nine things that indicate a media company gets the net in his piece, “Cut off the head and the body dies” (apropos of Steve Case stepping down at AOL). It’s a pretty good list, in particular because it identifies that one of the net’s primary values to a traditional media outlet is to increase the authoritativeness of a publication. Linkability or stability are key elements.
Archives for 2003
Finally fixed that
pencil over to the left, and I added one of those little icons that show up in the address bar as well.
Something to look at this weekend:
Textpattern, a new CMS from Dean Allan of Pompignan France.
Columnist Richard Cohen
in the Washington Post yesterday: Dead on the Money on the Bush tax cut. “Look, boychick, it’s always been this way. When the rich take from the poor, it’s called an economic plan. When the poor take from the rich, it’s called class warfare.” Thanks Michael.
And if you haven’t had enough Doctorow today,
he’s featured in an article in Internet Week today entitled Alleged Wi-Fi Risks Are Nonsense. “…in fact, users [of open WiFi access points] use only a trivial amount of a high-speed Internet connection. Moreover, switches on corporate networks are designed to balance multiple, high-speed demands on network resources. […] People who say to the contrary are wrong, they do not understand what they are talking about; they do not know how a switched network works.” Thanks Tamara!
