Archives for September 2006
Two Facebook Updates: WSJ & Danah Boyd
Big Facebook news comes pn page one of The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) this morning with another round of rumors that Yahoo! wants to fork over a billion dollars for Facebook. Where will this impossible line in the sand be drawn next? MySpace got 650 million (it now looks like such a bargain), [...]
Short Post: An Unspoken Truth about Facebook’s Problems
Mark Naples wrote a terrific column for iMedia Connection this week about the first Facebook Fiasco, when the social network alienated its users by changing policies without warning them. Less than a week later, Facebook AGAIN alienated its users by opening its rolls to people who aren’t in college.
Scott Karp over at the AttentionTrust blog [...]
A Weak Moment: Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Ah, technology. It accelerates and makes easier so many things… including character flaws.
Just this afternoon over lunch I shared with a colleague that I don’t have time to pick up any new TV shows, even though the premiere season is about to start here in the U.S.
I lied… even though I didn’t know it at [...]
Update on the LA Times: Check out today’s WSJ
Mere hours after I wrote about the changes to the Los Angeles Times that we can infer from the death of its TV Times weekly insert, the Wall Street Journal has a big article about how various billionaires (including the Chandlers, who founded the paper, Ron Burkle and — to my surprise — David Geffen) [...]
L.A. Times Stops Auto-Delivering T.V. Listings
We still get the print edition of our local paper, the Los Angeles Times, although increasingly I find it hard to justify killing the rain forests in order to do so. Since I was a child here in Los Angeles, a linchpin of my experience of the Sunday L.A. Times has been TV Times, the [...]
