Despite the recent moves to curtail the tech giant’s online dominance, prompting most companies to circle their wagons, Google appears to be taking the opposite approach, further diversifying its business model instead. I read this both as a sign of confidence in its current offerings and as a logical next step in order to leverage [...]
Filed under: Environment, News, Technology on September 11th, 2009 @ 9:51 am
Tagged with: Business, deal, efficiency, energy, Google, Green, innovation, innovative, investing, investment, IT, markets, media, metrics, online, opportunities, opportunity, Technology, web
Despite Congress’ current recess, the health care debate is still making headlines. I can’t read the NY Times, CNN, or the Huffington Post without seeing a new piece of information or perspective on the discussion.
The Wall Street Journal ran a piece yesterday that appeared to be little more than a platform for Iowa Senator Charles [...]
Filed under: Community, Healthcare, News on August 25th, 2009 @ 2:46 pm
Tagged with: costs, debate, discussion, government, health, health care, healthcare, media, US
By its end, 2009 will be remembered politically for the struggle to overhaul the way Americans receive medical care. So far, it has exposed many flaws in our political world, most notably the ever-growing divide between conservative and liberal values.
Obviously, the job of changing health care in a country with such a large population is [...]
Filed under: Healthcare, News on August 21st, 2009 @ 4:35 pm
Tagged with: debate, discussion, government, health, health care, insurance, media, medical, reporting, spin, town hall meetings
While I’ve found the media coverage of the health care debate to be overly sensational thus far, in a way I don’t really see any other way of covering it, primarily because of the passions it engenders on people from either side of the aisle.
For those who believe the government shouldn’t take on too much [...]
Filed under: Healthcare, News on August 18th, 2009 @ 2:46 pm
Tagged with: affordable coverage, co-op plan, government, government-sponsored public insurance, health, insurance, media, President Obama
Though there is little doubt that the internet is fundamentally changing the ways that news is produced, distributed and consumed, how exactly is this revolution being shaped? As traditional media and online upstarts increasingly inhabit the same realms, questions arise over who is breaking the highest profile stories, how these stories are being covered by [...]
Filed under: Arts & Culture, News, Technology on August 6th, 2009 @ 7:47 pm
Tagged with: analysis, Berkman Center, media, Media Cloud, News, research, researchers
It’s nearly impossible these days to pick up a newspaper or read a blog and not find some discussion of the future of the media business and what it means for journalism. To say that it’s an experimental time in the way content is distributed and funded is a bit of an understatement perhaps, as [...]
Filed under: Arts & Culture, News on July 31st, 2009 @ 1:36 pm
Tagged with: Business, funding, inspirational, integrity, journalism, marketing, media, News, reporting, web
‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.