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Thursday, November 1, 2007

Hey, Television Is Already So Bad, I Bet We Hardly Notice …

Mediated contract negotiations between the Writers Guild of America and Hollywood producers broke off last night setting the stage for a writers’ strike that could leave sitcoms without scripts, late-night shows without topical monologues and television viewers with an even more limited choice of broadcast dross than they have now (”America’s Next Top Model,” “Dancing [...]

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Friday, June 22, 2007

Here’s Another Domain You Might Buy: www.MainstreamMedia Desperation.com

When Santa Monica, Calif.-based incubator eCompanies paid $7.5 million in 1999 for the rights to the domain name business.com–nearly twice what Compaq paid the year prior to buy altavista.com, the name of its search engine–conventional wisdom was that the company’s founders were out of their minds. “It is going to be the bargain of the [...]

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John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper.

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Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

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