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Sometimes the truth just slips out

by Mathew on December 23, 2006 · View Comments

(cross-posted from my media blog) In a recent blog post, Anil Dash of SixApart wrote about the fallout from a comment that Seagate CEO Bill Watkins made to Fortune magazine, in which he said that his company’s products help people “buy more crap and watch porn.” The comment — which was made during an informal [...]

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Paul Graham on the Web 2.0 bubble

by Mathew on July 10, 2006 · View Comments

Paul Graham is a smart guy with loads of experience — not just in Web technology, which he knows from the programming side, but in business as well, which he knows from the venture capital side — and so it’s worth paying attention to what he has to say about Web 2.0. He was interviewed [...]

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An interview with Net Squared

by Mathew on May 5, 2006 · View Comments

Not to blow my own horn too much, but I did an email interview with Marshall Kirkpatrick of NetSquared.org the other day and I wanted to point to it. It’s called “The New Online Conversation,” and Marshall and I basically just talked about what the Web offers and how traditional media are (or aren’t) responding [...]

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Mark Glaser over at the PBS blog MediaShift has posted an email exchange he recently had with Chad Hurley, one of the young Web 2.0 guns behind the massively popular YouTube, which just raised $8-million in a financing round led by Sequoia Capital. Not bad for a company that didn’t even exist a year ago, [...]

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An exercise in Journalism 2.0

by Mathew on March 3, 2006 · View Comments

As anyone who has read my little “about me” description knows, I work for The Globe and Mail, a national newspaper based in Toronto, where I write about technology and business, primarily for globeandmail.com. We had a story come up a couple of weeks ago that has turned into an interesting exercise in what I [...]

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