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  • Rich Pickings

    The motto of the bubble was get big fast. The rule today is get big cheap… What tickles my checkbook is the success of capital-efficient startups where the users themselves often contribute the feature road map, software and marketing. – David Cowan, Bessemer Ventures in Forbes Magazine [The bankrollers] don’t care about your… >>>

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    When News Meets PR

    From the department of kicking the US mainstream media while it’s already down: it’s not unusual for US TV stations to run corporate product pitches as straight news items, according to a new report by a media watchdog. Over a ten-month period, the Center for Media and Democracy found 77 TV stations guilty… >>>

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    Esprit De Apple Corps

    More corporate copyright capers. The Royal Courts of Justice in London swung to the sounds of the latest popular beat combos on the opening day of Apple vs. Apple, in which the Beatles’ record label is demanding damages from the computer giant for the alleged scrumping of its apple logo. QC Geoffrey “Loudmouth”… >>>

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    Harmful If Swallowed

    Yeah, the Kool-Aid does taste funny. Molly Ivins tears into the assumption that the newspaper business is dying because it isn’t delivering profits. Sure, there’s a steady decline in the industry over the long term. But profits are still happening. What’s killing newspapers is a mania for profits at any cost. Cut reporters… >>>

  • Multitasking and the Journalist

    A profile of Jon Snow, Channel 4’s chief news anchor, in which he does some “thinking from the mouth” (and nothing about his taste in ties, thank the gimmick editor): As a journalist I think technology where it advances communication is plus, plus. Technology that merely inflects whizzbangs of information I think merely… >>>

  • Booted, Suited and Uploading

    Viral video enthusiasts using YouTube: potential copyright infringers or corporate shills? YouTube’s DIY video site includes clips “stolen” from big media companies, allege lawyers representing big media companies – the likes of NBC Uni, CBS and ABC. But big media companies, or at least their marketeers, are starting to realise that mashed-up clips… >>>

  • The New Game of Life

    Fancy joining in a consensual hallucination? Will Wright, creator of the Sims, joins the jostling for supremacy by the different tech and media sectors, their battle for the living room and every other space in which media consumers, producers, participants may soon find themselves. He argues that games have the potential for subsuming… >>>