San Francisco, a City That Knows Its Faults
Low vacancy, so many homeless people, beautiful old buildings, shuttle buses to Silicon Valley … and warning, I’m going to…
Daily Must Reads, April 15, 2013
1. Dish launches $25.5 billion bid for Sprint (WSJ) 2. Why Vine is ripe for comedy (Mashable) 3. More cracks…
In Japan, A Wave of Media Distrust Post-Tsunami
Until about 10 years ago, the Japanese term “masu-gomi” — rubbishy mass media — was a derogatory word only known…
Daily Must Reads, April 12, 2013
1. Twitter’s music service: Everything we know so far (The Verge) 2. Two charts that tell you everything you need…
Mediatwits #75: Fox Threatened by Aereo; Cass Sunstein Makes Government ‘Simpler’
This week’s Mediatwits podcast includes a former Obama “regulatory czar,” a cornered Fox, a Tumblr of layoffs, and a ray…
Behavio Updates the Funf Open-Source Project
The Behavio team is very happy to announce a major version update to Funf, our open-source mobile sensing framework, accompanied…
E-Books and Self-Publishing Roundup, April 11, 2013
1. Barnes & Noble relabels PubIt! as Nook Press, adds web-based publishing tool (Engadget) 2. Turow on the slow death…
Daily Must Reads, April 11, 2013
1. Orphaned Tumblr Storyboard posts find new home on Mashable (Mashable) 2. One downside of pay walls: Where does your…
6 Seconds on Broadway: How Vine Could Revolutionize Theater Promotion
Co-authored by Daniel Vahab. Just three short months ago, Twitter launched a new social video-sharing site Vine, a mobile application…
Daily Must Reads, April 10, 2013
1. Tumblr abruptly closes down its Storyboard project (PaidContent.org) 2. Why Yahoo really bought Summly (Business Insider) 3. Aereo has…