Peter Kafka in Media on February 11, 2011 at 5:30 am PT
The good news for angry HuffPo bloggers who want to get paid for their unpaid work: AOL volunteers made the same argument during Bubble 1.0 and ended up winning! The bad news: It took a lawsuit, and more than a decade, to extract the cash. (And the HuffPo writers may not have a case, anyway.)
Nitrozac and Snaggy in News on January 18, 2011 at 12:54 pm PT
Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at
Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site. (Click on the image to see a bigger version.)
Liz Gannes in Social on November 15, 2010 at 1:09 am PT
Facebook on Monday plans to launch an email service for its users at a press event in San Francisco. The young company has really gotten way too into these show-and-tell events.
John Paczkowski in News on October 19, 2010 at 3:41 pm PT
The prospect of Adobe being acquired by Microsoft may get tech bloggers and investors all worked up, but it's not going to happen, says Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen. The Redmond behemoth is a good buddy, said Narayen, but just one of many, and Adobe has no intention of getting hitched.
Evan Ramstad and Jaeyeon Woo, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 26, 2010 at 8:15 am PT
South Korea’s culture minister, Yu In-chon, strode into a government briefing room Monday for what seemed to be a routine photo-op as his ministry announced a $50 million program to help develop the country’s budding electronic-books industry.
Cassandra Vinograd, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 24, 2010 at 11:00 am PT
Boy group Just-a-Band have sparked what many are calling Kenya’s first viral sensation.
Conjuring up references to 1970s cult classics like “Shaft,” Just-a-Band’s latest video, “Ha-He,” introduces the fictional Makmende sporting shades, chains, an Afro pick and what appears to be polyester.
Sarmad Ali, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 23, 2010 at 2:33 pm PT
Twitter’s long-awaited advertising platform was the subject of much speculation among bloggers on Tuesday.
The furor was kicked off by comments from Anamitra Banerji, the head of product management and monetization at Twitter, who told MediaPost.com that “We are working on an ad platform, but it’s only in the test phase.”
Marisa Taylor, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 18, 2010 at 1:40 pm PT
Technology and fashion mixed–or tried to, at least–during William Rast’s New York Fashion Week show Wednesday night.
Sony joined forces with the label by streaming his runway show on video site Vevo, projecting it on enormous Bravia screens and providing Vaio notebooks and “Bloggie” video cameras to reporters.
Sarmad Ali, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 29, 2010 at 1:00 am PT
Steve Jobs said Wednesday that while Amazon has gone a great job with the Kindle, Apple plans to “stand on their shoulders” with the iPad’s e-reader functionality.
Bloggers quickly began speculating as to which device is better, with many pro-Kindle reviewers calling the reader less distracting, while the Apple camp cites the iPad’s multi-purpose nature as a selling point.
Marisa Taylor, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 15, 2010 at 1:32 pm PT
The Federal Trade Commission is still trying to define how it will enforce new disclosure guidelines for bloggers who may have received free products from the companies they cover, according to northeast regional director Leonard Gordon.
“If the consumer wouldn’t understand that the endorser, whether it’s a celebrity or a mommy blogger, is being paid…to talk about the product, that’s something that we’re concerned about, because we think consumers are being misled,” said Mr. Gordon in a panel discussion on Thursday.
