Just came across this interesting New York Times piece on Ethics, magazines and advertorials, which is already behind a pay firewall on the main nytimes.com site, though available through the College Times run by the paper’s circulation dept. Excerpt: Pick up a magazine on the newsstand, and chances are it will contain at least one […]
Expert help sites
A year ago I wrote about expert help sites. It’s time to take another look: • Allexperts.com, the oldest and largest free Q&A service on the Internet. Ratings help you find the right expert. • Askearth, a site created “so that people could be paid to give good-quality, in-depth answers to the really tough questions […]
At my first Dean meetup
So tonight I went with my wife and 4-year-old son to our first Howard Dean meetup. It was also the first meetup ever held in our SF East Bay town. Everything about the 90-minute affair impressed us: a knowledgeable speaker, the endless stream of position papers available on the DeanforAmerica website, the bottom-up nature of […]
Students set up a storytelling site
Bruce Joy, a self-described resident mad professor in Melbourne, Australia, emails to say he discovered my article last fall on digital storytelling and that he and some university students have opened a community storytelling website called BotWot.com. (BotWot stands for “Best of times, Worst of times.”) He invites creative people to send along stories, poems, […]
In search of a universal jukebox
One of the powerful ideas I’m pursuing in my book is the notion of a universal jukebox for movies, music, television and other media. In some sense, it’s what Netflix aspires to as a legitimate movie rental service. It’s what Napster came close to achieving, and what clones like Kazaa strive for. And it’s a […]