Networked Journalism

From Buzz Machine

I think a better term for what I’ve been calling “citizen journalism” might be “networked journalism.”

“Networked journalism” takes into account the collaborative nature of journalism now: professionals and amateurs working together to get the real story, linking to each other across brands and old boundaries to share facts, questions, answers, ideas, perspectives. It recognizes the complex relationships that will make news...

Published on Buzz Machine at 10:10 AM PermaLink

Following a Company With Feeds

From A VC

Feeds are becoming an important source of business intelligence. Many of the buzztracking and news aggregation services use feeds as their data input. So more and more content providers are making their content available via feeds. But much of the most valuable premium content has not been available via feed.

Well last week, the Flatiron portfolio company Alacra...

Published on A VC at 10:04 AM PermaLink

Tim Berners-Lee on Net Neutrality (Again)

From Smart Mobs

The inventor of the Web speaks out again on Net Neutrality. Reprinted here in its entirety:

When I invented the Web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that is going end in the USA.

I blogged on net neutrality before, and so did a lot of other people. (see e.g. Danny Weitzner, SaveTheInternet.com, etc.) Since then, some telecommunications companies spent a lot of money on public relations and TV ads...

Published on Smart Mobs at 9:56 AM PermaLink

Give Me Your Tired, Your Doctoral Dropouts

From Infectious Greed

Brad's offhand comment tonight that he started a Ph.D. and didn't finish was another data point supporting my theory that people who don't finish doctoral degrees are people to watch. They have demonstrated deep intellectual curiosity by entering such programs, and they have demonstrated street smarts and a laudable willingness to ignore sunk costs by leaving before they get sucked into the vortex...

Published on Infectious Greed at 9:51 AM PermaLink

Google's Problems (In Their Words)

From Google Blogoscoped

A ZDNet post highlights a list of potential problems Google says may affect their success (this is from a Google statement to investors for the first quarter 2006). In a nutshell:

1. Google may have scaling problems with increased traffic.
2. Google relies on bandwidth providers, so they’re vulnerable to their actions...



Published on Google Blogoscoped at 9:47 AM PermaLink

XHTMLized Turns Your Design Into Code

From OhGizmo!

By David Ponce

You’re a Photoshop guru, but CSS, XHTML, microformats and semantic markup elude you? You can put a web design together, but detest stringing coherent code? Well, startup XHTMLized might be able to help you out. You send them your design, in any format, and 5 days later, they return a fully validating, cross-browser tested template...

Published on OhGizmo! at 9:37 AM PermaLink

MetaCafe Lands $15m More for Filtered Video Sharing

From TechCrunch

Israel based video sharing MetaCafe has announced that it has received $15 million in funding from Benchmark Capital and Accel Partners. Founded in 2004, MetaCafe uses a filtering algorithm to prescreen videos before they appear on the site. A desktop client is used to upload and download the videos, only about two dozen of which are newly approved each day...

Published on TechCrunch at 9:35 AM PermaLink

Virtual Music Composing

From New World Notes

Unsatisfied with just creating virtual plant life, a provactive multiplayer game, and ambitious machinima, Robbie Dingo has also been hard at work creating virtual world musical instruments that actually play in-world in real time. He extensively documents the creation of...

Published on New World Notes at 9:34 AM PermaLink

It's Hard to Sue China...

From Searchblog

...for copyright infringement. But it's easier to sue Yahoo China, or Baidu, and anyone else who might be there and straddling the rather uncomfortable breach between Western copyright law and Chinese...well....exuberance. You go, music industry. Go go go. Sheesh.

Published on Searchblog at 9:31 AM PermaLink

500 GHz Chip

From Gadgetopia

Computer chip shatters speed records: Solve the “absolute zero” problem, and this baby’s yours.

The chip only ran at the high speed when it was cooled to 451 degrees below zero — just 8 degrees above absolute zero, the coldest temperature possible in nature...

Published on Gadgetopia at 9:23 AM PermaLink

It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's a ... Flying Houseplant?

From STREETtech

According to a piece in Science magazine, researchers have discovered that cellulose is piezoelectric: "Researchers have discovered that cellulose, the ubiquitous building block of the plant kingdom, will flap when exposed to an electric field. Delicate sheets of cellulose with electrodes attached could be used to make microrobots, biodegradable...

Published on STREETtech at 9:21 AM PermaLink

Hanging Out With Om Malik

From Thomas Hawk’s Digital Connection

GigaOmHosted on Zooomr

Spent the afternoon hanging out with writer Om Malik catching up on where things are at in the world of technology. Om is one of the best technology writers out there today and recently made a decision to make a go at working for himself full time after successful stints at Forbes and Business 2.0 (where he will still write a column). Om's plans are a lot bigger than just another blogger trying to go pro however...

Published on Thomas Hawk’s Digital Connection at 9:18 AM PermaLink

Antenna-Less Treo 650 Mods

From Treonauts

Typically most of the third-party Treo enhancements are of a software and not a hardware nature. However, on this occasion two enterprising Treonauts have taken it upon themselves to find a way to reduce the size of the Treo 650s ...

Published on Treonauts at 9:16 AM PermaLink

Seven Groups Vie for Wireless Silicon Valley Plan

From Wi-Fi Networking News

A little weekend news about a very large project: The Joint Venture Silicon Valley business group paired with a joint government coalition to issue an RFP a few months ago to unwire the entire valley. I wrote about the scope of this project in January, and the RFP was issued in April. The RFP specified a lot of purposes, from independent low-power sensors to...

Published on Wi-Fi Networking News at 9:15 AM PermaLink

David Carr on Nick Denton

From /Message

In a Sunday Times article, David Carr profiles Nick Denton, and shows that Nick is both a mainstream media mogul and scared of his own shadow. He has apparently hit some cashflow bump, and has started laying off and reassigning people all over his fledgling empire:

[from A Blog Mogul Turns Bearish on Blogs by David Carr]

Laying off journalists? How very old media...

Published on /Message at 9:13 AM PermaLink

Blackberry 8700c

From XYZ Computing

The king of mobile email is Blackberry. Despite recent legal troubles, the company has remained strong and still is the favored device among corporate buyers and the wing-tip crowd. The competition in this segment has been growing at an impressive pace, but Blackberry has built a foundation of...

Published on XYZ Computing at 9:10 AM PermaLink

Doing the Silicon Valley Conference Circuit

From Read/Write Web

My third trip to the US is almost over, as I'm flying back to good old NZ tomorrow. I thought I'd write a quick post about my experiences from this trip. In particular about the 3 conferences I went to: Supernova, BloggerCon and Gnomedex. In reverse chronological order...

Gnomedex

The most enjoyable conference for me was Gnomedex...

Published on Read/Write Web at 9:09 AM PermaLink

WriteRoom: Free Full-Screen Writing App for OS X

From 43 Folders

WriteRoom | Hog Bay Software

O, how we distraction-prone people pine for persistent and ubiquitous full-screen mode. And it looks like the good folks at Hog Bay have come up with an elegant freeware app to help save the beleaguered writer from him or herself...

Published on 43 Folders at 9:08 AM PermaLink