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Depending on your geek cred this is either a great review or fantastic education in the historical milestones of the Internet.
Fasten your time machine seatbelt. As part of the Berkman Center’s ongoing tenth anniversary celebration, Berkman@10, we’re retrieving some classics from our multimedia archive and adding them to our new [...]
The Vancouver mayoral election is turning into an expensive affair.
Vancouver city councillor Raymond Louie has been attracting attention even among those who don’t read Chinese with his full-page ages in all the local Chinese media asking for support in his bid to become the Vision mayoral candidate. They’ve got a poetic touch and are definitely [...]
Frank Smith is always worth reading. Today he picked up an interesting tidbit on the state of the music business.
In the U.S. shipments of CDs were down 17.5 percent in 2007, while digital formats (such as MP3s) now account for 23 percent of U.S. recording revenues. This is up 16.1 percent from 2006 and 9 [...]
Jim Kunstler is sensing something in the air. Could it be the symptoms of peak oil?
We’re in a strange collective psychic bubble. We’d like to forgetabout all these troubling rumors of hardship and bad weather and justget on with the daily task of making a living and paying for stuff andenjoying our customary entertainments. [...]
Another piece on Rafat Ali’s conference in LA where NowPublic CEO Leonard Brody is talking about the impact of ‘voter-generated content’.
Other media executives said what’s different about this campaign is that people are contributing to a near real-time feedback loop through the Web that’s changing how stories unfold.
“The networks that provide [...]
Jay Rosen pointed me to a piece by Amy Gahran. Is the newsroom its own worst enemy?
Most of what I do is help journalists and news orgs wrap their brains around the Internet. Generally I enjoy that work. Lately, though, I’ve been getting quite aggravated at the close-minded and helpless attitudes [...]
Leonard Brody was in California this week talking about how news coverage is different during this election cycle.
News used to be something that was reported, now there’s a feedback loop - it’s reported, it’s commented upon and then reported on again.
Source: washingtonpost.com
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Why would the US be topping up their strategic oil reserves at at time when prices are at all time highs?
A few weeks ago, I highlighted the fact that the US Government was topping off the strategic petroleum reserve at a time when oil prices [...]
If you are in Vancouver this month you should get to Vidfest. The festival’s line up includes some great people including Wired’s Editor-in-Chief, Chris Anderson as well as John Perry Barlow, co-founder of the EFF. I will also be there. I have the priveledge of interviewing Marshall McLuhan’s son Eric. Eric is one of the [...]
I never really think of myself as a container of energy but I guess we all are.
The actor Ed Begley Jr. has a widely-circulated OpEd piece touting his eco-friendly activities, featuring a proud announcement that his exercise on his stationary bicycle generates the electricity he uses to toast two pieces of bread.
Now those [...]
