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What I'm Reading
- Apple to Unveil its Next Move in Music?CBS News | Aug 30, 2010Apple has scheduled a big event for Wednesday. CBS News speculates on the company's coming announcements.
- Can Preschoolers Be Depressed?New York Times | Aug 25, 2010Some psychologists believe preschoolers can experience bouts of depression, this New York Times report says.
- Electronic Arts stands by Medal of Honor Taliban featureCNET | Aug 25, 2010EA defends the ability to play as Taliban soldiers in the upcoming "Medal of Honor" game.
- Twitter’s not stupid – you just have boring friendswww.andrewdubber.com | Aug 16, 2010A nice look at how to get the most out of Twitter and refutation of some common Twitter complaints.
- Is 3-D dead in the water? A box-office analysisSlate | Aug 24, 2010Slate magazine looks at whether people are happy with just two dimensions in their movies, thank you very much.
- Apple to Unveil its Next Move in Music?
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My Clips- Cause of plane crash west of Bozeman under investigation, pilot pronounced dead at scene August 31, 2010
- The man who wanted train horns August 16, 2010
- Money well spent? August 15, 2010
- Local telecom company gets $64 million to bring high-speed Internet to rural Gallatin County August 5, 2010
- Montana Opticom receives $64 million in stimulus money for rural broadband August 4, 2010
- AT&T to replace Alltel in Montana within a year June 25, 2010
- Bozeman twin looks to scale namesake peak: K2 June 21, 2010
- High water claims Amsterdam Road bridge June 12, 2010
- Trio of veteran Belgrade teachers retiring June 7, 2010
- MSU robot digger wins NASA competition May 29, 2010
Tag Archives: free
Newspapers need to capitalize on scarcity
Scarcity will drive the news organizations of the future and help them differentiate themselves from all the competition, says Nic Brisbourne, a partner at a European venture capital firm in a post on paidContent.org. Newspapers, he says, have spent the last few decades enjoying a virtual monopoly on information and advertising distribution, but that monopoly [...]
Posted in Miscellany Also tagged Chris Anderson, Jeff Jarvis, journalism, newspaper business models, newspapers, Nic Brisbourne, scarcity Comments closed
Information wants to be free... and expensive
Given how many electrons have been spilled of late over the “information wants to be free” versus micropayments debate, I thought it would be helpful to remember what author Stuart Brand actually (says he) said when he “coined” the phrase: On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it’s so valuable. The right [...]
Journalist Bailout Program
TypePad, one of the biggest subscription-based blogging providers, has offered free pro-level accounts to journalists and ex-journalists. I’m serious. You can check it out for yourself if you want. I already sent them an e-mail asking for an account. I’m pretty notorious for using WordPress on all of my sites, but I can’t pass up [...]
Posted in Digitalia, Social Networking Also tagged journalism, Social Networking, TypePad Comments closed
Michael Becker has been blogging about academia, digital culture and journalism since 2005. He is the Web editor of the
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