Apple has historically and consistently taken a litigious hard line on journalists who cover the company with anything that isn't in the form of a company authorized press release.
There's some evidence that Venture Capital is facing the same kinds of threats that the big music labels found themselves struggling with just a few years ago.
The best way to manage porn on mobile devices might be to put it behind a pay wall - where you have to be identified and age verified.
Not since Gutenberg have we seen such a significant change in who is able to use the tools of content creation to engage in a public dialog.
While we spend our days experiencing the evolution of the Web in real time, the mid and long-term trends are now starting to emerge. Two significant W...
There's no doubt that NING's pulling the plug on a popular, growing, vibrant free community product couldn't have been an easy decision. But does this really mean that 'Free' doesn't work?
The power of the realization that we're all content producers is that collectively it levels the playing field.
As you read Delivering Happiness, it's clear that Hsieh is talking about customer happiness, but also employee happiness, and even his happiness. He says the goals of happiness aren't mutually exclusive.
However you read it, Clay Shirky's new book clearly has something to say. The world was formerly broken up into passive consumers and powerful distributors, but now it's being blown apart by the web.
New York is looking for a world class Chief Digital Officer, and that has created an obvious question -- what is the role of CDO, and who is the right...
Steve Jobs has the personality, temperament and behavior of a nine-year-old. I've suspected this for a while, and now I can prove it.
Michah Sifry opened with a live video of oil gushing into the Gulf. The freedom to see the disaster didn't change the fact that we weren't doing anything. Remote engagement only takes you so far.
The Apple Store on the Upper West Side of Manhattan had fans, buyers, and the curious crowding around to touch the iPad...
In sitting with Michael Wolff, the writer turned aggregator, the first question is an obvious one: why? Why take another bite at a web media start up when his last attempt ended so badly.
He's one of the best-known faces on Al Gore's TV network Current TV. Venezuelan born media persona Jason Silva is some newfangled hybrid of Journalis...
TechCrunch Disrupt deserves a serious recap, because it's possible that it will quickly be the gold standard for tech conferences.
Back then, a newspaper was a product. A physical thing. But today the news is digital. It moves at lightning speed and is delivered to my desktop computer almost instantly.
As agile new competitors are born on the web, companies like Viacom and Newscorp are all lobbying hard to protect their franchises and release them from the strictures of regulation that limit ownership and consolidation.
To grey-haired ad execs, wide-eyed media planners, and even furry blue children's characters, Garfield is the man who told the truth, and said: advertising's 'emperor' had no clothes.
Three major events happened last week. The era of Old TV ended. The era of New TV began. 1. NBC canceled 'Law and Order' 2. TiVo had its lawsuit a...
The announcing of a Chief Digital Officer for New York comes just months after the successful Big Apps competition put the city on par with other municipalities embracing digital data.
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." A great sentence that could well have been written about 2010 and the world of book publishin...
In the 'gig' economy you can write a free blog post, give away a few free chapters for your paid e-book, sit on a panel for free and do paid keynote speeches all at the same time.
The thing about going to car shows and seeing concept cars, cool as they may be, is you know that Detroit is never going to build them. At NYU, ...
If you've added data to the web, positive or negative, about a book, a movie, a restaurant, or an airline, then you've added your curatorial '2 cents' to the wisdom of the web.
