The magazine industry operates on long lead times, which is a little like skating on very thin ice. The editors at Golf Digest thought they had a killer cover when they put together the January 2010 issue. Obama and Tiger on the same page. A hole in...

Preceding the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, The Economist put up a paywall. Since then, the weekly has been largely ignored by the blogosphere, which is a pity because there's a lot going on behind the scenes, er, wall. For example,...

David Carr points out that "...the court of self-appointed media royalty was serving at the pleasure of an advertising economy that itself was built on inefficiency and excess. Google fixed that." Then, this brilliant and terrifying observation on the...

The bizzare request by the Football Association of Ireland for the country to be allowed to take part in the World Cup on the grounds that the French stole the qualifying playoff in Paris gets the works from Kynos, a commentator in the Irish Times poll...

Shortly after Michael Arrington's appearance at January's DLD conference in Munich, a person came up to him and spat in his face. That's the kind of thing that sometimes happens to those who provoke. And Arrington provokes. He's controversial, he...