Media
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Apple’s rumored Tablet: what’s it for?
Rumors of a new device supposedly being prepared by Apple for a release sometime in the next five months are flying this morning after an FT.com story which describes about a flat, rectangular device with which users would interact by…
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Random Media Notes
“The Washington Post convened a panel of ten people to weigh in on whether a news outlet should cover an alleged sexual assault or not. No shock, ten panelists = ten men.” Way to go, WaPo! Ann Arbor.com starts up…
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Scott Rosenberg’s Thoughts on Twitter
Scott Rosenberg, a co-founder of Salon who has written a fascinating history of blogging (in time, we’ll be interviewing him about his book), recently wrote up his thoughts on Twitter in two posts: how Twitter differs from blogging, how it…
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It Has Ever Been Thus
“Printed books have been in existence for four hundred years at the most, and already they pile up in certain countries in such a way as threaten the old balance of the planet. Civilization has arrived at the most unexpected…
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An Author’s Experience of Cover Design
Earlier this month, the subject of book cover design, and who the final design should speak to, blipped across the blogs for a day or so after Seth Godin reasonably opined that the single purpose of a book cover is to…
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The Digital Caste System
The arrival of the Internet and the wide dissemination of information that ensued has inspired the belief that technology may be able to break down hierarchies and allow for the equal access to and expression of information. In “The Not-So-Hidden…
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Breaking Laws to Break the Story
Rupert Murdoch‘s U.K. tabloid News of the World, and its parent company News Group Newspapers (also owned by Murdoch), are under scrutiny after The Guardian reported that the group paid 1 million pounds (1.6 million dollars) in out-of-court settlements to…
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Random Media Notes
New York Times Magazine withdraws altered photo essay. Is unconcious plagiarism, ala Maureen Dowd, real? Yes and no. Pandora, online radio stations, reach fee deal. Analyst who made forecast about Up admits to being wrong. NFL says no to players…
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Beauty and Body Image in Nepal
“Although female virtue in Nepal had traditionally been expressed by keeping one’s shoulders and legs covered, young Nepali women are now increasingly eschewing the traditional kurta surwal (a long tunic over baggy pants), and opting to wear more body-baring Western…
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Harry Allen on the Death of VIBE
Harry Allen, Hip Hop activist and writer for The Source, The Village Voice, and other publications, has a touching and insightful piece about the death of VIBE magazine on his blog Media Assassin. Allen, who was a freelance writer for…
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Caleb Crain Elaborates
Surely you remember our note about Caleb Crain’s new book, The Wreck of the Henry Clay? (He noticed us!) If you don’t remember the story, then briefly: it’s a collection of untimely essays from his blog, Steamboats Are Ruining Everything, edited…
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The Story of Encarta
From a New York Times article, published two months ago, about the end of the line for Encarta: “It’s hard to look at the end of the Encarta experiment without the free and much larger Wikipedia springing immediately to mind. But Encarta arguably…