Fade to Black
AP reports that disgraced Conrad Black is seeking a new trial for swindling hundreds of millions through his international...
Read MoreTrust, Surveillance, Global Nomads and Yet Another Online Profile To Manage
(We’re catching up – we sent these iSIGHTINGS to our email subscribers on Aug. 7. If you aren’t on our...
Read MoreDean Video Storm Surge
Maybe you thought to yourself, gosh, wouldn’t it be nifty to take a walk in the middle of a big hurricane? Or maybe...
Read MoreWe are open – no, we’re not: Sprint launches a new brand and hides a new blog
Giving up control is difficult. Last week the US mobile phone company Sprint Nextel unveiled a new brand, Xohm, for its...
Read MoreBeing and nothingness
washingtonpost.com’s “On Being” project is simply stunning: real stories from real people based on the simple...
Read MoreWhat’s in your wallet?
Our favorite media pundit Jay Rosen shared this test for understanding how people define and are defined by communities. What...
Read MoreA sight for sore eyes
Sao Paulo, the world’s fourth-largest metropolis became the first city outside of the communist world to put into effect a...
Read MoreA mighty wind
You have to admire the chutzpah of any group that seeks to save journalism from itself by blowing with the wind. But inspired...
Read MoreDuck, duck, goose
If the Next Newsroom sounds familiar, it is. It borrows language from Newspaper Next (request the report; don’t republish),...
Read MoreNowFunded: NowPublic
Congratulations to We Media alums Merrill Brown and Michael Tippet, who now get to figure out how to spend $10.6 million of...
Read MorePrivate equity selloff of US newspapers
Like the Wall Street Journal’s Bancroft family, private equity firm PCM has been in a selling mood of late. Selling: a...
Read MoreiPhone rising, Backfence falling, VC takedown, Glocer blogs about (nothing)
Here’s the first installment of our new iSIGHTINGS notes on trends and “things” we’ve...
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