From Our Department of Gleeful Pessimism...
Just curious -- is there ANY media outlet that Brad DeLong believes is NOT in a death spiral?
View ArticleThree and a Half Signs the Old-Media Cluetrain is Picking Up Passengers
In this era of buyouts, shrinking circulations and general mainstream-media malaise, it's easy to poke fun and point fingers. But there are lots of smart people fighting the good fight, and finding new...
View ArticleA Rockin' Cool Court Ruling
U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel ruled today that copyright owners must consider "fair use" before alleging infringement and sending take-down notices to YouTube and other video-sharing sites....
View ArticleInteresting Court Ruling on Copyright and Web Video
TechCrunch has the details on a federal-court summary judgement involving Veoh.The judge's guidelines for what consitutes "reasonable precautions" for a sites that serve up user-posted video seem...
View ArticlePrint Media: Not Quite 'The Stench of Death,' But Not Good Either
Bad news in Thursday's New York Times: The New York Sun reportedly needs millions in new investment to avoid closing at month-end.The Sun is far from my favorite New York paper -- that nod would go to...
View ArticleSpeaking Up (Sorta) For the LA Times
Jeff Jarvis is -- as usual -- right on target with this post that pillories Los Angeles Times staffers for suing Tribune owner Sam Zell when their own complacency and hubris over the past 15+ years is...
View ArticleToday's Installment of Selfless Journalism
The opening sentence of NBC's "First Read" this morning, on last night's debates: FIRST THOUGHTS: Nothing changedThanks Chuck, Mark, and the rest of the political unit. In less than 2 seconds, you...
View ArticleA Bit of Liveblogging Today
... from the Media Future Now lunch discussion on the state of the (online) economy.
View ArticleThe Power of Open Source - In Moving Pictures, No Less!
Quite possibly the coolest visualization ever* -- showing edits to the OpenStreetMap project during 2008.Click here for details on the project itself. H/T to Eric& Jeff for the link.OSM 2008: A...
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Google Gets That Much Closer to Indexing F-ing Everything
Looks like Google is serious about that whole "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible" thing. The official Google Blog announced today that the company (which, full...
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