The Daily Loper – May 7, 2007

Previously, On The Daily Loper Edition

Todays links of interest:

• Brit Hume is a "journalist"; Keith Olbermann is "partisan"
  Apparently, it’s only OK to cover people that you criticize if you cover them from the Right.
• MySpace To Acquire Photobucket
  Now that MySpace has conquered Social News (that’s a joke by the way) it moves on to photo sharing. Photobucket is a logical acquisition since the service hosts the vast majority of user photos posted on MySpace.
• Offline Print Journalist calls Bloggers “Wackos who gun down their fellow students”
  Actually I think it’s the print journalism people who are more likely to go postal these days. What with declining circulation, plumeting revenues, and shrinking influence.
• A Reality Check for Newspapers
  More newspaper grumbling about Google. It’s not just search engines that set off these publishers. No, they’re upset about the practice of "deep linking". Apparently we should all start at the front page and click endlessly until we find what we’re looking for. Yet another example of why the newspaper business is in a free fall.
• Once essential, MTV no longer calls the cultural tune
  MTV continues to struggle to find relevance in a new world. If only they hadn’t abandoned music so early on.
• Hollywood Loves the Tiny Screen. Advertisers Don?t.
  What? An article that doesn’t see mobile as the be all and end all of new media? Apparently advertisers are having a hard time seeing benefits.
• ABC details final three "Lost" seasons
  Good news: new episodes will be run back-to-back. Bad news: 16 episodes over next three seasons. Too few for too long.
• DRM group vows to fight bloggers
  Actually, aren’t they already fighting bloggers? After all, bloggers are a sub-set of the "everybody in the entire world," group that DRM groups are always fighting.
• Joost: We’re A Little Red-faced
  Joost’s servers weren’t quite up to demand. Not good for consumers, even more not good for advertisers.
• Ask the Pilot: Air Terminology Glossary
  A useful guide for those who wonder what cross-check and full, upright position mean (upright, in case you don’t have time to read). Also, quick explanation of "the off position" (you can guess this one).