6 posts and columns on industry standard

Report: Microsoft, Adobe Held Secret Summit on Apple and Mobile

in News on October 7, 2010 at 2:05 pm PT

So Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer dropped by Adobe recently for a secret meeting with Adobe chief Shantanu Narayen, the New York Times reports. It lasted about an hour and covered a number of topics, among them how to better compete against Apple in the smartphone market and a possible acquisition of Adobe by Microsoft.

The Bay Citizen's Jon Weber–Editor of Web 1.0–Talks About Journalism 2.0

in News on September 20, 2010 at 6:19 am PT

It’s been less than a year since the former top editor of the Industry Standard–the once high-flying (and then not so much) magazine of the Web 1.0 era–Jon Weber got back to the Bay Area from his stint away in Montana. His latest job–editor in chief of the Bay Area News Project, now known as the Bay Citizen, a wealthy-donor-backed, nonprofit endeavor online to focus on local news coverage, even as mainstream media outlets founder. BoomTown checks in on how it’s all going.

Kara Visits With PBS MediaShift Blogger Mark Glaser

in News on February 18, 2009 at 9:01 am PT

Recently, BoomTown had a lovely lunch with PBS new media blogger Mark Glaser. Glaser is a longtime free-lance journalist whom I first noticed when he wrote a weekly column for the USC Annenberg School of Communication’s Online Journalism Review, post-Web 1.0 bubble, as well as for the most excellent “Media Grok” daily email newsletter for the now-defunct Industry Standard back in the midst of the froth. He was always able to cut through that with a clear-headed tone–while maintaining a respect for what was good about traditional journalism, as well as an excitement about the possibilities of new media. Here’s a video interview I did with Glaser about where new media is today.
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Google: Beyond Thunderdome

in News on October 3, 2008 at 12:00 am PT

You can make money without doing evil. You can also make it without using so much fossil fuel. That’s the word from Google, which today unveiled a $4.4 trillion plan it says will reduce the nation’s dependence on coal and oil. Google’s “Clean Energy 2030” plan proposes to wean the U.S. off of coal and oil for electricity generation by 2030 by relying on power from wind, nuclear and geothermal sources instead.