What to do when Rupert calls? Rupert Murdoch may be the perfect publisher for The Wall Street Journal. The Wrong Man for Dow Jones: The sale of Dow Jones to News Corp. would diminish the news quality and integrity of The Wall Street Journal and the independence of a leading national editorial voice. The O'Murdoch factor: Rupert Murdoch's bid to take over The Wall Street Journal is a dramatic illustration of why public ownership is a disaster for newspapers, and here are eight more reasons to distrust Murdoch.
Craigslist's Craig Newmark says people who run printing presses are "screwed". Critical Mass: Ken Auletta on how everyone listens to Walter Mossberg. BostonNow, a free weekday daily, is culling blog posts and running excerpts next to articles from reporters and newswires. Storybook Ending: Virginia Postrel tells the tale of how an enterprising first-time publisher gave the beloved children's book Mr. Pine a second life. So many news articles are the same; only the names are changed. A blank template from Michael Park takes the legwork out of your next general-interest piece.
Tim Berners-Lee on the Semantic Web: The inventor of the World Wide Web explains how the Semantic Web works and how it will transform how we use and understand data. The Hapless Seed: Publishers and authors should stop cowering; Google is less likely to destroy the book business than to slingshot it into the 21st century. Does your name Google well? In the age of Google, being special increasingly requires standing out from the crowd online. As more people flood the Web, that's becoming an especially tall order for those with common names. Annalee Newitz on the Myth of the Universal Digital Library: Sorry, but we can't digitize everything. Here's why.
Fragmentary Knowledge: Was the Antikythera Mechanism the world’s first computer? How uses, not innovations, drive human technology: A review of The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History Since 1900. The Web 2.0 Bubble: Michael Hirschorn on why the social-media revolution will go out with a whimper. From Wired, an article on online advertising: So good, yet so bad for us. And How To Trick an Online Scammer Into Carving a Computer Out of Wood: Deceit and counter-deceit in the "Scamosphere"
