It amounts to media for an ADD (attention deficit disorder) world: When users commune, they consume and Yahoo cashes in.
The purchases increase the prince's technology, media and telecommunications portfolio to $7.8 billion, with technology amounting to $2.814 billion; media to $3.869 billion; and telecommunications to $1.115 billion.
In what we're sure will amount to a social media orgy, noted author, comedian and British cultural icon Stephen Fry is announcing the formal launch of Pushnote on Twitter at 2pm today.
The absence of the mayor did not stop some of his supporters from rallying in front of City Hall, singing "We Shall Overcome," and saying the accusations amounted to a media conspiracy.
Greta Van Susteren, the Fox News host, asked if all the fuss amounted to a "media colonoscopy," and pointed to comments from her readers who asked whether news organizations had devoted such energy to the 2,800-page 2,800-pagee overhealthill that passed last year.
American military intelligence officials prefer to call him the Zabiullah persona, saying that he is actually a team of Taliban operatives pretending to be the same man as they run what amounts to a media call center over the border in Pakistan.
And he scoffs at a new reality TV show that romanticizes the work of Brooklyn prosecutors while drawing the ire of Hynes opponents who complain that the show amounts to free media puffery for the district attorney's re-election campaign.
Mr. Davis complains in his memoir that after their disagreement about releasing the album, Ms. Clarkson and her manager had "launched what amounted to a media campaign pitting her against the label and, more specifically me," accusing him of stifling her as a songwriter.
All the opinions and conceptions of the new media amount to nothing set beside the way they're actually used.
Rarely does all the fretting and wondering by fans and members of the news media amount to much.
