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July, 2008
Privacy-minded? Don't count on Craigslist
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
Catching up to two posts from mocoNews.net:
- Is mobile advertising the next big thing?: In the United States, at least, mobile ads remain hobbled by the persistence of multiple incompatible networks and technologies.
News media: Be like GM, except ... different
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
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
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.
Both blogs