From our “oh, please, spare us” department comes word of EU hand-wringing about user-generated content. Says Estonian Socialist (believe it or not; you’d have thought Estonians were tired of Soviet socialist overlords) Marianne Mikko: “[Blogs]are in position…to considerably pollute cyberspace….
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Marc Andreesssen points to today's FT and says: “EMI, the big music company, spends 25 million pounds a year “to scrap unsold CDs… “To destroy unsold physical inventory in a world of ubiquitous digital distribution. “Oh my.” I agree. It’s…
You know social media is depressingly mainstream when a) you outsource your social media self “Imagine a man whose entire life revolves around social networking. It occupies all his business and personal time and keeps him so busy that he…
Another “victory” for the intellectual property fascists. I’ve bought at least 20 CDs, or iTunes CDs, in the last nine months because of what I’ve heard on Pandora. No more, though. Today we have some extremely disappointing news to share…
Joseph Jaffe says the portal is dead and makes a strong case. “As a context setter for this post, I suggest you read this Ad Age article which reflects Yahoo’s Chief Sales Officer, Wenda Harris-Millard’s self-serving bearish comments on “user”…
Jimbo Wales, founder of Wikipedia, has a new project: the Campaigns Wikia. Let Jimbo explain it: One hallmark of the blog and wiki world is that we do not wait for permission before making things happen. If something needs to…
Elizabeth Albrycht brings us a coolio slide by Ansgar Zerfass. My first sense is that it needs tweaking — crisis blogs might help solve some conflicts, but not complex ones — but I like the idea of mapping this.
Friend Neville Hobson urges us to Help Victims of Pakistan Earthquake. With a death toll climbing north of 20,000, the October 2005 Kashmir Earthquake knocks the entire Atlantic Hurricane season into the corner. After the earthquake & tsunami last year,…
Josh Hallett helpfully passes on a link to Kevin Howarth’s notes from ConvergeSouth, last weekend’s “new media, journalism, and web creativity” conference in Greensboro, North Carolina, USA. I liked this quote from the Duncan Black (atrios, blogger at Eschaton): “The…
My September paper copy of Wired has a spread on “countries that censor Web content — and what really offends them (oddly, the article does not appear in the online edition). The list of offenders isn’t surprising, but what scares…
