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- Did AOL steal my work? I need your help…
Did AOL steal a photograph from Flickr? If you know your copyrights (or creative commons), I need your help - and others may do, too.
- Fake Steve Jobs on the future of digital media
Forbes magazine journalist Dan Lyons, aka Fake Steve Jobs, has given an entertaining keynote here on the last day of Web 2.0. I think - although I may have missed someone - that he’s the only big media staffer to be given time on a stage during the event.
What he writes on his blog becomes, [...]
- Insufferable Web 2.0 post: day one
Wired magazine’s guide to building a web 2.0 startup, likely to be getting much reading about these parts this week. Picture by wilbertbaan, used with permission granted by his Creative Commons license
I’m sat in the huge Moscone convention centre in central San Francisco, and they’re playing Robbie Robertson’s Somewhere Down That Lonely River over the PA [...]
- Who’s a journalist, who’s not, and why it doesn’t really matter anyway
There’s been some enjoyable to-and-fro after a Obama campaign donor, Mayhill Fowler, punched the mouth she’s feeding, and made public some unguarded comments uttered by the Presidential hopeful during a fundraiser in San Francisco.
(Brief catchup: read about it all here. Obama said some midwestern voters were “bitter [...] they cling to guns or religion or [...]
- Serious journalism’s broccoli complex
What do people actually want from news? I’m wondering if it’s a question we should be asking a little more often.
Let me explain. I’m at a super-smart gathering of media academics and practitioners in sunny LA, at USC’s Annenberg school for communication. The conference is called Re:Public, is organised by Harvard’s Berkman Centre, and has [...]
- HoopsHype acquired
… barely 24 hours after I noted this about HoopsHype, the site was bought by a fantasy sports “conglomerate”. So it might now be part of big media, but don’t confuse this with old media: this is sports information now being provided, not just for interest, but for use… in games about games. Parse that.
- Applauding Shirky’s light touch
Clay Shirky rolled into town yesterday, giving a lunchtime lecture to a packed house down at the RSA on his new book Here Comes Everybody.
It’s about how online crowds form and act, but the title could have adequately described the packed auditorium; the gang was all there, as many techie, socialie, liberal-artsie types as you [...]
- Valleywag finds its voice
All hail the new star on the block. It makes CNET and Wired look woolly and staid (if you even read them any more) and frankly there’s not much like it on this side of the pond. Nick Denton’s Silicon Valley blog, Valleywag, is flying at the moment, finding its voice and building a reputation [...]
- More perspectives on Yahoo + Microsoft
I think the proposed merger is a bad idea simply on business terms - these things rarely work out. But there are some interesting, broader persepectives floating around.
TechCrunch is saying it’s all going to be fine, arguing the deal will both create more competition (good for consumers) and… er… reduce competition (good for smaller players). [...]
- Good grief, Yahoo
I do hope Yahoo’s beleaguered top brass didn’t spend all weekend thinking up this defense strategy.
“Yahoo Inc would consider a business alliance with Google Inc as one way to rebuff a $44.6 billion takeover proposal by Microsoft, a source familiar with Yahoo’s strategy said on Sunday.”
You’re supposed to be in competition with them, no? Indeed, [...]
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