• Gmail Finally Beats Hotmail, According to Third-Party Data

    Originally published on GigaOM.  Google’s email service finally became the world’s largest email provider this month, according to ComScore. Gmail had claimed the top spot for itself this summer when it announced 425 million monthly active users. However, VentureBeat at the time pointed out that these numbers wildly differed (by 136 million) from those of ComScore, which tracks home and …

  • What Fonts Say About the Presidential Campaigns

    As part of the Content Campaign ’12 Series, The Content Strategist examines the content published by the presidential campaigns as part of their strategy to win November’s general election. Originally published on The Content Strategist.  Last week Mitt Romney found himself in an uncomfortable pickle — or maybe a pica? —regarding his unlicensed commercial use of a font. “Pay-what-you-want fonts are there to make the …

  • BuzzFeed’s Social Media Editor on Why Twitter is the New Press Scrum

    This post is part of the Social Media Editor Series, featuring interviews with social media editors from news organizations about what they do and where they see social media in journalism going. Originally published on The Content Strategist.  Michael Hayes’ ambition to make BuzzFeed the number one social news organization is predicated on the idea that social …

  • Sex on TV

    No one likes to see her heroine take it from behind. But watching, in profile, the doggie-style sex scene between Girls’ Hannah and her loathsome beau, we’re aware of just how uncomfortable it is to watch. That’s mostly because of how infrequently we see or discuss vaginal intercourse from behind—let alone anal, which our Romeo tries as well, …