Reuters: Google says bill could spark antitrust fight. Google warned on Tuesday it will not hesitate to file antitrust complaints in the United States if high-speed Internet providers abuse the market power they could receive from U.S. legislators. Good for Google. As Congress prepares to give the big telecom players — the phone and cable […]
Posts from ‘July, 2006’
WordPress and its Lame Bugs
UPDATED No matter how many times I edit in WordPress, it runs paragraphs together in certain circumstances. How lame is that? Jeez… Update: if I edit the post in Ecto, all’s well. Even more weird…
Guest Posting: Is Media Performance Democracy's Critical Issue?
Tom Stites is an old friend and mentor. He has had a long and honorable career in print journalism, and thinks deeply and wisely about this craft. He gave the following speech — entitled “Is media performance democracy’s critical issue?” — last weekend at the Media Giraffe Project‘s conference in Amherst, Mass. Read it all, […]
Gawker Media's Next Act
Nick Denton, in a posting called “Battening down,” faces some financial music as he shakes up his blog titles. By far the most interesting line: “For editorial talent, we now pay within the range of mainstream media.” The business model from the start has included low pay to rising stars. For some the gig was […]
Profiles in Newspaper Spinelessness
The editorial page editor of the Shreveport Times frets about the rancid writings of Ann Coulter, which appear on his page. Wondering, Hamlet-style, if he should replace her with a rational conservative, he says: So while her harangues finally may have grown tiresome, we would be reluctant to pull her column from our pages based […]
Paying for Your Videos?
Lulu TV says it’ll help video creators make money, but I’m definitely unclear on the site’s concept. Peter Wayner, in the New York Times, says: The Web site, which lets people upload and watch video clips, said last week that it would begin charging a $14.95 monthly fee for a “pro” account and putting 80 […]