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Doc Searls Weblog:
How to Save Newspapers — Tim O'Reilly: I'm hearing rumors that the San Francisco Chronicle is in big trouble. Apparently, Phil Bronstein, the editor-in-chief, told staff in a recent "emergency meeting" that the news business "is broken, and no one knows how to fix it."
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Newspapers are dead... On November 18, 2005, I told San Jose State's Journalism school that my son would never subscribe to, nor read, a newspaper. — I thoroughly believe that. I've seen the future of newspapers (and really all printed content) and it isn't print.
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Has the Internet killed newspapers, magazines, music and video? — Robert Scoble declares newspapers are dead. PaidContent says InfoWorld Magazine is dead. TechMeme has collected lots of blogger stories on the subject. Disrupted maybe...but not dead. Napster disrupted the music business and YouTube is disrupting video.
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HipMojo.com
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Print may be dying, but the news is not — Rumours of trouble at the San Francisco Chronicle (which came from Tim O'Reilly originally) have sparked much commentary, some of it insightful — and here I have to mention Dave Winer, whom I have had differences with in the past but who makes …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
How journalism education should change — Print's dead; newspapers are toast; Dave Winer has some good suggestions to revamp journalism education and bloggers can't get enough of the San Francisco Chronicle's woes. — It's a debate-as someone who could be considered professional trained journalist-that frankly tires me out.
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Windows weakness can lead to network traffic hijacks — WASHINGTON—A problem in the way Windows PCs obtain network settings could let attackers hijack traffic, security researchers said Saturday. — The problem occurs because of a design bug in the system used by Windows PCs to obtain proxy settings …
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Slow Down, Brave Multitasker, and Don't Read This in Traffic — Confident multitaskers of the world, could I have your attention? — Think you can juggle phone calls, e-mail, instant messages and computer work to get more done in a time-starved world? Read on, preferably shutting out the cacophony of digital devices for a while.
Raghav 'Rags' Gupta / GigaOM:
Can Social tools save plain ole' Radio? — Social networking around music has emerged as a class of Web service. While terrestrial radio has yet to fully embrace this, music social networking represents a large opportunity for terrestrial radio stations to gain relevance and currency online.
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Fred / A VC:
Why Seed Investing Is Less Risky Than Later Stage Investing — Ever since I've been in the venture business, some 20 years now, it's been accepted wisdom that early stage, particularly seed stage, investing is inherently more risky than later stage investing. I guess it depends on how you measure risk.
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Redeye VC
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Samsung m620 to be christened "UpStage" for Sprint — So it won't be called the "Flipper" or the "Ultra Music" — no, it seems Sprint wanted a name all its own for the very unique m620 musicphone from Samsung. When it launches at CTIA this week, the two-faced handset will get slapped with the name …
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Gizmodo
Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
From Subprime Loans to Failing Newspapers — In response to my piece about troubles at the Chronicle, Peter Wayner sent me the following note: … Hence the connection between the piece on the Chronicle and the piece I just did on subprime loans. In his talk at Google, Peter noted:
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Memex 1.1
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
It's Still Very Early, But Scribd Looks Like A Winner — We reported on the launch of Scribd, the "YouTube For Documents" a little over two weeks ago. The site drew a significant amount of traffic at launch. Unlike most startups, though, that traffic didn't just vaporize after a day or two.
Dean Takahashi / A+E Interactive:
Exclusive: Microsoft To Announce The Xbox 360 Elite — Rumors have floated in the past month that Microsoft will launch a new high-end version of the Xbox 360. It's true that Microsoft is preparing to announce the Xbox 360 Elite, a version of the game console with black plastic and advanced features.
MediaShift:
Your Take Roundup YOUR TAKE ROUNDUP Picking Apart the State of the News Media Report — State of the News Media.JPG — The Project for Excellence in Journalism's massive State of the News Media 2007 is like a Rorschach test for media watchers. Some people wallowed in the negative findings …
