6 posts and columns on CompuServe

Why American Newspapers Gave Away the Future (Excerpt)

in Voices on February 8 at 9:27 am PT

Maybe the extinction of newspapers was inevitable once digital publishing moved from proprietary services and the slow speeds of dial-up delivery to the open access of the worldwide Web.

Walt Mossberg Interview on C-SPAN

in Mossblog on July 24, 2009 at 5:02 pm PT

Walt Mossberg discusses his Personal Technology column for The Wall Street Journal with C-SPAN’s Brian Lamb on Sunday, July 19, 2009.

Yahoo and AOL: Like Two Louts Merging to Make One Cretin

in News on September 24, 2008 at 7:40 am PT

Looks like Carl Icahn did show up to his first Yahoo board meeting, though it appears he wasn’t able to get much done. The new board, which also includes former Viacom CEO Frank Biondi and former CEO of Nextel Partners, John Chapple, reportedly met Tuesday and decided as a first course of business to talk to Time Warner about the future of its AOL division.

AOL+Compuserve = FAIL. AOL+Netscape = FAIL. AOL+Time Warner = FAIL. AOL+Yahoo …

in News on July 7, 2008 at 9:09 am PT

Apparently, Yahoo’s merger discussions with AOL can be reheated two, sometimes even three times–just like leftover pizza. According to Britain’s Times newspaper, Yahoo and Time Warner spent the past weekend discussing a deal to combine the Internet operations of the declining Web giant with Time Warner’s AOL.