NIKKEI VIEW: The Asian American Blog

CNN this week ran this Associated Press story, about how musicians who’ve been holdouts from the iPod/iTunes bandwagon — the Beatles, Led Zep, Garth Brooks and others among them — will probably cave in and finally allow their music to be downloaded song-by-song.
Apple’s iPod dominates the digital music player market, and iTunes accounts for over [...]

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When I wrote last week about the death of AOL, I may have been premature. Maybe it’s just the start of a new chapter in AOL’s lifespan.
Take this Washington Post story today, for proof. AOL last week screwed up and released private information about its users and how they use the company’s search engine.
Significantly, the [...]

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Truly, it’s the end of an era.
My first online job, way back in 1996, was as Content Editor of AOL’s Digital City Denver. It was a great time to be working on the Internet — there was a palpable sense of excitement. Everything was new, and everything was possible.
Never mind that AOL wasn’t exactly the [...]

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I get a lot of inquiries about podcasting because DenverPost.com has had podcasts for a year, from newspapers interested in starting podcasts, consulting companies researching them, and from students working on papers.
I recently received a note from a student in England, and I thought I’d post his question and my response:

Sphere: Related Content

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There was an interesting piece in the Washington Post yesterday, about a woman in South Korea whose dog pooped on a subway. She refused to clean it up, much to the consternation of other passengers nearby (what the hell is a dog doing in the subway anyway?).
One passenger took a digital photo and put it [...]

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(Note: I worked for DenverPost.com from 2003-2006.)
No, don’t barf. I know a lot of people — especially the kind of people who read blogs, who I think are by nature technologically savvy and opinionated — hate even the concept of AOL and everything the company stands for.
But hear me out, because I truly believe that [...]

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