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Newspaper Death Watch: Trib Goes to 11, NYT Mortgages the Farm

Newspaper Death Watch: Trib Goes to 11, NYT Mortgages the Farm

Newspaper insiders for the most part weren’t all that surprised to see the  Tribune Company file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection yesterday.  The Trib has been in trouble for some time, and it hasn’t been helped by high profile fights of the past two years by owner Sam Zell, who purchased the company in April of 2007, which saw him take the company private.   Since then his fights with the leadership of the Los Angeles Times  have achieved near…

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How Technorati Gave Away Their Special Sauce

How Technorati Gave Away Their Special Sauce

I used to use Technorati to find compelling blog posts to share and comments.  It was rather convenient to be able to go to one spot and find out what people were saying in blogs around the globe and to easily search.  One of the most compelling features, for me, was that it was an application designed with blogs only in mind. This morning I was looking a set of compelling blog posts on the anniversary of 9/11.  So I…

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Newspaper Deathwatch: Attacks from Without, Attacks from Within

Newspaper Deathwatch: Attacks from Without, Attacks from Within

Another really bad week in which to be a lover of print media. Yesterday came the stunning announcement that The New York Times Company ad revenues for all papers had declined 18% in July when compared with last years numbers. Even worse, especially if you’re a member for the Boston Globe or Worcester Telegram staff, the ad numbers for the Time’s New England Media Group dropped 24% vs. last year. Keep that in mind for a couple minutes…we’ll come back…

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The Dark Side of Cloud Computing

The Dark Side of Cloud Computing

We’ve all done it. Try to email something to a friend and Outlook, or whatever mail client we use accidentally selects a different contact to send to. It’s not such a big problem when you’re sending pictures of the baby, or directions to the weekend barbeque, but what happens when you accidentally send sensitive information to the wrong person, like a journalist. The problem is utterly compounded when you give accidentally give access to your information sitting out in the…

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The Gray Lady Gets Trolled

The Gray Lady Gets Trolled

In quite possibly the single most shoddy piece of journalism I’ve ever read, The New York Times has been taken on a ride by a few Internet dirt balls. In a piece that ran in the Sunday New York Times Magazine, Mattathias Schwartz examined the phenomena of Internet Trolls, in a story entitled “The Trolls Among Us“.   Unfortunately, neither Mr. Schwartz or the copyeditors seem to really know what the definition of an Internet Troll is.  Too bad, as its…

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Media Bias is Us

Media Bias is Us

Read the following statement: The media is utterly biased.  Obviously biased sources like (choose one: Fox News | The New York Times) spout a constant stream of propaganda from (choose one: the dastardly Republicans | the evil Democrats | our Alien Overlords) which is meant to deceive us from the truth. The problem we face today is that the way in which we get our news is fundementally changing.   Instead of getting a cross section of the news that someone…

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