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What Would You Pay For News?

Monday, November 16, 2009

The New York Times is reporting on a new survey that says that 48 percent of Americans would be willing to pay something for online news. The Times’ story begins with a tsk-tsking tone: We Yanks are less likely to say we’d pony up than people in other western countries. But a lover of ambitious [...]

ZenNews: Global News for the iPhone

Thursday, October 15, 2009

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Zensify, makers of a social-network aggregator app for the iPhone, released a free new app today called ZenNews. It uses a similar interface for a whole new purpose: to help you learn what’s going on in the world as reported by a bunch of high-profile news sources. The app pulls together stories from the New York [...]

Google’s Interesting, Useful, Odd, Imperfect Fast Flip

Monday, September 14, 2009

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Did I just say that one of the differences between Bing and Google is that Bing is splashy and Google revels in its plain jane interface? I lied. Google had a TechCrunch50 announcement of its own this afternoon, and involves a new Google Labs feature that has a high “wow, lookee there!” quotient: Google Fast [...]

Memo to World: Please Aggregate Technologizer

Monday, June 29, 2009

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The media business continues to be a place where people keep asking a very good question–”How can we preserve investigative journalism and other pricey, important enterprises?”–and providing truly terrible answers. One current example: Connie Schultz of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, who is advocating for tighter copyright laws that would prevent news aggregation sites from summarizing [...]

When Did You Last Read a Newspaper? Me, I Can’t Remember

Monday, April 6, 2009

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On Friday, word came out that the New York Times is threatening to shut down the print incarnation of the Boston Globe unless the paper’s unions agree to $20 million in cost reductions. As a former Bostonian, I still think of the Globe as one of my hometown papers–and my current hometown paper, the San [...]

Alltop Gets Personal With MyAlltop

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

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At South by Southwest Interactive, I checked in with Guy Kawasaki, the one-time Mac evangelist, longtime entrepreneur/author, Twitter dynamo, and founder of Alltop, a news and information site built on 31,000 hand-picked RSS feeds on topics of all sorts. Today, the site launched MyAlltop, a new feature that lets you build a custom page with [...]

Resolved: Humans Are Good at Editing Stuff

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

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Techmeme, the news aggregation site that specializes in tech coverage, has a peculiar relationship with those of us who cover tech. Many of us sing its praises. Some of us say it’s a waste of time. None of us can claim to be utterly objective about it, since it either links to our stuff (in [...]