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Newspaper Crisis Hits Le Monde: Staff Strikes Over 25% Layoffs
Ouch. File this one under the "We feel your pain, freres." The staff at Le Monde went on strike rather than accept cutbacks of more than 25%; the paper didn't come out today, which says to me that these folks were serious. Now, I know that...
NAB Toys: Sony Stays in the Game
I was wondering what Sony would try to do to compete with the great little Canon HD "crash-cam" that blew everyone's minds last year. They already loosed a swarm of cameras around Christmas, hoping to scarf up some market share then - which may not have been a bad...
Great Use of a Mash-up to Tell a Story
Where has Hillary really been, and under what circumstance? Check out this use of the Google map-customization features... In the wake of the "Platoon coming into a hot LZ" story that Hillary floated last week - and that rose up to bite her in the ass, and...
Web 2.0 Starts to Hit Local TV
CBS stations start to jettison longtime staffers as audiences dissolve There are many newspaper editors, reporters and publishers either feeling schadenfreude or shaking their heads in sad sympathy at this news... While local news stations remained profitable, ratings...
VideoEgg Has A Great Fall…
...and all the King's horses and all the King's men ... Welp. Here I had been recommending VideoEgg as a possible solution to all my students/trainees, because it offered a dead-bang easy way to upload and host your videos, the EULA wasn't as onerous as YouTube, and...
A Hack Without a Pencil Is Like…A Mojo Without an N96?
A teenager without a Hi-5 page? The Bar Channel, a venture in the Great White North, broadcastsprogramming via closed-circuit internet to subscriber bars that itprovides TV-style monitors. After launching in April, the network grewto 88 Ontario bars and about $600,000...