AOL’s ambitions fly in Arianna’s shadow
Lacking respect for news, AOL tries to charm its way into your wallet with Arianna's alchemy and a cynical master plan for low- and no-cost content.
Read MoreSpreading their wings
We're rooting for two of the eight companies presenting at a startup pitch event this week in Tysons Corner, Virginia. NewsIT was one of the winners of the We Media PitchIt seed investment challenge earlier this year in Miami. Ringio, a slick virtual PBX service with built-in CRM. Ringio works out of WeSpace, the co-working studio we opened in Reston, Virginia, this past summer.
Read MoreNewspapers fall out of orbit
Late last year William Dean Singleton, the CEO of MediaNews, announced he had identified the problem behind years of steep decline in the...
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Raising Voices: Amra Tareen at We Media
Amra Tareen, the savvy and ebullient founder of AllVoices, has just closed a $3 million funding round for the innovative, citizen...
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Mr. Murdoch saves the news
Dear Mr. Murdoch: We’re so fortunate that we can entrust you with the future of the news business in the U.S. Such a shrewd business...
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Clemens, Kindle and Congress: History rhymes
History may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme, observed Samuel Clemens. I was reminded of Clemens’ vision and failures amid this...
Read MoreJoin a live interview with Larry Kramer
From our friends at Naked Media and Scribe Media, tune in at Noon ET April 14 (tomorrow) for a live interview with online publishing...
Read MoreMy Challenge to Google Ventures
Google announced this week that they were creating a venture capital arm whose main objective will be to turn a profit. The group, called...
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Some of us are just more connected than others
Bernie Madoff’s prison Twitter page, via jean’s blog....
Read MoreHow Today’s Winner Becomes Tomorrow’s Game Changer
We Media’s Brian Reich and I were wondering, based on the Game Changer Award winners, what would be the attributes that would not only...
Read MoreMy plan for the Seattle PI (Part I)
On Friday, the Hearst Corporation announced that it was putting the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the older of Seattle’s two daily...
Read MoreWashPost-Guardian partner via a … widget
Yes, you too can write for The Washington Post, and for The Guardian in the UK. For their web sites, that is. For an itsy-bitsy rectangle...
Read MoreWashPost Co. Buys Foreign Policy Magazine
In its own Washington Post report on the deal, The Washington Post Co. doesn’t disclose the purchase price, but does say the...
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