10 posts and columns on John Cook

Gone in a Flash: Seattle Tech Bloggers Abruptly Leave Business Journal for All-New GeekWire

in Commerce on March 7, 2011 at 5:10 pm PT

After spending the past two and a half years building the Seattle technology news site, TechFlash, Todd Bishop and John Cook have broken ties with the Puget Sound Business Journal and have started a site of their own.

Google to Yahoo: Excuse Us While We Buy Your Photo Editor

in Media on March 1, 2010 at 2:03 pm PT

It’s a Monday, which must mean that Google has a new purchase to announce, its ninth since August. Today’s buy is Picnik, which runs a Web-based photo0editing service best known for its integration with Yahoo’s Flickr.

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

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.
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Someone Who Used to Work at The Seattle Post-Intelligencer Gets the Last Word

in Media on March 17, 2009 at 2:40 pm PT

One of the risks of employing a newsroom full of clever journalists — when you fire them, they might leave a biting memento on their way out.
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Another Newspaper Down: Hearst About to Pull the Plug on Seattle’s Post-Intelligencer

in Media on January 9, 2009 at 5:53 pm PT

Anyone in Seattle want to buy a money-losing hometown paper? If not, owner Hearst says it will either turn the Seattle Post-Intelligencer into an online-only pub with a skeleton staff or just shut it down altogether. Bet on the latter.