Nice bit of reporting over on Wired about the efforts being made by those inside Tibet to get news of the protests, riots and killings through the news blackout imposed by the Chinese:
“Much of the reporting from Lhasa and elsewhere in Tibet comes from bloggers, tourists and activism organizations rather than traditional news outlets, which [...]
Wired is reporting that FindTheLostRing ARG discussed previously is, in fact, sponsored by McDonalds and the Olympics.
“In a sign that alternate-reality games have finally hit the mainstream, McDonald’s appears to be sponsoring what could be the biggest, most ambitious such campaign to date…McDonald’s participation was apparently confirmed Monday by a piece of legalese players discovered [...]
I have been arguing for some time that the Music Industry has been like a canary in the coal mine as far the film/TV industry should be concerned but so far it doesn’t seem like they’ve learned anything at all.
Wired has a sort of open letter to the industry addressing some of these issues:
” To [...]
So, as part of their promotional efforts, Wired is offering free copies of their current issue. That should totally get people psyched, right?
Well, check out the recent comments left on the free sign up page:
“Posted by: DonFrodo
Only open for US residents… sigh Sad world when even Wired doesn’t seem to realise the web is larger [...]
I just read a great little post on A VC Blog that points to his post written THREE YEARS AGO called In Defense of Free.
In it, Fred Wilson looks at Red Hat (linux), FlickR and Google as examples of how free is succeeding. This was three years ago.
Obviously, these ideas are becoming more mainstream every [...]
Wired’s Chris Anderson’s preview essay of his upcoming book FREE is getting a lot of attention (see BoingBoing) for starters). Considering he is the guy who wrote the extremely influential book The Long Tail it isn’t really that surprising.
Maybe because I am so deeply involved in the world of “new media” I don’t find [...]
Wired points out that YouTube made it’s appearance on the scene only three short years ago. Amazing to think it has been such a brief period of time:
“The video-sharing site, founded by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim, has, in three short years, become the third-most-visited website worldwide, trailing only Yahoo and YouTube’s parent [...]
Wired has a good look at the upcoming lawsuit against the music-search site Seeqpod
“Even though it’s just one company, the stakes are high. The future of search itself could be in jeopardy, because Warner Music Group’s suit attacks a key provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that, broadly speaking, allows search engines to link [...]
Yup, that’s the story. Isabella Rossalini is getting into the world of short video, creating and starring in a series of short videos intended for the mobile media market. According to Wired
“Rossellini’s one-minute shorts are dramatic reenactments of insects copulating called Green Porno, a name designed to draw search engine traffic.”
The 8 films will eventually [...]
