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Monthly Archives: July 2009
An opportunity for the AP
It helps to recognize that the Associated Press is exactly what its name denotes: an association of presses. Specifically, newspapers. Fifteen hundred of them. Needless to say, newspapers are having a hard time. (Hell, I gave them some, myself, yesterday.) … Continue reading
Posted in Berkman, Blogging, Business, Future, Ideas, infrastructure, Journalism, News, problems, VRM
Tagged 1846, Blogging, Journalism, VRM
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Ya gotta be born sometime
Seems I share a birthday with Benito Mussolini, Dag Hamarskjöld, Elizabeth Dole, Peter Jennings, Ken Burns, Wil Wheaton and about 1/365th of the world’s population. I also see here that ENIAC, “the first general-purpose electronic computer“, and I were fired … Continue reading
Are newspapers a larval stage?
“Saving newspapers” is beginning to look like saving caterpillars. Or worse, like caterpillars saving themselves. That’s was the message I got from Rick Edmonds’ API Report to Exec Summit: Paid Content Is the Future for News Web Sites, in Poynter, … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Future, Ideas, infrastructure, Journalism, Places, problems
Tagged larvae, larval stage, newspapers, Umair Haque
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What’s 10,241,704.22kb between ex-friends?
[Later, on 1 October 2009… This matter has been resolved. The charge for going over has been dropped, the service restored and good will along with it. Thanks to both @sprintcares and the chat person at My Sprint.] So I … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Call center hell, problems, VRM
Tagged @sprintcares, courtesy call, data card, MySprint, Sprint
37 Comments
Cluefest
In the month since it hit the streets (at least here in the U.S.), I’ve been surprised at how little those who like Cluetrain know about the new, 10th anniversary edition of the book. Many assume that it’s a fancy … Continue reading
Posted in Cluetrain, Events
Tagged Berkman Center, book, Cluetrain, harvard, Harvard Law School, HLS
7 Comments
Why WQXR is better off as a public radio station
In his comment to my last post about the sale of WQXR to WNYC (and in his own blog post here), Sean Reiser makes an important point: One of the unique things about the QXR was it’s relationship with the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Business, Future, infrastructure, Live Web, News, Places, problems, radio, VRM
Tagged "New York Times", HD Radio, K-Mozart, KCLU, KFAC, KKGO, KUSC, projectvrm, Public Radio Player, RDS, Sean Reiser, VRM, Washington Post, WCPE, WCRB, wdbs, WETA, WFMR, WGMS, WGN, WNYC, WQXR, WTOP
115 Comments
Earth: Bringer of Lunch
The kid goes to bed every night lately while treating himself to a classical piece on his bedroom stereo. Tonight, our last (a bonus, thanks to a plane that didn’t fly) in Santa Barbara before returning to Boston tomorrow, he … Continue reading
From Z to A
I understand Zappos selling out to Amazon (even the Amazon logo, which leads from A to Z, makes sense of it) but the news still depresses me. Zappos is a cause as well as a brand. That cause is relationship. … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Future, News, VRM
Tagged acquisition, Amazon.com, Hsieh, Jeff Bezos, relationship, soul, Tony Hsieh, VRM, Zappos
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A jovian black eye
When I read that an impact had been spotted on Jupiter, I figured it was somewhere other than the equator, which would be a bulls-eye. Even Shoemaker-Levy, a huge comet broken into a string of pieces, slammed like a series … Continue reading
Posted in Past, Photography, Science
Tagged astronomy, comets, impact, jupiter, planet, solar system
9 Comments
More on WNYC(s) + WQXR(s)
Edward Rosten and I have been having an interesting dialog in the comment section of my last post, which was mostly about WNYC buying WQXR from the New York Times (which has owned it forever) for $11.5 million — and … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Business, Future, Ideas, infrastructure, radio
Tagged hd, HD Radio, KCRW, Minnesota Public Radio, MPR, WNYC, WQXR
24 Comments