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Hey Zuck! Hollywood just hacked your profile
You know those Facebook phishing hacks — the ones where someone gets control of your account and sends phony messages to your friends? “I’m stuck in London! Send money quick!” I kept thinking of that...
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The Web Parenthesis: Is the “open Web” closing?
Heard of the “Gutenberg parenthesis”? This is the intriguing proposition that the era of mass consumption of text ushered in by the printing press four centuries ago was a mere interlude between the...
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What if the future of media is no “dominant players” at all?
The New Yorker’s John Cassidy recently concluded a skeptical review of the finances of Gawker Media (which I caught up with late) — a piece somewhat ludicrously headlined “Is Nick Denton Really the New...
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Is Daily Beast really losing $10 million a year?
I watched the mini-circus of media coverage that accompanied Friday’s announcement of the Newsweek/Daily Beast merger, and joined in the name mashup fun (I favor the Daily Week). Like a lot of people,...
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“Your map’s wrong”: Zuckerberg lights out for the territories
It’s hard to think of a more meaningful recent exchange in the tech-industry world than the moment onstage at Web 2.0 last night when Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg turned to conference organizers John...
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Why the Daily, Murdoch’s “tablet newspaper,” will be DOA
When I first heard the phrase “iPad newspaper” — shorthand for Rupert Murdoch’s not-so-secret-any-more new project — I puzzled over its oxymoronic implications. Forget about the, you know, iPad/paper...
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Steve Jobs, auteurs, and team-building
If you look at my life, I’ve never gotten it right the first time. It always takes me twice. — Steve Jobs, in a 1992 Washington Post interview I first wrote about Steve Jobs as a digital auteur in...
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WSJ Social: When news apps want to steal your face
I read about WSJ Social, the newspaper’s experiment at providing a socially driven version of itself entirely inside Facebook, and thought, hey, I should check it out. So I Googled “WSJ Social” and...
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Demonetization
Buried near the end of John Markoff’s front-page feature in the Times today about “deep learning”, neural-net-inspired software, this tidbit, which I think requires no further elaboration, but is worth...
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Lies our bubbles taught us
Of course it’s a bubble! Let’s not waste any time on that one. The fact of a bubble doesn’t mean that all the stuff people in tech are building today is worthless, nor will it all vanish when (not...
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