Bad news in Thursday's New York Times: The New York Sun reportedly needs millions in new investment to avoid closing at month-end.
The Sun is far from my favorite New York paper -- that nod would go to the Times and the Observer -- but the nose dive that is print journalism's business model is just depressing. It almost makes the 00:01:28 mark in the Daily Show clip below too true to be funny.
The city of Palm Desert, CA, is resorting to micro-chipping the cacti used to landscape local roadways.
After shifting away from water-intensive landscaping, city officials discovered that the climate-appropriate flora -- especially the golden barrel cacti, which cost up to $800 each -- were attracting cactus rustlers.
TechCrunch has the details on a federal-court summary judgement involving Veoh.
The judge's guidelines for what consitutes "reasonable precautions" for a sites that serve up user-posted video seem reasonable. Combined with last week's ruling on fair use, it's almost like there's some sanity emerging in the world of digital copyright...
Too bad £75,000 is about a gajillion dollars at today's exchange rates.
Also, I'm not sure I could drive stick left-handed.
U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel ruled today that copyright owners must consider "fair use" before alleging infringement and sending take-down notices to YouTube and other video-sharing sites.
In this era of buyouts, shrinking circulations and general mainstream-media malaise, it's easy to poke fun and point fingers. But there are lots of smart people fighting the good fight, and finding new ways to weave their print and broadcast businesses into the Interweb. To wit:
As the District of Columbia starts registering handguns in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling against the city's outright ban, there are two numbers that could very revealing:
Just curious -- is there ANY media outlet that Brad DeLong believes is NOT in a
I like Barack Obama. I've been impressed by his campaign, and will more than likely vote for him in November. But I'm not impressed by his FISA position -- and besides, this is just funny:
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