10 posts and columns on NYT

Marc Andreessen vs. Reid Hoffman in Yahoo Savior Face-Off? Not Yet. (But Delicious to Imagine.)

in News on December 1, 2011 at 2:23 am PT

Whoa, Nelly! How fantastic would it be for Silicon Valley tech legends Marc Andreessen and Reid Hoffman to battle for control of Yahoo? Too fantastic to actually happen. But one can hope.
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Ready for His Digital Close-Up: The NYT’s Media Dude, David Carr, Talks About “Page One”

in Media on June 15, 2011 at 11:35 am PT

A documentary about the New York Times and its fight to survive the onslaught of the Internet called “Page One: Inside the New York Times” opens Friday. So, it seemed like a good idea to talk to the film’s star, media columnist David Carr, to find out what he thinks will happen to the Gray Lady in the multi-colored digital future.
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Dear Andrew "No Comment" Mason: How About a Comment on That Unfortunate New Beard?

in News on March 3, 2011 at 10:25 am PT

That Internet sprite, Groupon Co-founder and CEO Andrew Mason, continued in his quest to be the cleverest little entrepreneur on the Web with a very funny post on the Chicago-based start-up’s blog yesterday titled: “No Comment.”

Daily Beast's Tina Brown Brags About "Interesting Discussions" With Newsweek

in Media on October 6, 2010 at 7:13 am PT

How are things at the Daily Beast, which turns two today? Awesome, says Tina Brown–so awesome that Barry Diller may end up pawning the thing off to Newsweek and new owner Sidney Harman.

Viral Video: WSJ and NYT Get Taiwan CGI Treatment–Including a Shark Fin for Rupe!

in News on September 8, 2010 at 11:02 am PT

BoomTown truly believes the editors over at Next Media Animation are speaking a news language of the future. Here is the Taiwanes CGI news unit’s genius take on the ongoing media battle between the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, which is owned by News Corp.

Oh, Home Back in the Range (Of Wireless Access!)

in News on June 21, 2010 at 9:06 am PT

BoomTown has finally dragged all my various and sundry bags of gadgetry back to San Francisco after a week of it sitting mostly useless on a ranch in Wyoming. However did I manage that?–at least according to a recent slightly alarmed series of articles in the New York Times about how technology is messing with our inner chi. The paper also has been urging readers to unplug and then tell the tale. Memo to the NYT editors: I survived the whole analog encounter just fine.

Like E-Books? Amazon Sells More of Them, for Less, Than Apple. For Now.

in Media on June 19, 2010 at 4:00 am PT

The introduction of Apple’s iPad and iBooks store has lots of people forecasting doom for Amazon’s Kindle. And the iPad will obviously eat it into Kindle’s market share. But for now, at least, Amazon still has deeper relationships with book publishers. Will consumers care?

First Impressions of the New BlackBerry App Store

in Mossblog on April 1, 2009 at 11:09 am PT

Walt gives his first impressions of the new BlackBerry App World. The store has hundreds of apps available at launch, and RIM says it expects around a thousand to be available in its first week. Like Apple’s store, RIM’s offers both free and paid apps that download directly to your device.
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Is The New York Times Selling About.com? No.

in Media on November 3, 2008 at 2:52 pm PT

The New York Times is in lousy shape, so it needs to sell off About.com, the kind-of-portal, kind-of-blog-aggregator it bought from Primedia in 2005. So says Jason Calacanis, whose Mahalo.com is a kind-of-portal, kind of blog-aggregator. Not true, say two people familiar with the Times and About.