Journalistic credibility has value too

May 3, 2007

All publications fall victim to this issue. You try to maintain journalistic credibility in your editorial, yet you still want advertisers to purchase space in your publiciation even if you say not-so-nice things about them. Advertisers know this, and they simply put up with it if it’s a big publication that they want to be […]

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What happens when you have a big party and nobody's following the "house rules"?

May 3, 2007

That’s essentially what happened with Digg as users turned against the site when it made the decision to pull down the code to decrypt the HD DVD format. Digg was pressured by the Advanced Access Content System License Administrator (AACS LA) to pull the posts down. Well, the Digg community, a self-righteous group that not […]

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Quick analysis of image and video search engines

May 1, 2007

I’ve been increasingly interested in the market for video and image search but since there have been so many players, I’ve never been quite clear as to who offers the best solution. My desire to test the engines came about after an interview with Chase Norlin, CEO of Pixsy, a company that has a white […]

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The Webby Awards breaks AVN's "too many categories" barrier

May 1, 2007

The Webby award winners were announced and looking at the list it appears they’ve overtaken the AVN (Adult Video News) awards’ sickness of endlessly adding categories as if that’s the only way to keep people’s interest in the awards. Still, I am a fan of the Webby awards because it does open my eyes up […]

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I don't know if I can stomach a whole FIVE MINUTES of Charlies Angels.

May 1, 2007

Charlie’s Angels and Starsky and Hutch. We have fond memories of these 70s TV shows. But do those memories extend longer than five minutes? Sony, the owner of these programs, is hoping everyone will want to watch minisodes, Reader’s Digest versions of classic shows that don’t break the five minute barrier. These could be very […]

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Can Google hide behind DMCA when they know copyrighted videos are being uploaded?

May 1, 2007

Google has come out publicly to say they are going to fight the Viacom lawsuit for $1 billion. They say it’s unfounded. This will be an interesting one to follow. Viacom says that Google/YouTube knowingly let people upload copyrighted videos and put the onus on the copyright holders to tell them to pull it down. […]

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We don’t need more content. We need more TV Guides.

April 30, 2007

This is a conversation video on the second principle in “The 12 Principles of New Media.” It’s entitled “We don’t need more content. We need more TV Guides” and it looks at the need for editorial guidance through people and algorithms to help us find information that’s valuable to us. Read the summary and transcript.

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Marginalizing Starbucks' Wi-Fi business

April 29, 2007

A while back I wrote a piece for eWEEK about coffeehouses instituting Wi-Fi networks and how some offered the Wi-Fi for free while others, like Starbucks, forced users to cough up $10 a day. The argument for offering free Wi-Fi is it attracts customers. And a packed coffeehouse looks a lot more pleasing to passers […]

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Could this be the most fun place to work?

April 24, 2007

This is a great video the dotcom kids at NYC’s Connected Ventures, owners of Vimeo, created. Lip Dub – Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger on Vimeo Tip of the hat to Jonathan Greene of Atmaspheric where I first saw this video.

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The Drama of MySpace and Photobucket

April 24, 2007

Photobucket and MySpace have made nice and nobody knows why. Two weeks ago, in an earlier episode of this soap opera, MySpace removed Photobucket videos from users’ personal pages because Photobucket was running ads in its videos and MySpace wasn’t generating any revenue from them. Finally, the two of them have decided they’re both making […]

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