Dive into the archives.
- 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.
- The fragile web we weave
Let’s not, shall we agree, ever say again that the net is resilient, or that it routes around damage, or other such platitudes? Statcounter, which provides details of the modest metrics round this parish, is down tonight after a transformer blew up thousands of miles away in Houston, Texas. That’s why things may be slow [...]
- Spammers strangling Craigslist?
From Techdirt:
“Random text is added to each spam message to fool Craigslist’s duplicate message detector. IP proxy sites are used to post from a wide range of IP addresses. E-mail addresses for reply are Gmail accounts conveniently created by Jiffy Gmail Creator (”Who Else Wants to Create Unlimited Gmail Accounts in Seconds Flat Without Breaking [...]
- Where we find the time
Clay Shirky has produced the perfect summary of why life’s so hard for media companies used to being only OK
- 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 [...]
- 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. [...]
- 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 [...]
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