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Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004 - 0 views

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Writing a weblog today isn't the bright idea it was four years ago.
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Scroll down Technorati's list of the top 100 blogs and you'll find personal sites have been shoved aside by professional ones.
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ssional ones. Most are essentially online magazines:
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When blogging was young, enthusiasts rode high, with posts quickly skyrocketing to the top of Google's search results for any given topic, fueled by generous links from fellow bloggers. In 2002, a search for "Mark" ranked Web developer Mark Pilgrim above author Mark Twain. That phenomenon was part of what made blogging so exciting. No more. Today, a search for, say, Barack Obama's latest speech will deliver a Wikipedia page, a Fox News article, and a few entries from professionally run sites like Politico.com. The odds of your clever entry appearing high on the list? Basically zero.
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Further, text-based Web sites aren't where the buzz is anymore. The reason blogs took off is that they made publishing easy for non-techies.
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Twitter — which limits each text-only post to 140 characters — is to 2008 what the blogosphere was to 2004.
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And Twitter posts can be searched instantly, without waiting for Google to index them.
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The Great Seduction: Is Google good or evil? - 0 views

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Google's goal is to manage all of the world's information and, in 300 years, will be able to sort and index 100% of today's information about the world.

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Tracy Pastian on 26 Oct 08

Blog entry discusses new book about Google

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How Facebook is taking over our lives - Feb. 17, 2009 - 0 views

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Unless you've been living on Mars, in a cave, under a rock, with your fingers in your ears, you obviously know Facebook is ubiquitous. Companies are taking advantage of that fact. The accompanying charts are fascinating.

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Behind the Eye: Upgrading iTunes Library to DRM Free is Not So Easy : Thu, 05... - 0 views

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Something from the music industry. Many of you may have heard about iTunes getting the labels to agree to DRM-free music in exchange for a new princing structure. But things are not going so smoothly in upgrading to DRM-free music. Looks like iTunes could use a solid analysis of its system architecture to see where the bottleneck is.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Something from the music industry. Many of you may have heard about iTunes getting the labels to agree to DRM-free music in exchange for a new princing structure. But things are not going so smoothly in upgrading to DRM-free music. Looks like iTunes could use a solid analysis of its system architecture to see where the bottleneck is.</div>

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The amazing Amazon Kindle is bad news for the publishing industry. - By Farhad Manjoo -... - 0 views

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Amazon's reader is a brilliant device that shanghais book buyers and the book industry into accepting a radically diminished marketplace for published works.

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MediaPost Publications 'Journal' And Others Say Hearst Is Right To Charge For Mobile Co... - 0 views

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'Journal' And Others Say Hearst Is Right To Charge For Mobile Content - 03/12/2010

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MediaPost Publications Apple Poised To Unveil 'iAd,' New Mobile Ad Platform Is Jobs' 'N... - 0 views

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Apple Poised To Unveil 'iAd,' New Mobile Ad Platform Is Jobs' 'Next Big Thing' - 03/29/2010

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Cory Doctorow:Net Neutrality for Writers: It's All About the Leverage - 2 views

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If Net Neutrality is clobbered the way the telcos hope it will be, the next Web or YouTube won’t come from disruptive inventors in a garage; it will come from the corporate labs at one of the five big media consortia or one of a handful of phone and cable companies.
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Here’s something every creator, every free speech advocate, every copyright maximalist and every copyfighter should agree on: allowing the channels to audiences to be cornered by a handful of incumbents is bad news for all of us. It doesn’t matter that the lame-duck, sellout FCC won’t stand up for us. It doesn’t matter that Canada’s CRTC and the UK’s Ofcom are no better, that regulators around the world are as toothless as newborns. This is the big fight for us – the fight over who gets to decide who will be heard and how.
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arnie Grossblatt on 12 Jan 11

The always interesting and worthwhile Cory Doctorow on what limits on Net Neutrality could mean for writers and publishers. \n

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Is Netflix Killing Piracy? - 1 views

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Interesting article about how a former BitTorrent junkie is now perfectly happy to Netflix the movies he wants. Perhaps there's a lesson here for publishers....

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Amazon CEO calls Apple storage model 'broken' - 0 views

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Because of the cloud-based storage of the Kindle Fire, no syncing is necessary. And Mr. Bezos goes on to take a swipe at Apple. "That model, that you are responsible for backing up your own content, is a broken model," he says. The most recently used items, no matter what the content is, will be stored in a task bar/carousel interface.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Because of the cloud-based storage of the Kindle Fire, no syncing is necessary. And Mr. Bezos goes on to take a swipe at Apple. "That model, that you are responsible for backing up your own content, is a broken model," he says. The most recently used items, no matter what the content is, will be stored in a task bar/carousel interface.</div>

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The New Presumption of Transparency - 0 views

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In the U.S., public figures have to prove that statements about them are false and made with malice -- but in Britain a statement that harms one's reputation is enough to justify a libel action. Defendants must prove that statements are true or "fair comment." This has a chilling effect on the reporting of damaging facts.
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"If information cannot be freely exchanged, if journalists must fear being sued over information reported in good faith on matters crucial to our defense, matters such as the financial networks supporting jihadist terror, then we cannot make sound security policy," former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy said at a recent conference on "libel lawfare." This is a useful term to describe lawsuits to suppress facts about radical Islam and terrorism.
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The Web means that publishing anywhere means publishing everywhere, thus subjecting authors and publishers to litigation in pro-plaintiff jurisdictions
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Among the proposals under consideration is to broaden the law to give American publishers the right in the U.S. to sue plaintiffs who bring what U.S. law would consider abusive lawsuits.
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Digital technology makes sharing information possible and, increasingly, makes it mandatory.
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arnie Grossblatt on 09 Jun 09

"The Web means that publishing anywhere means publishing everywhere, thus subjecting authors and publishers to litigation in pro-plaintiff jurisdictions"

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A Lesson in How E-Books Might Prosper - 0 views

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Perhaps the most revealing thing about the "Dumb Money" story, in fact, is that everyone involved -- author, agent and publisher -- saw it as an experiment, the kind of small-scale trial run that a late-adopting industry needs to do a lot more of.
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arnie Grossblatt on 14 Apr 09

Perhaps the most revealing thing about the "Dumb Money" story, in fact, is that everyone involved -- author, agent and publisher -- saw it as an experiment, the kind of small-scale trial run that a late-adopting industry needs to do a lot more of.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Perhaps the most revealing thing about the "Dumb Money" story, in fact, is that everyone involved -- author, agent and publisher -- saw it as an experiment, the kind of small-scale trial run that a late-adopting industry needs to do a lot more of.</div>

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The Joy of Wikis - Online Recipes Get E-Tweaks - 0 views

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shared by arnie Grossblatt on 23 Sep 09 - Cached

The content is, also, free of editorial interference or commercial pressure. The model, enthusiasts say, has a unique ability to capture “the long tail” — providing useful information on a wide swath of esoteric subjects, like how to make pasta in a paper shredder.
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arnie Grossblatt on 23 Sep 09

is the crowd better source of cooking information than a master chef? Could your next cookbook be a wiki?

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Post-Medium Publishing - 0 views

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iTunes is more of a tollbooth
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  This is saving the argument by changing the terms mid-stream.
  
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much the same with digital books
- arnie Grossblatt on 27 Sep 09
  
  How the same? Claiming it doesn't make it so. And books cost more than 99 cents; ten dollars is not, in Graham's terms, an ignorable event.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">How the same? Claiming it doesn't make it so. And books cost more than 99 cents; ten dollars is not, in Graham's terms, an ignorable event.</div>
  
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But though I can't predict specific winners, I can offer a recipe for recognizing them. When you see something that's taking advantage of new technology to give people something they want that they couldn't have before, you're probably looking at a winner. And when you see something that's merely reacting to new technology in an attempt to preserve some existing source of revenue, you're probably looking at a loser.
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In fact consumers never really were paying for content, and publishers weren't really selling it either. If the content was what they were selling, why has the price of books or music or movies always depended mostly on the format? Why didn't better content cost more?
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If audiences were willing to pay more for better content, why wasn't anyone already selling it to them?
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thedigitalist.net » DRM Is Not Evil - 3 views

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The whole DRM debate is hardly a new one but it’s time someone in publishing said something positive for DRM. Yes, it often sucks, but it’s not evil.
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My argument here is simple: if we want Harry Potter- the books, films, computer games, the whole phenomenon - then DRM has a role.
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arnie Grossblatt on 11 Oct 09

From the Pan Macmillan blog earlier this year. Please see the reader comments and the follow up post.

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Holiday Book Prices Plunge, as Wal-Mart and Amazon Scuffle - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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“If readers come to believe that the value of a new book is $10, publishing as we know it is over,” said David Gernert, Mr. Grisham’s literary agent. “If you can buy Stephen King’s new novel or John Grisham’s ‘Ford County’ for $10, why would you buy a brilliant first novel for $25? I think we underestimate the effect to which extremely discounted best sellers take the consumer’s attention away from emerging writers.”
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“You have a choke point where millions of writers are trying to reach millions of readers,” Mr. Petrocelli said, “but if it all has to go through a narrow funnel where there are only four or five buyers deciding what’s going to get published, the business is in trouble.”
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Two-faced gadget is e-reader plus netbook - CNN.com - 4 views

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Like Harvey "Two-Face" Dent, a new dual-screen device has two faces to match its double identity: It promises to be an electronic book reader and a netbook at the same time."> text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

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Kristen Reynolds on 26 Oct 09

Derik- are you insinuating that this new e-reader wants to kill Batman and destroy Gotham!?!

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Barnes & Noble Says Demand Is Heavy for Nook e-Book Reader - WSJ.com - 0 views

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Barnes & Noble says heavy demand for its Nook e-book reader is delaying shipments of the latest pre-orders of the device. " />

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Little e, Big B: Books and EBooks and Love and War - 0 views

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Interesting opinion piece from an author who has written both ebooks and books, and crowdfunded a book, and done all sorts of neat things from a publishing angle, calling for a "back to the content" sort of movement. Not sure what I think of this, but thought it was worth pushing out to you all since I know for a lot of us, a love of books is what got us into this field to begin with.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Interesting opinion piece from an author who has written both ebooks and books, and crowdfunded a book, and done all sorts of neat things from a publishing angle, calling for a "back to the content" sort of movement. Not sure what I think of this, but thought it was worth pushing out to you all since I know for a lot of us, a love of books is what got us into this field to begin with.</div>

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How to Archive Kindle Books - 0 views

Holding 3500 books at the same time, an Amazon.com Kindle 3 is like your own personal library in your hand. But, just because it is possible to store so many books in you Kindle doesn't mean you sh...

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