Kara Swisher

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Victorian Gadgets and the Modern Reporter

Here is an interesting video by WSJ.com’s Andy Jordan on a movement called “steampunk,” where modern-day gadgets are rebuilt to look as if they were made in Victorian times. We liked the porthole CD player a lot:

And MarketWatch’s media maven Jon Friedman does a video post related to his Media Web column on the Washington Post’s political reporter Anne Kornblut, using her to depict what the new breed of reporter needs to know how to do–namely, everything multimedia.


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Moore’s Law means that more and more things can be done practically for free, if only it weren’t for those people who want to be paid. People are the flies in Moore’s Law’s ointment. When machines get incredibly cheap to run, people seem correspondingly expensive.

— From Jaron Lanier’s new book, “Who Owns the Future?” excerpted on Wired.com