June 2008
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Preoccupations - I Freed Myself From E-Mail’s Grip... →
Itâs not that I stopped communicating; I just communicated in different and more productive ways. Instead of responding individually to messages that arrived in my in-box, I started to use more…
Techdirt: Why Compulsory Licenses Are Bad: A Look... →
When discussing things like patents and copyright, oftentimes someone suggests that “compulsory licensing” is a solution that solves all the problems. I tend to have serious problems with compulsory…
The Long Tail: Excellent HBR piece challenging the... →
Anita Elberse, a Harvard Business School associate professor, has a really interesting article in the new Harvard Business Review that analyzes some Long Tail data and challenges some of the theory’s…
Quo Vadis Blogosphere? : The Last Podcast →
Fake Office Freakout Promotion for Assassin Movie... →
Techdirt: Politicians Embracing Technology To... →
NBC to issue show-specific stream data for... →
NBC would become the first television network to make online program-specific streaming data from such shows as “Heroes” and “The Office” available to advertisers, NBC Universal said Wednesday….
MySpace, NBC recruit citizen journalists →
Citizen journalists, MySpace and NBC News want you to help cover this summer’s political conventions. MySpace, NBC News and MSNBC.com are running a contest among MySpace users for the job of covering…
Any lawful device: 40 years after the Carterfone... →
Forty years ago today the Federal Communications Commission issued one of the most important Orders in its history, a ruling that went unnoticed by most news sources at the time. It involved an…
This Fall’s TV Shows: Now on P2P Networks «... →
This summerâs TV season has barely started, but net-savvy TV fans are already downloading pilots of shows slated to premiere this fall. A whole bunch of pilots have found their way onto torrent…
Bleacher Report Takes Citizen Journalism to Fox... →
Bleacher Report is a recently launched sports fans network that features original content from citizen journalists around the nation. When Bleacher Report was first mentioned on Mashable earlier this…
Forget Twitter: It's For The Tragically Connected →
Lets get real about this, to paraphrase Loren Feldman, “Twitter: people write stuff, people read stuff. That’s it”. There is no big social networking secret at work here. It’s simply a communication…
Jake Goldman: Kanye West, Angry Again -... →
Kanye West has written one of the best humor pieces I’ve read in quite some time., and he doesn’t even know he wrote it: (via his blog)
Analysis: Mainstream Media vs. Blogosphere | How... →
This is a brief look at how mainstream news sources (loosely speaking) compare to blogs. For traffic data, I used an average between Compete and Quantcast.
Why journalists must learn the values of the... →
What is also clear, most obviously in peer to peer blogging, is that people are engaged with each other as never before. Without any institutional or corporate coaxing, people are forming cyber…
Vator.tv - Objective journalism - dead or drowned... →
What do “lame,” “out of style,” “dinosaur,” and “outmoded,” have in common? They’re how four people in the news business described “objective journalism.” In many ways, I agree. Objective journalism…
Bloggers: Big Media Is Watching →
But the dustup between the AP and bloggers was just an early skirmish in what’s likely to become a protracted war over how and where media content is published online. On one side are bloggers and…
Bloomberg.com: Technology →
“Internet has already overtaken cinema and outdoors,” King said at a presentation to analysts in Paris today. “This year it will overtake radio. In a couple of years it’s going to overtake…
Full text: An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant →
Chinese Fans Follow American TV Online — for Free... →
Han says they can download untranslated versions of the American shows from the peer-to-peer file-sharing site BitTorrent as soon as 10 minutes after new episodes air in the U.S. Then they find…
Creepy Sleepy 145 - The Great Iowa Flood →
Room For Yet Another TV-On-The-Web Service? Yes,... →
Ferber: Hulu is in a good place because it has good content and there is no confusion about what its core business is. Everyone else has issues. Joost was founded by people who didn’t know the ad…
"Hot Hot Sex" Video Removed from YouTube -... →
Redirecting the Web's News Stream →
Publishers were struggling when they should have been thriving” online, says Shardanand, describing the motivation for forming Daylife. “Also,” he adds, “there hadn’t been a lot of [invention] around…
Daylife's API for the News - O'Reilly Radar →
This month, Daylife is sponsoring a developer contest around its API, which provides a rich programming interface around news topics, people, and places. I’m one of the judges for the contest, along…
YouTube - Let's Write a Sawng (Step 10: Bridge... →
Google News: Going Only So Far With An Algorithm |... →
This sentence explains why Google hasnât done much product wise since it launched: âWhile it is clearly past the experimental stage, Google News still shows no ads, and there are no signs that…
techPresident – Open Systems, Closed Systems and... →
Across the digital divide the conditions for doing journalism are actually different. I’ll give you the highlights. Communication is two way, and many-to-many. Horizontal sharing is as important as…
Huffington Criticizes False Neutrality of Media -... →
Ms. Huffington said there was a lot thatâs good about the old media that should be emulated, like trying to be accurate, check facts and search for the truth. âYou can never ever give that up for…
Beat Blogging: Beat blogging allows reporters to... →
When writing for the print edition, reporters often have to spend large amounts of time getting “man on the street” quotes from random people to flush out stories. Not with blogging. That’s what the…
Romenesko and the Dawning of Gossip Journalism →
Romenesko quickly found himself living a lonely-guy existence. “I was basically stuck in my apartment,” he says. âI would find myself at 3 or 4 in the afternoon, still in my bathrobe.” This way of…
Gene Weingarten - Yanks Thump Sox -... →
The inessentialness of copy editors is underscored by the advent of sophisticated spellchecking systems which have introduced a hole new level of error-free proofreading. No longer can we say that…
Twitter Has Culture - ReadWriteWeb →
Twitter is one of the most talked about services on the web these days. The service has taken off since its inception two years ago at SXSW. The service has seen a huge spike in traffic and more than…
SAI Debate: How Much Money Can YouTube Make? Mark... →
Citi analyst Mark Mahaney, though, figures that YouTube is so huge (the world’s fourth-largest site measured by uniques; seventh-largest measured by page views) that Google can’t help but make money…
Wild times for sports blogs may be nearing an end... →
“Bloggers are maturing and realizing that we’re moving out of the childhood age of this industry, into an awkward adolescence,” said Robert Niles, who chronicles new media on his SensibleTalk.com…
We're connecting - and wasting time - on Twitter -... →
“Once I figured out how to filter through all the content, I was hooked,” said Christine Perkett, a mother of two using Twitter to trade parenting tips on everything from Montessori schools to the…
Interview with Alan Taylor, Creator of Boston... →
obe’s The Big Picture Posted Jun 20, 2008 With its vibrant oversized photographs and minimalist design, the Boston Globe’s The Big Picture weblog launched on June 1 to instant global acclaim. It’s…
Ed Pilkington interviews Mayhill Fowler: 'The... →
Fowler later told the New York Times: “There are no standards on journalism on the internet. I’m always second-guessing myself. Is this the right thing to do? Am I being fair?” In the end she decided…
Professor: Web 2.0 an awkward fit for the academic... →
Those expectations are nowhere close to being met by the education community. Weller notes that the software systems that many universities deploy have strict permissions limits that leave the…
YouTube Screening Room: AtomFilms Redux? «... →
Itâs ironic because at AtomFilms (where I used to work), was way ahead of the online video curve, offering short-form content ranging from Oscar-winning shorts to crude viral-y animations. Then we…
Rapper Ludacris Seeks New Musical Talent via Web... →
WeMix, the site he founded with former reality TV producer Matt Apfel, already accepts amateur recordings through a web-based upload tool. But on Tuesday, they announced that users will be able to…
Forget the New York Times: Google Should Buy The... →
Granted, there’s little chance AP could get all 1,500 equity holders to agree to sell. And even if they did, there’s no way of knowing what AP would look like in 25 years. “The whole concept of the…
MediaShift Idea Lab . Making Print Pubs a Vital... →
Let me state this another way. The youth-oriented Bakotopia.com that I started was a pure online-only brand for its first two years, and as a Web site it never made a significant amount of revenue…
The Twitter Hall of Shame: 50 Tweets That Will... →
Study: 80 Percent of P2P Users Would Pay For It |... →
A survey of British youths has determined that four out of every five of those who share copyrighted music without permission would be willing to pay to use similar services that compensate copyright…
Video: New Zealand's Band of Robots | Listening... →
New Zealand band The Trons is made up of four robots who play guitars, drums and keyboard to convincing effect. They sound like a perfectly quantized version of The Velvet Underground.
NIN's 'The Slip' Hitting Retail In July →
Nine Inch Nails’ “The Slip,” which was made available as a free download from the band’s Web site in May, will be released on CD July 22, with distribution via RED. In the United States, Canada and…
MediaPost Publications - OMG! UM Finds Web 2.0... →
The research, which comes from UM’s ambitious “Media in Mind” study, one of the first to show that things like blogging were becoming a meaningful personal communications platform several years ago,…
