Tipped by my brother, the bluebird of happiness who also woke me up the morning of the Challenger explosion and told me to turn on the television the morning of September 11 (early morning communications from Joel are never good news): Duke Nukem Forever developer 3D Realms has gone bankrupt.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 17:21
Section: Journalism
The new issue of American Journalism Review asks the question of whether making Associated Press content (which was originally created for the newspapers that were part of the AP collective) available to Internet portals was A Costly Mistake?
I didn’t need to read the article to know the answer: Duh.
But the piece does a good job of explaining why it seemed reasonable at the time to make the content available, and that no one was able to foresee the present time, when readers, quite naturally, wonder why they need to read their local paper, when they’re getting national, international, sports and entertainment news for free, well, everywhere, via the Associated Press (and, to a lesser extent, Reuters and Agence France-Presse , better known as AFP).
I know, this is a few months old, but the Observer on Fringe is so cool, especially as he’s pretty clearly based on the mostly-known-to-hardcore-UFO-theorists Men in Black urban legend. (Or maybe that’s just what they want you to believe.) Playing spot the Observer (who is conveniently on the scene of all the show’s weirdness, like a eyebrow-free Jessica Fletcher) is one of the show’s little pleasures.
In case you’ve missed him (and I certainly have in many episodes), please to enjoy:
