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Don't Confuse Technology With College Teaching

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Chronicle of Higher Education - By Pamela Hieronymi - Aug. 14 (Comment) - This spring, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced a $60-million venture to offer free classes online. Just last month the University of California at Berkeley said it would also join the effort.

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Social media reshapes journalism

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Austin American-Statesman - By Robert Quigley - Mar. 01 (News Analysis) - What is going under the radar a little is the effect social media have had on journalism.

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Romney's Making the Right Play in Iowa

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By By NATE SILVER - Nov. 22 (Opinion) - Jeff Zeleny’s weekend story about how Mitt Romney’s campaign will exert more rather than less effort in Iowa deserves your attention. It reflects what is perhaps the most important strategic decision that any Republican candidate will make this year. Mr.

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Amazon Server Said to Be Used in Sony Attack

Fri, 13 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Bloomberg - By Pavel Alpeyev, Joseph Galante, Mariko Yasu - May. 13 (News) - Amazon Web Services' cloud- computing unit was used by hackers in last month’s attack against Sony Corp.'s online entertainment systems, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. Hackers using an alias signed up to rent a server through Amazon’s EC2 service and launched the attack from there, said the person, who requested anonymity because the information is confidential. The account has been shut down, the person said.

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Learning to Love the (Shallow, Divisive, Unreliable) New Media

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 10:25:51 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By James Fallows - Mar. 16 (Opinion) - Consumer-obsessed, sensationalist, and passionate about their work, digital upstarts are undermining the old media—and they may also be pointing the way to a brighter future.

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Facebook to let advertisers republish user posts

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 07:20:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Associated Press - Jan. 27 (News) - Facebook users who check in to a store or click the “like” button for a brand may soon find those actions retransmitted on their friends’ pages as a “Sponsored Story” paid for by advertisers.

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New York Times Readies Pay Wall

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Russell Adams - Jan. 24 (News) - The New York Times next month is expected to begin offering a long-anticipated menu of online subscription packages, marking an important test for consumer willingness to pay for news.

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Study: Two-thirds of Web surfers fall prey to online crime

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

CNET News - By Elinor Mills - Sep. 08 (News Report) - The average cybercrime takes 28 days to resolve at a cost of, on average, $334, according to a new study to be released Wednesday.

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Reputation Is Dead: It’s Time To Overlook Our Indiscretions

Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

TechCrunch - By Michael Arrington - Mar. 28 (Opinion) - We’re going to be forced to adjust as a society. I firmly believe that we will simply become much more accepting of indiscretions over time. Employers just won’t care that ridiculous drunk college pictures pop up about you when they do a HR background search on you.

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Chinese Academics’ Paper on Cyberwar Sets Off Alarms in U.S.

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By John Markoff, David Barboza - Mar. 21 (Investigative Report) - A paper imagining a cyberattack and a power failure in the U.S. has highlighted an atmosphere charged with hostility between the U.S. and China over cybersecurity.

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A Price War Brews Between Amazon and Wal-Mart

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Brad Stone, Stephanie Rosenbloom - Nov. 24 (Special Report) - For now, it’s a battle of discounts, but Wal-Mart’s long-term goal appears to be stopping Amazon from taking away its business.

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Can Microsoft's Bing Take a Bite out of Google?

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Tom McNichol - Aug. 01 (News Analysis) - The undisputed Sultan of Search, a company whose name has become a verb, Google currently accounts for about 65% of all online searches in the U.S, according to comScore Inc. But Google's comfortable dominance may be in for its most serious challenge in years with the debut of Bing, Microsoft's new search engine.

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Notoriety Trumps Preservation as Some Web Sites Scrub Hateful Posts - washingtonpost.com

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Monica Hesse - Jun. 12 (News Report) - Shortly after authorities identified their suspect in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting Wednesday, the world began searching for traces of James W. von Brunn online. Those who Googled immediately were able to find him: a personal Web site claiming Jewish "conspiracies," diatribes posted on message boards. But those who started their hunt just a few hours later would have found only empty holes -- information that was scrubbed away as Web sites figured out how to address the fact that they had once hosted the words of an accused murderer.

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Content and Its Discontents

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Virginia Heffernan - Dec. 08 (Opinion) - For years, we in traditional media have consoled ourselves about the increasing irrelevance of our work. First, we insist that content is king. If a story, image, film or report is compelling enough — a candid photo of Malia Obama, “Slumdog Millionaire,” the columns of Maureen Dowd — it will translate into pixels. It will flourish on any platform, dominate every sport. By this logic, creators, producers, artists and journalists should attend only to producing great work and leave the current changes in the distribution and display of information to nerds in suits.

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Radiohead Figures Out How To Sell 99-cent Song for $4.95 to 2,250 People

Sat, 03 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Portfolio - By Kevin Maney - May. 03 (Opinion) - The contest certainly is another interesting experiment by Radiohead in how to sell music in the Internet Age. The band posted five "stems" of the song on iTunes -- one each for bass, drum, guitar, keyboards and voice. Each cost 99 cents. Buy all five and mix them together using music software like Garageband or Cakewalk, and you hear the actual track as Radiohead intended it. Total cost $4.95. But of course, the appeal is that you can then take those stems, add your own effects, other instruments, voices, whatever, mix them all together, and create an entirely new version of the song.

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Valentine to log laughs at new site

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Variety - By Cynthia Littleton - Feb. 21 (News Report) - Dean Valentine wants to make you laugh. More specifically, he wants you to watch "How to Make a Hot Girl Laugh," one of a handful of original Web series that he hopes will be the foundation of his new Internet venture, Comedy.com.

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Seattle-based cute kitty Web site claws its way to the top

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

KING5.com - By KATHERINE SATHER / KING5.com staff - Feb. 21 (News Report) - SEATTLE - In a city bursting with Internet start-ups, software giants and high technology, a Web site that features pictures of cute kitties is making a giant paw-print.

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Criminalising the consumer

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:47:56 -0700

Economist - Apr. 27 (Special Report) - IS IT legal to make a copy of that DVD you've just bought so the family can watch it around the home or in the car? In one of the most watched copyright cases in recent years, a judge in northern California ruled last month that copying DVDs for personal use was legal, given the terms of the industry's licence and the way the copies were made.

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Eisner to take on the Internet

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 05:03:04 -0700

USA Today - By David Lieberman - Mar. 12 (News Report) - "There's a new distribution platform that's going to be ubiquitous, and that's clearly broadband," Eisner says. While sites that feature user-generated video, such as YouTube, "won the short-term sprint" to reach audiences, he says, "Winning the marathon will be professionally produced, emotionally driven story content."

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Trying Out the Zune: IPod It's Not

Thu, 09 Nov 2006 12:32:59 -0800

New York Times - By David Pogue - Nov. 09 (Other) - But what, exactly, is the point of the Zune? It seems like an awful lot of duplication -- in a bigger, heavier form with fewer features -- just to indulge Microsoft's "we want some o' that" envy. Wireless sharing is the one big new idea -- and if the public seems to respond, Apple could always add that to the iPod.

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Microsoft May Get Back in the Driver's Seat

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 12:38:16 -0800

TheStreet.com - By Cody Willard - Nov. 08 (News Analysis) - Microsoft will start offering on-demand movies and TV shows in high definition to be downloaded over any broadband Internet connection that I can then watch immediately on my TV, using a remote. To be sure, there won't be enough content immediately available for this offering to become a force before year-end. But the news is a blow to Apple's much-ballyhooed, but not-yet-released, iTV platform, which won't offer even DVD quality, much less HD.

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MyHealthspace: Forget dating, we're dying here!

Sat, 15 Jul 2006 20:46:52 -0700

Sviokla's Context - By J.J. Sviokla - Jul. 15 (Opinion) - Many years ago, there were a few influential academic articles that predicted that the coming web of information technology would cause more activities to be performed in a market, not within the walls of the firm. My friend and colleague Chunka Mui, wrote about this is his book Unleading the Killer App, which noted that information technology was changing transaction costs, which in turn changes the boundaries of the firm. Almost every day the business press contains some reference to this trend -- either directly or indirectly. In the Thursday July 13, 2006 Wall Street Journal, there are two articles -- one on how car buying continues to change, not only due to the information sources like www.edmunds.com (check out my old Harvard Business School case on Edmunds for the back-story), as well as the influence of social networks like LinkedIn, on job finding.

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Playing Games in the Park

Sun, 18 Jun 2006 20:43:20 -0700

New York Times - By John Freeman Gill - Jun. 18 (News Report) - By registering with www.secondlife.com, residents can stroll — even fly — around a three-dimensional representation of the existing park, then create their own dream park by adding such design elements as trees and bushes. The project, first reported in Wired magazine, is intended to solicit neighborhood input on how the park should be improved. And though the software is still being fine-tuned, Mr. Lowenhaupt said, "in an ideal world, everyone would be able to save their favorites, and then everyone could vote, 'American Idol'-style, for their favorite park design."

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