Monthly Archives: March 2009

Shouldn’t online ads be worth more?

Stop The Presses! – CBS News I finally got around to watching CBS Sunday Morning today, and enjoyed their piece on the downfall of newspapers. However, they glossed over the same point I’ve heard time and time again: Tierney is facing the same dilemma every paper is: while he could save a fortune becoming Web-only,

The best archive is multiple copies

Sun puts Internet Archive in a box, but will it stay there? – Ars Technica One of the technologies for really long-term preservation was … a titanium disk about the size of a long-playing record, and it was supposed to last 10,000 years. But then they realized that there were some assumptions that weren’t right,

You’ve got to start somewhere

Rights Clash on YouTube, and Videos Vanish – NYTimes.com The Times has a good overview of some of the problems with the YouTube/Warner Music dispute and the removal of videos that infringe copyright in the strictest sense of the law, but perhaps not in the spirit of the law.  In one example, a young musician’s

Truth in libel

Staples libel ruling concerns news media groups – The Boston Globe Staples has asked the full appeals court to reconsider the ruling, and 51 news organizations have filed a friend-of-the-court brief saying that the decision, if allowed to stand, “will create a precedent that hinders the media’s ability to rely on truthful publication to avoid