September 27, 2000
Editor & Publisher: Discussion Not Always Frank On Industry Forums.
Steve Outing. From my seat in the middle of these discussions — I have served as list "owner" and "administrator" — I've noticed recently that the conversation has quieted considerably, as senior members of the online news profession have been less willing and able to speak openly with their colleagues in the profession.
Inside: Burn-Rate Casualties Ripe for Big-Company Buyouts.
Jason Chervokas and Tom Watson. While it may be clear now that giving a bunch of content creators buckets of money and expecting a return in the near term was foolish, it is equally clear that the market for online content is growing rather than contracting...
News.Com: MTVi cuts staff by 25 percent.
The changes at MTVi underscore the difficulties that traditional media companies have faced with their Internet plays. Like Viacom, Walt Disney and General Electric have spent considerable resources on their Internet units, Go.com and NBC Internet, respectively...
- Salon: From November 29, 1999; The music man.
Q&A with Nicholas Butterworth, president and CEO of MTVi.
Wired News: Webcasters Caught in RIAA Web.
Jonathan Potter, executive director of the Digital Media Association, warned that webcasters who haven't negotiated individual deals shouldn't be concerned that the RIAA will use agreements with companies like On-the-I.com to influence the royalty structure the copyright office will implement.
News.Com: Lawmakers want to legalize MP3.com service.
Dubbed the "Music Owners' Listening Rights Act of 2000," the bill would give companies the right to copy CDs, store them online, and stream the songs individually to listeners who could prove they already owned a copy of the CD.
The New Republic: Freaked Geeks.
ICANN may have hoped that its elections would come off with the orderliness and good sense of a Capra film. But by the time the servers started melting down last summer, it had something closer to the comic paranoia of Dr. Strangelove.
Washington Post: Holding Out for 'Open Access' to Cable.
The battle in Florida underscores how the once-obscure issue of open access has gained traction. In the past two years, while both the Federal Communications Commission and Congress have allowed the marketplace to resolve the issue, about a dozen cities have sought to test their authority...
Industry Standard: DoCoMo and AOL to Join in Japan.
The companies said they hope to eventually roll out what they call "fixed-mobile convergence" services around the world. They plan to set up a "strategic planning and operations committee" at a senior management level to develop and deploy such services...
Internet Week: Patent Licensing Benefits Both Sides.
Did Amazon really obtain tangible assets in return, or did it go easy on Apple just to get a license under its belt? Meanwhile, eBay, whose plans are still not fully fleshed out, similarly stands to benefit by taking in license fees for its technology.
Wired News: Carnivore Review Team Exposed!
On Tuesday, the Justice Department placed the 51-page PDF file online, with project information such as names, phone numbers, and government security clearances erased with thick black bars. But it turns out that the information wasn't removed after all.
News.Com: Microsoft to rewrite marketing labeled as spam.
Microsoft today said it plans to revise a notification message accompanying a test version of its new MSN Explorer software, bowing to criticism that the feature resembles self-promoting spam.
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