And you thought editors are jerks. ValleyWag celebrates the ten terrible tyrants of technology. Somehow Oracle’s Larry Ellison was left offt. But the Michael Arrington video makes up for it.
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Years after the rest of of us knew it, New York Times literary critic Michiko Kakutani coronates Jon Stewart as “a genuine cultural and political force.” The three-page spread, nearly literary in scope, acknowledges the fake anchorman and his satirical The Daily Show as an important news source. Stop the presses. “Is This The Most […]
Making Online News, a scholarly and serious new book, claims that “the more relevant bloggers become in terms of audience and influence, the more their production routines resemble those of professional journalists.” Where’s the fun in that?
Meet TAMi, an index that measures audience across media platforms. NBC unveiled the index yesterday to tout the reach of its Olympics coverage on seven television networks, the Internet (computers and cellphones), and video-on-demand downloads. An acronym for Total Audience Measurement Index, TAMi measures cross-platform viewing and combines data from existing trackers such as Nielsen […]
Days into Olympics coverage, NBC continues to wrestle with unexpected competition. The network paid $894 million for exclusive rights to broadcast what is becoming the first Summer Games of the broadband era. Viewership is off the charts, nearly a 40 percent share. Traffic to NBCOlympics.com has already surpassed the 229 million pageviews from the entire […]
Amid whispers that it will close or merge its stealth Washington operation, The Examiner chain of free-distribution newspapers (DC, Baltimore and San Francisco) is reaching out to the real people for content. Here’s the deal, a pitch for locals (not bloggers, mind you) to become “examiners“: “If you can write three concise, timely and relevant […]
Who can forget the front page of the New York Post about this time four years ago? You remember, the screaming headline that proclaimed Dick Gephardt as John Kerry’s choice for vice president. Turns out it that Kerry had actually picked John Edwards, the former presidential candidate who has been back in the news lately. […]
In what could lead to an online privacy Bill of Rights, several Internet and broadband companies have acknowledged using targeted-advertising technology without explicitly informing customers. The revelations came in response to a bipartisan inquiry by the House Energy and Commerce committee of how more than 30 net companies have gathered data to target customers through […]
Amid the conflict near the Black Sea, come new voices describing the situation on the ground. WordPress has a posted a page with blogs about South Ossetia. On Global Voices, several bloggers describe life in Tbilisi over the past few days. PRI’s The World has produced an excellent background page that explains the conflict in […]
Four days after Andrew’s post about Launchbox Digital’s efforts to seed promising start-ups in the Washington area, The Washington Post followed with its own story. Reporter Jordan Weissman brought dimension, detail and personality about an event that attracted investors and entrepreneurs throughout the East Coast. The Post is a Launch Box sponsor. But does anyone […]
Geoff Wade points out that Gavin Menzies’ works have been debunked firmly and repeatedly at an “exposed” site. So Menzies, with two best sellers on China’s role in civilization, looks and sounds a bit like Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code. 1421 and 1434 remain good reads, though, for a fresh perspective of […]
Like many of you, I’ll be glued to the tube for the Olympics and fresh glimpses of the world’s oldest civilization. Fortunately, there are other ways to look at a four-leaf clover. China has more than 30 million bloggers, by some estimates. A few are political. A few have been imprisoned. Some are unusual, such […]
Much of the world will form opinions about China from the legions of mainstream broadcasters and journalists descending on Beijing for the Olympics. A lot of it is an exercise in first impressions, Western perspective and cultural context. Thirty years ago I toured China as a young reporter covering the first U.S. trade mission to […]
One of our partners, LaunchBox Digital, is an early-stage Internet startup incubator fund. It’s similar in structure to TechStars in Boulder, Colorado. Startup companies – or founders with ideas that could become companies – apply to participate. The projects selected for the fund commit to spending the summer working with the fund’s founders and their […]
Trying to close a huge gap in the blogosphere, John McCain’s campaign is offering reward points to webbies who place favorable comments on blogs and websites. The points can be traded for prizes such as books autographed by McCain, a preferred seat at campaign events or a ride on the campign bus. The comments are […]