WMF – Social networking, privacy and the press Gideon Benaim, Schillings Consensus is that elements of the press have gone too far… All private citizens have a right to challenge intrusions into their privacy. If press doesn’t rein itself in lawyers and govt will.

We live in a strange world. I work forty miles from where I sleep. The shopping gets delivered and the garbage gets taken away. The Atlantic and New Yorker arrive by post. Friends, work and everything else arrive via broadband. That’s my life. There’s not much local about it. Strike that. There really is nothing…

This from Jon Fine, quoting a 50-something news exec (my itals): The economics of content are totally compromised. For me, the best example of it is Madonna moving from Warner Brothers to Livenation. Because she knows that she can get more income from an event company than a music label. That’s because there is something…

The Telegraph reports today that Reed Elsevier is packaging up an HP deal (ok, a loan) for potential buyers of Reed Business Information. The fate of RBI is a matter of academic interest to business watchers and – well, academics – but if you actually work there it’s a little more interesting. Like, ‘your livelihood’…