"When you turn copyright infringement into a felony and say that anyone can accuse a website of providing ”infringing” tools (and apply severe penalties whether or not you do something about it), you are essentially making it impossi…

"One of the most important technological advances in the past thousand years was Gutenberg’s printing press. As one Italian bishop put it, it would take three printers working for three months to produce 300 copies of a book – but it w…

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"Now that the big blackout is behind us, does it make sense for us to be buying the products of corporate media here in the US? No, in fact it doesn’t. That’s where the pain really makes sense. Let Hollywood have their share. #

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"Let’s dive into numbers for a back-of-the-envelope exercise.

First, assumptions: The following is based on my observations of markets in Europe (France, UK, Scandinavia) and the US

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"INTERNETS, 18th of January 2012. PRESS RELEASE, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. Over a century ago Thomas Edison got the patent for a device which would "do for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear". He called it the Kinetoscope. He was …

"US online advertising spending, which grew 23% to $32.03 billion in 2011, is expected to grow an additional 23.3% to $39.5 billion this year-pushing it ahead of total spending on print newspapers and magazines, according to eMarketer. P…

"What is the reason for the Kyiv Post’s policy?

It’s simple: We want what we write to be trusted by the public. That requires, at a minimum, a clear separation between advertising and news stories. When it comes to news, journalists…

"Eva Domínguez | 19/01/2012

Photography first, and now 360-degree video have served to experiment with spatial immersion in digital journalism in order to give the spectators the option to see the scene as it revolves around them, in …

"Storytelling doesn’t even properly work in the case of stories — at least those for adults, known as novels. British critic Frank Kermode, who died last August after a numbingly productive career, made the point in his finest book, …