Lovely WashPost column by John Kelly. The last two journalists in America sat at a card table in the middle of their empty newsroom. They faced each other, about to flip a coin. The coin was to decide which one would be the second-to-last journalist in America and which one would be the last journal...

To nobody’s surprise except its own, ITV is in deep, deep trouble. Paul Graham has been musing about how broadcast TV lost the war. “About twenty years ago”, he writes, “people noticed computers and TV were on a collision course and started to speculate about what they’...

Interesting WSJ.com piece. Internet games, gambling and other forms of online entertainment have seen significant surges in use in the several months since the economic downturn deepened. Social-networking services like Facebook, blogs and discussion forums — all well-known time sinks even dur...

Ann Marie Hourihane is an Irish Times journalist who wrote a good book a few years ago about the so-called ‘Celtic Tiger’ — Ireland when it was the poster child of European development. Now she’s back doing the same thing for the bust. Last week she went to Merlin, an auction...

NYU's Mac classroom, 1987, waiting to be unpacked. I had seen the "1984" SuperBowl commercial, of course, and had laid hands on that boxy ecru first-generation mouse at Macy's in Herald Square, and I knew, from the very first, that the Macintosh was a game-changer. I had been programming since 1973,...

Readers of Roy Greenslade’s blog will have seen that he’s been wondering why Stephen Glover’s column about the decline of the Daily Telegraph was mysteriously pulled from the Independent. However, Roy helpfully provides a link to the Google cached version, which reads in part: With...

Hard to imagine, I know, but no child now attending school in the UK knows there was a world without Google. Or realises that once all phones were tethered to the wall, like goats....

Sobering piece by Jay Rosen exploring the critical role that Google’s corporate gatekeepers play in deciding what can and cannot be shown to audiences. “Right now, we’re trusting Google because it’s good, but of course, we run the risk that the day will come when Google goes bad,â€� [Tim...

Fascinating post about current traffic patterns on the Net. Lately, I see more sudden eyeballs and what used to be an established trend seems to fall into a more chaotic pattern that is the aggregate of different spike signatures around a smooth curve. This graph is from two consecutive days where w...

It’s always a mistake to under-estimate Rupert Murdoch. Here’s what he’s been saying recently. “My summary of the way some of the established media has responded to the Internet is this: It’s not newspapers that might become obsolete. It’s some of the editors, rep...