I’ve just updated my article on the future of newspapers. It was painful. I felt like I was writing about the progress being made in treating AIDS in Africa or the current economic crisis in America. The news about the newspaper industry in North America has been so unremittingly depressing for so many months that [...]
I just received an email from Adobe’s PR agency as follows:
Hello –
Due to sources leaking Adobe Creative Suite 4 news prior to the previously set NDA date of 12:01 ET tonight, the NDA is now lifted effective immediately. Please feel free to post your coverage on CS4 and any of the related point products. Please [...]
That’s the title of Adobe’s invitation to the world for a special Web broadcast of the details of the eagerly-awaited Creative Suite 4.
We who have been briefed on the product also signed the standard non-disclosure agreement (NDA) agreeing not to reveal any details before this September 23rd Webcast. But I don’t think that Adobe would [...]
Wow!
Jeff Jarvis, whose BuzzMachine blog is one of the best there is, went to town in a September 17th entry sparked by the lawsuit of the journalists at the Los Angeles Times against their controversial new owner, Sam Zell.
I think you could say that he really let the journalists have it.
The second paragraph gives you [...]
By now it’s widely-accepted that few if any publicly-traded companies are as inextricably linked to the fate and fortune of their commander-in-chief as is Apple Computer and its CEO Steve Jobs.
It’s almost a fairy-tale story: the early growth of the company, Steve’s adoption of and then ousting by that soft drink man followed by his [...]
I’m still catching up on my old New Yorker magazines. Such a pleasure!
Today I have to share with you a marvelous article from the July 21st issue, thankfully online.
It’s called “The Lion and the Mouse: The battle that reshaped children’s literature,” and written beautifully by Jill Lepore.
“The Lion and the Mouse” was the title of [...]
