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Bubbe is back

So there I was, on the BART train, reading the newspaper-that-Rupert-is-lusting-after. Id just finished Mossbergs piece of hot air on the Helio yawn and was flipping through the other sections. I came to the Personal Journal and saw an interesting article about FDA approval for cancer vaccine. And then my...

Tags: Bubbe, media, Grandma Yetta

Blog posts 2007-05-10

Arianna is golden

It takes a golden woman to get me out of bed at 5.00 am. And Arianna Huffington is golden, very golden. I caught the 6.30 shuttle this morning down to Burbank, to catch the golden girl live -- speaking at On Hollywood. She didnt disappoint. Dressed in a gold top,...

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Blog posts 2007-05-02

Google doubleclicks on advertising

So what does the Google acquisition of Doubleclick tell us?It says that Google isnt an all-you-can-eat restaurant in Mountain View or a do-no-evil NGO or a research department of Stanford University. It isnt even a search engine. No. Google is a remarkably profitable business that is cornering the market for...

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Blog posts 2007-04-15

A Pulitzer Prize for Dave Winer (the bearded, prickly one)?

Blogging had its tenth birthday party this week. What a big big boy it has become. Even I acknowledge that not each and every 70 million bloggers are fools and not each and every one of their 1.5 million daily blogs are idiotic. The question is how to determine value...

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Blog posts 2007-04-08

Edit-job from Jimmy Wales (a non-story)

Its not often that one is lucky enough to get a free edit-job from Jimmy Wales. But I just got one for my piece last week about Jimmy-gone-wild in Toyko. Unfortunately, however, some of my "facts" were wrong and Jimmy hadnt gone quite as wild as I originally reported....

Tags: Wiki, Jimmy Wales, media

Blog posts 2007-03-18

Nice to meet you ZDNet!

Hello ZDNet readers -- nice to meet you all! My name is Andrew Keen and, beginning from today, Ill be trying to seduce you with my ideas. Who am I? Im a traditionalist -- a old-fashioned kind of content guy. I love physical books, movies, newspapers and music. I care...

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Blog posts 2007-03-01

Additional Resources

Journalism vs. blogging: the present and the future

With the rise of online media, from YouTube to Facebook, WordPress to the New York Times, journalism has expanded over the course of the last decade into a new era. "Journalism" may not be guaranteed work all of the time, but it is most certainly in my eyes one of...

Tags: Journalist, Journalism, Microblogging, Blogging, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-01-02

Autonomy CEO: Web 2.0 'under all the hype, there is something there...'

An intriguing article by 'meaning based computing' company Autonomy's CEO Mike Lynch in today's Financial Times: Embracing the friend, taming the beast â€" Web 2.0 in the enterprise. Autonomy are mature and stable (with a 4 billion market capitalisation), rapidly becoming the second largest pure software company...

Tags: Web, Autonomy Corp. Plc, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-06-30

AGL Energy CIO: Cesare Tizi

Cesare Tizi: AGL was -- how’s a nice way of putting it? Quite a challenge! AGL’s an organization that … was growing at an amazing rate. When I joined AGL, we had pretty much every technology you could shake a stick at: we had mainframes; mid-range, Wintel-type platforms; we had...

Tags: Phone, Data Center, Information Technology, Environment, Business, Unit, CPU, Technology, Encryption, CRM, AGL, Data Centers, RFID, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Management, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2007-11-16

Web 2.0 in the enterprise: language matters

As we approach the second Office 2.0 I find myself troubled by the lack of concrete examples of how Web 2.0 technologies are impacting the enterprise. There are a good number of small, tactical case studies out there but you have to ask if anything is really changing. Dave...

Tags: Web, Web 2.0, CIO, SAP AG, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-08-06

Skeptical reader: Andrew Keen's big ideas

On the last afternoon of the Supernova Conference, David Weinberger and fellow ZD Net blogger Andrew Keen, debated the question, "Disorder: Feature or Bug?" Unfortunately, they didn't actually manage to demonstrate a definitive answer to that question, because all we learned was that they disagreed. Chris Heuer took notes. Keen,...

Tags: Business &, Technology

Blog posts 2007-06-28

News to know: Microsoft vs. DOJ, Google; Ubuntu media support; Zoho; Motorola CTO

Notable headlines:Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft to address Google search complaint in Vista SP1. Microsoft agrees to change Vista desktop search.Microsoft bails on Vista virtualization licensing changes. The virtualization flip flop.Gallery right: Media support in Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn.Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: The key to getting more Windows users to switch to Linux....

Tags: News to know, General

Blog posts 2007-06-20

News to know: Google Gears; Intel V8; Firefox patch; Bill and Steve

Notable headlines:David Berlind: Podcast: ‘Google Gears’ vies to be de facto tech for offline Web apps. Ed Burnette and Marc Orchant.Google kicks offline Web apps into gear. Ryan Stewart:What Google Gears means for Rich Internet Applications and Apollo . O'Reilly Radar: Google releases open source toolkit for offline web apps....

Tags: General, News to know

Blog posts 2007-05-31

Media literacy in a media saturated world

The question of what becomes of journalism in the age of mass media, in which anyone with an Internet connection can be their own publisher and reach a potential audience of billions with a single click was the subject of a conversation at a cybersalon hosted by Sylvia Paull near...

Tags: Blogging, General, Web Technology

Blog posts 2007-05-22

News to know: Google-DoubleClick-Clear Channel; Adobe video; Web 2.0 Expo

Notable headlines:Ubuntus feisty spin on virtualization.Microsoft gives bar codes a splash of color.Dan Farber: Salesforce.com adds Flex to Apex platform. Web 2.0 Expo: Changing the face of the desktop.AP: Google, Clear Channel Ink Long-Term Deal.Robin Harris: Apples new kick-butt file system. Selling stuff online? Here comes the IRS.Intel set to...

Tags: General

Blog posts 2007-04-16

On anonymity

I should have renamed it Keens code of misconduct. Minus 28 votes, 72 mostly critical comments... Wow! I never realized I was so spankingly popular."Eh, Adolf Stalin, faschocommunista girlie, tell me what do you REALLY think about anonymity..." One of my more historically erudite critics anonymously emailed asked me over...

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Blog posts 2007-04-03

Welcome Andrew Keen

Andrew Keen has just joined our cadre of ZDNet bloggers, and he is sure to make waves. Andrew is not a fan of the great blogocracy, as I wrote in my reflections on a decade of blogging. His forthcoming book, The Cult of the Amateur, Andrew makes a frontal assault...

Tags: Blogging, General

Blog posts 2007-03-01

Reflections on the first decade of blogging

Reflections on the first decade of bloggingGutenberg's and Dave WinerJust like Gutenberg , who is not the inventor of the movable type printing but got the credit of printing press, Dave Winer has nothing todo with the invention of RSS Rahul Guha of Netscape or XML-RPC (Dave...

Tags: Gannet, Gutenberg, Bemes, blogging, media, blog, genie

Discussion threads 2007-02-25

Reflections on the first decade of blogging

I ran into my old friend Dave Winer at the San Francisco airport on Wednesday last week. He was on his way to Boston for the Public Media Conference. We traded pictures and chatted over early morning (6:30 AM) coffee about developers, synthesizers, speech givers, chroniclers--how people play...

Tags: General, Web Technology, Blogging

Blog posts 2007-02-25

Journalism 2.0: News or chatter?

What is the future of news? A debate is underway in the blogosphere. Additionally, What is news? Who writes news? Haydn Shaughnessy asks: Are readers really writers? Some are but we know participation is always on the low side. The reader is a writer sounds good, but it’s...

Tags: Web 2.0

Blog posts 2006-10-15