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Monthly Archives: October 2006
The New Newspaper Business Model
There is no doubt the newspaper industry needs to change its ways as the Web becomes more popular with readers and advertisers. There has been a lot of talk about how newsrooms need to evolve (for example, my “5 Ws Post”) but little focus on the newspaper “business” so it was interesting to read a [...]
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Polaroid Cameras: Retro but Cool
At my mother's 70th birthday party yesterday, we created a “memory book” by taking photographs of the guests with a Polaroid camera. The reaction of my six-year-old daughter, who was annointed the “official” photographer, about how a Polaroid camera worked was priceless. She was totally blown away by the idea you could take a photograph and [...]
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The End of YouTube (as we know it)?
One of YouTube's most compelling features are clips of the Daily Show and the Colbert Report. Well, it looks like Comedy Central has asked YouTube to take them down, and YouTube has complied. Boing Boing reports that if you do a search for the Daily Show, you get this message: “This video has been removed [...]
We're Talking Tech…and the Internet Doesn't Suck
Not surprisingly, a good chunk of this week's Talking Tech podcast is focused on the Maclean's cover story (apparently being positioned as a position piece now) that the “Internet Sucks”. Of course, Kevin Restivo and I passionately disagree with this thesis, which seems more rooted in causing a stir (which it did judging by all [...]
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TechDirt Jumps on Maclean's
TechDirt takes a look at Maclean's "The Internet Sucks" cover story and comes away less than impressed, calling it a "professional trolling effort". If Maclean's was looking for some publicity, it's working.
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