Monthly Archives: July 2003

The media operation that helped create the 1990s stock bubble hasn’t learned much from the experience. As the New York Times reports: “Maria Bartiromo, the stock-market reporter and anchorwoman for CNBC, opened her hourlong television interview earlier this month with … Continue reading →

Mercury News: Senate OKs plan, rejects tax hikes. Lawmakers relied on $10.7 billion in borrowing while slashing spending by $7.3 billion — or 9.4 percent — with cuts to cities, counties, higher education and health care for the poor. The … Continue reading →

Online Journalism Review: Conference Panelists See Bright Future for Mobile Publishing. Today

You can’t live in Silicon Valley and be a total pessimist. The nature of the place is optimistic. But I sense that people are failing to remember that history does teach us things. And I’m astonished at our collectively scant … Continue reading →

Salon: Grounding the flying nun. Activists on the left and right — including a 71-year-old Milwaukee nun and an art dealer who told other passengers that President Bush “is dumb as a rock” — have long complained they were being … Continue reading →

Mercury News: Registrar loses ruling in sex.com case. In a groundbreaking ruling that could unleash a torrent of lawsuits against companies that register domain names, a federal appeals court Friday found that Network Solutions, now owned by Mountain View-based VeriSign, … Continue reading →

You can’t make up stuff this bizarre. The New York Post reports that Esquire has “commissioned (Jayson) Blair to write about Stephen Glass. I guess the Esquire editors attended the class in social satire but missed the one on professional … Continue reading →

Denounce: RIAA Opens Detention Facility for Suspected File Sharers. Citing lackluster results in its aggressive Subpoena-the-Family campaign, The Recording Industry Assocation of America, or RIAA, announced today it was escalating the war against music file sharing even higher by opening … Continue reading →

I’m in Iowa, one of my favorite places, for the Gnomedex 3.0, a tech conference started by Chris Pirillo. I’m on the program tomorrow afternoon (the schedule in today’s local newspaper didn’t include my talk). I spent a lot of … Continue reading →

The dealer who sold me my Ericsson T-39 mobile phone said there was no USB charger available. I’d gotten used to carrying a lightweight USB charger with my older Nokia phone, so it was disappointing to go back to carrying … Continue reading →