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May 22, 2012
Facebook's Swoon a Symptom of Wall Street's Sickness
Facebook's newly issued shares lost 11 percent of their value on Monday, their first full day of public trading after Friday's snafu-filled IPO. That's a loss of $11.5 billion. Tuesday, the fall continued, taking the stock down another 3 percent. Too many shares were issued at too high a price by an ... More >>
Blogs
May 15, 2012
Drifting Away from Twitter, Toward Reality
I've been known to strongly defend Twitter, which some people have found surprising because of my default digital skepticism. But of course, I was skeptical of it at first (if nothing else, because of the name, which is stupid), until I started using it. It really can be used for quite practical pur ... More >>
Blogs
May 8, 2012
Desperate Newspapers Pin Hopes on Annoyed Readers
News publishers have always treated readers like commodities -- because that's what readers are. The real customers for publishers aren't readers, but advertisers. Readers are the product. It's not quite that simple, of course, and more enlightened publishers treat readers with respect and cover the ... More >>
Blogs
April 24, 2012
The Internet Kills Babies
This is the most ridiculous thing I have read in the past week. Given that I've been reading a lot about Congress and Mitt Romney, that's really saying something. The argument, by Andrew Keen, basically (and despite Keen's ass-covering caveats) blames the Internet for Anders Behring Breivik's murder ... More >>
Blogs
April 17, 2012
Seeking a Path to Riches
Oh, good. More "sharing." The mobile social-app company Path (yes, the one that found itself in the middle a big privacy controversy not long ago) announced on Monday that it had landed another $30 million in venture financing from some top-tier firms, making its total valuation $250 million. Hey, t ... More >>
Blogs
April 3, 2012
Center for Copyright Information: An Anti-piracy Measure That Makes Sense
About seven years ago, I read something online about a then-recent episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Overcome with the desire to watch the episode for myself, but without a subscription to HBO, I fired up LimeWire, the now-defunct file-sharing software, and quickly found the episode I wanted. An hou ... More >>
Blogs
March 16, 2012
Why Are There So Few Black Chefs in High-End Restaurants?
Yesterday, the Chicago Tribune asked a question of its city's chefs and restaurateurs that could also be asked in the Bay Area: Why are there so few black chefs working in higher-end restaurants? As reporter Christopher Borelli phrased the problem, "Interviews with scores of black chefs and ... More >>
Blogs
March 8, 2012
SOPA, Limbaugh, Komen: This Is What Happens When the Mob is Right
There is far too much cheerleading for the "wisdom of crowds." The undiscerning among us, often motivated by an understandable (if often mindless) disgust with institutions, tend to employ buzzwords like "crowdsourcing" and to preach the idea that "the people" are always right even if "the people ... More >>
Blogs
February 21, 2012
Copyright Owners Continue to Tilt at Windmills
Given the intensity of the debates over digital piracy, you'd almost think that if one side or the other were to "win," the question would be decided: If critics of copyright holders were victorious, piracy would run rampant and the media industry would be brought to its knees; if the copyright o ... More >>
Blogs
February 14, 2012
News Sites Can't Rely on Advertising
I'm not about to pretend that I know how to solve the economic dilemma that the news business finds itself in. I've been studying the matter, and writing about it off and on, for 16 years, and, like everyone, I really don't know. Maybe it will be nonprofits. Maybe paywalls. Maybe micropayments wi ... More >>
Blogs
January 31, 2012
Sorry, Twitter, if You're in the Media Business, You're a Media Company
Given how Silicon Valley moguls flee from the term "media company," you'd almost think it was as bad as "child-porn merchant." But whether they like it or not, companies like Google, Facebook, and Twitter are media companies. They don't have precisely the same business models as News Corp., Disne ... More >>
Blogs
January 19, 2012
What Happens When You Don't Test Recipes? Lost Readers, Even Lawsuits
Andrew Huff/FlickrThe Chicago Tribune's test kitchen: It doesn't need to be big to be effective.Last month, a Chilean court ruled that a major newspaper there had to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to readers who'd made a recipe for churros that it had published. Why? Well, the recipe had c ... More >>
Blogs
January 10, 2012
MySpace Says It's Bringing TV to the Web -- But It Isn't
Specific Media, now the owners of MySpace, took Justin Timberlake on stage with them Monday night at the Consumer Electronic Show, and with a lot of fanfare, they announced ... essentially nothing. The purported big news is that MySpace is revolutionizing television by bringing it to the Web an ... More >>
Blogs
December 27, 2011
GoDaddy's Wall-to-Wall Awfulness
Every time GoDaddy makes the news, as it has over the past week by supporting the widely reviled Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA), the question naturally arises: Waitaminute, this is a domain registrar, right? Right. GoDaddy is in perhaps the dullest business this side of term life insurance, and ... More >>
Blogs
December 13, 2011
Wikipedia: Should it Go Dark to Protest the Stop Online Privacy Act?
Should Wikipedia shut itself down to protest the bizarrely clueless anti-piracy measures Congress is considering? As with many things about Wikipedia (such as whether an encyclopedia that anybody can edit is a good idea), it's not an easy question to answer. Would it even be effective? It's har ... More >>
Blogs
December 6, 2011
India Wants Facebook to Prescreen User Content
Sometimes it's hard to refrain from going libertarian. Okay, not really, but whenever governments try to pass or enforce absolutely clueless, sledgehammer-blunt laws governing the Internet, it's a challenge not to simply give up hope that enough politicians will ever understand the basic concepts ... More >>
Blogs
November 22, 2011
Facebook Fumbles Its Way Toward a Phone
Facebook is building a phone, the Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital is reporting this week in a series of posts. Facebook basically has to do it if it wants to stay in competition with Apple and Google as the go-to online destination -- or platform, or "ecosystem." Lots of people make Fa ... More >>
Blogs
November 1, 2011
Copyright Fight the Subject of Juvenile Flamewars
To the uninitiated, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce might sound like a larger version of local chambers of commerce: something like the Elks or the Rotary Club, where dull businesspeople get together for dull meetings to eat rubber chicken and to "network." But the U.S. Chamber is the largest lobb ... More >>
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October 25, 2011
Restaurateurs and Yelpers: Now Friends but Not BFFs
Not exactly BFFs.It's been a few years since Delfina Pizzeria printed up T-shirts with its one-star Yelp reviews, and the tension between restaurateurs and Yelpers seems to have simmered down, reports the Chicago Tribune this week. But that doesn't mean restaurateurs have learned to love the sit ... More >>
Blogs
October 25, 2011
Groupon's Big Bowl of Problems
Groupon, it appears, means to get rich or die tryin'. On Friday, it updated a regulatory filing indicating that it is scaling back its IPO plans. Less than five months ago, when it first filed, the company said it planned to raise about $750 million. Now that's been reduced to $540 million. The e ... More >>
Blogs
October 18, 2011
What Exactly Is a Tech Company?
Fast Company has published what might be the best, clearest look at the how the contours of the tech landscape are shaping themselves, and how that landscape has come to be dominated by four companies. I was alerted to the article via a tweet by Chronicle tech reporter Casey Newton who characte ... More >>
Blogs
September 27, 2011
Facebook's Newest Blight: The Ticker
Recently, to check to see whether my keyboard was working, I randomly slapped some keys. I happened to have Facebook open at the time and I ended up entering what I typed -- "jmjyttyj"-- into its people search. I got three hits. There is no member named jmjyttyj, but Facebook helpfully pointed me ... More >>
Blogs
August 16, 2011
Google Thumbs Nose at Antitrust Regulators
You can't say Google doesn't have balls. Despite increasingly heavy antitrust scrutiny by the federal government, the Internet behemoth is charging ahead with a deal that brings all kinds of potential for cornering a market. It will pay $12.5 billion for Motorola Mobility, a leading maker of hand ... More >>
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July 19, 2011
Why Are Tech Journos Suddenly Interested in News Corp. Scandal?
When I was a staff editor at the tech-news site CNET News.com in the late '90s, one of the top editors there used to insist that we "localize" big news events by writing about how they were being covered and discussed on the Internet. So, for example, the death of Princess Di and the impeachment ... More >>
Blogs
July 14, 2011
Filthy Fast Food Playgrounds, Michelle Obama Eats a Burger (Gasp!)
Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. 1. Dirty fast food slides. The Chicago Tribune/LA Times profile an Arizona woman who is evaluating the playgrounds at fast food restaurants by taking video of the filth and sending s ... More >>
Blogs
July 13, 2011
Mee Mee's Cow Ears and Coin Cookies, the Horror of Bycatch
Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. Mee Mee Bakery's macaroons.1. Mee Mee's sweets. Rice Plate Journal, my block-by-block survey of Chinatown restaurants, is finally hitting the dense restaurant zone of Powell an ... More >>
Blogs
June 22, 2011
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong: Please Let Me in the Bubble
Yaniv Golan/FlickrAOL CEO Tim Armstrong is jealous of the new Internet bubble, and he wants in. Last week during a meeting with investors, Armstrong noted the high valuations of companies like LinkedIn and Pandora and concluded that AOL is "severely undervalued." The Wall Street Journal quoted ... More >>
Blogs
June 9, 2011
Addiction, Tradition, and Oyster Shells: Today in Great Food Writing
Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. Lot of great writing out there this week: The feature in this week's New York Times dining section profiles young cooks and entrepreneurs taking over the family business -- dim sum ... More >>
News
June 8, 2011
Your Rags to Their Riches: Donated Clothes May Fund International Fugitive
Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. Lot of great writing out there this week: The feature in this week's New York Times dining section profiles young cooks and entrepreneurs taking over the family business -- dim sum ... More >>
Blogs
May 24, 2011
Foursquare: The Silliest Thing Ever Invented
Before I started using Twitter a couple of years ago, I, like many people then and now, assumed it must be the silliest thing ever invented. The stupid name didn't (and doesn't) help. Mainly, I thought people used it for telling the world what they had for lunch, but I then looked into the matter ... More >>
Blogs
May 10, 2011
Facebook Paying People to Watch Ads Won't Work
Caitlinator/FlickrI'm frankly amazed that in all the coverage of Facebook's plan to pay users to watch ads, nobody -- as far as I can tell -- has mentioned the several companies that tried to do something similar during the (original) dot-com boom, and failed spectacularly. The most famous of th ... More >>
Blogs
March 23, 2011
Reading the Beard-Nominated Stories, Tasting Tobacco (and Not Liking It)
Bert23/FlickrSmoke up all you want. But why do you feel the need put tobacco in my Manhattan?Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. 1. Beard Journalism Award finalists, part 1. Over the course of the next few days, I'm ... More >>
Blogs
July 27, 2010
United Airlines Forgets Young Passenger, Force-Feeds Him McDonald's
First United gets everyone to refer to Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in Blue' as 'The United Airlines Song' ... and now thisUnited Airlines is facing a brewing Internet-driven PR disaster following a boy's horrible, horrible flight out of San Francisco. Julien Reid, 9, has told his parents that he w ... More >>
Blogs
April 16, 2010
Does Large-Scale Urban Fish Farming Make Sense Here?
Zbigniew Bzdak/Chicago TribuneA student at the Chicago High School of Agricultural Science checks on an experimental tank of tilapia.Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Mission fishin': While the idea of urban farming continues to crackle through the zeitgeist, for most of us it's still more ... More >>
Blogs
March 11, 2010
What To Do? Thursday's Pick: Wafaa Bilal
Wafaa Bilal @ City Lights Books On March 8, Wafaa Bilal, a professor at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, turned his back into a canvas for our collective conscience. During a 24-hour tattoo session, a borderless map of Iraq was drilled full of dots representing every casualty of the war -- 105,000 ... More >>
Calendar
March 18, 2009
Get Touched
Wafaa Bilal @ City Lights Books On March 8, Wafaa Bilal, a professor at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, turned his back into a canvas for our collective conscience. During a 24-hour tattoo session, a borderless map of Iraq was drilled full of dots representing every casualty of the war -- 105,000 ... More >>
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March 18, 2009
A Duck’s Life
Wafaa Bilal @ City Lights Books On March 8, Wafaa Bilal, a professor at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, turned his back into a canvas for our collective conscience. During a 24-hour tattoo session, a borderless map of Iraq was drilled full of dots representing every casualty of the war -- 105,000 ... More >>
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November 5, 2008
Overthrow Capitalism! Maybe.
Wafaa Bilal @ City Lights Books On March 8, Wafaa Bilal, a professor at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, turned his back into a canvas for our collective conscience. During a 24-hour tattoo session, a borderless map of Iraq was drilled full of dots representing every casualty of the war -- 105,000 ... More >>
Blogs
October 2, 2007
Boots Riley's CoupTV Makes Revolution Come Quicker
Wafaa Bilal @ City Lights Books On March 8, Wafaa Bilal, a professor at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, turned his back into a canvas for our collective conscience. During a 24-hour tattoo session, a borderless map of Iraq was drilled full of dots representing every casualty of the war -- 105,000 ... More >>
Music
July 11, 2007
Billy and His Rotting Fruit
The Smashing Pumpkins (Reprise)
Calendar
September 14, 2005
This Week's Day-by-Day Picks
The Smashing Pumpkins (Reprise)
Calendar
March 24, 2004
Round One!
Get KO'd at the Cow Palace
Music
April 2, 2003
War, What Is It Good For?
Absolutely nothing -- unless you're Clear Channel Communications
News
August 29, 2001
Dog Bites
Overpriced Sports Star Joins Local Team; Light Reading; A Match Made in Heaven; A Suggestion for Rearranging the Deck Chairs at Salon.com
News
March 18, 1998
Dog Bites
Overpriced Sports Star Joins Local Team; Light Reading; A Match Made in Heaven; A Suggestion for Rearranging the Deck Chairs at Salon.com
Calendar
January 1, 1997
Night+Day
Overpriced Sports Star Joins Local Team; Light Reading; A Match Made in Heaven; A Suggestion for Rearranging the Deck Chairs at Salon.com
Calendar
October 23, 1996
Unspun
Overpriced Sports Star Joins Local Team; Light Reading; A Match Made in Heaven; A Suggestion for Rearranging the Deck Chairs at Salon.com
Music
August 28, 1996
Suspicious Minds
Overpriced Sports Star Joins Local Team; Light Reading; A Match Made in Heaven; A Suggestion for Rearranging the Deck Chairs at Salon.com
News
July 17, 1996
Letters
Overpriced Sports Star Joins Local Team; Light Reading; A Match Made in Heaven; A Suggestion for Rearranging the Deck Chairs at Salon.com
News
May 29, 1996
Final Deadline
David Burgin is legendary as a rough-and-tumble newspaper editor. But the legend is full of astonishing contradictions, and its last chapter may include the outcome of a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by one of his proteges at the Oakland Tribune.
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