What are They Doing With Their Time?

August 11, 2006

The new Ofcom study has Mathew wondering the same thing that crossed my mind when I first read reports of its results on the BBC. The BBC reports a “radical media shift” driven by 16-24’s, who, according to the study, are using the internet 21 minutes a week more than the UK average (spending an […]

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On Fear

August 10, 2006

Rex asks the same questions about the media and fear-mongering that I’ve been asking myself today. The only answer, of course, is that the MSM can’t be trusted to maintain an even keel in the face of events like these when there is so much money to be made in keeping viewers in a state […]

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Fiasco

August 9, 2006

The common wisdom on data privacy has been that large, established organizations are more trustworthy repositories of personal information – that they have the means to ensure security appropriate to the privacy of the data, and that this reliability is sufficient to warrant long-term data retention. David Fraser’s Privacy Law blog is a chronicle of […]

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How to Not Go Public

August 8, 2006

No, not “how not to go public”. Bob Parsons explains Go Daddy’s decision to pull its IPO.

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Ford and GM – Are Costs the Real Problem?

August 8, 2006

BusinessPundit asks the question. I can understand the intellectual interest, but we ought to be beyond this now. GM and Ford are so far behind Toyota and Honda now in terms of quality and customer appeal that they are no longer credible tier 1 manufacturers. My sense is that the damage this has done to […]

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“Underwhelmed By it All”

August 8, 2006

The LA Times looks at the boredom of crowds: young people seem to be adrift in ennui. The pitch is that this is surprising, given the enormous breadth of entertainment options available to them: “With their vast arsenals of electronic gear, they are the most entertained generation ever. Yet the YouTubing, MySpacing, multi-tasking teens and […]

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YouTube as Acquisition Target

August 7, 2006

More talk today, this time at Gigaom, about YouTube as a Rupert Murdoch acquisition target. Gigaom nixes the idea, but for the wrong reasons – they argue that YouTube has outpriced itself for a cash acquisition by Murdoch, and speculate on how the deal might still be done. Perhaps, but I doubt it. Much of […]

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Have Some More Hamachi

August 7, 2006

Hamachi, the p2p NAT traversal app I blogged last year, is rumoured to be an imminent acquisition target. The buzz is on Gigaom. Update: Indeed.

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The Internet and the Myth of an Informed Public

August 7, 2006

Editor and Publisher has a fascinating piece on the reasons why 50% of Americans still believe that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Significant among them is the work being done on the blogosphere to obfuscate and confuse the now clear evidence that there were none. We tend to idealize the impact that the ‘net […]

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The $2 Million Comma

August 7, 2006

The Globe reports on a lawsuit between Rogers and Aliant that turned on the effect of one comma – to the tune of $2.13 million. Issue – can either party terminate early during the first five year term under this clause: The agreement “shall continue in force for a period of five years from the […]

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Circuit City Not Flouting the DMCA for a Tenner

August 5, 2006

Circuit City must be shaking its head today wondering about this blogosphere thing. A flyer on a counter has made it ’round the world, and fueled gleeful indignation about the corporate guys who are violating the DMCA with their promise to copy your copy of Jennifer 8. I suppose I can understand Boing Boing’s knee-jerk […]

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Back to the Past

August 5, 2006

Daniel Gross writes a Moneybox piece for Slate on the trouble that Amazon.com, Yahoo!, eBay, and AOL are having, and how they’re reaching back into the pre-Bubble 1.0 toolbox to manage it. “The Not-So-Fantastic Four”, the “Four Horsemen of the Dot-com Apocalypse”? You’ll laugh, you’ll cry.

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