Yahoo’s Future in Brief
To help understand why Yahoo has been in such trouble, read Kara Swisher’s latest about the board’s search for a new CEO and especially the last line, which sums things up perfectly: Said one person...
View ArticleGoogle Power
Google is pointing from its home page today to a page about World Tuberculosis Day and that, in turn, points to the Stop TB Partnership, a nonprofit organization. A worthy cause, and good for Google...
View ArticleA Decade Since Andy Grove’s Warning to Newspaper Industry
In two weeks it’ll be 10 years since Andy Grove’s on-stage conversation at an annual meeting of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, in which he warned the industry of its impending financial...
View ArticleSpeaking Next Month at Where 2.0
I’ll be speaking at the Where 2.0 conference next month in San Jose, about journalists are using, and can use, location-related products and services. The talk is called Where Does Journalism Go? You...
View ArticleA Word to the Wise
From “a source” — “We’ve heard” that it’s “supposedly” best to treat everything we read TechCrunch as pure gossip…
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Mitch Kapor
In a Tweet today, Mitch Kapor said, “It’s true. Today is my 60th birthday. It’s a long way from being 16.” It would take a long, long post here to catalog Mitch’s contributions to the world. Read this...
View ArticleWhy My Current Mac is Probably My Last
The Mac I’m using today — without question the best computer I’ve ever owned — is almost certainly my last Mac. This machine is a Macbook Air, a 13-inch model that came out last year. It is a...
View ArticleFacebook/Instagram Terms of Service: Bad for You
A reporter just asked me what I thought of the — to put it mildly — controversial new terms of service at Instagram. Here’s what I said: First, this is a Facebook issue, since Facebook owns Instagram....
View ArticleWhy WordPress is so Important
This is a WordPress blog — created and maintained using the great open-source team at WordPress.org. I’m a huge fan both of the software and the people behind it. In my latest Guardian column, pegging...
View ArticleCCTV Interview
I’ve just been interviewed by CCTV (China state media) for a series on the history and future of the Internet. The questions were about Silicon Valley’s 1990s Internet bubble, media developments, and...
View ArticleWhatsApp Collects More Data than You Think
WhatsApp is a fabulous service, and may be worth the billions Facebook is paying for it. One of its best features, the company has claimed, is that it puts users first and, partly by being a paid app...
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Learning about, and deploying IndieWeb tools
It’s the second day of the IndieWebCamp in San Francisco, where some talented tech folks are discussing, demonstrating and deploying tools designed to keep the Internet as open as possible. I’m...
View ArticleNeeded: A “Think Tank” for Journalism R&D
Most of the smartest people don’t work in journalism. There’s an enormous amount of R&D going on in digital media. Most of it isn’t happening inside the news industry. As Clay Shirky and others...
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News Literacy Working Group; Initial Thoughts
News Literacy Working Group — Initial Thoughts Can we make it un-cool to spread other people’s lies on social media? Should Facebook, Google, SnapChat, and Twitter embed tools of truth in their users’...
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A new chapter: News Co/Lab
Pixabay Some news: Arizona State University’s Cronkite School has launched News Co/Lab, a collaborative lab aimed at creating, testing, and promoting innovations that will help make the news ecosystem...
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Some observations re Craig Newmark, craigslist, journalism, and our...
(Please read this post on the ASU News Co/Lab site first, for context.) I can’t remember exactly when I met Craig Newmark, but I distinctly remember what happened when I discovered craigslist. It was...
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