Box 5

Press as Facebook & Foursquare

As research for Public Parts, I’ve been reading Jay Rosen’s...

Want to join my entrepreneurial journalism class?

I have a little room in my entrepreneurial journalism class at CUNY. I’d...

Wiki life

“Everyone brings their crumbs of knowledge to the task and if they...

Publicness at SXSW

Please vote for my session at South by Southwest; I’d be most honored if...

The German paradox, continued

The hard-on Germany has for Street View gets more ironic and amusing by the...

Transparent inventory & the rebirth/death of retail

The Times reports this morning on smart retailer Nordstrom making its inventory...

Internet, schminternet

I am baffled by the Google-Verizon agreement on nonnet-nonneutrality. I’m...

Bad things could happen

Farhad Manjoo New York Times review of Clay Shirky’s Cognitive Surplus...

Welcome, TBD.com

Listening in to most of TBD.com’s press preview today, I was kvelling...

The price of privacy

I love it when economists and their ilk reduce a complicated issue in life to a...

Evil?

UPDATE: It’s looking more and more to me as if the New York Times report...

Whither magazines?

Three people I respect a great deal now lead the big magazine companies: David...

Privacy paranoia dramatized

The German Consumers’ Union—funded by the German government—has put...

Cookie Madness!

I just don’t understand Julia Angwin’s scare story about cookies...

Crowdsource government work

One way to reset the relationship of government and the public — from...

Value-added journalism

I asked Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of the Guardian, whether his paper...

What if there are no secrets?

Is no secret safe? That’s the moral to the Wikileaks war log story: you...

Disliking the public

There are those in the press and government who don’t like or trust the...

Advertising is next

Condé Nast is a house built on smoke and mirrors — that is, to say, on...

Privacy wingnuts

I’ve been looking for a classic example of so-called, self-appointed...

Don’t fragment books (or other content)

I agree with Devin Coldewey at CrunchGear that Andrew Wylie’s deal to...

Google takes the FTC to school

Google just issued a response to the Federal Trade commission’s staff...

It’s still about friends

Three examples of back-handed positive coverage for Facebook: * bNet praises...

Errata=beta=collaboration

One of my great joys researching Public Parts, my book about the benefits of...

No American BBC

I just don’t understand Columbia University’s apparent obsession...