Google, Privacy, Germany
We’ve been discussing the unholy trinity of GPG – Google, Privacy, Germany – a lot recently. And by “we”, I mean in one swoop all the web scene, Germany and the media here as a whole, but also my friends and I. (One of those friends works at Google, so we can bounce ideas off [...]
New York Times getting ready to charge readers? Fail.
New York Times is supposedly getting ready to charge online readers:
What makes the decision so agonizing for Sulzberger is that it involves not just business considerations, but ultimately a self-assessment of just what Times journalism is worth to the world. This fall, Keller told the Observer that at some point, the decision is a “gut [...]
Two Takes On The Future of Media: Rubert Murdoch and Clay Shirky
Today I happened upon these two videos in which two experts share their take on (among many other things) the future of the media. The two experts are old-school media magnate Rupert Murdoch, often called one of the most influential people in the media industry; and NYU professor Clay Shirky, who I think is one [...]
Hamburg Declaration: Google Embarrasses Whiny Euro Publishers
Publishers are throwing a tantrum
International publishers [list of names, PDF] recently signed the Hamburg Declaration (full text PDF, summary), a ridiculous, whiny document stating that content may not be freely available on the internet through the likes of Google News.
It’s rather sad, really, as it shows so clearly just how badly prepared these publishers [...]
Could Crowdsourcing Help Save the New York Times?
The New York Times is in trouble, big-time. That’s about all everybody can agree on. (The opinions on consequences and options differ widely. Check out The Atlantic’s judgement and Jeff Jarvis’ comments, for example.) To get an idea of how bad the newspaper is hit, here’s the figures quoted in The Atlantic:
Earnings reports released by [...]
Next-generation content management for newspapers (is in the making)
Steve Yelvington helps newspapers get the web. Newspapers have a hard time adapting the new ways of the web, what with all this user-generated content, changing consumer habits and dropping sales. It’s a huge cultural problem – traditional vs new vs social media – too. (And it’s not that newspapers, their editors or their management [...]
CNN introduces embeddable video
CNN just introduced embeddable video. The CNN behind the Scenes blog has the details:
We are very happy to announce our latest move in that effort with the introduction of the CNN.com embeddable video player, a stand-alone video player that can be virally distributed by using a code snippet to embed on almost any site or [...]
The Big Picture: Stories told in photos by Boston Globe
I don’t know how I could have missed The Big Picture, the Boston Globe’s amazing photo blog. (It has been around since June). The Big Picture tells stories by featuring stunning, awesome, sometimes scary (and always: huge, i.e. 990px wide) photos, put in context by a paragraph of text.
Waxy interviewed Alan Taylor, the programmer [...]
perspctv: Who’s talking about McCain, Obama?
perspectv visualizes who’s being talked about more: McCain or OBama. Or as TechCrunch calls it: “An Election Mashup That Proves Nothing, But Looks Good Doing It“.
And guess what? It’s just that:
This project presents different perspectives in our world, including that of Mainstream media and user-generated content on the Internet. (…) What we think vs. what [...]
Breaking the Banksy: First interview?
A new Banksy mural ‘One Nation Under CCTV’ painted next to a CCTV camera at a Post Office yard in the West End. (Image: Dailymail.co.uk)
Half the world, it seems, has been chasing the British graffiti artist Banksy: Police for his vandalism, art collectors for his works, sprayers for his style, media for the scoop. So [...]
