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Read All About It! But Don't Watch–The Grammys Tune Out Online

Peter Kafka in Media on February 14, 2011 at 4:27 am PT

The Grammys generated a flurry of online interest last night, but the music industry’s biggest event of the year is AWOL this morning. Opportunity wasted.

Sit Back, Relax and Do Some Research: Qwiki Opens Information Visualizations to the Public

Liz Gannes in Social on January 24, 2011 at 11:54 am PT

Qwiki today will start letting the public into its site, which constructs narrated visualizations using photos, videos and text for three million topics.

The Fail Owl-Bear and the Down Clown: Twitter's Ev Williams and Biz Stone Answer (Some of) Your Questions

Peter Kafka in Media on November 18, 2010 at 11:15 am PT

A nice Thursday afternoon treat from the folks at Jimmy Fallon’s show: Backstage footage of the Twitter dudes responding to viewer questions after their appearance last week.

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Warner Bros. Probing Online Leak of "Harry Potter"

Lauren A.E. Schuker, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 17, 2010 at 4:19 pm PT

Warner Bros. is investigating how the first 36 minutes of the newest “Harry Potter” film came to be posted on the Internet late Monday night, four days ahead of the movie’s world-wide theatrical debut on Friday.

Major League Baseball Beans Jon Stewart, and Obama’s Pitch Vanishes

Peter Kafka in Media on July 22, 2009 at 4:03 pm PT

Remember last week, when President Barack Obama threw out the first pitch at baseball’s All-Star Game? And remember the ensuing fuss about his form? And remember how Jon Stewart sliced through all of the crap with his typically incisive wit? Alas, you’ve got no choice but to remember that last part. It has disappeared from the Web, apparently at the behest of Major League Baseball.

Web Video Viewers Forget About Michael Jackson

Peter Kafka in Media on July 17, 2009 at 10:25 am PT

Remember when Michael Jackson was one of the biggest things on the Web? So 10 days ago. Cable TV and gossip magazines are still cranking out as much Jackson stuff as they can, but Web video viewers have moved on.

CNN: We Don’t Need YouTube and Twitter to Tell Us What’s Going on in Iran–We’ve Got iReport

Peter Kafka in Media on June 25, 2009 at 11:06 am PT

The “Iran is Twitter’s defining moment” meme is losing momentum to the “Iran is YouTube’s defining moment” meme. But CNN has a different spin. Time Warner’s cable news channel wants us to know that it isn’t dependent on either the micromessaging service or Google’s video site to report on what’s happening in Iran–it has iReport.

Flip Camcorder Goes High-Def

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on November 11, 2008 at 5:40 pm PT

Katie reviews the Pure Digital Technologies Flip MinoHD, a handheld camcorder that is capable of capturing high-definition footage in 1280×720 pixel resolution, or 720p. (The regular Mino records at 640×480 pixels.)