Tag: internet

UGC Newspapers

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It used to read, ‘Be a Citizen Journalist’ And no one ever clicked on it. Then we called it ‘Neighbor to Neighbor,’ and still nothing. For some reason, ‘Get Published’ was the magic phrase.” Parker will pore over 10s of submissions from readers today. These will range from a local custom-car builder trumpeting his upcoming appearance on the BET show Spring Bling to an emotional notice about a play being staged to raise funds for a 5th-grader’s bone marrow transplant. Contributors submit to 1 of 233 neighborhood Web sites, each aimed at a town or community in the Cincinnati area. Parker approves the submission (“I almost never reject one”), scans it for “the F-word,” and posts it to the site. “A few years ago, these would have come across the transom as press releases and been ignored.”

another one, this time singing the praises of gannettt. whatever!

Washington Post goes digital

Why is the Post Co. in better shape than its peers? Luck played a role. In 1984 the company bought a small test-preparation business from a Brooklyn entrepreneur named Stanley Kaplan, not really knowing what it was getting. Today the Kaplan education division is the company’s largest and fastest-growing business

hmm? these “newspapers are reinventing themselves” articles seem to be all the rage now

FCC Needs To Listen

The FCC has competing goals of maximizing revenue from the auction (suggesting less regulation) and protecting the public (suggesting more rules to force competition). Having open access requirements like those suggested by Google will spur competition and grow an economy around this spectrum. It will also put commercial pressure on mobile operators and broadband companies to reduce the restrictions they have on current broadband and mobile services.

the astroturfers are cute.

Open Library

1 web page for every book ever published. It’s a lofty but achievable goal. To build Open Library, we need 100s of millions of book records, a wiki interface, and lots of people who are willing to contribute their time and effort to building the site. To date, we have gathered over 20m records from a variety of large catalogs as well as single contributions, with more on the way.

3 programmers, 1 designer, 1 manager, 1 leader and 1 overseer.

Web Cleaners

The stream of negative comments began in 2002 after a woman who had sought advice from Scheff turned on her. The postings appeared on PTA Web sites in Florida, where Scheff lives. On bulletin boards and online forums. There were even YouTube videos threatening her. She sued for defamation and won an $11.3M verdict, but the attacks only got worse. In December, Scheff turned to ReputationDefender, a year-old firm that promised to help her cleanse her virtual reputation. She no longer dreads a Google search on her name.

reputation SEO is here.

40 gb broadband

Sigbritt Löthberg’s home has been supplied with a blistering 40 Gigabits per second connection, many 1000x faster than the average residential link and the first time ever that a home user has experienced such a high speed. Fiber technology makes such high speed connections technically and commercially viable. “The most difficult part of the whole project was installing Windows on Sigbritt’s PC”

Open Spectrum

We believe that the winning bidders should be required to adhere to enforceable rules that require the adoption of 4 types of “open” platforms:
Open applications: consumers should be able to download and utilize any software applications, content, or services they desire;
Open devices: consumers should be able to utilize a handheld communications device with whatever wireless network they prefer;
Open services: third parties (resellers) should be able to acquire wireless services from a 700 MHz licensee on a wholesale basis, based on reasonably nondiscriminatory commercial terms; and
Open networks: third parties (like internet service providers) should be able to interconnect at a technically feasible point in a 700 MHz licensee’s wireless network.

Delaminate Telcos

Carriers are gigantic corporate welfare bums. They receive an enormous state subsidy in the form of a right of way that gets them into every household in America. Imagine if the location of every tunnel, pole, and line had to be contracted for and paid for separately — the carriers would go bust.

your cell phone bill is funding terrorism. why do you hate america? go cold turkey on the phone.