Dive into the archives.
- On board the Qantas jet that popped a hole at 30,000 feet
At first glance, mobile footage from inside the stricken plane isn’t that dramatic. But it gives you a taste of how quiet and orderly real horror can be.
- From the archives… Google’s first mention
The guardian.co.uk archive reveals Google first crops up in the Observer in early 1999. That same John Naughton column has some perceptive thoughts on Yahoo, as well…
- The BBC goes a’trampling
Three unconnected episodes of bad behaviour from the BBC this week highlight the importance of Britain’s rumbling public service content debate.
- 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 [...]
- 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.
- Lessons from HoopsHype, the influential NBA site run from… Spain
There are interesting lessons (or reminders) falling out this WSJ.com story about HoopsHype, a basketball website that appears to have great influence in one of the US’s major sports.
– It’s unashamedly hardcore; there appears to be no attempt to explain basketball or soften the editorial for a broad audience. It’s content for a narrow niche. [...]
- The Last Post:* Lacy, Zuckerberg and how being slightly rubbish is more dangerous than ever
A few thoughts on the Lacy/Zuckerberg episode at SXSW, powered by back pain and cold-filtered through a haze of painkillers
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