17 posts and columns on Al Jazeera

Some More Inconvenient Truths (Including Spider Goats): Al Gore Talks About “The Future” at SXSW

in Media on March 9 at 2:06 pm PT

Live from Austin, Texas, it’s the man who brought you the Internet. (Really, he did, along with others.)
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Why Al Jazeera’s Cable Move Could Cost Much More Than $500 Million

in Media on January 4 at 11:40 am PT

The news channel’s new pay TV partners are paying up, for now. What happens if that changes? We may find out.
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Why Did the Web Miss Out on Al Jazeera?

in Media on January 3 at 9:29 am PT

If Web video is the future, how do you explain yesterday’s $500 million bet on TV?
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Al-Jazeera to Buy Current TV

in Media on January 2 at 4:37 pm PT

Al-Jazeera, the pan-Arab news network owned by the government of Qatar, is buying Current TV, the struggling left-leaning current-affairs channel co founded by Al Gore and Joel Hyatt, according to people familiar with the matter.

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Tools for Taming the Media

in Eye to Eye on July 27, 2012 at 4:21 pm PT

Clay Shirky and John Battelle share their strategies for media consumption.
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Life Under the Gaze of Gadhafi’s Spies

in News on December 14, 2011 at 12:00 am PT

In August 2010, Libyan journalist Khaled Mehiri shot an email to his editor at al-Jazeera proposing an article about the hollow nature of the Gadhafi regime’s anticorruption efforts.

The YouTube Earthquake–Video From Japan

in Media on March 11, 2011 at 5:05 am PT

These clips won’t give you context or details. Just the visceral sense of what it’s like to be in the middle of this thing.

YouTube Moves to Play Bigger Role in Middle East With Seven Local Versions

in Social on March 10, 2011 at 12:40 pm PT

YouTube today launched versions of its site for seven countries in the Middle East, a step that could add to the site’s local importance during the region’s ongoing turbulent political times by better surfacing timely citizen videos.

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Says Company Needs to Unify Its Experience Across Devices

in Mobile on February 14, 2011 at 8:28 am PT

In addition, Costolo announced the company will offer crowdsourced translations of the service into Russian, Turkish and Indonesian. Also doing own translation to Portuguese later this year.

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Egypt.com: Is It Time to Invest in Egyptian Start-ups?

in News on January 25, 2011 at 3:35 pm PT

The current upheaval in Egypt reflects pent-up frustration with the regime across a wide swath of society. Among the discontent is a growing class of educated, tech-savvy entrepreneurs hoping for greater stability to attract and reassure foreign investors.

Web Video’s One-Day Obama Stimulus: How to Watch the Inauguration Live Online

in Media, January 19, 2009 at 11:20 am PT