Michael Cervieri is a ScribeLabs co-founder and an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. On Twitter, he’s @bmunch.
Archive for Michael Cervieri
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Saving the News: A Headache That Won’t Go Away
Chatter about journalism, its place in society and how to save it continues to grow. Unfortunately, solutions are unimaginative and have news organizations trying to sell the wrong thing: content.
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Wikipedia Book Finds its way onto Wikipedia
Wikipedia: The Missing Manual ends up where it belongs, on Wikipedia.
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Creative Commons: What’s Non-Commercial Anyway?
If a site gives it content away for free, can it still be considered commercial? What if it’s running ads? What if it’s owned by the New York Times?
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Veoh Provides a Video Compass
The new Veoh Video Compass plugin lets you search for videos on YouTube, AOL, Google and others.
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Make Money, Cut Jobs
Microsoft and Intel post profitable quarters and cut over 10,000 jobs. Sony loses billions. Duck.
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Britannica 2.0
The 241-year-old Encyclopedia Britannica embraces Web 2.0 and says they’ll allow users to edit and update articles.
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Will the US Government go Open Source?
The BBC reports that Sun Microsystems co-founder Scott McNealy has been tapped to submit a paper outlining how the US government can implement open source solutions.
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Can Google PageRank Predict Nobel Prize Winners?
Two researchers ask whether citation patterns in scientific papers can be analyzed to figure out future Nobel Prize winners. And the answer is… sort of, kind of, yes.
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Score One for TV
Barack Obama’s inauguration saw a 54% spike in worldwide internet traffic, with most Users seeking video. The result wasn’t necessarily pretty.
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Belkin’s Dirty Laundry
The Internet has made the world an increasingly transparent place. A lesson electronics maker Belkin should have known before paying off reviewers on popular sites like Amazon.
