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Steve Rosenbaum’s new book on the precariousness of truth in the AI Age I use AI nearly every day. I use it to research, to synthesize, to brainstorm. And if you’re reading this, chances are you do, too. So when I sat down on a Zoom call Friday with old friend Steve Rosenbaum to talk […]
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TimeTrax is software that lets you turn your PC into a TiVo for satellite radio. In this interview for Engadget, veteran journalist J.D. Lasica spoke with CEO Elliott Frutkin about
As blogging comes of age, what ethical standards should bloggers follow when offered payments or freebies (schwag) for buzz? Editor’s note: I’m leaving these articles up as a historical snapshot.
Title: “Brand Name Bullies″ Author: Peter Bollier My rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Release date: Jan. 1, 2005 For the past few years, intellectual property law has been the playground of lawyers, geeks
The Engadget Interview returns! Veteran journalist J.D. Lasica interviewed Michael Malcolm, founder and CEO of Kaleidescape, a DVD movie jukebox that lets you save perfect copies of DVDs to a
For this week’s Engadget Interview, veteran journalist J.D. Lasica interviewed John MacFarlane, CEO of Sonos, Inc., about the company’s soon-to-be-released digital music system, the state of home entertainment, and how
For this week’s Engadget Interview, veteran journalist J.D. Lasica caught up with Thomas J. Burick, CEO of White Box Robotics of Youngwood, Penn., at the RoboNexus trade show in Santa
For this week’s Engadget Interview, veteran journalist J.D. Lasica interviews Skype co-founder and CEO Niklas Zennström about the future of voice communication, using Skype through wi-fi handhelds, and the coming
For this week’s Engadget Interview, veteran journalist and Engadget correspondent J.D. Lasica cornered TiVo CEO Mike Ramsay in a hallway at the Web 2.0 conference, where the head of the
For this week’s Engadget Inteview, veteran journalist J.D. Lasica spent a few minutes with Anthony Wood, founder and CEO of Roku, to discuss digital media, digital music, DRM wackiness and
Why do Google search results skew so heavily against John Kerry? This column appeared in the Online Journalism Review. Summary: Google News uses computer algorithms to identify top stories while
Last week we kicked off The Engadget Interview with outgoing MPAA president Jack Valenti. This week journalist J.D. Lasica tries out the Sidekick II and speaks with Hank Nothhaft, CEO
For this week’s Engadget Interview, veteran journalist J.D. Lasica spent a few minutes with CEO Jordan Greenhall and President Shahi Ghanem (pictured below) of DivXNetworks. The San Diego company has
This week we’re introducing a new regular feature: the Engadget Interview. Every week J.D. Lasica will speak with someone who is helping shape this crazy world of gadgets and technology
When I attended journalism school at Rutgers, the underlying premise of every class, every lesson, was that we were the expert professionals whose job it is to gather and filter
The openness of Weblogs could help explain why many readers find them more credible than traditional media. Can mainstream journalists learn from their cutting-edge cousins? At the Aspen Institute’s Conference
Blogging, collaborative work tools and the drawbacks of social software took center stage at this year’s Supernova. The third annual tech-in-the-workspace conference — “Where the decentralized future comes together!” —
The Recording Industry Association of America has discovered that digital radio broadcasts can be copied and redistributed over the Internet. The horror. And so the RIAA, the music business’s trade
Newsreader software continues to improve, allowing info-warriors better ways to find and assemble what they are looking for on the Web. RSS may be to the Web what TiVo was
When future generations look back at this unsettled era in which we’re transitioning from an analog to a digital society, the search bots may be impressed most by the works
For years, all was peaceful in the house of Horovitz. Jed Horovitz, a 53-year-old New Jersey entrepreneur with sharply chiseled features and gleaming bald head, had been running a small
This is a sidebar to Blogs and journalism need each other, which appeared in the Fall 2003 edition of Harvard University’s Nieman Reports. What benefits do blogs bring to journalism?
The transparency of blogging has contributed to news organizations becoming more accessible and interactive This article appeared in the Fall 2003 edition of Harvard University’s Nieman Reports. The article was
A roundup of the different flavors of this new journalism form This article appeared Aug. 6, 2003, in the Online Journalism Review. Here’s the version on the OJR site. Participatory
New forms of journalism let citizens become partners in the news By J.D. Lasica Online Journalism Review Over the past few years, the outlines of a new form of journalism
