Archive for the ‘Organizations’ Category
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
I've been covering the FCC Wireless Spectrum Auction on-and-off for the ECT News Network. Today, the auction closed, with four of the five main Blocks official sold. The fifth -- for public safety and private partnerships -- didn't make the cut.
The $19 billion auction, though, is most significant because of ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
It looks like there's a chance I'll make my way back to Pittsburgh at the end of April. If any of the folks from the SPJ conference happen to stop by -- I'd love to hear from you. You can reach me at brad at themodernjournalist dot com or you ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
I first met Mark Cuban in 2001 during the first Future of Music Policy Summit in Washington, DC. He happened to be on a panel I was moderating, and I found his interplay with then CEO of Liquid Audio humorous. Cuban's always been a free-thinking kind of guy, at least ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
I know I wrote about this already today, but after the conversation I had with Keith McAllister, the CEO of Mochila, I'm utterly convinced that the day of the banner is quickly coming to an end -- even though his entire syndicated business model is focused on that.Mochila is a ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
This sent along from Chris Graves at The Cincinnati Enquirer. There's a new website launching that will cover global news. Of course, it's funny that they don't list the URL -- but I guess that's just an oversight.
A group of veteran foreign correspondents, including The Boston Globe's Charles M. Sennott ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
It's inevitable. The more popular (and thus, anti-cool) South by Southwest gets each year, the more likely we'll see similar brands pop up.I don't necessarily think this is a bad thing, although I worry -- like an old man -- that the growth of "interactive" conferences will confuse people. That ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Reuters announced it would use Open Calais, a software application that pulls data from unstructured HTML documents.That means the world's largest news organization will begin to have meta-data such as people, companies and places pulled directly from an article, creating the opportunity for better search (tags) and more importantly, visualization ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Steven Johnson's company, outside.in, allows you to search by zip code for blogs and information that is geo-located on a map. It's an organization that is set to solve the pot hole problem.In other words, local media outlets don't drill down into communities, but what happens in a community is ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
The truly amazing thing about the Read/Write Web is that if you believe in the wisdom of crowds, and if you can harness that wisdom, the knowledge base you have is enormous.
What people are finding, though, is that when you turn on the fire hose, it's hard not to get ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
A Norwegian company decided to release one of its television programs using BitTorrent. Obviously, they found that the move saved them money, which begs the question: Why doesn't everyone use distributed networks to deliver their content.
Two reason: you need a critical mass of people to insure that enough people are ...
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