Note: I’ll be having surgery on my leg tomorrow, so this will probably be the last article you will see from me for a few days while I recover. I can be reached via Twitter or e-mail while in the hospital. Sita Sings the Blues is an amazing animated feature created by Nina Paley. I first heard it ...

Out with the old media, in with the new! I came across a pair of unrelated articles that illustrated the same point for two different media: ignore communities at your peril. Newspapers: Not Adding Value In the first article, Mike Masnick of TechDirt points to a newspaper lawsuit to illustrate what ...

"And there is a literary death spiral. The less we read books, the less we read journalism; the less we read journalism, the less we read books. Reading skills atrophy or, worse, were never properly acquired to their fullest." - Dick Meyers, NPR, via Michael Greer on the Yahoo Self-Publish...

Steven Brill, founder of Court TV and the Clear airport security bypass service (among other things) has a cogent summary of what is wrong with the newspaper industry and the New York Times in particular, as well as a plan to save it. The article is worth reading for Brill’s analysis of the fl...

Now that the site is working properly again, here are some follow-ups to past stories I have posted. "Newsasaur" here; PDA D&D and the Missing Manual after the jump. Newsasaur Roars Alan D. Mutter—the ex-journalist blogger whose editorial "Why newspapers can’t stop the...

“High-level discussions about ending Book World have indeed taken place, according to a Post source with knowledge of the talks,” says Michael Calderone at the Politico. “However, no final decision has been made.” A lot of book-lovers might love to meet up in a dark alley wit...

As Circuit City commences liquidating its remaining 567 stores this weekend, it might be worth TeleReaders’ while to check out the sales and see if there are any good bargains to be found on e-book readers or PDAs or netbooks that can be used as such. But it is also worth considering the lessons t...

As anyone who’s watched his adventures knows, Wall•E knows all about obstinate, malfeasant corporate software that does nothing except step on individuals’ rights. Which is why it’s so ironic that the DVDs of Wall•E are encumbered with particularly obnoxious DRM that causes them to fail to...

Salon Magazine has a cheerful little piece looking at the recent downsizing or dissolution of several major publishing houses. Due to their corporate parentage, many publishers have been hit hard by the recent economic downturn—some parent companies are billions of dollars in debt. “There we...

Ars Technica has a two-page article that looks at the problems digital media (such as mp3s, computer games, and—yes—e-books) pose for a resale market. First Sale, Then What? A hundred years ago, a publisher attempted to put a notice on a book dictating terms under which it could be resold. One m...