Archive for July 26th, 2005

Wired News automation plan nearly complete

Tuesday, July 26th, 2005

More layoffs. But in the old days, CNET would have reported this in 30 minutes instead of 30 hours.

Sony/BMG payola emails

Tuesday, July 26th, 2005

Actual quote: “I’m a whore this week, what can I say?” Download the PDF file via SomaFM.

Payola vs PayPal

Tuesday, July 26th, 2005

Sony agrees to $10 million settlement in pay-for-play investigation. Rusty at SomaFM adds the webcaster’s angle: “A couple of times record labels have sent us money along with CDs.” He prefers grateful listener donations.

Another reason to work for Google

Tuesday, July 26th, 2005

Press releases? Who needs ‘em?

JD in USAT

Tuesday, July 26th, 2005

Spotted a photo of JD Lasica kicking back with his RSS feeds in USA Today.