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Is this man gloating too much about the death of print or simply too quick to announce the end of industrial capitalism? Useful interview. Shame about the lousy video player interface design (it’s ten minutes long and no, you can’t control the playhead).

An interesting new project from Mozilla, home of the Firefox web browser. Raindrop (another web technology water metaphor) promises to integrate and filter all your personal content streams, from email to twitter, into a single convenient browser window. Raindrop is open-source and extensible via an API, but the project has only reached version 0.1 prototype [...]

Very entertaining video of a speech by veteran tech journalist and broadcaster Leo Laporte, creator of This Week in Tech and its podcast network, to the Online News Association focussed on business models for new media companies. Synopsis: they need to be targeted at precisely-defined and highly-engaged niche audiences rather than large, loosely-determined, often indifferent [...]

Via Information Is Beautiful

Twitter isn’t only about pop culture trending topics and ambient intimacy with your friends and family. During its short life the service has also become an essential tool for journalists, new media mavens and public domain players of every political persuasion. It can tell you what’s happening in real time in a way no other [...]

For those who didn’t see this two years ago, here’s an anniversary reminder of just how powerful a sixty second video can be.