Now Journalists Can be Bloggers, Too

August 5, 2006

Some time ago, amid the brouhaha over whether bloggers were journalists, I wrote a post about PayPerPost, a new service that proposed to automate the paid placement of (presumably favourable) reviews in blogs, and, in a reference to the tendency of many in the media to take money and the like for their work (junkets […]

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We’re Having a Dickens of a Time

August 4, 2006

Under criticism yesterday by Senator Clinton during questioning in the U.S. Senate, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld insisted “that he has “never painted a rosy picture” about Iraq. Rumsfeld insisted that he has been “very measured” and told Clinton “you would have a dickens of a time trying to find instances where I have been overly […]

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The Forces of Light and of Darkness

August 4, 2006

I’m having a hard time understanding how any attorneys could be aligned with the forces of light, but apparently it has been done.

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More on the End of Radio

August 4, 2006

Apple has just announced iPod-car stereo integration deals with Ford, GM and Mazda. More will presumably follow. Since car listening time is a zero-sum game, and many people do all of their (remaining) radio listening in the car, is this another big step towards the end of radio?

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Vonage – Is the End Nigh?

August 2, 2006

Much buzz today about the Vonage earnings release, and much speculation about Vonage’s future, if any. Om describes the Vonage net new subscriber news as good, while MSNBC headlines its piece by focusing on customer defections. I’ve been quite unhappy about Vonage’s service for quite a while now, and if I’m representative the future is […]

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Pledgebank for Online Freedom of Speech Roundtable and Fundraiser

August 2, 2006

An online pledgebank for the Online Freedom of Speech Roundtable and Fundraiser has been created – pop by and pledge, and do come and participate in the activities this weekend.

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An Inconvenient Host

August 2, 2006

Dreamhost has posted an extensive information update concerning the many difficulties they’ve been having in recent weeks. It’s a fascinating behind-the-scenes detailed look at the issues they’ve had with everything from UPS failures, brownouts and server failures.

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More on Bubble 2.0

August 2, 2006

In an article that could easily have been written during Bubble 1.0, the WSJ studies the departure of executives, from such tony shops as Yahoo and eBay, for startupland.

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Babbling Brooks

July 31, 2006

Editor and Publisher editor Greg Mitchell writes a stinging criticism of David Brook’s piece in the Sunday NYT (“Cease-Fire to Nowhere”) against a ceasefire in the Israeli attack on Hezbollah in Lebanon. It’s a well-written critique, but obviously written in the heat of the moment: But all this appears lost on our Mr. Brooks, who […]

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CEO Blogging

July 30, 2006

There’s a long piece in the NYT today on CEO blogging, generally commenting on the dearth of CEOs who blog: “All the Internet’s a Stage. Why Don’t C.E.O.’s Use It?” For my part, I’ve generally wondered why any CEO of a company of any real size would blog. I know this idea is anathema to […]

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Online Freedom of Speech Roundtable and Fundraiser

July 29, 2006

Please join us Saturday August 5th from 3-5 for a roundtable, and then that evening at the Rivoli for a fundraiser, to support p2pnet, which has been sued for online libel. I’ll be chairing the roundtable – participants will include Jon Newton of p2pnet, Michael Pilling of OpenPolitics.ca, which has also been sued for online […]

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Whither Yellow Pages Indeed

July 28, 2006

The Financial Post today covers new data that portrays Yellow Pages as a dying beast, kept alive, and its declining revenue kept hidden from the public, by the Trader Media acquisition: “Yellow Pages Income Fund has shed almost half a billion dollars of market value after analysts at Veritas Investment Research counted thousands of pages […]

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