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July, 2008


Privacy-minded? Don't count on Craigslist

1:40 pm 7/25/2008

No one from Craigslist showed up in defense at a hearing where a judge ordered the free-classifieds site to reveal the identity of a seller (via Slashdot).

Maybe mobile's the next big thing, and always will be

12:00 pm 7/22/2008

Catching up to two posts from mocoNews.net:

News media: Be like GM, except ... different

10:40 am 7/22/2008

Perhaps local news media organizations should take a cue from General Motors' most radical attempts to change for the future.

Scott Karp delivers his characteristic high-grade analysis of that prospect, drawing from an article in The Atlantic that describes GM's Volt electric car project.

History of Internet biggies, in 1 paragraph

12:33 pm 7/16/2008

Longtime Scripps compatriot David Johnson, writing at Lost Remote, uses exactly one modest paragraph to describe the entire history of the Internet's largest players:

Innovation: A game the whole family can (and should) play

12:02 pm 7/10/2008

Juan Antonio Giner, friend from SND days, says the newspaper industry spends too much time "doing the same and expecting miracles."

True. His advice:

"The publisher of a $5 billion European newspaper group called me yesterday asking me about innovative U.S. newspapers to visit.

'Sorry, but no one does things different or better that you,' I said.

'Go to Google.

Go to Pixar.

Go to Facebook.

Go to Apple.

Go to Microsoft.

SID says...

Speaking of old-school, I spent an hour the other night trying to find the 'Rewind' button on my DVD player.