Posts from ‘January, 2006’

The CEO of a company called Overstock.com turns the tables on Business Week by arranging Web publication of an e-mail interview: Since you did nothing to indicate the interview was off-the-record I am treating it as on-the-record (that is the journalistic convention, I believe), and so have reprinted your letter below. I trust also that […]

Heading out to Cambridge today. Back online later…

UPDATED Jon Fine (Business Week) Putting The Screws To Google. What if 2006 is the year big media players take aim at Google’s (GOOG ) kneecaps? No, not with more lawsuits; the Authors Guild, the Association of American Publishers — on behalf, in part, of BusinessWeek’s parent company, The McGraw-Hill Companies (MHP ) — and […]

I’m at the American Bar Association’s Communications Law conference, at a mock Senate hearing about the so-called “Free Flow of Information Act,” a bill that went before Congress last year but went nowhere. Some of the people who testified, including former NY Times reporter Judith Miller, is “testifying” before one former senator, Slade Gorton, and […]

The book Naked Conversations, by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel, has been released. I read an advance copy and recommend it to business people who want to get a better feel for why business blogging matters.

Australian Broadcasting: Frey, Oprah stand by controversial memoir. James Frey says he stands by the “essential truth” of his memoir, A Million Little Pieces, after accusations were levelled that significant parts of the Oprah-approved best-seller were fabricated. Frey chose CNN’s ‘Larry King Live’ show to defend his memoir and at the end of the show, […]

Later this morning I’ll be on a panel at the American Bar Association’s Communications Law conference. The title of the panel: “Who Owns The News? Attempts by sports organizations and entertainers to control coverage.” It refers to the tendency of these industries to lock down journalism on what they do, at all levels — essentially […]

The Conversations Network is “a non-profit online publisher of recordings of spoken-word events.” It’s the brainchild primarily of Doug Kaye, whose IT Conversations site has become a must-listen for people who care about technology. Now he’s gone broader — and will be looking for volunteers to help. I encourage you to take a look and […]

I’ll be leading the weekly Fellows Luncheon at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society (Harvard Law School) next Tuesday. There’s also a webcast.

The Guardian has a front-page story, “Spielberg loses out at the push of a button,” about problems British critics are having when they try to view a limited-edition DVD of his new movie, Munich, for an awards contest: Developed by Cinea, a subsidiary of Dolby, the players permit their owners to view encrypted DVD “screeners”, […]