This is not a book review. I have not read Joseph Stiglitz’s book "Making Globalization Work." That being said… last night (12/05/06) Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz spoke at the John Tishman auditorium at The New School University (NYC) to a crowd of about 500. He shared some highlights from his new book "Making […]
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How Blogs Become Journalism
Acknowledging that “citizen journalism has forced news organizations to change the way they do business,” news site OnMilwaukee.com announced last month it would invite readers to launch their own blogs on all things Milwaukeean. So how are they faring? Ironically, publisher Andy Tarnoff predicted the news site’s biggest problem in his inaugural article: There’s only […]
Digg to Feature User-Generated Content
Digg, a news website that ranks links according to user votes, may be ready to shake things up a little more. A friend familiar with the matter tells me that the self-proclaimed "user driven social content website" has plans to start featuring user-generated content. Presently all listings on Digg point to external sites. What would […]
Say Hello to Matt White…
Matt White, one of today’s most intriguing and gifted new artists, has been named one of Rolling Stone Magazine’s “10 Artists To Watch.” Gearing up for the release of White’s debut album, DO YOU BELIEVE, Geffen Records has released BLEEKER STREET STORIES, , featuring 3 songs from White’s forthcoming album. White joined Lifehouse on the […]
On-line downloads how to make them work…
Today the BBC are talking about on-line viewing and how its impacting current viewing statistics. They talk about the fact that CSI Miami had more than 1,000 people sharing the latest file from one source. The Beeb talk about piracy and how the Internet has become the global video recorder. Check out what they have […]
Open Source Transparency — The End of FUD
Open Source Transparency: The End of FUD Dan Kusnetzky, EVP Marketing Strategy and Paul Sterne, CFO An Open-Xchange Position Paper This position paper will address the question, "Can the open source approach to software development promote transparency and remove FUD — fear, uncertainty, and doubt?" By requiring that the source code is freely available to […]