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    Publish and Be Financially Independent

    It sounds like a mission impossible: set up a progressive publication, one which doesn’t shirk from flicking the comfortable and comforting the afflicted, and don’t worry if the money doesn’t immediately roll in. Robert Scheer, former columnist at the LA Times, sacked, he says, because of his opposition to the Iraq War, is… >>>

  • Print Loses To Pixels

    Spurred on by Google’s “clever new products”, Washington Post chairman Don Graham sees an electronic future ahead for news: This year for the first time I have come to believe that we will be able to tell you about certain subjects better on the Internet than we will be able to in print.… >>>

  • Journalism Blues

    It’s a real dark night of the soul for journalists. Feel their pain. The open season on media professionals shows no sign of stopping. Three o’clock in the morning and what’s up with journalists? Take these three takes: First, their business values make little sense, according to Huntley Paton, publisher of the Dallas… >>>

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    Press Exchange

    At an in-house pow-wow last month looking at what’s next for the Guardian following its shrink from broadsheet to Berliner, editor Alan Rusbridger, chatting to blogger and Guardian Unlimited columnist Jeff Jarvis, downplayed the newspaper’s gleaming new printing presses. They may be the last presses we ever own. – Alan Rusbridger, Buzzmachine Way… >>>

  • Patent cupidity

    From the Economist’s latest survey of patents and technology: The granting [of] patents “inflames cupidity”, excites fraud, stimulates men to run after schemes that may enable them to levy a tax on the public, begets disputes and quarrels betwixt inventors, provokes endless lawsuits…The principle of the law from which such consequences flow cannot… >>>

  • FeedDigest

    Another day, another gee-whiz step forward in how I experience the net. I’ve just upgraded the web service which provides the recent bookmarks feed on iMakeContent’s left-hand column. Yeah, RSS is amazing. It promises to pull the pieces of our digital lives together. And it’s nearly there. FeedDigest is a free and easy… >>>

  • Harry Potter takes a TRIP

    Impatient for the sixth Harry Potter? Why not try Harry Potter and the Trade Related Intellectual Property Agreement (TRIPS)? With demand outstripping supply, Muggles around the world have resorted to publishing their own stories about the teenage wizard. In China, there’s Harry Potter and Leopard-Walk-Up-to-Dragon; in Russia, Tanya Grotter and the Magic Double… >>>