An Engineer’s Guide to Bandwidth

In reality, the Internet is more like a giant cascading multiplayer game of pachinko. You pour some balls in, they bounce around, lights flash and —usually— they come out in the right order on the other side of the world.

Post Mortem For A Dead Newspaper

The company kept defining itself as a newspaper company, not a news organization (or, better yet, a community builder). Everything it did was based on how it would impact the paper edition. The focus was not on competing with web properties and services, but on the other major newspaper in town, the Denver Post.

Full text: Lessons from the Rocky Mountain News – Text and video of speech delivered at UC Berkeley Media Technology Summit at Google in Silicon Valley

Summed up: They saw the future in bits and pieces but did only that which preserved their print product. Delivering content to the internet was entirely an afterthought as was their ability to monetize their web content. Lack of understanding of the web and inability to attract the talent to develop its presence.

Apple Tablet To Redefine Newspapers, Textbooks and Magazines

Apple is in talks with several media companies rooted in print, negotiating content for a “new device.”

If the device doesn’t have a specific purpose and and Apple cannot realize that purpose in a new and exciting way, they shouldn’t even attempt it. If Apple succeeds they will have all the building blocks in place to sell and deliver content for the device.