Polymath's Guide to News and Ideas
Open Source: The Model Is Broken
BUSINESS WEEK :For anyone who hasn't been paying attention to the software industry lately, I have some bad news. The open-source business model is broken... READ MORE
Politico Network Signs More Than 60 Newspapers
EDITOR & PUBLISHER :NEW YORK Less than three months after launching its content-sharing network, Politico has signed up more than 100 clients, including 67 newspapers... READ MORE
'Several Cities' Could Have No Daily Paper As Soon As 2010, Credit Rater Says
EDITOR & PUBLISHER :CHICAGO Newspaper and newspaper groups are likely to default on their debt and go out of business next year -- leaving "several cities" with no daily newspaper at all, Fitch Ratings says in a report on media released Wednesday... READ MORE
How Gadgets Helped Mumbai Attackers
BLOG.WIRED.COM :The Mumbai terrorists used an array of commercial technologies -- from Blackberries to GPS navigators to anonymous e-mail accounts -- to pull off their heinous attacks... READ MORE
UK newspapers using Youtube
ANDYDICKINSON.NET :Inspired by Mark S. Luckie and his fantastic map of US newspapers using youtube I thought I would give it a go for the UK. The result (nowhere near as nice as Marks) is a real mix of pipes, maps and google docs... READ MORE
Find. Join. Learn. Go. The World Wide Hub
THE BOSTON GLOBE : You want to know what's happening: the singer who's coming, the show that's leaving, the news that's breaking, the gossip that's everywhere, the store that's opening, the restaurant that's closing, the blog everyone's reading... READ MORE
Hate incidents in U.S. surge
CHICAGO TRIBUNE : Barely three weeks after Americans elected their first black president amid a wave of interracial good feeling, a spasm of noose hangings, racist graffiti, vandalism and death threats is convulsing dozens of towns across the country as white extremists lash out at the new political order... READ MORE
With Twitter, a Desperate Need for Context
GIGAOM : Increasingly, every time there is an unfortunate tragedy — be it a raging fire or a terrorist attack – we geta torrent of stories heralding the legitimacy of Twitter as a news source... READ MORE
'I am surprised by the lack of user-generated content', says Mumbai attack live-blogger
WWW.JOURNALISM.CO.UK :The mainstream media may be paying attention to blogs, microblogs and social media sites to report on the terrorism attacks in Mumbai, but there has been a surprisingly low level of user-generated content said Gaurav Mishra... READ MORE
Potentially Universal Mechanism Of Aging Identified
SCIENCE DAILY :Researchers have uncovered what may be a universal cause of aging, one that applies to both single cell organisms such as yeast and multicellular organisms... READ MORE