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Content, the once and future king
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Enlarge textContent that thrives in the new distribution-and-display systems is suspiciously different from the American popular culture we used to love even 10 years ago.
topYouTube videos pull in real money
Michael Buckley was the part-time host of a weekly show on a Connecticut public access channel in the summer of 2006 when his cousin started posting snippets of the show on YouTube.
HuffPo lands more funding, to expand local
HuffingtonPost.com has $25 million more in funding, and it plans to expand its local strategy to an unspecified number of cities like its pilot in Chicago. Damn smart.
Proposed web filter criticized
The proposed filter is part of a $82 million "cybersafety plan" started in May with the goals of protecting children online and stopping adults from downloading content that is illegal to possess like child pornography or materials related to terrorism.
Beijing to be world's largest wifi city by 2011
Beijing may become the world's largest city to be blanketed in free wi-fi by 2011. Officials, happy with an Olympics test run, are now rolling it out to everywhere.
White House opposes FCC free wireless internet plan
Bush administration officials are trying to put the brakes on the Federal Communications Commission's plan to encourage a free, national wireless internet plan.
YouTube and Ning just say no to sex
YouTube and Ning, which depend heavily on user-generated content, are cracking down on sexually explicit material on their sites. No sex please, we're skittish.
Opinion: Snuggling up with a good download
James Gleick writes about how the gloom that has fallen over the book publishing industry is different from the mood in, say, home building. At least people know we'll always need houses.
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New New Media looks at how our mediascape is exploding to bits. How the latest technology and the internet are changing the way we live, work and play. How the latest media is shaping us all.
Stefano Boscutti is an executive creative director and strategist. He's like a better looking version of Todd Sampson. He also has an abiding faith that stories and wordplay (and not powerpoint presentations) will change the world.
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