Somewhere in the cacophony of the usual stuff on TechmemeCrunchFeed this past week, I missed this interesting nugget of news:
Google News makes money. Lots of it. To the tune of $100 million fungolas.
Now, when I heard about this, I did the proverbial triple take (”… wait, wait, wait — WHAT?”).
I’ve been a big fan of [...]
A few days ago, you may have heard about the whole Jimmy Wales / Wikipedia fiasco — its hard to believe that you didn’t as it hit a lot of major mainstream media outlets. The substance of the fiasco (if such a phrase can make sense in a non-oxymoronical kind of way) to me was [...]
Not that Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia is anything *remotely* like a New Media Orphan (in fact, one could say he is a new media ‘godfather’, in some respects), but interesting rejoinder *by* Mr. Sanger on Google News, with respect to an article written about Citizendium, his new authority-driven Wikipedia off-shoot.
Upshot of this was that [...]
Update: My faith in Techmeme comes through — Techmeme finally gets it right. Yay! {albeit more than 24h after the original Reuters article was pushed out}
To be honest, Blogrunner seems to have the same “problem”.
But for my money, the death of the HD-DVD format is easily the biggest story in the technosphere. Its something [...]
So four months after I unbashedly proclaimed that Google News would change the world as we know it (or something like that), the New York Times has done a bit of a pseudo-update on how things have done in the interim.
To say that progress has been “modest” would be a dramatic understatement (cue in Mat [...]
Earlier this year, when Sam Zell bought the Tribune for around $8 billion dollars, he brought attention to Google News at the time, alluding to how it was ripping of traditional news media — and wondering out loud whether or not new “deals” were going to come about given this peculiar inequity, particularly if Google [...]
So Google News Comments is probably less than a few days old, and I’ve extrapolated how this humble comment system might be the next best thing since sliced bread because of the way that Google is doing it. Yes, not with a little hyperbole did I write this yesterday. Now, no question that there are [...]
