Even though Gallup’s complaint sounds an awful lot like newspapers decrying those darned aggregators & search engines, and Salon calls sour grapes and jealousy, there’s some truth here: If …
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How one geek just outdid the entire publishing industry
Most of my friends and colleagues in journalism or the magazine world have never heard of Marco Arment. A few more may have actually used his offline article reader, Instapaper. But I'd be willing to …
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Know your rights: Fair Use
Though it's tempting to make a meta-joke and simply copy/paste the entire study here, here's a pointer toward an excellent study from American University released recently on journalists and the …
Did Craiglist just leave the door open a crack?
Ben Brooks has a great post that gets straight to the point about a business that, suddenly, is wide-open with possibilities again: Local classified ads. I can’t be the only one that thinks …
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What if your users actually want to play along with NBC’s tape-delay?
Jay Rosen just asked this on Twitter: So how come no one's writing about the odd and forbidding art of eluding the news when you want to watch a race on tape delay in prime time? The answer I had …
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Sparrow in the coal mine
I'm as guilty as the next guy for grumbling when I heard that Sparrow -- the excellent OS X and iOS mail client -- was just end-of-lifed thanks to Google purchasing it and the team that developed …