- Why the BBC’s old guard called time on the Wibbly Wobbly Web | Technology | The Observer
"The World Service is to lose five of its foreign-language services, and a quarter of its staff. And BBC Online's budget will be cut by a quarter to £103m and the unit will lose 360 staff, at the same time as it embarks upon a radical "redesign" of the website and its navigation. [...] What links these two victims of corporate surgery? Answer: they're not television. And that's highly significant." Not sure I agree with this entirely, but it a good read. (bbc restructuring television job_cuts )
- BBC – Adam Curtis Blog
Fascinating and utterly partisan view of Rupert Murdoch and his relationship with the BBC. With footage from old BBC film. (rupert_murdoch bbc video history news_corp )
- A VC: A Frightening Week
"This week, when I read that Egypt's government was able to completely turn off the Internet in country, it stunned me. The Internet was designed to be immune to such things." I not surprised when people are surprised by this, but I am surprised that Fred Wilson was surprised. (egypt internet routing freedom )
- Are Current Web Design Trends Pushing Us Back to 1999?
Probably not, but we're certainly developing a lot of similar bad habits. (trends design web_development css3 )
- Why I was wrong about Quora as a blogging service … — Scobleizer
Robert Scoble gets modded down and makes 180 degree turn on Quora: "Turns out I was totally wrong. It’s a horrid service for blogging, where you want to put some personality into answers. It’s just fine for a QA site, but we already have lots of those and, in fact, the competitors in this space are starting to react." (quora blogging criticism community )
- The Great Style Debate « Rantings of a sub-editor
"Those in the audience hoping for a punch-up will have been sadly disappointed; it was a most civilised affair. Mr Heffer and Mr Marsh certainly have their differences, but they have much more in common – namely a love of language and an affinity with their readers." Good summary of the style guide editors' debate. (journalism language grammar review )
- Brent Martin’s photos – A lot of Americans can’t even find their own country on a map. So I’m not surprised Fox News has no idea about Egypt! | Plixi
"A lot of Americans can't even find their own country on a map. So I'm not surprised Fox News has no idea about Egypt!" (egypt usa humour fox )
- It’s Not Twitter or Facebook, It’s the Power of the Network: Tech News and Analysis «
"Daily Show host Jon Stewart on Friday poked fun at the idea that Twitter might have played a key part in the demonstrations, and there are many observers who share his skepticism. [...] In the end, it’s not about Twitter or Facebook: it’s about the power of real-time networked communication." (twitter facebook egypt social_networking tunisia )
- The triumph of Davos | Analysis & Opinion |
"Davos, in 2011, was the year when the cynics were finally proven wrong. Long derided as a sybaritic alpine gabfest, the World Economic Forum astonished the world with what it was capable of this year, deftly leveraging the talk around its chosen theme — “shared norms for the new reality” — into an effective and timely intervention in Egypt. The Forum’s slogan — “committed to improving the state of the world” — became reality, as the actions of a small and powerful few atop a distant Swiss alp managed to give shape and direction to what would otherwise have remained inchoate and dangerous demonstrations in the volatile North African hotspot." This, by the way, is satire. (politics humour satire egypt )
- 500 Internal Server Error
500 Internal Server Error (none)
- Start Fund: Yuri Milner, SV Angel Offer EVERY New Y Combinator Startup $150k
"Two years ago Yuri Milner, through his investment firm DST, disrupted the traditional Silicon Valley venture capital model [...] Now he’s partnering (as an individual, not as part of DST) with Ron Conway’s angel fund, SV Angel. And they’re making a bold investment move. This evening they’ve just made a blanket investment offer to every Y Combinator startup in the most recent batch. They’re going to invest in all of them. Every single one." (investing venture_capitalists startups )
- Eyewitness: Glare mile | World news | The Guardian
Amazing photograph of London. (photograph london_weekly )
- New York Times, ProPublica explain how e-books help monetize old news, grow audience | Poynter.
New e-books from The New York Times and ProPublica highlight the potential for journalists to find new audiences, and possibly new revenue, for long-form reporting. The two e-books launched this week, coinciding with Amazon’s official unveiling of its Kindle Singles short-book program. [...] Writing on ProPublica.org, Richard Tofel noted that in the past, finding an outlet for a work of that size has been difficult due to the economics involved. The word length — somewhere between a long magazine story and a very short printed book — is not a natural fit for either format." (journalism nytimes ebooks kindle publishing business_models )
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