Book: Dan Gillmor’s Mediactive
Can’t wait to read Dan Gilmore’s most recent work. A quick review via Boing Boing: Mediactive is divided into three sections. The first section is a history of the dismal state of current media—partisan and bickering, financially troubled, insufficiently critical of power and overly sensitive to Internet upstarts. Gillmor explains how reporters can (and sometimes ...
Why Are We Still Fighting About Net Neutrality?
Via a Businessweek article: Google Inc., AT&T Inc., and Verizon Communications Inc. executives are meeting behind closed doors with U.S. officials in talks that critics say reduce the public’s voice in keeping the Internet open. The companies sought a compromise, in a rare Saturday session last weekend at the Federal Communications Commission, on rules proposed ...
Kindle’s First Million Club Member
Steig Larsson is the first author to sell a million copies of his books on the Kindle. All three books in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy—”The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” “The Girl Who Played with Fire” and “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest”—are now in the top 10 bestselling Kindle books of all time. ...
