Posts Tagged ‘ New York Times ’

Newspapers Facing Extinction

Jun 23rd, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: General

We talk a lot at Podcasting News about how new media gives anyone the potential to publish to people all around the world.
This poses challenges to traditional media, though, especially newspapers, because they are faced with tens of thousands of nimble new competitors. As a result, newspapers are losing advertisers to Web media, losing future [...]



SteamPod Showcases Short Steampunk Fiction

Jun 5th, 2008 | By Elisabeth Lewin | Category: Audio Podcasting, Podcasting

An intriguing short note  Wednesday on Twitter tipped us off to SteamPod, a new podcast series  “using the steam powered Victrola to listen to stories from the era called Steampunk.”
For those not familiar with steampunk, it is a sub-category of fantasy or alternate-history fiction which first gained popularity 20 - 25 years ago. Many steampunk [...]



Bloggers Beat The New York Times For News

Feb 2nd, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: General, Strange

The Long Now Foundation has made a decision on the five year old bet between podcasting pioneer Dave Winer and the New York Times’ Martin Nisenholtz:
Long Bets has arrived at a decision for Long Bet #2 between blogger Dave Winer and Martin Nisenholtz of the NY Times. At stake is US$2000.00 plus half the interest [...]