AFI BLOG: Media and Technology

Business Week…
Since 2006, Khoi Vinh has been the design director of NYTimes.com, where he and his staff of information architects and designers are responsible for the look and feel of the Times’s website. On his blog, Subtraction.com, he addresses key questions about web standards and the marriage of design and technology. Last fall, Vinh and [...]

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The New York Times
SAN FRANCISCO — They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home.
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Matt Buchanan shows blogs may be a young man’s game.
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Business Week
Blinkx, the online video search site, launched the world’s first searchable web-based television channel yesterday.
Users will access the peer-to-peer service using downloadable software to view TV-quality news and entertainment content from the firm’s 250 existing partners such as ITN and the Ministry of Sound. The channel will also include a library of 40 feature [...]

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Is PBS Still Necessary? - The New York Times
For the eighth straight year the Bush administration has ritually proposed taking a hefty whack out of the federal subsidy for public broadcasting. The cuts would in effect slice in half the money that public television and public radio get from the government. If we follow the [...]

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The Media Industry Is Worth Watching in 2008 - Seeking Alpha
2007 was a not a pleasant year for the Media Industry. Most of the Media stocks including IAC, Walt Disney, News Corp. and Time Warner have undergone correction between 10% to 40%. Except Walt Disney, all other stocks are trading close to at their [...]

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