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Sad news
The strangest thing about Dan Schorr dying is that he isn’t here to explain it on NPR. I always liked Schorr’s take on things, even when I didn’t agree with him. When was his last commentary? Haven’t found that yet. … Continue reading
Purple Reign Ends
Prince, to the Mirror: “The internet’s completely over. I don’t see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else. They won’t pay me an advance for it and then they get angry when they can’t get … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Fun, music, News
Tagged "David Weinberger", breaking news, Copyright, internet, Mirror, MTV, music, News, over, Prince
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The Infrastructure Dynamic
I just posted Rupert Murdoch vs. The Web, over at Linux Journal. In it I suggest that the Murdoch story (played mostly as Bing vs Google) is a red herring, and that the real challenge is to free the Web … Continue reading
Posted in Business, infrastructure, Life, News, Politics, problems, Science, Technology
Tagged "Bob Frankston", "Dave Winer", "Net Neutrality", Bing, Business, dynamic, google, infrastructure, internet, Krakatoa, Montserrat, Net, News, oxygen, Pompeii, suckage, The Regulatorium
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Underground news
Three days ago Jonathan MacDonald witnessed an altercation in the London Underground at the Holborn Station, between — as Jonathan reports it — a uniformed Underground staffer an elderly man whose arm had just been released from doors that had … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Journalism, Life, News, Places
Tagged Holborn, Holborn Station, Jonathan MacDonald, Journalism, London Underground, News
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