The Media Drop

Well, I’ve now found periodic WiFi at the locations I’m at in Europe. Unfortunately, they’re looking for almost 20 Euro / day for 24 hours of access. Kind of ridiculous, frankly. If only I could get it to work in my hotel room.
Anywho, continued light blogging for a few more days as […]

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The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has made a pretty slick move recently, and one that should make those in the Internet/blogging world happy - they started a conversation. It’s not anything earth shattering, and is actually quite simple. The paper’s Editorial Page Editor, Mark Trahant, describes the move, which entails one addition to the P-I’s […]

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Posting may be a little bit sketchy for the next few days, as I’m traveling in Germany and my access to WiFi is less than perfect, it seems.

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The Denver Post’s Will Shanley describes an event that took place in the Colorado city on Thursday, where the topic of media consolidation was argued during a panel discussion. Both sides were well represented, with the Post’s publisher joining a television station executive, a consumer advocate, a U.S. Senator and a university professor.

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Mark Koldys snags a quality FOX News vidcap with Linda Vester doing what was presumably supposed to be an interview with Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth. It’s not even necessary to describe - check it out here.

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On Tuesday, the World Association of Newspapers issued a letter to the President of Yemen in response to the charges and subsequent jailing of a Yemeni journalist, Abdulkareem Al-Khaiwani. Al-Khaiwani has been held because of critical comments against the country’s government - and is only one of a few journalists who have had similar […]

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Netjak has an article Thursday by Rick Healey that discusses the “birth of video game journalism.” Interestingly enough, I find that those critiquing the subject have the same complaints as do both sides with regard to almost any other topic, from politics to mathematics. Those who are “in” any industry have always complained […]

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Via Steve Rubel, I’ve just heard about Susan Mernit’s post about the Associated press (quietly) putting RSS feeds up on their website. I’ve got to say that not only am I really psyched about this, but I think it has a lot bigger of an impact than we’re immediately thinking.
This comes shortly after Business […]

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Bloglines is hiring.

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Towards the bottom of this column by the Village Voice’s Jarrett Murphy is some skinny on The Week, which sounds a lot to me like a magazine that does what blogs manage to do for readers - do all the filtering so that the blog’s readers don’t have to spend a ton of time doing […]

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