NY Times: For Tribune Buyer, a Storm to the West. The Los Angeles Times was nothing but trouble for the Tribune Company, and it may prove even more of a challenge for its new owner, Samuel Zell. Zell is a smart, smart businessman. He knows zip, he’s made clear, about newspapers and media. Why should […]
Posts from ‘April, 2007’
Slate's Fray to be Updated: Your Input Requested
“Help us update the Slate message boards,” asks Slate magazine. Slate’s a terrific magazine, but it hasn’t been very “webby” in ways that other publications have long since achieved. The singular innovation there, however, is the FrayWatch, where Slate goes into the comments to extract the best remarks and new facts, and then puts them […]
Kindly Note the Date
Google Press Center: Press Release: Google announces free in-home wireless broadband service — “Dark porcelain” project offers self-installed plumbing-based Internet access. If anyone knows of a site collecting the best such gags, please note it in the comments.
Happy Anniversary to a Blog Pioneer
Dave Winer was one of the first bloggers, and an unquestioned pioneer in developing blog tools and other key technologies we in the “read-write Web” world take for granted today. His blog, Scripting News, is 10 years old today — and he’s put up what looks like the page that graced the site a decade […]