Archive for the ‘Business’ Category
Monday, March 16th, 2009
I have been trying to find anything of importance to report about in the media industry for a while. I mean, really trying. However, it seems that nothing that interesting is going on, apart from multitudes of cost cuts, layoffs and abysmal quarterly reports. As it seems to me, this ...
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Sunday, March 1st, 2009
According to CNN, Hearst is developing their own version of electronic reader that can be used to read both newspapers and magazines. While I'm all for digital distribution of books, I think there are some issues that should be considered before setting high hopes for electronic newspapers:
The netbook. People already ...
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Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
Clay Shirky has a sobering opinion about the discussion that has been revolving around micro-payments recently. I think the real greatness of his article is not in the way he discusses the micro-payments as such, but in the thorough view he has on why the model will fail. I must ...
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Sunday, January 18th, 2009
According to PCWorld, Xbox 360 is outselling PS3. The current sales figures they quote (Microsoft) are 28 million for Xbox, while PS3 has sold, depending on the source, 20-25 million since launch. What the reporter, once again, accidentally forgets is the fact that Xbox 360 launched one year earlier than ...
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Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
Regarding my previous post, I came across pretty interesting concept (via: Wired) that takes content out of blogs and other user generated content mediums, such as Flickr, and uses aggregated content to produce bi-daily free newspaper. The content that is put into the paper is selected using online voting system, ...
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Sunday, January 11th, 2009
Recently there has been more and more critique against so called citizen journalism, that in the mouth of trad media journos equals blogging, among traditional media workers. To quote a couple of the articles, while there are some truth in the thinking, I think the logic behind thinking is faulty.
From ...
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
I recently moved my email to Google Apps. As part of that, I also started to try out Google Docs for both creating and storing documents and I'm kind of starting to understand why Microsoft is so concerned about Google.
The thing is, Google solution basically fulfills the need of smaller ...
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
I'm currently going through a massive pile of books since I've had not that much free time at hand. However, I thought I could share a few of the books I'm reading that I find most interesting at the moment, so here we go.
Michael Lockwood: The Labyrinth of Time. This ...
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
It's been a while since my last post, mainly due to work overload and house renovation. However, I've also been occupied with a couple of science-meets-philosophy type of questions, above all causality and it's role in human decision making processes.
In essence causality can be described by means of logic so ...
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Once again, Steve Outing had a thought provoking article about local news. Pretty much the same idea has been lingering in my mind for a while, not least because I'm an active user of Jaiku. The things I think play in favor of microblogging against local news are quite simple: ...
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