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Just found out that someone has uploaded the video of the presentation I gave at the European Association of Directory Publishers (EADP) conference last May in Barcelona. Topic was: “Blended Search: Local Media Content Discovery”.
Watch it in three parts here:
You can [...]
The UK’s Independent has attempted to map the discussion about the future of newspapers. I’m not sure I get the benefit of the form, but give it a whirl:
[...]In a recent post (see How Will Twitter Be Governed?), I pondered the potential for conflict between the aspirations of social tool developers and the communities using those tools. I have started to think about a set of principles for social tools that might somehow serve as a foundation [...]
When she pushed her dangerous agenda to change copyright law through Congress to protect her industry, company, and job, Plain Dealer columnist Connie Schultz got all huffy with me when I suggested that she should register as a lobbyist because she was trying to influence legislation in [...]
Nobody else appears to have reported this - at least not anywhere I can find - but last week marked a major turning point for China's engagement with ICANN. It was probably also a major turning point in China's strategy on Internet governance.
The Chinese government sent Cui Shutian, Deputy [...]
Local and regional newspapers will have the opportunity to further develop the visual content on their online editions, with use of a new multimedia wire service. Tradeclips.com, which launched this week, aims to facilitate the streaming and sharing of online video content between news providers subscribing [...] Hey, Eric Kuhn summarizes the conference briefly, and this does give you at pretty good idea of the deal.
My contribution: Craig Newmark: Nerd + Wonk = Nonk
(I guess that's #nonk for you Twitter fans.)
Better stuff, just a small part:
Mark McKinnon (McCain 2008): "Democratization means campaigns are losing control."
Joe [...]
I had gotten excited about Google’s timeline search before, but hadn’t seen this: Google is mining not just text for the dates of more recent stuff, but everything, stretching back into the mists of time, culled from Google Books:
The result is an odd [...]
This is something I have been thinking about lately: as smart phones (pick one, any one) get more sophisticated, can one get away traveling for business sans laptop? For me the answer to date has been: sort of. Basically, if the trip is less than two nights and I know [...]
The British tabloid, the Daily Mirror has confirmed that it will launch its own stand-alone football website. Mirrorfootball.com will be up and running for the start of the next football season in August. 
See and download the full gallery on posterous
One of my favorite Friendfeed features is called "Best of Day." I use it all the time to hone in on the most liked/commented conversations. If you're logged into Friendfeed, you can hit this link' [...]
One of the best things about living in (or just following) Santa Barbara is reading Nick Welsh’s Angry Poodle Barbeque column each week in the Independent — one of the best free newsweeklies anywhere. This week’s column, El Corazón del Perro, is a classic. One sample:
For those [...]
One of the rubs against online video has been the near-pervasive lack of subtitles. This might seem like a small issue at first blush, but with Web watching being a worldwide phenomenon, a creator can limit his or her audience by only offering the content in one language. Enter [...]
This 5-minute video has Google Chairman Eric Schmidt describing fundamental change that needs to be made for industries to genuinely be transformed into the future. After describing how most of the money is still going to the incumbents, Schmidt says: “Change has to occur from the private sector; it has [...]
Hey, the folks at Consumer Reports/Consumers Union are in the vanguard of serious health care reform, have been so for years.
They're trying to counter some of the disinformation that bad guys are spreading.
Check out Opponents say public plan will be too popular and not popular at all
Opponents of the [...]
Here's a fun little find for a Friday. If you have a Google Profile and you're logged in to your Google account, search for the word me. Your profile will come up as the top result. This is great if you get amnesia.
The Economist magazine is refashioning its image through a major new advertising campaign to appeal to a wider readership. It has launched a cinema commercial, its first in eight years, to dispel preconceived ideas about the magazine's content and ethos. 
The Washington Post has decided to cancel its plans to host private, off-the-record dinner parties for political lobbyists at the home of its publisher after criticism from the newsroom at the suggestion that their services were effectively been sold. Publisher Katharine Weymouth was to host dinners [...]
Here’s another appearance on Radio Australia’s Breakfast Club which is pretty much every Friday—around 1.15 GMT—and here are some links to the things I talked about this week.
Here’s the audio of the segment (about 10 minutes’ worth).
Facebook’s move to be more [...]Shortly after our team had met Brian Greenspun, the Las Vegas Sun president and editor asked us if we could please work with him to figure out a way to inform those who didn’t want to be informed, or who didn’t even know they needed to be informed.
It was one [...]
Gary Vaynerchuk’s dad came to the United States with nothing in his pocket. He worked for less than minimum wage and built up a business, Wine Library, that today sells $50 million a year in wine in a sizeable store in New Jersey.
Today Gary is building on top [...]
