Big news on the net today is the House passage late Thursday of a bill that would let phone companies jump into the cable business without enacting the network neutrality protections Internet companies and activists had sought. Paid Content linked to the Associated Press report. I watched the House debate on CSpan (the next best [...]

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It’s easy to sell advertising around stories about creature comforts but tough to generate support for investigative journalism. Perhaps some of the media’s watchdog role can be taken up by citizen auditors using a new software API that makes it easy to distribute tasks, suggests one writer in a journal aimed at public officials.

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CBS blogging is not a correspondence course offered by the televsion network but rather a time-honored writing formula — Clarity-Brevity-Sincerity — that seems all the more relevant today when too many media compete for the attention of people who have too little time.

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Web browsers spend more than heavy TV watchers, according to an Online Publisher’s Association study reported on by MediaPost. The finding should not surprise. Browsing requires a computer and Internet access, preferably broadband, which selects for a more affluent audience than the so-called the boob tube. The OPA’s report, “A Day in the Life: An [...]

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Artist and computer scientist Jason Lanier has a new essay titled “Digital Maoism” in which he takes issues with “the idea that the collective is all-wise.”

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If you’re the sort of person who wonders how we’re ever going to create self-sustaining businesses out of the content free-for-all on the Internet, then point your browser to the symposium held earlier this year by Intelligent Television and scan the panel discussions that are now available for download. Topics include “The Economics of the [...]

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