January 28th, 2009
According to a blog entry on the New York Times yesterday (and according to Google, at 351 other sources), Amazon will be announcing the long-awaited (by its fans) new version of the Kindle on February 9th at a special event in New York City (obviously intended to coincide with O’Reilly’s Tools of Change for Publishing…
January 25th, 2009
I’m torn. A twitter can alert us to breaking news at speeds far faster than any newspaper ever could. Yet with its 140-character limit it surely cannot do much more than create an alert and a quick observation. There’s a huge gulf between a twitter and investigative journalism. In a perfect world, Twitter would eventually…
January 21st, 2009
That’s the title of a perversely amusing story in today’s New York Times. Apparently a certain Mr. Aleksandr Y. Lebedev, whose former career including spying on Britain for the KGB, has seen his personal fortune take a surprising turn for the better. He know owns the National Reserve Bank, 30 percent of the Aeroflot airline…
January 21st, 2009
The Wall Street Journal has just reported that: “The Securities and Exchange Commission has opened an inquiry into Apple Inc.’s disclosures about Chief Executive Steve Jobs’s health, a person familiar with the matter said. “The inquiry comes after Apple disclosed on Jan. 14 that Mr. Jobs has a “more complex” medical condition than he earlier…
January 21st, 2009
This week’s New Yorker offers a gem of an article on the historic struggles that newspapers have endured to survive. While the article starts out in the present: “The newspaper is dead. You can read all about it online, blog by blog, where the digital gloom over the death of an industry often veils, if…