link Farm
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009Launch early and launch often.
But don’t let the cat out of the bag before you’ve got a basic index page, 404 or… anything but the de facto Register.com-branded ztomy.com-fueled link farm.
So when the LA Times announced a “new product launch” in an all-staff memo this afternoon (thx, Ed) it was disappointing to see that [...]
LA Times $700,000,000,000 Headline
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008LA Times $700,000,000,000 Headline, originally uploaded by revolute.
They don’t write headlines like this online (or M-Sa, no less) so I’m archiving the screenshot (see also here and the LAT print edition archive)…
But damn if you didn’t spend your last $1.50 after seeing this on the newsstand Sunday I grabbed this image from Newseum.org (PDF). [...]
