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The New York Times revealed today that the paper has been persistently hacked by Chinese hackers for the last four months. The hackers were purportedly going after David Barboza, the New York Times correspondent based in Shanghai, and his Chinese contacts who fed him information for his article on the Chinese premier’s hidden wealth and alleged connections to corruption.The paper said, “Over the course of three months, attackers installed 45 pieces of custom malware” in order to access New York Times databases. The attack was identified ...
The Financial Times said it would try to eliminate 35 editorial jobs through voluntary means and add 10 jobs as part of its focus on "digital" and a move away from news to "a networked business."Financial Times editor Lionel Barber announced the changes in an email to staff. He wrote that a trip to Silicon Valley in September had "confirmed the speed of change."The FT plans to shift resources from the production of the print editions to its online news ...
When it comes to making industry predictions I always resolve not to make any, but as you can see, I have trouble keeping my new year's resolutions.Two years ago I made the same resolution and failed. Back then I wrote:The media is dead, long live the media. We now have more media, in more formats, in more times of the day and night, from more people -- than at any other time in history. And we will get even more ...
It's been a big year in tech. Red Bull Stratos' mission smashed through the previous records for most concurrent live views when eight-million people clicked through to its YouTube stream, and a music video which featured a Korean man doing a horse dance became the most watched video with over a billion views. Facebook hit a billion users, Twitter topped 200-million monthly active users and the Samsung Galaxy S III smashed sales records, selling 30-million units 157 days after launch. ...
In 2009, Rupert Murdoch famously called Google News and other news search engines, "content kleptomaniacs", before denying them access to his publications the next year. In September this year, he changed his position and decided that news snippets from his publications should reappear. Of course, traffic was going down, meaning a loss of income. Now new ideas are emerging at the headquarters of cash strapped newspapers. "Couldn't we start taxing Google and the others for publishing our content by creating ...
As the business models for serious journalism continue to erode, where will we get the quality media we need as a society to make important decisions about our future?I've been warning people: "Special interest groups will gladly pay for the media they want you to read, but you won't pay for the media you need to read."Software engineers have a saying: GIGO, garbage in, garbage out.If you start with garbage data you will get a garbage result. That's the future ...
The global protests against the anti-Muslim Innocence of Muslims YouTube clip raises the issue that anyone could post a video insulting to a religion or nation. A small number of extremists on both sides could continuously derail a country's foreign diplomacy. Insults are easily published on the internet, and easy to find, if that's what you're looking for.Are we facing years of instability in global hotspots because of extremists hurling insults online?Robert C. Post, in Foreign Policy magazine, Free Speech ...
Online music is the future and all your friends in Spotify-enabled countries keep shouting about how they can't survive without it. Suffice to say, you've gone and developed a severe case of FOMO (fear of missing out). Well, put that FOMO aside because we understand your pain and we have gone and found you Spotify alternatives. Some of these are more like internet radio stations, but provide great listening -- and more importantly -- most of them are available irrespective ...
The term “Content is king” has been floating around the internet since 1996, when Bill Gates said in a speech that ‘Content is where I expect much of the real money will be made on the internet, just as it was in broadcasting.’But over the past decade and a half, this hasn’t exactly been the case. Content has been devalued to the extent that people have expected to get it for no charge. From written copy, to music, images ...
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