Posts under ‘News’

In a piece for the Washington Examiner, “Small steps forward for Net politics in 2006 campaign,” I ask: In a world where digital communications can fuel collaborations of all kinds, how can the political class take the Net to the next level?

Peter Scheer, executive of the California First Amendment Coalition, asks, “What if online portals had nothing but ‘digital fish wrap’?” He writes: Newspapers and wire services need to figure out a way, without running afoul of antitrust laws, to agree to embargo their news content from the free Internet for a brief period — say, […]

David Carr, NY Times: Dubious Mix: Rich Suitors, Ailing Papers. Each potential buyer of the Tribune papers has said, mostly through surrogates, that profits are not the point, but men who spent their lives piling up money hate to watch it evaporate. And any experienced business reporter will tell you the average titan has little […]

The Independent in London asks: Is print heading for obsolescence? Or can it re-invent itself and reach out to a generation brought up looking at screens? Lots of answers from lots of media people. Worth reading.

NY Times: Entrepreneurs See a Web Guided by Common Sense. Their goal is to add a layer of meaning on top of the existing Web that would make it less of a catalog and more of a guide — and even provide the foundation for systems that can reason in a human fashion. That level […]

Network World: Google CEO: Take your data and run. Google wants to make the information it stores for its users easily portable so they can export it to a competing service if they are dissatisfied, the company’s CEO said Tuesday. The company’s behavior to date does not support this new stance, but it will be […]

In a conversation with a political reporter yesterday, we wondered whether collaborative communications had made a breakthrough in this election cycle. I said there had been some progress, but not the ultimate breakthrough we’re all hoping for. More than ever, campaigns used the Net to communicate with the faithful and especially to raise money. They […]

…at Congresspedia.

Today I showed Placeblogger.com to a crowd at the Berkman Center for the Internet and Society along with Dan Gillmor, which David Weinberger was kind enough to give a very thorough writeup to. As soon as polls close this evening, Placeblogger will enter a limited alpha, and if you’re interested in browsing placeblogs nationwide, you […]

UPDATED Names@Work: Senator Would Outlaw Anonymous Blogs. New proposed legislation (in Brazil) would make it a crime, punishable by four years in jail, to anonymously send email, join a chat forum, download content, or write a blog. This is going to be a constant battle around the world in coming years. Governments loathe anonymity. But […]