First off, a request: if you're so inclined, go straight to the comments and say whether you watch online technical interview videos, and if so, which....

Via Tim O'Reilly's blog I come across San Francisco Chronicle publisher Phil Bronstein, predicting layoffs and saying the news business "is broken, and no one knows how to fix it... And if any other paper says they do, they're lying." Meanwhile, according to a Zogby Poll I find in the Financial Times, "Newspaper editors are overwhelmingly optimistic about their businesses,...

One of the brilliant things about a TiVo is that it watches all that TV for me that I intended to watch but never got around to sitting down to view. (Some people call this the "TiNo" phenomenon.) It's very comforting to know that my PVR took the time to record those shows because it demonstrates what excellent intentions I...

This past week, the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) announced its decision on internet radio royalty rates. In doing so, it chose to reject all arguments made by webcasters large and small & instead decided to adopt a 'per play' rate proposal presented by Sound Exchange (a digital music collection organization that the RIAA created during the last decade). There's a...

According to the Associated Press, BitTorrent Inc will start selling TV shows and renting movies tomorrow. The BitTorrent Entertainment Network will include films from Warner Bros, Paramount, Fox, MGM and Lionsgate. TV shows will include 24 and Punk'd. For $1.99 you can "own" a copy of a TV show. For $3.99 you can "rent" a film. Right now, there's not...

This week's podcast episode (#22) of the iLifeZone features a live taping from Macworld earlier this month, wherein Scott Bourne, Derrick Story, Chris Breen and the "token girl" discussed the fact that January came early this year and none of the cool stuff was ready to be taken home. Here are a few of my observations: With a recently deceased...

Bert Freudenberg found a great video on the One Laptop Per Child initiative. A very informative video created by eSchool news showing the strengths of the laptop and footage of the founder and director Nicholas Negroponte. Bert has more about OLPC on his blog. Thanks Bert! ---- If you haven't already, check out TamTam's development site: a music application on...

We're all familiar with pointless Flash animations that serve only as barriers to getting to useful web content. But I recently stumbled across an instructive exampe of a "pointless" Flash animation that works: It's on the web site of the musician Adem: http://www.adem.tv/site/ Why does it work? I see a few reasons, none of them mysterious and yet all of...

Downloading a photo from a Web page is easy—you just right-click it or drag it to your desktop. But what if you want to grab an embedded movie or sound? Try this simple technique....

Building on Frederic Vavrille's Liveplasm site (a visual search engine he created 3 years ago), Mr. Vavrille has created a visually-entertaining web radio where listeners select music from a mood-energy matrix or from a genre selection box. Manuel Lima states that Mr. Vavrille combined sound from Pandora and Last.FM with Liveplasm to create a dynamic mind-map of related music....