I, Lamont

Nearly everyone has a favorite holiday tradition. Small children gravitate toward opening presents. Some people love shopping for presents, ...

I was employed as a journalist from 1994 to 2010, with breaks in 1996, 1999, and 2002-2005. I worked for a TV station, a newspaper, a trade...

So the 廢物 show in Taipei went well. Really well. The best place to see photos is on the band's Facebook page . Someone took professional...

I thought I would share this note, as an example of the importance of the Web when it comes to customer communications. Right now there is...

Tweet Comic book stores are one of those 20th century retail holdouts that will continue to hold on to their tight little niche. I realize...

One of the more interesting class projects I took part in during my last semester at MIT was our MIT Media Lab final project for MAS 571 (...

On April 13, Todd Dagres of Spark Capital came to speak at our New Enterprises class. Todd is a former instructor of the class, and an es...

"Why don't journalists link to primary sources?" The question was posed on Hacker News , and was based on a Guardian article ...

(Update: This concept has evolved further and turned into a final project called WorldTV , complete with a software demo and video) From th...

"Governments and their security forces are afraid of the people now. The new generation, the generation of the Internet, is fearless. T...

(Update below) I use Google Alerts to keep abreast of certain topics, such as my MIT program and mentions of my name. The automated search ...

The Newslab blog recently posted about the differences between "professional" video shot with TV crews and video created with mobi...

An essay of mine was published earlier this month on the Baseline Scenario economics blog. It talks about China's yuan policy, and some ...

A high-profile experiment to force people to pay for online news has failed on several counts, writes Ian Burrell in the Independent . A riv...

A few weeks ago I discussed how long-form journalism was a poor fit for mobile devices . In addition, long-form content such as features is ...

I thought I would continue my discussion of the competitive environment for news , after spotting "What the audience wants" isn’t ...

For some time, I've been wanting to write more about online news organizations and the competitive environment they now find themselv...

A thought, after reading this piece about AOL and its new content strategy: Why not rename the company? Ask most people what they associa...

James Fallows, writing for The Atlantic , has published a fascinating but mistitled feature on Google's approach to the news industry (...

So Yahoo is buying Associated Content . The price tag? Rumors say it's between $90-$100 million. A strategy based on low-quality, com...