Viacom Inc. reported this morning that it is suing Google and YouTube for $1 billion (via the Washington Post, BBC News, the Blogging Times).
Honestly, the only thing that surprises me about this is that it didn't happen sooner.
Apparently, Viacom, which owns brands including MTV,...
Continue ReadingMark Glaser from Mediashift has a good breakdown of the reader reaction to the recent relaunch of the USA Today website. As background, USA Today's new site contains a lot of great social features but longtime site visitors have reacted negatively.
Below is an excerpt of a comment I left on Mark's post:
I think there may be a lesson to be learned though in how to roll these things out....
Continue ReadingUSA Today's new website went live this morning. You can read a note from the editors about the redesign here and a breakdown of the new features here.
I like it.
The key here is the social networking component. Users can create profiles that include personal information,...
Continue ReadingFollowing on the heels of the New York Times, the Seattle Post Intelligencer has launched a news reader that allows you to read the print version of the newspaper through a desktop application.
I gave the reader a test drive and think it is a fantastic piece of technology. ...
Continue ReadingThe blogosphere was shocked today when the AP published an article about an Egyptian blogger receiving a 4-year prison sentence for publishing content online that the Egyptian government deemed offensive to Islam and the Prophet Muhammad.
According to the Washington Post:
Abdel Kareem Nabil, a 22-year-old former student at Egypt's Al-Azhar University,...
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