Curation has become a popular term in media circles, in the sense of a human editor who filters and selects content, and then packages it and delivers it to readers in some way.
Google, which been pruning some early-stage products amid slower growth and the downturn, introduced two experiments Monday: a service that displays news search results in a chronological timeline and a way to find more relevant images.
Ford is betting the success of the Fiesta subcompact on the blogs, tweets and Facebook updates of 100 people who will live with the cars and share their experiences online.
As Mark Gimein noted last week in The Big Money, the media giants have put the Web’s journalistic “parasites”–blogs, aggregators, Google–on notice that they will no longer allow them to pinch their copy without reimbursement.
One major use case for RSS is promoting new content through RSS client applications, widgets, iPhone apps and so on… you see the headline and click on the content that interests you. Twitter is killing this use case for RSS.
Yesterday, New York-based start-up incubator Betaworks raised $2 million in funding for its URL-shortener project, Bit.ly, and spun it out as an independent company.
Basketball fans, beware.
Hackers are taking advantage of bracket-related Web surfing and initiating some madness of their own, with tactics as sneaky as spreading malicious software through March Madness blog posts.
Online security company Websense discovered two March Madness-related malware scams earlier this week, one in the form of URLs posted in blog comments that took users to a phony antivirus scanning site, and another as a search-engine-optimization scam that infected basketball-related terms and pushed them to the top in Google.
No corner of modern American life is untouched by technology. And no technology is more transformative than the Internet. The simple reason for this is that the Internet is, at bottom, a communications network, and communication is the foundation of society, business and government. When you scale up communications, you change the world.
“The Internet represents freedom, but not everywhere.”
So begins the annual “Internet Enemies” report by Reporters Without Borders–and that’s probably the cheeriest line in the entire 39-page document. It goes down from there.
The founder and CEO of Tumblr, David Karp, announced that five blogs in his “community” critical of Web personality Julia Allison have been taken down because they were “derogatory” and constituted “harrassment.” … I suppose Karp can kick whomever he wants off his site–but that’s exactly what seems to be going on here. It certainly smells like a CEO protecting a friend.
The nonprofit, StopBadware.org, was thrust into the limelight when Google mistakenly implied that it might be partly to blame for the Google malfunction that erroneously labeled every site on the Internet malicious.
You can always tell when the weekend is approaching. If it isn’t Twitter getting killed, it’s podcasting dying, death of blogs, slaughter of the record labels or one or more form of Heritage media. It’s honestly quite difficult to top it every week.
Earlier this year, I became tired of my usual morning ritual of spending hours catching up on email. So I did something drastic to take back control of my productivity.
I stopped using email most of the time. I quickly realized that the more messages you answer, the more messages you generate in return.
As the Internet becomes our universal medium, it is reshaping what might be called the economics of culture. Because most common cultural goods consist of words, images, or sounds, which all can be expressed in digital form, they are becoming as cheap to reproduce and distribute as any other information product. Many of them are also becoming easier to create, thanks to the software and storage services provided through the Net and inexpensive production tools like camcorders, microphones, digital cameras and scanners. The flood of blogs, podcasts, video clips and MP3s, most available for free, testifies to the changed economics.
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