By Sean Mills Noticed something interesting today on the web. Not once, but twice, News Corp properties said something nice about The New York Times, or at least referenced their content as interesting and discussion worthy. First, Andrew LaVelle of the Wall Street Journal penned this post to the Di...

Noticed something interesting today on the web. Not once, but twice, News Corp properties said something nice about The New York Times, or at least referenced their content as interesting and discussion worthy. First, Andrew LaVelle of the Wall Street Journal penned this post to the Digits blog, bas...

What's your problem? And why aren't you tweeting about it? Today, everyone from John Lithgow to Peter Kafka joined the bitterati in airing their gripes. Dow Jones subcontractor Peter Kafka bitched about his commute. Greensboro News & Record editor John Robinson bitched about PR people. Space-alien a...

Glad to see that Google (GOOG) had a decent quarter. But things look grim for everyone else who makes a living selling ads, and there’s plenty of lousy news to come. We’ve already heard worrisome predictions about online ad sales at Yahoo (YHOO) and Time Warner’s (TWX) AOL. And tho...

One day, Web viewers will be able to go to any video site and see any TV show they want. But until then, if you want to see your favorite stuff on the Web (legally), you’ll need a well-annotated map: You can see ABC shows like “Lost” on Veoh, but not on Joost. Joost can show you st...

The music industry is pretty much conditioned to expect bad news at every turn these days. So this had to feel nice: Apple reports that its iTunes store had its “biggest music quarter ever” during the last three months of 2008. And the company says it posted “record” music sa...

Here’s a question that’s been puzzling me and some other folks for the past few days: What does a money-losing porn and social-networking company do with a $95,000 car? The answer: It gives it away. Or at least, that’s what Adult FriendFinder was planning on doing with the Ferrari ...

Peter Kafka, who debuted his daily blog MediaMemo on AllThingsD in October, writes today that the ad recession will last at least another year -- making it the longest ad recession since The Depression. Which is, well, depressing. At our marathon filming day at the Mogoulus studio in Soho earlier th...

Anyone who buys into the FriendFinder Networks IPO won’t just be buying a piece of a debt-ridden, money-losing collection of porn sites and social networks. They’ll also be buying a piece of a car the company bought from one of its founders, and now values at $95,000. I still haven’...

I only had enough time to assess the big picture when I wrote about the FriendFinder Network IPO earlier this week: Money-losing porn/social-network company drowning in debt, needs public investors to bail it out. But the FriendFinder prospectus may turn out to have multiple Christmas gifts for thos...