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- ZDNet Author Biography
- David Berlind was fomerly the executive editor of ZDNet. David holds a BBA in Computer Information Systems. Prior to becoming a tech journalist in 1991, David was an IT manager.
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ZDNet Resources
- Did the death of journalism just take another step?
- Today, via Dave Winer, I see that Business 2.0 is asking all of its journalists to create a blog. Im routinely asked to participate in panel discussions regarding the media landscape -- a conversation that invariably ends up predicting the impact of blogging on established media or journalism. If youve...
- Tags: Blogging, journalism
- Blog posts 2006-10-16
- Publicly selected and funded investigative reporting: Can it work?
- Meet Jay Rosen. If you've frequented the inner circles of journalism, joined a public conversation about the media, or paid any attention to the so-called "a-listers" of the blogosphere, then chances are you've encountered the New York University-based professor of journalism, or at least his media/journalism watchdog blog at PressThink.org....
- Tags: Meet Jay Rosen
- Blog posts 2006-07-25
- Getting real-time journalism right
- Excerpted Tim Bray regarding my podcast interview of him earlier this week: I got email late yesterday from David Berlind: “Hey, can I call you for a minute?” He wanted commentary on a story he was writing......After a few minutes’ chat, David asked if he...
- Tags: journalism
- Blog posts 2006-04-26
Additional Resources
- How OpenDNS, PowerDNS and MaraDNS remained unaffected by the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability
- The short answer is being paranoid about tackling a known vulnerability. It's 2001, and Daniel J. Bernstein DJB, author of the then popular djbdns security-aware DNS implementation, is applying basic math principles to raise awareness on what's to turn into the "sky is falling" critical Internet vulnerability in 2008, in...
- Tags: DNS, Vulnerability, Anomaly, Attack, OpenDNS, MaraDNS, NSS, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Mossberg: MobileMe Is Far Too Flawed To Be Reliable
- In a scathing indictment of Apple's MobileMe service, the Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg calls the service "far too flawed to be reliable." The US$99 per year service – which is supposed to push contacts, calendars and email from iPhone to computer – has been hobbling along...
- Tags: Apple Inc., MobileMe, E-mail, Online Communications, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- 2016: "You're watching the Linux Channel."
- 2016: "You're watching the Linux Channel."My ViewFirst, no one hates Microsoft more than I do - for both practical and ethical reasons. After dealing with Microshaft's endless parade of crap for nearly two decades, I finally abandoned my PC for a Mac. It was one of the best moves of...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- NY gov signs game bill into law
- New York State legislation that will have made it illegal to sell or rent some violent games to minors was signed was signed into law. A bill that will have made it illegal to sell or rent some violent games to minors was signed into law Tuesday by New...
- Tags: Law, Minor, Games, Personal Technology, video games, video game violence, Nintendo DS, New York, Brendan Sinclair, GameSpot
- News items 2008-07-23
- Survey: Corporations hold out on Vista
- Survey: Corporations hold out on VistaLarry isn't going to give it up...It's sad what passes for "journalism" these days. ZDNet and her "sister site" TechRepublic are so one sided it's laughable. Is this "survey" really supposed to be passed as truth? The survey was conducted by a company KACE that...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, survey, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- Virtual Iron Customer Profile: Goodell DeVries Leech & Dann, LLP
- I had the chance to speak with Goodell DeVries Leech & Dann's David Roden, a few questions about their use of Virtual Iron's virtual server environment. Thanks for spending time with me, David! Here are my questions and David's answers: Who are you and what...
- Tags: Virtual Iron, Server Virtualization, Disaster Recovery, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Saying that Windows "Workstation" 2008 is faster than Vista doesn't make it so
- Saying that Windows "Workstation" 2008 is faster than Vista doesn't make it soPar for the course wrt anti-Vista bashers.They believe that repeating something ad nauseum will somehow make it true.Journalism or Rant?I'm afraid you've followed suit rather than taking the high road on this issue. By even responding to...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, RAM, workstation, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- Open Source VoIP: Asterisk or FreeSwitch?
- When the time came for a new PBX, Brian Snipes chose to do something a bit unconventional. The IT manager at law firm Hare, Wynn, Newell, and Newton LLP didn't purchase a commercial PBX, nor did he settle on the open source market leader,...
- Tags: Phone, PBX, Attorney, FreeSwitch, Asterisk, Telephony, VOIP, Open Source, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Telecommunications, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Citizen journalism and traditional news
- Citizen journalism and traditional newsHere's a way to learn and improveRecord your video and then DON'T look at it right away. go do something else and look at it at least an hour later. Then see what you did wrong. Think about that but don't do it...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Blogging, Planning, consciousness, Citizen Journalism, video
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- Citizen journalism and traditional news
- I've been experimenting recently with CNN's site for "citizen journalism" named iReport. I created a few video posts of myself in response to requests for questions targeted at future visitors to Wolf Blitzer's "The Situation Room" (you can see my iReport site here - http://www.ireport.com/people/JohnCarroll). There are a few kinks in...
- Tags: Video Camera, Video, Camera, Corporate Communications, Marketing, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- 2008 Pwnie Award nominees announced
- Well, after getting 134 nominations, and spending countless hours pulling out nominees, the judges for the 2008 Pwnie Awards have announced the final nominees to be voted on. From the site: The final list of nominees for the nine Pwnie Award categories is ...
- Tags: Nominee, Vulnerability, XSS, Attack, Flaw, Dan, XSS Flaw, Lifelock, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Icahn says he can't
- Add Carl Icahn to the list of parties trying to figure out what to do with Yahoo! who can't. If he had a solid idea of how to set Yahoo! apart from Google, in particular, or Facebook and MySpace, along the way, he would have been...
- Tags: America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Carl Icahn, Icahn, Corporate Governance, Channel Management, Search, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- News to know: Amazon S3 outage; iPhone 3G; SOA debugging; Microsoft
- Notable headlines: Michael Krigsman: Amazon S3: 'Elevated error rates'. Techmeme GigaOm: S3 Outage Highlights Fragility of Web Services Dana Blankenhorn: Do open source applications take security seriously? Dancho Danchev: Spam coming from free email providers increasing ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, S3 Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., SOA, Amazon.com Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, Microsoft Corp., Outage, 3G, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Sales Strategy, Open Source, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- The iPhone meets Journalism
- The iPhone meets JournalismSometimes you have a keen sense for the obvious...But I did get a chuckle from the Obama dig.RE: AgreedSometimes the total contempt these people have for archaic concepts like truth and honesty gets under my skin.Phone it in MurphOther people's words and a few paras.I don't expect...
- Tags: Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2008-07-19
- The iPhone meets Journalism
- If you read general coverage of Apple's new G3 iPhone you'll soon discover either that it's perfection incarnate or the worst excuse for a cheap handset anyone's ever foisted on an unsuspecting world. Balance is not a feature -of the coverage - and you'd never know, from "journalistic" reports that...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-07-19
- The potential fallout from Apple vs. Psystar
- It's easy to think that when it comes to Apple vs. Psystar, that it's going to be a case of David vs. Goliath, only thing time Goliath pounds David into the ground like a nail. But this case could be a catalyst for questions being raised about Apple's own business...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Psystar, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- iPhone 3G GPS - Is it too small in the antenna department to be any good?
- Ever since reading David Pogue's review of iPhone 3G I've been puzzling over something he said in relation to the GPS receiver. Specifically, is it too small in the antenna department to be any good? by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
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