Stephen Brill had a good idea when he published Brill’s Content five years ago. Too bad that printed magazines are so hard to keep in the black. Browsing Poynter.org this Christmas morning, I found what Brill is up to now. It all makes terrific sense: It’s called Verified ID Pass, […]

YPRES SALIENT , BELGIUM // WORLD WAR ONE // 1914: There is an infamous story of soldiers fighting in WWI on Christmas Eve. From one side of the battlefield, someone spontaneously started singing “Silent Night” — in English. From the other side of the conflict, someone responded by singing the […]

ABC News’ Marilyn Gardner writes on the ‘Net today about ties, something I am happy never to wear. “After a decade of sartorial rebellion and confusion, neckties and — gasp! — even suits are staging a modest comeback. Some wearers are simply obeying more stringent corporate dress codes. Others are […]

David Utter writes in his Web Pro News column today about Robert Cringely, who thinks he has some news about Google. He’s found a deep dark secret in the Googleplex, our Cringely has. Lurking in places where even Googlers may not tread, the probable answer lies in one of Google’s […]

Mediapost’s Shankar Gupta, wrote about the TWU’s blog today. “While blogs can be a boon for business, they also have the potential to backfire on their creators. Just ask the Transit Workers Union in New York City. The group apparently set up a blog, TWULocal100.blogspot.com, to provide news and information […]

Cory Doctorow’s Boing Boing.net had this great find today. Cheney’s iPod: first in line of succession for power outlets. From an Associated Press item about travels aboard Air Force Two: [Cheney] is an iPod fan, and keeping it charged is a priority for his staff. Normally that isn’t an issue, […]

Wired News reports on Ultrawideband technology, which makes it possible to do things like stream high-definition television signals throughout the home, send video shot on a digital recorder live across the internet, and even connect a digital music player to a car’s stereo system — all with a wireless connection. […]

Random Access vs. Linear Thinking: From Twitchspeed. “The under-30 generation is the first to experience hypertext and “clicking around,” in children’s computer applications, in CD-ROMs, and on the Web. This new information structure has increased their awareness and ability to make connections, has freed them from the constraint of a […]

Ali Akbar Dareini writes for the AP today about how Iran is laughing at their new president’s decree to ban Western Music. “This president speaks as if he is living in the Stone Age…this man has to understand that he can’t tell the people what to listen to and what […]

The Christmas season is always the most busy and rushed time of the year. But in all of this excitement, some of us thrive; we like it busy, busy, busy with all sorts of stuff coming at you at once. Well I do anyway. This morning Tom Vannah from the […]

More from Mediaweek. Magazine sales executives, described in this piece as a supremely jaded group, have been wowed by the kinds of ad pieces made possible by Americhip, a California company that produces the underlying technology in all those multimedia ads so popular these days. Americhip is the largest of […]

From the LA Times today. The Advertising Model Is Dying: Los Angeles Times columnist Joel Stein has put his comic touch to the topic of advertising, which he posits is no longer a viable enterprise. How *can* it be? When HBO, which books no ads, is the most profitable network, […]