Never Content

Salon Editor David Talbot and Inside.com Editor Michael Hirschorn have been on the media frontline throughout their careers. And both are well-versed in the pitfalls of providing a product -- online content -- that, so far at least, has few willing buyers. But the two have taken different approaches to achieving profitability on the Web.

"...2000 was an especially hard year for online content sites. Some, such as APB Online, a crime journalism..."

March 2, 2001 Screens Feature by Roger Gathman

Untangling the Web

Jane Espenson on the path to online comedy success with 'Husbands'

"...So why is she taking a risk on a Web comedy show like Husbands? She credits co-creator Brad Bell..."

June 7, 2013 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Web Awards Announced

At Sunday's ceremony, emcee Doug Benson dished out prizes for superior web content

"...The SXSW Web Awards went down Sunday evening, emceed by Doug Benson..."

March 14, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Watching on the Web

Famous names like Seinfeld & Hanks ride the web series wave

"...For most of the aughts, original web series have been derided as spectacular failures: grainy “mobisodes,”..."

Sept. 19, 2012 Screens Post by Aleksander Chan

The Future of Film on the Web

Part I: The means

"...The Web was going to be a bottomless well of content...."

March 2, 2007 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Superbadass Web Sites for Everyone!

With the help of Knowbility's AIR-Interactive for the Arts and a team of professional designers, I am going to help reinvent the Internet

"...Knowbility, which works to promote Internet accessibility for disabled Web users by striving to remove IT barriers. Put simply,..."

March 4, 2005 Screens Feature by Spike Gillespie

Untangling the Web

An Interview with Sue Beckwith and Gene Crick

"...Network (MAIN) and Austin Free-Net. MAIN helps nonprofits create web pages, and hosts those pages at http://www.main.org totally free..."

Sept. 19, 1997 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

You Should Start a Web Site ...

Though they claim to only answer to their man-on-the-streets tastes, both these Web sites demonstrate how diverse the dialogue on arts becomes when just the right voices cut in.

"...masses. But at the helm of his film review Web site File Thirteen (www.filethirteen.com), the single-named Lodger relies on..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Screens Feature by David Garza

SXSW 2002 Web Awards

This year's Earl Award winners

"...and sounds are lost fragments, daily accreting on the Web, each part containing the pattern of the whole. Thinkcollective..."

March 15, 2002 Screens Feature by Michael Connor

SXSW 2002 Web Awards

This year's Earl Award winners

"...and sounds are lost fragments, daily accreting on the Web, each part containing the pattern of the whole. Thinkcollective..."

March 8, 2002 Screens Feature by Michael Connor

City Sorting Through Web of Options

Website redesign process still in the works

"...The redesign reboot of the city of Austin website continues as the city prepares to pare down its..."

Oct. 16, 2009 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

The Kids on the Web

Late Train Productions' Self-Inflicted 30-Day Film Festival

"...of 2002 to begin creating some sort of creative content."..."

Feb. 20, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Brave New Web

In the wake of Sept. 11 and the hard-line USA Act, the Internet has become a very unfriendly place for hackers.

"...pushed to the margins. It's a new World Wide Web out there...."

Dec. 14, 2001 Screens Feature by Michael Connor

TPCN Flack Attack: No Nutritional Content

Tax-funded anti-abortion group uses PR campaign to smear Chronicle, rather than truly responding to our story

"...One is that our story "raised questions about the content and quality of educational materials approved by HHSC and..."

Feb. 23, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

SXSW Web Awards

An annotated list of this year's Web Awards winners

"...Web Application/Internet Technology: Continental Harmony..."

March 16, 2001 Screens Feature by Kim Mellen

Puns, Pigs, and Puppets in Austin Web Series Buckle Up

Ridesharin' dirty with writer Andy Silverman

"...Thankfully the new web series Buckle Up isn't a taxi version of the..."

Oct. 12, 2018 Screens Feature by Dan Gentile

New Web Series Gentrified Reveals the Reality of Displaced East Austin

When home isn't home anymore

"...their toll quietly, undetected by the unaffected. New Austin-made web series Gentrified pulls back that comfortable curtain of property..."

Nov. 29, 2019 Screens Feature by Katelyn Landry

2003 SXSW Web Awards Winners

Web site competition winners.

"...John Halcyon Styn hosted the sixth annual SXSW Web Awards on Sunday evening, March 9, at the Four..."

March 14, 2003 Screens Feature

Web Extra: War of Words Over War on Drugs

Download the City Council resolution and letters from El Paso representatives.

"...1. Letter from U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes..."

Jan. 30, 2009 News Column

Web Designers Should Be Horsewhipped

"...lived there for seven years) is through the Chronicle’s website. Whoever redesigned and launched the new site should be..."

Feb. 18, 2011 Postmarks

SXSW Interactive 04 Web Awards

SXSW Interactive 04 announced its Webbie Award winners on Sunday, March 15

"...SXSW Interactive 04 announced its Webbie Award winners on Sunday, March 15. See www.sxsw.com for..."

March 19, 2004 Screens Feature

Top 10 National Web Sites

"...not even necessarily the best. Instead, these are the Web sites that made headlines and kept us logging on..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Music Is on the Menu Web Series Kicks Off With Ramen Tatsu-ya Chef and DJ Jester

Kid Koala and DJ Jester play premiere show at North Door on March 9

"...these unbelievable moments with my musician friends as a content vehicle and produce live events as a tie-in to..."

March 5, 2019 Food Post by Emily Beyda

On the Web

Look what the Web coughed up: a Web site review

"...the Australian monthly Filmink, also provide commentaries and other content, much of it satirical. Currently, the site features an..."

June 28, 2002 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

State of Independents

Content and design at SXSW Interactive

"...Content/Design Track..."

March 15, 2002 Screens Feature by David Garza

When :-( = $

Despair.com, demotivation, and capitalizing on the variables of Web content

"...long-bestselling motivational book, Who Moved My Cheese?. On its Web site (www.whomovedmycheese.com), the author, Dr. Spencer Johnson, is promoted..."

Aug. 18, 2006 Screens Feature by Toddy Burton

One Size Does Not Fit All

The international community reacts and adapts to a Westernized Web

"...Berners-Lee wrote the code for a browser he called WorldWideWeb, it was supposed to connect everyone. "Its universality is..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The New Sobriety

SXSW Interactive Conference photos and panel reviews

"...I-Mode provides consumers with cell phones that surf the Web, efficiently send and receive information, and most importantly, provide..."

March 22, 2002 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Connective Issue

Web 2.0, online gaming, but everything's in-between

"...and distributors. For the Interactive Festival, it's links between content and modes of dissemination, people and technology, and present..."

March 2, 2007 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Is Knowledge Power?

A profile of precarious global intelligence firm Stratfor

"...the company: journalists vs. analysts; Washington, D.C., vs. Austin; Web content vs. consulting. Every business has inherent contradictions, Friedman..."

Sept. 14, 2001 News Feature by Michael Erard

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