(University of Missouri-Columbia) Traditional media, such as newspapers and television news, require readers and viewers to intentionally seek out news by picking up a newspaper or turning on the television. The Internet and new technologies now are changing the way readers consume online news. New research from the University of Missouri shows that Internet...
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Lulu.com CEO talks about the future of books
By Karen E. Klein (Bloomberg) From selling typewriters in his native Ontario, Canada, in the 1970s to wrestling with Microsoft (MSFT) in the 1990s as the co-founder and chief...
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Goodbye Surfing, Hello God: Brian Wilsons Tortured Effort to Finish Smile| Rolling Stone
In this excerpt from a 1967 story in ‘Cheetah’ magazine, Wilson tries to show the Beach Boys are just as hip as the Beatles Comment4 By JULES SIEGEL November 3,...
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Michael S. Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg has died
His obituary has been placed in the public domain on the Gutenberg site (which is currently giving an access forbidden error message) . I corresponded with him occasionally and...
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Inventing the Past
The definition of neurosis is very simple. If we agree that 2+2 = 4 is reality, then the psychotic says 2+2 = apples don’t like bananas, or something equally...
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Alejandro Jodorowsky, Show, 1973
On a smog-dark day early in 1972, a bright neon whirlpool of color and sound and movement circulated through and around the former church and convent of Our Lady...
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Dean unloads on Fox for Sherrod coverage
Former Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean called the Fox News coverage of Shirley Sherrod “absolutely racist” in an appearance on Fox News Sunday. “They had an obligation to...
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The Journolist ‘controversy’
As it happens, this awesome controversy was discussed for about 30 seconds on newsroom-l (new window) when one of the list’s few conservatives (not a journalist, but some guy...
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Google China ploy is more about business than thwarting evil
By Sarah Lacy (TechCrunch.com) I’ll give Google this much: They’re taking a bad situation and making something good out of it, both from a human and business point of...
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Rabbit ear antenna come back in digital TV era
By David Sarno (LATimes) In the wake of the transition to digital television, Southland viewers are finding they can get nearly three times as many channels as they once...
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Authors and publishers argue over digital rights to older books
By Motoko Rich (NY Times) William Styron may have been one of the leading literary lions of recent decades, but his books are not selling much these days. Now...
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Newsday Web traffic down 21% since paywall was built
(News Cycle) Nielsen data shows that Newsday.com drew 1.7 million unique visitors in November, well below the 2.1 million total for October. Page views were down to 18.6 million...
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What Google can do to help journalism
By Michael Massing I propose that Google set up a Journalism Innovators’ Fund with an initial annual budget of $100 million—less than 0.5 percent of the more than $20...
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