Since the advent of blogging, there has been debate over the idea if those who work in online media are truly journalists or not. Then the question gets even more muddied when you ponder if bloggers can be journalists, what dictates which bloggers are, and which aren’t? What about journalists that now have to blog as part of their job? It just gets more and more confusing, and no one...
It seems that Comedy Central, a company that has made a tremendous amount of money by building two shows around the concept of “fair use”, isn’t going to be quite as forgiving when bloggers turn the tables on them. Hulu recently announced that both The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, both products of the Viacom-owned Comedy Central, would no longer be available on the service. ...
“Hey, did you hear about Service Y?” “No, should I have?” “Oh man, it’s going to be a Service X killer!” There is no doubt that the human species is given to hyperbole, but over the past few years, and especially in the technology field, it seems to have gone to extremes. Over the past few days, while the rumors were circulating about what would eventually be known as Google Buzz,...