Alan Mutter

A Patch of Its Own: Yahoo Builds a San Francisco Newspaper

Peter Kafka in Media on August 26, 2010 at 1:37 pm PT

Patch, AOL’s network of Web-only local newspapers, is open in 100 towns. Now it looks like Yahoo is planning its own local Webpaper venture, in San Francisco.

A Techtastically Busy Week: A Grab Bag of Digital Stuff to Consider

Kara Swisher in News on May 11, 2009 at 6:31 am PT

It’s another packed week for tech, especially in Silicon Valley, where the kibitzing never ends and the econalypse is almost completely ignored. As if you did not have enough to do, what with all that pointless tweeting, here are some choices for those who want a little analog action, including watching me annoy Facebook’s chief privacy officer, Chris Kelly, who is also trying to become California’s next Attorney General.