Autor: Michael Genova

AOL Time Warner: Gemeinsamkeiten mit Vivendi?

Medien

Süddeutsche: Vivendi-Affäre belastet AOL „Doch in den Augen seiner Kritiker hat AOL zu viel mit den aktuellen Sorgenkindern der Weltwirtschaft wie Worldcom und Vivendi gemeinsam.“ NY Times: A Media Giant Needs a Script „Now the bitterness and resentment that employees on the Time Warner side have toward their sister division at AOL are straining the company’s ability to cooperate — which, after all, was the promise of the merger — and the restive executives throughout […]

TiVolution

Medien

FastCompany: Talkin‘ About a TiVolution „TiVo poses two serious threats to mainstream media: On the one hand, hackers have put on an impressive demonstration of doing for TV what Napster did for music. On the other hand, TiVo hastens the already declining relevance of television commercials by giving users.“ Siehe auch: DIENSTRAUM: The Napsterization of TV (05.02.2002)

Jeder ist Chefredakteur

Blogging / Online-Journalismus

Was will uns der Schreiber nun sagen? Dass Weblogs ein Phänomen von kurzer Dauer sind? Wohin wird die Karawane denn weiterziehen? Telepolis: Jeder ist Chefredakteur „Der Weblog-Journalismus gibt den Nutzern die Möglichkeit, ihre eigenen Chefredakteure beim täglichen Zusammenstellen ihrer eigenen Zeitung zu sein. Für viele, die sich ohnehin vom politischen, medialen, sozialen oder künstlerischen Diskurs ausgeschlossen fühlen, ist das eine unwiderstehliche Versuchung. (…) Weblogs bieten Geschwindigkeit und die Möglichkeit zur selbstverantworteten Souveränität, was sie zu […]

Should old media embrace blogging?

Blogging

The Economist: The trees fight back «“Traditional publishing is about putting on a show; building a network of weblogs is like hosting a party,” says Simon Waldman, head of digital publishing at the Guardian.» Übrigens – Greenpeace hat ein Weblog: Banners And Us „an open channel with greenpeace folks“

Warchalking

Technologie

BusinessWeek: A Wireless End Run Around ISPs „Writing a book at home can be isolating, so London author Ben Hammersley set up a simple wireless access node in his office window so he could surf the Web from the café opposite his house. Like many civic-minded techies, Hammersley was happy to share his connection. The problem: How to let everyone in his South Kensington neighborhood know that an ultrafast wireless broadband connection, known as Wi-Fi, […]

Open Source Intelligence

Netzkultur

Open Source Intelligence „The Open Source movement has established over the last decade a new collaborative approach, uniquely adapted to the Internet, to developing high-quality informational products. Initially, its exclusive application was the development of software (GNU/Linux and Apache are among the most prominent projects), but increasingly we can observe this collaborative approach being applied to areas beyond the coding of software. One such area is the collaborative gathering and analysis of information, a practice […]