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• What’s right with Wikipedia?

  November 30, 2009 in Blogging, Journalism, News, infrastructure, problems, radio

  Look up “Wikipedia loses” (with the quotes) and you get 20,800 results. Look up “Wikipedia has lost” and you get 56,900. (Or at least that’s what I …

• The Infrastructure Dynamic

  November 25, 2009 in Business, Life, News, Politics, Science, Technology, infrastructure, problems

  I just posted Rupert Murdoch vs. The Web, over at Linux Journal. In it I suggest that the Murdoch story (played mostly as Bing vs Google) is a red herring, and that the …

• WGBH and public radio’s future

  November 25, 2009 in Art, Berkman, Business, Future, Ideas, Journalism, Live Web, News, Past, infrastructure, music, problems, radio

  @robpatrob (Robert Paterson) asks (responding to this tweet and this post) “Why would GBH line up against BUR? Why have a war between 2 Pub stations in same city?” (In …

• WGBH/WCRB go the way of WNYC/WQXR

  November 23, 2009 in News, radio

  The longest thread in the history of this blog belongs to Why WQXR is better off as a public radio station, which I posted on July 26, and still has comments this month. The …

• Catching up

  November 21, 2009 in Business, Places, Travel

  I’m back in Boston after a great few days in Utah at the Kynetx Impact conference, where VRM and related stuff was brought up and discussed at length. It was an inaugural effort …