Over The Edge

The next time you hear a record company say they want to step on freely distributed online music for the sake of recording artists, think on this. Also, an article in NetSurfer Digest (edited by fellow Internet Press Guild member Laurie Nyveen) reports on an interesting experiment by Baen Books. Laurie charges for access to […]

What is it about interactive television that so many companies are so willing to spend so much money on it when so few customers seem to care? Time Inc., CBS, IBM, Sears, Comcast — the list goes on and on. Add Microsoft. About 200 jobs are vanishing, and Microsoft doesn’t usually lay people off. From the WSJ: […]

AOL Time Warner, like so many one-time stock market darlings, has been lagging of late. The company and its investors are on a seemingly endless quest of synergies, looking for ways that a company that owns everything from Wakko to People to CNN to Netscape can work with itself. As something of an intellectual exercise, […]

Atlanta police will be adopting Dean Kamen’s Segway gyroscopic scooter on a trial basis, says the AP. They’ll have six of them for a two-month try-out. The slightly snotty dispatch says purse-snatchers will only have to break into a brisk job to outrun a Segway. Maybe it’s me, but 12 miles per hour seems like […]

As often, the subways provide another slice of New York color. From the New York Times: That Screech You Hear Isn’t the Shuttle Rolling In. Thousands of subway riders scramble and squeeze in a slightly more civilized manner because of Millie Mendez’s voice. By Randy Kennedy.