Free No More?

Rupert Murdoch has long been looking for a way to drive a stake through the heart of the information-wants-to-be-free vampire. Is Microsoft now offering him that stake? According to a team of Financial Times reporters tracking a common story from...

The Cult of the Professional

It was probably only a matter of time before Andrew Keen, author of The Cult of the Amateur, would get around to taking a long hard look at the future of creative artists in the world the Internet has made. He has now done so on the Web site of the London...

Proximity to the News

Monday, January 28, 2008 Proximity to the News There was a telling episode in the first episode of the current season of The Wire. The scene is the conference room where the “budget meetings” are held, which determine which stories are...