Freakonomics Leaving NY Times to Start Own Venture - Jeff Bercovici - Mixed Media. Memo to Newspapers: Stop Thinking Like a Portal: Tech News and Analysis « Updated: The story of homeless radio announcer Ted Williams became an Internet sensation this week, as a video of him got passed around on Twitter and in the blogosphere, and quickly led to appearances on the Today Show and job offers from around the country. But the video that started it all — an interview with a reporter from the Columbus Dispatch newspaper in Ohio — is no longer available on YouTube. In yet another example of a newspaper that can’t see the forest for the dead trees, there is just a statement from the video-hosting site that the clip “has been removed due to a copyright claim by The Dispatch.” A web editor in the Dispatch newsroom seemed confused when asked why the paper ordered YouTube to take the clip down. “It’s our video, and someone put it there without our permission,” he said.
All of which is true; the original clip was copied from the Dispatch site and uploaded to YouTube, and therefore the newspaper had a pretty clear copyright claim. Web 2.0 Summit - The Battle for the Network Economy [interactive map] #dataviz , via @pierretran. The Chevy Volt: An Electric Car With Its Own IP Address. CrunchGear’s Matt Burns recently called the Chevy Volt GM’s “knight in shining chrome and white plastic.”
Burns was not citing projected sales numbers, instead he was making the point that the Volt has saved GM by forcing the troubled automaker to “change internally and reinvent nearly ever aspect of how it does business.” In support of Burns’ thesis, IBM and GM revealed new details on Monday on the car’s electronic backbone and how it came together in 29 months, from concept to finish.
Although the Volt is far from the first car with computer functionality, it is a major technological step forward for GM. According to IBM, the Volt is equipped with 100 electronic controllers, its very own IP address and roughly 10 million lines of software code. That’s far more than its peers and, according to Robert LeBlanc, SVP of IBM’s Middleware Software, that’s also more than today’s Boeing 787 Dreamliner which features a paltry 8 million lines of code. 2010 is the year of participatory platforms - O'Reilly Radar. 4chan DDoS Takes Down MPAA and Anti-Piracy Websites. Following a call to arms yesterday, the masses inhabiting the anonymous 4chan boards have carried out a huge assault on a pair of anti-piracy enemies. The website of Aiplex Software, the anti-piracy outfit which has been DDoSing torrent sites recently, is currently down having been DDoS'd. They are joined in the Internet wasteland by the MPAA's website, also currently under huge and sustained attack.
Don’t mess with the Internet they say. Well, actually stronger terms than that are often used, but the end result is the same. When people get organized on the Internet, very strange and powerful things can happen and in few places can this be more true than on the 4chan message boards. Sometimes things need sorting out, and what better way than getting hundreds of thousands of anonymous users of this notorious message board to work together to achieve it.
Yesterday two new targets hit the radars of ‘Anonymous’, the faceless and powerful hordes who carry out 4chan attacks. Loaded founder James Brown on his new digital venture | Media. James Brown is an unlikely birdwatcher. The former Loaded editor has spent 90 minutes discussing football, fashion and his new online project when he begins to wax lyrical about the joys of watching birds from his cottage on the east Sussex coast. "Great big seabirds coming into land like fighter planes," he enthuses. "Who cares about magazines when you could be watching gulls on the wind? " Brown has long had a capacity to surprise, from taking the magazine world unawares with the launch of Loaded 16 years ago to his ill-fated tenure in charge of GQ and the various consultancy roles he has had in recent years, helping everyone from the Mail on Sunday and Reader's Digest to Jamie Oliver and the Daily Sport.
He says his days as a gun for hire are behind him, and shows no inclination to discuss his work on the Sport, where he worked on its relaunch two years ago. "That was just one of 20 [jobs] that I did, a few days here and a few days there. I have stopped all of that … I was sick of it. Forking is a Feature. Sulzberger Concedes: "We Will Stop Printing The New York Times Sometime In The Future"
» Pour ceux qui veulent “Ping-er” le monde… Emgenius Owni News. Jump to Comments Comme moults geeks de tous royaumes j’ai assisté il y a quelques jour à la grand messe de la Pomme dont la retransmission officielle était bridée par Apple à l’usage d’un codec « ouvert » mais actuellement uniquement utilisé par le Quicktime d’apple). Le tout pour voir Steve Jobs, présenter aux yeux du monde ses nouveautés saisonnières ceint de son éternel petit t shirt noir et de son air de Jésus famélique. Le héraut du numérique parle à ses disciples Apple sexuels lors de sa dernière scène.
Comme tout curieux, je l’ai entendu parler de PING, le nouveau réseau social qui est über bien pour retrouver tes amis dans iTunes et partager avec eux tes goûts musicaux. J’ai téléchargé iTunes 10 pour “voir”, me rendre compte. Une vision Jobsienne de la musique Raison de plus pour se pencher sur PING, vision Jobsienne de la musique « sociale ». Petit récapitulatif des grands principes de la musique façon Steve Jobs (je sais vous l’avez lu ailleurs, mais enfonçons le clou) Vraiment ?
L'Echo: Les éditeurs de journaux assignent la RTBF en justice. State Of Social Media In Belgium Presentation. State Of Social Media In Belgium Report. Network NewsChanges: JustA Matter of Time - 2010-09-06 04:01:00 | Broadcasting & Cable. There’s a lot of juicy gossip swirling in media circles these days regarding who may be getting into bed with whom—and the potential players involved are big. The question of “how big” leads right to ABC News.
Deep cuts earlier this year ginned up the rumor mill that the division was being readied for a sale or merger with cash-rich Bloomberg TV. At the same time, persistent speculation about a CBS News deal with CNN bobbed to the surface once again. While those two networks have a history of sharing talent, Katie Couric and her lucrative CBS News contract have been an added, tangential aspect of the merger speculation this time around. It’s all understandable: With the news industry battered by a still-foundering economy and splintered media landscape, questions of whether such marriages of convenience and economic viability are the future for broadcast news become inevitable. “That’s presumably going to happen with broadcast television,” he says. The state of mapping APIs - O'Reilly Radar. Guest blogger Adam DuVander is the author of “Map Scripting 101,” an example-driven guide to building interactive maps on multiple platforms. He also serves as executive editor of ProgrammableWeb.
Maps took over the web in mid-2005, shortly after the first Where 2.0 conference. They quickly moved from fancy feature to necessary element of any site that contained even a trace of geographic content. Today we’re amidst another location and mapping revolution, with mobile making its impact on the web. And with it, we’re seeing even more geo services provided by both the old guard and innovative new mapping platforms.
Though the map itself continues to be important, other geographic data is having a larger impact. The old guard Google had the first mapping API and continues to keep its lead by adding useful new features. Another sign of mobile’s influence on mobile appears in how Google is making some of its newest services available. The newcomers Where have all the hackers gone? Related: Do People Want 'Amateur Hour' on Their TVs? Ryan Block via GDGTSteven P. Jobs Last week Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, unveiled a new version of the Apple TV, which is smaller and, at $99, less expensive than the previous model.
Before showing off the new device, Mr. Some of the items on the wish list made complete sense: Lower prices for content, no need to sync with a computer, and a silent, cool and small device. Although the Apple TV does allow access to YouTube videos, it doesn’t offer viewing of video on many other sites, including Facebook, Vimeo and Blip.tv, all of which feature primarily amateur content. Mr. Take a post I wrote in June of this year when Facebook announced some new statistics around video consumption. As Josh Wiseman, an engineering manager at Facebook, explained when I discussed these staggering numbers with him, these videos are primarily user-generated, illustrated by the fact that they are uploaded from a mobile phone. Another point Mr. Blogger Dustin Curtis quotes a Twitter employee saying: "At any moment, Justin Bieber uses 3% of our infrastructure... AP Begins Crediting Bloggers as News Sources.
7 September '10, 10:39am Follow In a letter to its members last week, Associated Press made the announcement that bloggers should be cited as a news source. This is a significant move from the AP, given that they have a history of not exactly ‘getting on’ with bloggers. Given that such a large news organisation has made a point of recognising bloggers as a viable news source, which they should have done a long time ago, it has much wider implications on how bloggers affect the news agenda and overall news industry.
Importantly this has implications for the individual blogger opposed to blogs overall. Are AP slow off the mark? I don’t want to risk downplaying the significance of the move from AP, but you could very well argue that they’re actually a bit late to the game with their most recent change. A new project that shows just what’s possible for online collaboration and news – is TBD.com. Apple Ping en 5 erreurs ! La semaine passée Steve Jobs a annoncé le lancement en fanfare d’un réseau social centré sur la musique : Ping ! Dés le lendemain la plupart des acteurs du marché ont descendu en flamme la réalisation d’Apple! La firme habituellement si inspirée dans la conception et la promotion de ses produits s’est apparemment totalement plantée.
Analyse en 5 erreurs… 1. Un retard trop important à rattraper Les premiers réseaux sociaux (tel que nous les connaissons aujourd’hui) sont apparus entre 2005 et 2007. En 3 ans, la place sur le marché a été largement prise par les acteurs que nous connaissons bien Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Linkedin en particulier. 2. Aucun réseau social n’est autant centré « business » que Ping !
3. Ping est complètement fermé et exclusif à l’univers iTunes. 4. Ping a été construit autour de produits culturels pour vendre des produits culturels. 5. Apple est dans une phase très difficile de son histoire. Nouveaux médias: une nouvelle classe de dominants » Article » OWNI, Digital Journalism. Pour Cyrille Frank, Internet et les nouveaux médias ne facilitent en fait pas le partage du pouvoir.
Ces nouvelles technologies comme beaucoup avant elles, permettent surtout l’avènement d’une nouvelle classe dirigeante. Avec les nouvelles technologies de l’information se répand l’idéologie du peuple au pouvoir : simplification des techniques, baisse des coûts d’entrée… Les nouveaux produits démocratisent la culture et permettent à tous de s’élever socialement, de “reprendre la main”. C’est un peu l’idée inhérente à l’UGC (User Generated Content).
Nous serions passés de l’ère du consommateur passif à celui de l’internaute actif et créateur. Les technologies “libèrent la créativité”, comme quelques publicités et autre best-sellers nous l’assurent. D’autres plate-formes libèrent la création du plus grand nombre grâce au financement mutualisé de type My major company… Nouveaux médias : le nouvel eldorado Mais le discours pro-web 2.0 sous-estime bien souvent les risques pour les entreprises. The newswire quandary. Questions: should newswire agencies serve consumers – directly? And, to a broader extent, how does the current information shift impact the agencies’ future? Two recent events lead me to explore these questions in today’s Monday Note. The first one is rather significant: last week, Associated Press announced a deal with Google allowing the search engine to republish its newswire stories. And the second was the admission by the new CEO of Agence France-Presse that he was indeed willing to join the B2C fray.
Before going further, a bit of disclosure. With this out of the way, let’s go back to the issue of newswires going after the consumer market. Unfortunately, there is not one answer to this question. With the advent of instant and ubiquitous information, the dominance – and even the relevance – of the “Big Three” (Bloomberg is marginally in the general news segment) is now seriously challenged. Dealing with Google is a different story. —frederic.filloux@mondaynote.com. 'Condé Nast meets Demand Media': New Platform Connects Indie Publishers with Top-Tier Advertisers - mediabistro.com: FishbowlNY. Strap on your sandals, bloggers, and get ready to give the big publishing companies a run for their money – the creators of StyleCaster just announced the launch of The Masthead, a new platform that gives influential style sites of all sizes the same access to advertising dollars as the makers of glossy magazines.
Co-founder and CEO Ari Goldberg wasn’t always into women’s lifestyle – he started out in sports and entertainment marketing. “I went from hanging with guys who could dunk to tall, skinny models,” he said. “It’s not a bad switch.” Goldberg was working with LeBron James and his LRMR Marketing company when he met StyleCaster Media Group’s primary angel investor Dan Gilbert, who also owns the Cleveland Cavaliers. “‘I don’t invest in businesses, I invest in people,’” Gilbert had told him.
In this case, Gilbert was investing in Ari and his brother David Goldberg, as well as their other co-founder Albert Azout. Goldberg proposed a business model where “Condé Nast meets Demand Media.” Technology Review: Blogs: Mims's Bits: MapRejuice Is SETI@Home on Steroids. Unless a flash ad in one of your open browser tabs has gone rogue, it’s likely you’ve got a few spare processor cycles available on the PC you’re using to read this.
And if someone were to appropriate just a few of them – too few for you to notice – then you and all the millions of other web surfers out there could be harnessed together like some kind of gigantic insectoid computing hive mind. The result would be one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. That’s the dream, anyway, of a project called MapRejuice. It’s MapReduce - the algorithm invented at Google that powers more or less all the massively parallel processing on which the web’s biggest businesses rely - but implemented in javascript. And it runs in the background of any webpage on which it’s installed. You could be running it right now without even knowing it. Right now MapRejuice, which remains primarily a proof of concept, isn’t doing that much. Its ultimate capacity? Nicolas Voisin (PDG de 22mars & directeur de la publication de Owni.fr): journaliste ou entrepreneur ? [vidéo] | Journaliste & entrepreneur.
Live Streaming Video Jumps 600% in Past Year. Journalism is about people, not technology. Following is an excerpt from Journalism Next, a 2010 paperback that students of Journalism should read to put in perspective the great opportunities ahead for the field. (To order go to ) By Mark Briggs To survive and thrive in the digital age, I argue, journalists need to adopt a new way of thinking and approaching their craft. Learning the skills and technology is the easy part. My first book, “Journalism 2.0: How to Survive and Thrive in the Digital Age,” was published in 2007 and written for working journalists with a simple message: “you can do this” and the “future is now.”
In the United States, that “future is now” message came true. The pace of disruption for mainstream media – daily newspapers, local TV stations and magazines – is in full force today. Newspapers are dying. More than 100 years ago, the newspaper industry was dealing with technological change on a comparable scale to today. What are the new jobs in journalism? 1. 2. 3. Facebook adopte le modèle d’influence de Twitter. The 100 most influential news media Twitter accounts.
Alain Gerlache - La rentrée d’interMédias ce vendredi à 09:15 sur la Première. - La rentrée d'interMédias ce vendredi à 09:15 sur la Première. Veille technologique du 26 août au 2 septembre. Pr_090110a.html. New Data Visualization Tool for Journalists Created by Knight Professor. Why Apple's iTunes Rentals May Have Little Effect on TV Business Model | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD.
Clip iRTBF Rentrée 2010. The Ultimate Guide: How Media Companies Should Offer Daily Deals « Yipit Blog. Free Phonecall Integration on Its Way to Gmail? Newspapers gone by 2022 says futurist. Newspapers gone by 2022 says futurist (Lara Sinclair/TheAustralian) Forget Hall Monitors, School Investigates Tracking Students with RFID. Why Intel bought McAfee. Proof SCO Knew IBM Was Involved in Linux From 1998 Onward. The dirty little secret about Google Android | Tech Sanity Check | TechRepublic.com.
An In-Depth Look at the Google TV Interface. Vers des objets open-source » Article » OWNI, Digital Journalism.