Willie Mitchell, architect of the legendary Memphis soul sound, died Tuesday, January 5, 2009 at the age of 81. NPR remembers him with a song he produced for Al Green.
- Steve Outing
In addition to funding further development of EveryBlock, Kebbel said Knight is rolling out something he called the "Test Kitchen" later this year or early next year to explore ways to make it easier for people and organizations to install and use the software created through its grants. "That's an example of how the Knight Foundation's thinking is changing," Kebbel said. The Test Kitchen idea is still in the planning stages, but Kebbel envisions it as a collaboration between community news organizations, universities and others who set up testing labs. The purpose would be to create a live testing environment to make these projects easier to install. Much like how Knight will be testing the new plug-and-play EveryBlock at select news organizations around the country, these labs would test easier-to-install versions of the open source software before it is released.
- Steve Outing
With Attributor's tracking technology, publishers could ask offending site's to "take down" content, but had little recourse if they didn't. The new stick here -- the ability to tell a search engine directing traffic to that site or an network serving ads on that site, to "take down" the content. With more complete knowledge, the excuse of "not knowing" becomes less, well, excusable.
- Steve Outing
THIS makes you sad for the state of US news media? This is one of the few events that's deserved the coverage it received. US News media is manner of screwed up sure, but not for this.
- Richard Lawler
I think you need to remove the "US" from the statement.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Yes, Alex, the sad state of Norwegian news media too in that case. Norwegian state-owned broadcasting network (NRK) is sending the full memorial/funeral this evening I think. Except there´s also an ongoing debate on the side in newspapers and radio whether all the MJ news is overkill (especially on state-owned and tax-subsidized TV) or not, which debate I´m sure exists in other countries´s media as well.
- ɯɥøq sɐɯoɥʇ
What I don't get: MJ was star for baby boomer generation (like me, now 52). Is over-saturation because media decision-makers are in that age range? Do younger people really want this much coverage? I doubt it. My teen daughter knows who he is, likes some of his old music. But his death has little impact for her.
- Steve Outing
How young is younger? if you're over 21 you remember how much of an event his albums and shows were. I think he was as big, if not a bigger star for gen x / y
- Richard Lawler
Want to turn the pay-for-content debate on its head? Fine then; take a look at Doc Searls’ plan that envisions a world where creators do charge for content, but consumers determine what price to pay.
- mathew ingram
Several companies thought of this some time ago: Kachingle, Contenture, and ... one with a funny name I can't remember at this moment!
- Steve Outing