FERNANDO CASSIA of the Argentinian yard points me to Daily Tech where I discover that not only am I being libelled, but my own pictures are being published too.
The page is here. The photograph of me was taken in Oxford Jail – now a tourist attraction rather than a clink. The IT Examiner and The News weren’t set up to take advantage of cheap journalistic labour. You can get cheap journalism anywhere, even in America it seems.
THE EVER-EGREGIOUS Google has been putting its oar into the newspaper business, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
Yeah, while all around us newspapers fall – yeah unto the IT Examiner and The News – CEO Eric Schmidt has been advising suits from newspapers how to do their business better.
Schmidt, according to the Journal, told the Newspaper Association of America that publishers need to create a new format for online journalism.
That, Schmidt reckons, means creating personalised content readers want to read.
It’s readers that newspapers should always keep in mind, of course, and experienced journalists will produce copy and headlines that catch the eye, and taste good too.
Unfortunately, too many publishers think of their journalists as data gatherers, which is why so many journalists are being laid off all around the world, in a bid to reduce costs.
Online journalism is like any other journalism, Mr Schmidt. The overheads are much smaller than those of print journalism, but readers want hard hitting stuff, not regurgitated pap and crap. The Journal article is here – you will need a subscription. ♦
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NICE PIECE on the Examiner today – yeah, I’m biased – about solar panels from Subhankar Kundu. The semiconductor companies are cheesed off with the Indian government not helping them enough.
We had a chat about this. A fab costs $2 billion at least to build. Orders are falling, falling, falling. This is the first time the clearly cyclical semi business has experienced this. TSMC is at 40% capacity. So will the fabs shift to producing polysilicon for the solar panel business? It’s not so easy. All it will take is for photovoltaic panels to become cheap and the famous Moore’s Law will kick in. And countries like India which have heaps of sun will benefit.
Will it happen? Probably not for a good while. It’s a crying shame. ♦
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ONE OF this bog’s most faithful commentators, the good Dr Drashek, should wake up to a new commenting opportunity.
Both The News and the IT Examiner allow comments – albeit subject to immoderation by the immoderators.
We are very much looking forward to immoderating DrashekWare on both titles. Chevron obviously decided to risk it for a friskit! Oi’ll be astonished if the Good Doctor does. ♥
THE BUILDING next door continues to rise, with few caring about the fate of the coconut dream axed in a dream of consumerism.
But today we went out and saw the labourers playing a game, so we felt compelled to ask Subhash, who works in Bangalore, for The News and the IT Examiner, what the heck was going on.
They, he said, are playing a board game, similar to chess, although the name of the game they were playing escaped him.
There are three things to note in these two photos. First, the ingenious use of wood instead of metal scaffolding. Secondly, the car in the broader picture appears to be a Reva (pronounced Raver), an electric car which appears to be Subhash’s car. Thirdly, the strategy involved in this game of chess. Chess, as everyone knows, was invented in India. ♥
Dūrgā Devī
