Mark Glaser’s latest piece just went up on PBS MediaShift, this time a look at Mark Cuban’s latest maverick project, Sharesleuth.com. The site’s editor Chris Carey (formerly of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch) investigates sketchy business practices at companies and digs up dirt on them mainly from public sources. The business model for Sharesleuth is unusual […]
Web 2.Ooh finalists: Julia, Valerie, Micki
Three of my good friends are among the five Silicon Valley “hotties” in ValleyWag’s Web 2.Ooh contest: from top, Julia French, Valerie Cunningham and Micki Krimmel. I’ve got better photos of all three than ValleyWag does. So I’ll post them here. Plus, here’s a bonus photo of Julia from last year and Micki from this […]
The future of music and media
I spent an hour in San Francisco this afternoon on a panel at Bandwidth, a conference about the intersection of music and technology, a subject I wrote about in Darknet. Fellow panelists included Maryrose Dunton, Director of Product Management, YouTube; David Todd, VP of Content, eyespot and Sudhin Shahani, CEO, Musicane; moderator was Kevin Crouse, […]
Valenti gives Ourmedia a big thumbs-up
The other day I spotted Jack Valenti, who headed the MPAA for nearly 39 years before stepping down last year, at a lunch table at the Aspen Institute. So I introduced myself and we had a nice chat for a half hour. I devote half of Chapter 2 in Darknet to Valenti and the MPAA. […]
Jersey shore pix
Just back from a week at the Jersey shore — at a house rental with a dock overlooking Barnegat Bay in Lavallette, NJ. Here’s a Flickr photo set.