The Really Rather Extraordinary Huffington Post

November 21, 2007

Rarely does a day go by in which The Huffington Post doesn’t do something remarkable. I mean remarkable in terms of changing the way things are / innovating / breaking rules. Arianna Huffington has to be the untold story of media on the web now. Forget about all the chatter about newspapers in decline; The […]

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“Facebook users across the nation are outraged”

November 21, 2007

I’m obviously missing something, but MoveOn’s campaign is the first sign of outrage I’ve seen. I don’t like FB’s social ads, but I’ve seen plenty of signs that some folks do, and while 2,000 MoveOn supporters sounds like a lot it’s not the earthquake that MoveOn’s hyperventilation is portraying it to be. Blodget is right: […]

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An Unpleasant Truth – “Uproar Over McClellan Statement on Plame Case Grows”

November 21, 2007

Is anyone else just plain creeped out that it took a PR campaign aimed at putting cash in the bank to get Scott McClellan to open up?

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“Will Kindle Reignite Amazon’s Flame?”

November 21, 2007

Ethan asks the most interesting question about the Kindle.

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“A comfortable equilibrium”

November 20, 2007

On celphone providers in Canada: “These companies reach a comfortable equilibrium with each other and then nothing changes because people still need the product,” he says. “If everybody’s the same, it doesn’t matter where you go.”” It’s called an oligopoly, and yes, exactly. Full article here. Thanks to Michael for the link. And this reminds […]

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“Bell aims to steal iPhone thunder with limitless data on rival device”

November 20, 2007

Well, Bell is certainly expecting Rogers’ iPhone announcement at any moment, and it looks like the carriers have been listening to public complaints about wireless data rates, and / or have been hearing Apple’s footsteps (see this article on efforts Vodaphone is making in Germany to recover ground it’s presumably losing to Deutsche Telekom because […]

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“An All Around Excellent Restaurant”

November 18, 2007

Can I say that I’m awfully proud of our friend Garner Quain for the review that Frank Bruni gave his Charlottetown restaurant, flex mussels, in today’s NYT: “It’s an all-around excellent restaurant with a serious chef, Garner Quain, who has put together an extensive menu of seafood including clever tweaks of classics.” It is so […]

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“Have I Died and Gone to Hell?”

November 17, 2007

Here’s a preview of a Bill Moyers story on the media cross-ownership issue that FCC Chair Kevin Martin took to a NYT oped last week.

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The Banality of Media

November 17, 2007

Forget about the banality of evil – how about the banality of media?

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“U.N. Report Describes Risks of Inaction on Climate Change”

November 17, 2007

The embargo is over.

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There’s Traffic, and Then There’s Traffic

November 17, 2007

This blog has always had pretty meagre expectations about traffic. And happily, I’ve generally lived down to those expectations. Writing for real takes commitment and time, and I spend those on other things. But every once in a while, something here attracts the attention of the Web at large, and the traffic results are always […]

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“The Man Behind the TheFunded.com’s VC Slagfest Reveals Himself to Wired”

November 16, 2007

A fascinating case history of the way the Web redistributes market power.

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