Friday, October 23, 2009
The Real-World Boom in Online Cities
The internet has been evolving into three dimensions for years without most people noticing.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
The Death of a Studio
Earlier this year, games publisher Midway collapsed, plunging the staff of its Newcastle studio into a desperate struggle to find a buyer.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
The “Internet Manifesto” Bucks a Trend and Gets Mainstream Media Attention
Its 17 declarations on the future of journalism in the age of the internet have been discussed worldwide.
Friday, August 7, 2009
It’s SO Over: Cool Cyberkids Abandon Social Networking Sites
From uncles wearing skinny jeans to mothers investing in ra-ra skirts and fathers nodding awkwardly along to the latest grime record, the older generation has long known that the surest way to kill a youth trend is to adopt it as its own.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Search is too important to leave to one company – even Google
Search is the beginning and the end of the internet.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
If you can’t buy it legally, of course you’ll download it
As someone who produces copyrighted content, I suppose I should be cheering at the Pirate Bay verdict.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Why Did Google Create News Timeline and Not Newspapers?
I have to say that my initial reaction to Google Labs News Timeline feature was meh. I don’t think it’s as elegant as Marcos Weskamp and Dan Albritton’s newsmap, which has been around since 2004.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Don’t Blame Google and Scribd for Your Own Business Model Problems
Another weekend goes by and another old school newspaper guy writes a long screed condemning Google as a menace hellbent on destroying all that is good and right in the news business.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Who Would You Rather Trust–the BBC or a Blogger?
Professional journalists in the age of the Internet look as doomed as blacksmiths in the age of the combustion engine. Local newspapers are disappearing. National newspapers and commercial TV stations are seeing the Web take their advertisers.
Even the gloomiest forecasters expect there will still be a few reporters around in 2025, but as with blacksmiths, we will be curiosities.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
If You Can’t Say Anything Nice, Then Kill Yourself Now
Yesterday, as Techcrunch’s Michael Arrington was leaving the DLD conference venue in Munich, one of the conference attendees walked up to him and spat in his face. I’ll say that again. One of the attendees. Walked up to him. And spat. In. His. Face. And then without a word, the attacker turned on his patent leather heel and vanished back into the crowd.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Does Wired’s Drastic Weight Loss Point to Ill Health?
My, my, Wired magazine’s looking thin these days. Only a month or so ago I remember looking at a big fat dollop of paper, all health and bouncy. Today, however, when I went to get my post, my first thought went something along the lines of “Wow, this feels really lightweight.”
Friday, January 2, 2009
RIM: Orange to Pull BlackBerry Bold? Guardian Alleges Software Glitches.
U.K. paper The Guardian this morning reports that Orange, the mobile phone operator owned by France Telecom, is considering yanking Research in Motion’s BlackBerry Bold from its handset lineup because of what the paper calls persistent software errors.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Less Killing, More Kissing: New Breed of Computer Games Bring People Together
A new generation of designers and developers is putting the social element back into videogames, using online networks such as Facebook as platforms to turn people from across the world into poker aces, boffins and the proud and sometimes obsessive owners of virtual pets.
Friday, November 21, 2008
Our Digital Addiction: 727 Hours Surfing, 27 Phoning and 972 Texts
In the heyday of rock music, no stadium gig was complete without a slow number that prompted the crowd to hold aloft their cigarette lighters to create hundreds of flickering points of light. Now the same effect is created by hundreds of people holding up their mobile phones as the audience takes photo after photo to prove they were there.
Friday, October 3, 2008
We’ll All Be Citizens of Virtual Worlds
Most people still look askance if you admit to using virtual worlds where you move around with an avatar or 3D version of yourself. It recalls the technophobic reactions in the early days of the Internet. But attitudes may now change for two reasons.
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