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Market intelligence that flows both ways. It’s about the real Internet of Things. Not the Compuserve+Prodigy+AOL variety in development today. Unless we build on open source and standards, the IoT won’t be near as big as Business Insider says it … Continue reading
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Tagged "New York Times", Bitcoin, CompuServe, Darren Herman, google, Heartbleed, Mozilla, Unix
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Solved Science Theater 2010
This morning, while freezing my way down 8th Avenue to Piccolo on 40th to pick up a couple of cappuccinos, I paused outside the New York Times building to admire its stark modern lobby as KNX radio delivered the latest … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Blogging, Broadcasting, Events, Journalism, Links, music, problems, Quote, Technology, Travel
Tagged "New York Times", Christine Bord, Christopher Tierney, Dave Itzkoff, Foxwoods Theater, Hamilton Boardman, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Natalie Mendoza, On Location Vacations, Spider-Man
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Food for re-thought
The summary paragraph of a great column by Tom Friedman: A dysfunctional political system is one that knows the right answers but can’t even discuss them rationally, let alone act on them, and one that devotes vastly more attention to … Continue reading
Posted in history, Ideas, infrastructure, Journalism, News, Politics, Science
Tagged "New York Times", Tom Friedman
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A newspaper progress report, sort of
Back in October 2006, I posted Newspapers 2.o, listing ten “hopefully helpful clues” for papers needing to adapt to a world that would only get more and more of its news online. I ran the same list in August 2007, … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Journalism, Live Web
Tagged "LA Times", "New York Times", newspapers, newspapers 2.o, Tony Pierce
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Do we want “smart” utilities?
‘Smart’ Electric Utility Meters, Intended to Create Savings, Instead Prompt Revolt is a New York Times story that perhaps suggests a deeper truth: People don’t want their utilities to get smart on them. Except, occasionally, on request. Like, when a … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Ideas, infrastructure, Life, Politics, problems, Science
Tagged "New York Times", infrastructure, utilities
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Because advertising encourages Alzheimer’s
I dunno why the New York Times appeared on my doorstep this morning, along with our usual Boston Globe (Sox lost, plus other news) — while our Wall Street Journal did not. (Was it a promo? There was no response … Continue reading
Posted in Berkman, Business, Future, Ideas, infrastructure, Journalism, Live Web
Tagged "Boston Globe", "New York Times", advertising, Apple, Berkman Center, Ethan Zuckerman, google, Patricia Cohen, SEO, Technorati, TimeMachine, traffic, Wall Street Journal, Yochai Benkler
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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
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Journalism and Net Nativity
I don’t go to TV for Journalism any more, even though I’m sure there’s plenty left: needles scattered thorugh a haystack of channels and program schedules that have become so hard to navigate on satellite and cable systems that it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Journalism, problems
Tagged "Dave Winer", "Jay Rosen", "New York Times", bloggingheads, bug catching, cnn, Deborah Tannen, debugging, EmanciPay, Journalism, Maureen Dowd, Scott Rosenberg, tv
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Infinite play
Video Is Dominating Internet Traffic, Pushing Prices Up says the headline of a piece by Saul Hansell in the New York Times. Its first three subheads say, File sharing has been usurped by legitimate video services, The very heaviest users … Continue reading
Posted in Future, Ideas, Past, problems, VRM
Tagged "New York Times", "Saul Hansell", "triple-play", carriers, framing, internet, prices, traffic, video, Web
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