“The People Formerly Known as the Audience”

June 27, 2006

Jay Rosen of PressThink pens an almost absurdly intelligent, and decidely exhilarating, manifesto of the people formerly known as the audience.

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Digital Maoism on Open Source Radio

June 27, 2006

Jaron Lanier’s recent essay “Digital Maoism” about a new online collectivism is the topic of a recent Open Source Radio podcast featuring Lanier, David Weinberger, James Surowiecki and the remarkable Ze Frank.

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Update on Toronto Hydro’s Wireless Project

June 26, 2006

Tyler has an update on Toronto Hydro’s wireless project with some interesting details on the installation phase of the program. From the NYT, cautionary notes on muniwifi user adoption from Taipei’s WiFly, a city-wide $12.50 per month project.

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We’ve Seen This Movie Before

June 26, 2006

Techdirt notes a recent ad in the Capitol Hill newspaper, Roll Call, placed by the Consumer Electronics Association and cautioning its Washington audience that chicken littling by the entertainment industry over new technology is a movie they’ve seen before – many times: “I forsee a marked deterioration in American music…and a host of other injuries […]

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Managing the Risks of Employee Litigation

June 26, 2006

Over to Mike Fitzgibbon, who is starting a series of blog posts on this topic with a great post on hiring. I’ll add one more suggestion: try to have two of your people present in any interview (the better to present a more authoritative version of the facts if there is a dispute later about […]

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There is Only So Much Cynicism to Go Around

June 26, 2006

Jeff Jarvis begins by wondering whether the Daily Show is keeping youth cynical about democracy, and ends wondering whether the msm should be keeping readers cynical about media.

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Online Media and the Future of Journalism

June 23, 2006

What a treat – the June 23 Slate podcast is of a forum at the New York Public Library on online media and journalism, celebrating the 10th anniversary of Slate. The forum is moderated by Michael Kinsley. Panelists include Arianna Huffington, Jacob Weisberg, Malcolm Gladwell and Norman Pearlstine. Positively incandescent.

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All Uniques are Not Created Equal

June 23, 2006

Scott Karp takes a closer look at the Digg v. NYT traffic discussion meme, and notes that “[i]f you extrapolate Digg’s daily page views to about 270 million monthly page views, it is definitely within striking distance of the Times. It’s also possible that Digg could rival The Times in terms of unique visitors in […]

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Wi-Fi Freeloader Arrested in Washington

June 22, 2006

Glenn has the details (Update: more here). Certainly freeloading is frustrating for small merchants wanting to offer free wifi, but at the end of the day I don’t know what this story is about, if not simply the criminalization of wifi freeloading to spare merchants the inconvenience of protecting access. What an odd purpose for […]

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More on Celphones and Driving

June 22, 2006

Wired’s Tony Long blows a gasket on a gabbing driver. It’s funny because it’s true.

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More on Net Neutrality from Sir Tim

June 22, 2006

Tim Berners-Lee has posted (again) on net neutrality: “Net neutrality is this: If I pay to connect to the Net with a certain quality of service, and you pay to connect with that or greater quality of service, then we can communicate at that level. That’s all. Its up to the ISPs to make sure […]

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Researchers Hack Wi-Fi Driver to Control Laptop

June 22, 2006

I suppose it had to happen: “Wireless device drivers are like the Wild, Wild West right now,” Maynor said. “LORCON has really brought mass Wi-Fi packet injection to script kiddies. Now it’s pretty much to the point where anyone can do it.”

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