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		<title>Geek in Black: Barry Sonnenfeld Comes Out From Behind the Camera to&#8230;Vlog?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kara Swisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many years now, one of our regular attendees at the D: All Things Digital conference has been award-winning movie and television director, producer and writer Barry Sonnenfeld, who is--as it turns out--a not-so-closeted geek in his spare time with a gadget column for Esquire magazine called "The Digital Man." 

Now he is branching out to a vlog about his geek passions on Crackle, which will appear every two weeks from wherever he is--either from his homes in East Hampton, N.Y. or Telluride, Colo., or from Hollywood sets.]]></description>
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<p>For many years now, one of our regular attendees at the <strong>D: All Things Digital</strong> conference has been award-winning movie and television director, producer and writer Barry Sonnenfeld, who is&#8211;as it turns out&#8211;a not-so-closeted geek in his spare time. </p>
<p>(He also appeared onstage in 2006 at <strong>D4</strong> in an interview with Walt Mossberg, <a href="http://allthingsd.com/d/gallery/d4/">which you can see here</a>.)</p>
<p>In fact, the man behind movies like &#8220;Men in Black&#8221; and TV shows like &#8220;Pushing Daisies&#8221; (and who likes to sport a Stetson and cowboy boots 24/7) does a gadget review column for Esquire magazine called &#8220;The Digital Man.&#8221; </p>
<p>Now he is branching out to <a href="http://crackle.com/c/The_Esquire_Digital_Man">a vlog about his geek passions on Crackle</a>, which will appear every two weeks from wherever he is&#8211;either from his homes in East Hampton, N.Y. or Telluride, Colo., or from movie or TV sets. </p>
<p>And, compared to the cinéma vérité style of BoomTown (translation: shaky filming and bad sound), Sonnenfeld&#8217;s vlogs are pretty high quality, although they are not too overdone as those from Hollywood types always are, and it&#8217;s hard not to admire the editorial use of a martini.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s his intro video vlog below, as well as one about a cross-country trip Sonnenfeld and his &#8220;analog&#8221; dog, named Lucky, took in a 2010 Ford Taurus SHO (super high output) and another about his experience helping his wife, Sweetie, cook for some film industry friends using the Traeger Professional Wood Pellet Grill. </p>
<p>Next week: A chain saw, although I hope Sonnenfeld will go light on the martinis for that demo.</p>
<p>From Crackle: <a href="http://crackle.com/c/The_Esquire_Digital_Man/The_Esquire_Digital_Man_Preview/2479591/" title="The Esquire Digital Man Preview" style="text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;word-wrap:break-word;">The Esquire Digital Man Preview</a>:<br />
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<p>From Crackle: <a href="http://crackle.com/c/The_Esquire_Digital_Man/Ford_Taurus_SHO/2479592/" title="Ford Taurus SHO" style="text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;word-wrap:break-word;">Ford Taurus SHO</a>:<br />
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<p>From Crackle: <a href="http://crackle.com/c/The_Esquire_Digital_Man/Traeger_Professional_Wood_Pellet_Grill/2479594/" title="Traeger Professional Wood Pellet Grill" style="text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;word-wrap:break-word;">Traeger Professional Wood Pellet Grill</a>:<br />
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		<title>Video: Mossberg and Patches Opine About AppleFest 2009 at the ATD Annual BBQ</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kara Swisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here's a lovely video BoomTown did last night at our All Things Digital annual BBQ, at which the crackerjack team at our little rogue operation inside Dow Jones goes analog, gnaws on some ribs and trades tech tales.

Last night, of course, much of the chatter was about what went down at the Apple event in San Francisco yesterday, at which CEO and Supreme Leader Steve Jobs made a grand reappearance onstage after a liver transplant.

Walt Mossberg and Digital Daily's John Paczkowski were there and give their spicy reports.]]></description>
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<p>Here&#8217;s a lovely video BoomTown did last night at our <strong>All Things Digital</strong> annual BBQ, at which the crackerjack team at our little rogue operation inside Dow Jones goes analog.</p>
<p>As a completely virtual company, it&#8217;s nice to get together to gnaw on some ribs and trade tech tales.</p>
<p>Last night, of course, much of the chatter was about what went down at the <a href="http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20090909/live-from-apples-lets-rock-event-10-am-pdt/">Apple event in San Francisco yesterday</a>, at which CEO and Supreme Leader Steve Jobs made a grand reappearance onstage after a liver transplant.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m vertical, back at Apple and loving every day of it,&#8221; declared Jobs, before introducing a variety of new features and software innovations to the company&#8217;s already strong repertoire, most specifically for <a href="http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20090909/live-from-apples-lets-rock-event-itunes-9/">iTunes</a> and <a href="http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20090909/live-from-apples-lets-rock-event-ipods/">iPods</a>.</p>
<p>(I guess some still stubbornly self-righteous bloggers were a little premature with their <a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20090106/to-err-is-human-to-live-divine-how-exactly-no-one-got-it-right-about-steve-jobs-health/">hysterical death&#8217;s-door assertions about the Silicon Valley icon and business-challenged certainty that Apple would wither too</a>.)</p>
<p>Overall, from reading the coverage about the Apple (AAPL) gathering, the Jobs performance sounded kind of dramatic, even if there was no launch of a new device, such as the coming-up-next mystery iTablet.</p>
<p>Both Walt Mossberg and Digital Daily&#8217;s John &#8220;Patches&#8221; Paczkowski were at the event, along with Mossberg Solution&#8217;s Katherine Boehret and our Webmaster, master photog and Newton fanboy, Adam Tow (see <a href="http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20090909/apple-music-event-photos/">his amazing images of the confab</a> here).</p>
<p>(Walt actually punked me at the BBQ by pretending he actually had a demo of the alleged Apple tablet in his bag&#8211;at which I almost lunged like a lunatic&#8211;when he had no such thing. Ha. Ha.)</p>
<p>In any case, here&#8217;s their frank ruminations on what went down&#8211;not too much new, really, but still interesting, as always, from Apple.</p>
<p>And, separately, after the Apple event was over, Patches went to a meeting with Palm (PALM) to take a gander at the <a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20090909/teeny-tiny-pixi-phone-from-palm-tries-killing-giant-hype-for-apple-event-today/">new Pixi smart phone</a> and gives his first thoughts on that too.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the video interview:</p>
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		<title>Mount Techmore: Pogue, Baig, Levy and Mossberg at Apple Event</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kara Swisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BoomTown could not resist posting this photo for posterity's sake, taken by All Things Digital Webmaster and master photog Adam Tow. 

It pictures a quartet of the tech media's heavy hitters, all attending at the Apple event in San Francisco today.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>BoomTown could not resist posting this photo for posterity&#8217;s sake, taken by <strong>All Things Digital</strong> Webmaster and master photog Adam Tow.</p>
<p>It pictures a quartet of the tech media&#8217;s heavy hitters, all attending at the Apple (APPL) event <a href="http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20090909/live-from-apples-lets-rock-event-10-am-pdt/">in San Francisco today</a>&#8211;including, from right to left, Walt Mossberg of <strong>ATD</strong> and The Wall Street Journal, Wired&#8217;s Steven Levy, Ed Baig of USA Today and the New York Times&#8217;s David Pogue.</p>
<p>They look almost harmless. <em>Almost!</em></p>
<p>(Click on the image to make it larger.)</p>
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		<title>23andMe Co-Founder Linda Avey Leaves Personal Genetics Start-Up to Focus on Alzheimer's Research</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Linda Avey, co-founder of 23andMe, the personal genetics start-up, will be leaving to start a foundation related to Alzheimer's disease.

With Anne Wojcicki, she founded the high-profile company--whose Series A investors include Genentech, Google, and New Enterprise Associates, as well as Wojcicki's husband, Google co-founder Sergey Brin--in 2006.

Avey noted in an email to staff, which is posted in its entirety below: "I also recognize that the company has reached a critical point in its growth where new leadership can take it to the successful heights we all think it can achieve."]]></description>
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<p>BoomTown just got the following email from Anne Wojcicki, co-founder of 23andMe, the personal genetics start-up, about the departure of her co-founder, Linda Avey (pictured here). She will be starting a foundation related to Alzheimer&#8217;s disease.</p>
<p>The pair founded the high-profile company&#8211;whose Series A investors include Genentech (DNA), Google (GOOG) and New Enterprise Associates, as well as Wojcicki&#8217;s husband, Google co-founder Sergey Brin&#8211;in 2006.</p>
<p>It has collected almost $23 million in funding.</p>
<p>Avey noted in an email to staff, which is posted in its entirety below: &#8220;I also recognize that the company has reached a critical point in its growth where new leadership can take it to the successful heights we all think it can achieve.&#8221;</p>
<p>Wojcicki&#8217;s email reads, in part:</p>
<blockquote class="memo"><p>I wanted to let you know that Linda Avey will be leaving 23andMe to focus her energy on transforming Alzheimer&#8217;s research and treatment, leveraging the 23andMe platform. Linda and I have talked about doing research in Alzheimer&#8217;s since the inception of the company. Linda, whose father-in-law recently died from the disorder, will be leveraging 23andMe’s platform as she works to revolutionize the research, treatments and prevention for Alzheimer’s.</p>
<p>Linda will be greatly missed by me and my colleagues but we’re glad she will continue to be in a related field, and we are committed to continuing the work that she and I started three years ago.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2009/09/23andme_logo.png"><img src="http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2009/09/23andme_logo-250x177.png" alt="23andme_logo" title="23andme_logo" width="250" height="177" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-18153" /></a></p>
<p>And here is the email from Avey to the staff, as well as Wojcicki&#8217;s below it and then the official press release: </p>
<blockquote class="memo"><p>Dear all-</p>
<p>As I trust you all know, 23andMe is very special to me.  I also recognize that the company has reached a critical point in its growth where new leadership can take it to the successful heights we all think it can achieve.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve decided that I&#8217;d like to focus my efforts on an area that is personally significant and will continue to have a huge impact on our healthcare system&#8211;Alzheimer&#8217;s disease.  Effective today, I&#8217;m leaving 23andMe and have begun making plans for the creation of a foundation dedicated to the study of this disorder.  The foundation will leverage the research platform we&#8217;ve built at 23andMe&#8211;the goal is to drive the formation of the world&#8217;s largest community of individuals with a family history of Alzheimer&#8217;s, empower them with their genetic information and track their brain health using state-of-the-art tools.  We&#8217;ve always planned to include Alzheimer&#8217;s in our 23andWe research mission&#8230;I&#8217;m just approaching it from a new angle.</p>
<p>Some of you might be aware that my father-in-law suffered from Alzheimer&#8217;s and passed away last year. For this reason, Randy and I are motivated to do what we can to improve the understanding of what leads to the debilitating symptoms and what might prevent them from starting in the first place. The ApoE4 association is barely understood but gives us a great starting point.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll miss working with you but will be excited to hear about the progress I know you&#8217;ll be making!</p>
<p>All the best,<br />
Linda</p></blockquote>
<blockquote class="memo"><p>Team:</p>
<p>As Linda has told you, she will be leaving 23andMe to focus her energy on transforming Alzheimer&#8217;s research and treatment, leveraging the 23andMe platform. While I am quite sad to see her leave I am excited and hopeful as she takes on this mission.  As Linda&#8217;s co-founder and partner over the last three years, it has been clear that revolutionizing research has been a primary passion. Our drive to change health care has always had roots in our personal lives and we have tried to structure 23andMe so that any individual or organization could actively participate in research. Linda and I have talked about doing research in Alzheimer&#8217;s since the inception of the company and the need for the Alzheimer&#8217;s community to have a strong leader. With Linda&#8217;s involvement, I believe that the APOE4 community could be the first asymptomatic community to successfully develop preventative treatments. I hope that going forward we&#8217;ll both be able to shake up and transform the health care space, making health care and treatments better for all.  </p>
<p>Linda&#8217;s departure is also a sign of 23andMe&#8217;s maturation. When we started the company, the personal genetics industry did not exist; now it is a thriving and competitive landscape. Our company has grown and we continue to be an innovative industry leader. While our success has been exceptional, it is also clear we have a lot of work ahead. We have created a significant and empowering tool, but we must find new and better ways to promote the value of knowing your DNA. In the weeks ahead, we will outline a strategy for the company that we believe will make genetics a routine part of health care and will lead us to making significant research discoveries.   </p>
<p>Linda has been instrumental in making 23andMe what it is today and we thank her for her passion and dedication to the company. We have many exciting opportunities before us, and I look forward to working with all of you to make 23andMe a spectacular success.</p>
<p>Anne</p></blockquote>
<blockquote class="memo"><p><strong>Linda Avey to Create Alzheimer&#8217;s Foundation</strong></p>
<p>Mountain View, CA&#8211;September 4, 2009&#8211;Linda Avey, co-founder of 23andMe, an industry leader in personal genetics, announced today that she is leaving the company to start a new foundation focused on Alzheimer&#8217;s disease. Ms. Avey&#8217;s foundation will leverage the 23andMe research platform to search for causes and treatments for the disease, which afflicts more than 5.2 million people in the United States.</p>
<p>Ms. Avey and Anne Wojcicki founded 23andMe together in 2006. The company provides personalized genetic information through DNA analysis and allows individuals to interact with their private information through a variety of web-based tools.</p>
<p>&#8220;I could not be more proud of what we have accomplished in the three years since Anne and I created 23andMe, and I am excited to take the next step in applying my experiences to one of the great health challenges of our time,&#8221; said Ms. Avey, who has more than 20 years of experience in the biopharmaceutical industry. &#8220;There is a clear need for revolutionary research and concentrated effort to confront Alzheimer&#8217;s, and we need to start now in order to make meaningful progress. The resources are out there&#8211;my goal is to marshal them to find answers for families, like mine, who have lost family members to such a debilitating disease.&#8221;</p>
<p>Concurrent with Ms. Avey&#8217;s announcement, Ms. Wojcicki said that 23andMe expects to make its genetic data platform available to Ms. Avey&#8217;s foundation in order to advance its research.</p>
<p>&#8220;Linda has been a true partner with me over these last three years, an innovative leader for our company and our industry, and instrumental in making 23andMe what it is today,&#8221; said Wojcicki. &#8220;It is only fitting that she will be making full use of our work together and leveraging the 23andMe platform for a tremendous cause. We look forward to joining her as a partner in her efforts.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ms. Avey&#8217;s departure announced today takes effect immediately.</p></blockquote>
<p>Here is a video, in two parts, of <a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080909/the-entire-d6-demo-of-23andme">Avey and Wojcicki demoing</a> some new features of 23andMe at the sixth <strong>D: All Things Digital</strong> conference in 2008.</p>
<p>In the first one, they introduce 23andMe, explain the main service and ask News Corp. (NWS) head Rupert Murdoch, Walt and me about our tolerance for milk and about our racing abilities. (Full disclosure: News Corp. is the owner of Dow Jones and this Web site.)</p>
<p>In the second one, Avey and Wojcicki survey Murdoch on his genetic traits and show me what genes my kids have in common (and discover that I am not hyperactive).</p>
<p>Here are the <strong>D6</strong> demos:</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, onstage at Lincoln Center in Manhattan, my most excellent partner, Walt Mossberg, interviewed well-known techno musician Moby about music and entertainment in the digital age.

The wide-ranging talk was part of an ongoing cultural festival series organized by The Wall Street Journal, called Summer Scoops Live. 

Here are some video clips of the event and more.]]></description>
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<p>Last night, onstage at Lincoln Center in Manhattan, my most excellent partner, <a href="http://walt.allthingsd.com/">Walt Mossberg</a>, interviewed well-known techno musician Moby about music and entertainment in the digital age.</p>
<p>The wide-ranging talk was part of an ongoing cultural festival series organized by The Wall Street Journal, called <a href="http://online.wsj.com/public/page/lincoln-center.html">Summer Scoops Live</a>. </p>
<p>Here are three video clips from the event:</p>
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<p>If you prefer to read, here is a <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2009/08/10/walt-mossberg-moby-go-mano-a-mano-at-summer-scoops-live/">live blog that Michelle Kung did of the event</a> to enjoy:</p>
<blockquote class="memo"><p><strong>7:30 p.m.</strong>&#8211;Out of the steaming heat and into the cool, air-conditioned confines of Lincoln Center&#8217;s Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse.</p>
<p><strong>7:39 p.m.</strong>&#8211;The lights dim and Moby and Mossberg make their entrances. Moby slinks down in his chair (&#8221;Am I greasy, or is it the chair?&#8221;) just before WSJ culture editor Christopher John Farley introduces the pair.</p>
<p><strong>7:43 p.m.</strong>&#8211;Mossberg plugs his son, who&#8217;s in a band, before asking Moby&#8211;whose real name is Richard Melville Hall&#8211;if he is really related to &#8220;Moby Dick&#8221; author Herman Melville. Moby replies that that is what his parents have always told him and explains the origins of his moniker: &#8220;When I was 11 minutes old, my parents looked at me and I was this little grub of a baby and my mother said, Richard Melville Hall is a very grown up name, and my father said jokingly, let’s call him &#8216;Moby.&#8217; All these years later, I still have this name I’ve have from infancy.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>7:46 p.m.</strong>&#8211;Mossberg asks Moby, in between jokes about being both being bald-ish, about the difference between &#8220;Play&#8221; and his new album, &#8220;Wait for Me.&#8221; Moby begins by talking about how the success of &#8220;Play&#8221; completely surprised him, because he was considered a &#8220;has been&#8221; by the time the album was originally released in the early 1990s and that Rolling Stone refused to review the album. His success with the album also confused him, because he was unsure of his next step&#8211;was he supposed to listen to the label now? To the fans? To himself?</p>
<p>&#8220;Wait for Me,&#8221; his ninth studio album, was designed as a return to simplicity, and created with old instruments&#8211;many of which were purchased on eBay&#8211;in his bedroom in Manhattan. When Mossberg asks Moby to clarity what he means by &#8220;his bedroom,&#8221; the musicians lays out out his floorplan&#8211;he lives in a two-bedroom apartment on Mott Street and with a small space (&#8221;two people starts to feel claustrophobic&#8221;) set aside for his music work.</p>
<p><strong>7:52 p.m.</strong>&#8211;Moby uses a Mossberg question as an excuse to slam Jay Leno, whom he calls the &#8220;least prepared interviewer.&#8221; He fakes a Leno voice, and mock interviews: &#8220;So Moby, you have a new record. Tell me about it.&#8221; Mossberg interjects, &#8220;So I have a low bar?&#8221; to the delight of the crowd.</p>
<p><strong>7:53 p.m.</strong>&#8211;Mossberg asks Moby how he used technology in &#8220;Wait for Me.&#8221; Moby begins by explaining that while he loves technology, he don’t fetishize it like some of his friends. &#8220;I have an 18&#8243; flat screen TV. A bigger screen doesn&#8217;t make TV any better. &#8216;Family Guy&#8217; is still funny on a little TV. If it works and doesn&#8217;t cause me undue stress, I love it.&#8217;</p>
<p><strong>7:55 p.m.</strong>&#8211;Moby launches into an explanation of what  Pro Tools and plugins are, and how thanks to this nifty recording/mixing operating system, he can take prerecorded &#8220;notes&#8221; that have been recorded abroad, say, in places like Vienna, and then recreate a 60-piece orchestra on his keyboard.</p>
<p><strong>7:59 p.m.</strong>&#8211;On to issues of intellectual property. Moby says: &#8220;I don&#8217;t mind when people pirate my music&#8211;if you want to steal my music, more power to you.&#8221; Mossberg immediately asks, &#8220;Why?&#8221; And he deadpans, &#8220;Deep-seated emotional issues.&#8221; He then goes on to explain that personally, he&#8217;s so honored that people want to listen to his music, he doesn’t want to restrict access to it. &#8220;I don’t have alimony, I don’t need insulin…I don&#8217;t have crystal meth problems.&#8221; Thus, he personally doesn&#8217;t mind, but he can only speak for himself. But to clarify, he does want you to buy his album so his friends at the label are happy.</p>
<p><strong>8:04 p.m.</strong>&#8211;Mossberg and Moby discuss the RIAA’s decision to sue customers. Moby says that it&#8217;s never been cheaper to make music, videos, and promote albums. EMI, he thinks, broke even. So why are they alienating their customers?</p>
<p><strong>8:06 p.m.</strong>&#8211;Blind item alert! Moby says that a few years ago, he was talking to a record label head, and when he asked the top honcho about their iTunes plan for their biggest star&#8217;s newest album, he was told, oh, we&#8217;re going to wait a couple months.</p>
<p>Moby then launches into philosophy mode and brings up the is/ought fallacy to illustrate his point, noting that the current music model &#8220;underpins the failure of major labels&#8211;they think, it used to be this way, so it ought to be this way.&#8221; Their ethos is, &#8220;Please go away. Make the future die.&#8221; Mossberg suggests he write a song/album with that title. Moby quips back with &#8220;Young People Suck&#8221; as a potential label-inspired tune.</p>
<p><strong>8:12 p.m.</strong>&#8211;Moby adds a qualifier to his comments, touting Mute, his own record label. &#8220;Mute is wonderful, and they care about music&#8211;it&#8217;s the big major labels who have been egregiously bad stewards of music. It&#8217;s hard to feel bad for them when they&#8217;ve brought us some of the worst music ever created.&#8221; He then gets in a dig at Lars Ulrich of Metallica, saying that if he needs a &#8220;fur-lined walking humidor,&#8221; that’s him.</p>
<p><strong>8:15 p.m.</strong>&#8211;Moby asks the audience if he can get pedantic for a moment. They cheer their assent. He then launches into a story about the early days of the Beatles, a band that got &#8220;lucky&#8221; because everything they did was in mono. &#8220;The first &#8216;Meet the Beatles&#8217; was recorded in four hours. They played the songs and it was done.&#8221; He explains how this is not possible anymore.</p>
<p><strong>8:18 p.m.</strong>&#8211;Yay! Moving on to a discussion about  Auto-Tune, which &#8220;enables anyone to fake perfect pitch.&#8221; Moby declines to name names in his anecdotes, because he has enough feuds already, but singles out Cher’s &#8220;I Believe&#8221; as the first of the supremely auto-tuned songs, and mourns how kids can&#8217;t recognize real singing anymore. Next, a discussion of playback, aka the technology that failed Ashlee Simpson when she was reduced to her now infamous hoedown on &#8220;Saturday Night Live.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>8:23 p.m.</strong>&#8211;Memory lane for Mossberg. He recalls seeing the Supremes, and Simon &#038; Garfunkel in the &#8217;60s for $3/ticket in a gym, and how the concerts back then used to sound just like the album. But everything is much more complicated now.</p>
<p><strong>8:25 p.m.</strong>&#8211;Moby talks about how he plays to bigger crowds in Europe, and how he can enjoy the concert experience. Playing in front of a big crowd, he says, with big production values, is the musician&#8217;s equivalent of playing the big penis card.</p>
<p><strong>8:28 p.m.</strong>&#8211;Mossberg asks: When you make music, do you have to consider the fact that it&#8217;s going to be listened to on [Apple] iPods and [Microsoft] Zunes? Moby says sadly yes, and tells a story about how super-processed music works on the subway, because the noise of the L train doesn&#8217;t interfere with, say, a song by Rihanna, but the subtleties of Gershwin&#8217;s &#8220;Rhapsody in Blue&#8221; will get lost.</p>
<p><strong>8:32 p.m.</strong>&#8211;Mossberg moves on to playing a snippet of the song &#8220;Pale Horses&#8221; from &#8220;Wait for Me&#8221; because we&#8217;re running late, and Moby says he has to pee&#8211;&#8221;Syphilis is a demanding mistress.&#8221; Mossberg: &#8220;Bill Gates doesn&#8217;t say that to me…I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m defending Microsoft.” Moby: &#8220;I&#8217;m just saying the Zune is clumsy as hell.&#8221; [For those lacking the implied sarcasm, Moby clarifies later on that he does not, in fact, have syphilis.]</p>
<p>Moby on &#8220;Pale Horses&#8221; and many of his other songs: 80% of the work is done in a couple days, but it&#8217;s the finishing stuff that is what really takes a really long time. To get the job done, he holes himself with the music&#8211;&#8221;Hopefully, a more benign version of Ted Kaczynski during the creative process.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>8:40 p.m.</strong>&#8211;Audience Q&#038;A time. Moby is asked about his licensing deals, and says he doesn&#8217;t license music anymore, because he&#8217;s sick of being the whipping boy for the process. Which is ironic, because everyone&#8217;s selling out now. He adds that he initially licensed the music for &#8220;Play,&#8221; because it allowed more people to hear the album.</p>
<p><strong>8:46 p.m.</strong>&#8211;Moby interrupts a question-asker to comment on how he wishes the stage were against the left window like a previous panel he was on, so everyone could get a glimpse of the view. The questioner then proceeds to take out a Chilean flag and hold it up before asking Moby if there&#8217;s relationship between his music and the cosmos. The short answer? Yes.</p>
<p><strong>8:51 p.m.</strong>&#8211;Mossberg sums up the evening and offers kudos to Moby for sharing his time and process.</p>
<p><strong>8:52 p.m.</strong>&#8211;Moby plugs a new tour date in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. And good night everybody!</p></blockquote>
<p>And, here is a rather unusual cartoon video of Moby being interviewed by a dog that the Journal did:</p>
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<p>And, here is a video of Moby last week, talking about the digital impact of the music, in an interview on the Leonard Lopate radio show on WNYC: </p>
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<p>Finally, here is a <a href="http://flavorwire.com/32857/exclusive-qa-with-wsj-tech-expert-walt-mossberg-moby">Q&#038;A that Walt did with Flavorpill&#8217;s Caroline Stanley</a> about a range of tech trends, as a preview to the event.</p>
<p><em>[Moby photo credit: AFP/Getty]</em></p>
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		<title>Mark Cuban Makes the Best Point of All About Charging for Content: Use Your Imagination!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kara Swisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday--in a somewhat rambling and also riveting blog post about charging for content--serial entrepreneur and perennial gadfly Mark Cuban made a very important point that execs at every large media company should take to heart as they try to cope with the digital challenge.

Use your noggins, why dontcha? 

He also threw out some very good ideas for doing so.]]></description>
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<p>Yesterday&#8211;in a somewhat rambling but also riveting blog post about charging for content&#8211;serial entrepreneur and perennial gadfly Mark Cuban made a very important point that execs at every large media company should take to heart as they try to cope with the digital challenge.</p>
<p><em>Use your noggins, why dontcha? </em></p>
<p>Cuban aimed the piece at News Corp. head Rupert Murdoch, who has been the most vocal media mogul of late about the issue of getting paid online for the copious amount of original content the various parts of the media giant he runs make.</p>
<p>(Such as this site, which is owned by Dow Jones, which is owned by News Corp.)</p>
<p>&#8220;Rupert, you didn&#8217;t ask my opinion on this, but since when has that ever stopped me,&#8221; wrote Cuban in his post titled <a href="http://blogmaverick.com/2009/08/08/my-advice-to-fox-myspace-on-selling-content-yes-you-can/">&#8220;My Advice to Fox &#038; MySpace on Selling Content&#8211;Yes You Can.&#8221;</a> &#8220;First the good news. You can sell content on the internet. People pay for content on and off the internet every second of every day. It&#8217;s easy to do. If you do it right.&#8221;</p>
<p>Then, Cuban followed up with a long series of suggestions&#8211;in general, Cuban had more interesting ideas in one post than I have collectively heard in a while.</p>
<p>Like all good brainstorms, some are defensive moves, some offensive, some very interesting and some probably unworkable. </p>
<p>But, in this time of massive change, all are well worth considering because Cuban&#8217;s piece had the feel of throwing a whole bunch of ideas on the table and just knocking anything around&#8211;with the goal of creating a more important sense of discovery and entrepreneurialism.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s kind of like that great scene in the movie, &#8220;Apollo 13,&#8221; when the engineers had to come up with a solution for a dire problem, so they threw a pile of doodads on the table and started tinkering fast.</p>
<p>I dearly hope that is precisely what&#8217;s going on inside all the various media companies as they seek to maneuver the storm-tossed seas of change they find themselves in instead of the more typical inclination to throw blame in a time of crisis.</p>
<p>The problem, as it always turns out, is that industries in trouble always tend to shoot down ideas as they arise rather than embrace even the truly insane ones&#8211;one of which might turn out to be the innovation needed.</p>
<p>As Cuban correctly pointed out, that is often due to infighting at big corporations.</p>
<p>To the negative, I saw that up close and personal a half-dozen years ago as AOL was systematically dismembered at Time Warner (TWX), due to very real wounds from the disastrous merger, at the exact moment when everyone should have been pulling for it.</p>
<p>To the positive, it is clear that the many failings of Microsoft (MSFT) in the search game were what finally got it to take a greenfields approach with its recently announced Bing, which is finally a competitive product.</p>
<p>I like that kind of gumption, and it was nice to see that in just one blog post Cuban could come up with at least 10 ideas, many of which would doubtlessly not fly.</p>
<p>In fact, after one, Cuban wrote: &#8220;I don&#8217;t know if it will work, but it is sure worth exploring!&#8221;</p>
<p>It sure is.</p>
<p>Here is that clip from &#8220;Apollo 13,&#8221; as well as the <a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20090630/hdnet-chairman-mark-cuban-the-full-d7-session">full video of the interview</a> Walt Mossberg and I did with the voluble Cuban on the issues facing media giants at the seventh <strong>D: All Things Digital</strong> conference in May:</p>
<p><strong>Apollo 13</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Cuban at D7</strong></p>
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		<title>Exclusive: Twitter to Debut a New Main Homepage Next Week</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kara Swisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twitter will unveil a new main homepage next week at Twitter.com, said co-founder Biz Stone, in order "to better show who we are."

In an interview with BoomTown this afternoon, Stone said the current page is essentially confusing to the masses of people who come to it, made aware of the microblogging service by the massive media hype it has received over the last year.

People arriving at the new main homepage will be greeted by a search box, information on Twitter trends and a panoply of more specific information about how they can use Twitter.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Twitter will unveil a new main homepage next week at <a href="http://twitter.com/">Twitter.com</a>, said co-founder Biz Stone, in order &#8220;to better show who we are.&#8221;</p>
<p>In an interview with BoomTown this afternoon, Stone said the current page is essentially confusing to the masses of people who come to it, made aware of the microblogging service by the massive media hype it has received over the last year.</p>
<p>People arriving at the new main homepage will be greeted by a search box, information on Twitter trends and a panoply of more specific information about how they can use Twitter.</p>
<p>&#8220;You can try it out without having to sign up, so you can get an idea of what Twitter is before you use it,&#8221; said Stone. &#8220;We need to do a better job of explaining ourselves to people who hear about us and then have no idea what do to.&#8221;</p>
<p>Stone is right.</p>
<p>As you can see below (click on the image to make it larger), the current main homepage is pretty lame now, with a picture of a bird on a branch, some cursory explanatory what-why-how information, a link to a video and some media kudos, as well as an ability to sign on.</p>
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<p>Stone said the goal is to make the page as lively as Twitter is.</p>
<p>&#8220;We have to turn a lot of awareness into engagement,&#8221; said Stone. &#8220;Our front page is not reflective of that right now.&#8221;</p>
<p>Thus, the San Francisco-based company has redone its homepage to be more interactive. </p>
<p>Said Stone: &#8220;We want it to show us as a place where people can discover what is going on in real-time and much more.&#8221;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s an interesting move for Twitter since the service could use a more robust homepage to give it more of a unified feeling. </p>
<p>Currently, users interact only with their own pages and do not use any central Twitter hub.</p>
<p>Eventually, although Stone did not say this was a goal, Twitter could use a more programmed homepage to feature popular subjects, tweets and more.</p>
<p>Part of the effort to make Twitter understandable is a new site called &#8220;Twitter 101,&#8221; which Stone said was to give companies a way to understand how to use Twitter.</p>
<p>(You can <a href="http://business.twitter.com/twitter101/">see the site here</a>.)</p>
<p>In a <a href="http://blog.twitter.com/">blog post on Twitter 101</a> today, Stone wrote:</p>
<p>&#8220;We coordinated with business students and writers to surface some interesting findings, best practices, steps for getting started, and case studies. The results demonstrate how customers are getting value out of Twitter and suggest techniques businesses can employ to enhance that value. While this work was envisioned for businesses, it&#8217;s also useful for anyone using Twitter so have a look if you like.&#8221;</p>
<p>As an added bonus, here is a <a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20090609/twitter-co-founders-biz-stone-and-evan-williams-the-full-d7-interview">full video of Stone and Twitter CEO Evan Williams</a> talking about the innovative start-up in an onstage interview with Walt Mossberg and me at the <strong>D: All Things Digital</strong> conference in late May:</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the final posting of the onstage interviews at the seventh D: All Things Digital conference, here is one of the sessions that generated a lot of news: The first major interview about the Palm Pre with Elevation Managing Director Roger McNamee and Palm Chairman and CEO Jon Rubinstein.

The pair are trying to remake Palm in a bet-the-company move to recover the Silicon Valley icon's long-lost glory via innovation.]]></description>
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<p>As the final posting of the onstage interviews at the seventh <strong>D: All Things Digital</strong> conference, here is one of the sessions that generated a lot of news: The first major interview about the Palm Pre with Elevation Partners Managing Director <a href="http://d7.allthingsd.com/speakers/roger-mcnamee/">Roger McNamee</a> and Palm Chairman and CEO <a href="http://d7.allthingsd.com/speakers/jon-rubinstein/">Jon Rubinstein</a>.</p>
<p>The pair are trying to remake Palm (PALM)&#8211;see the <a href="http://allthingsd.com/topics/palm-pre/"><strong>AllThingsD.com</strong> topic page on the Pre</a> here&#8211;in a bet-the-company move to recover the Silicon Valley icon&#8217;s long-lost glory via innovation.</p>
<p>Palm is trying to muscle into a market with multiple competitors, such as Apple&#8217;s iPhone, Android from Google (GOOG) and many more.</p>
<p>In the <a href="http://d7.allthingsd.com/20090528/d7-interview-jon-rubinstein-and-roger-mcnamee-and-the-palm-pre/">session with Walt Mossberg and me</a>, McNamee and Rubinstein talked about the new smartphone and its various features, including a controversial way of syncing with Apple (AAPL) iTunes.</p>
<p>Also, McNamee and I had a debate over the Pre&#8217;s mirror. Really.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the video of the full <strong>D7</strong> session (along with a very funny intro video making fun of McNamee&#8217;s loose lips):</p>
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		<title>Siri: The Full D7 Demo</title>
		<link>http://kara.allthingsd.com/20090709/siri-the-full-d7-demo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kara Swisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Siri is a virtual personal assistant for your Apple iPhone or computer, originated at the Stanford Research Institute and spun out as an artificial intelligence project financed by DARPA. 

In its demo for Walt Mossberg and me at the seventh D: All Things Digital conference, Siri tried to show how it was an alternative to search.]]></description>
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<p>Siri is a virtual personal assistant for your Apple (AAPL) iPhone or computer, originated at the Stanford Research Institute and spun out as an artificial intelligence project financed by DARPA. </p>
<p>In its demo for Walt Mossberg and me at the seventh <strong>D: All Things Digital</strong> conference, <a href="http://d7.allthingsd.com/20090528/d7-tech-demo-siri">Siri tried to show how it was an alternative to search</a> to get a user things like tickets and pizza&#8211;using a combination of innovative technologies, including speech recognition, natural language processing and semantic Web search.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the video of the full <strong>D7</strong> Siri demo:</p>
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		<title>Mozilla Chairman Mitchell Baker and CEO John Lilly: The Full D7 Session</title>
		<link>http://kara.allthingsd.com/20090708/mozilla-chairman-mitchell-baker-and-ceo-john-lilly-the-full-d7-session/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kara Swisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As CEO and chairman of Mozilla, respectively, John Lilly and Mitchell Baker have overseen the huge growth of Firefox, the popular open-source browser.

The pair talk about this and more in an interview with Walt Mossberg at the seventh D: All Things Digital conference.]]></description>
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<p>As CEO and chairman of Mozilla, respectively, <a href="http://d7.allthingsd.com/speakers/john-lilly/">John Lilly</a> and <a href="http://d7.allthingsd.com/speakers/mitchell-baker/">Mitchell Baker</a> have overseen the huge growth of Firefox, the innovative open-source browser.</p>
<p>With almost 23 percent of the Web browser market in recent surveys, it is the second most popular of such software globally, after Microsoft (MSFT) Internet Explorer, which holds just over 66 percent.</p>
<p>But there other competitors too, including Apple (AAPL) and now Mozilla partner Google (GOOG), which is bearing down upon it with its latest “don’t-be-evil” browser bulldozer, Chrome.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://d7.allthingsd.com/20090528/d7-interview-mitchell-baker-and-john-lilly/">pair talk about all this and more in an interview</a> with Walt Mossberg at the seventh <strong>D: All Things Digital</strong> conference.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the video of the full <strong>D7</strong> session:</p>
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		<title>Canesta: The Full D7 Demo</title>
		<link>http://kara.allthingsd.com/20090706/canesta-the-full-d7-demo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kara Swisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The search for the perfect remote control continues, this time from Canesta, a San Jose-based company specializing in 3-D “natural interfaces.”

That means controlling your television via a series of gestures--including a wave and more.

Canesta demoed the new technology to control TV functions, from changing channels to navigating more complex menus, at the seventh D: All Things Digital.]]></description>
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<p>The search for the perfect remote control continues, this time from Canesta, a San Jose-based company specializing in 3-D &#8220;natural interfaces.&#8221;</p>
<p>That means controlling your television via a series of gestures&#8211;including a wave and more.</p>
<p><a href="http://d7.allthingsd.com/20090528/d7tech-demo-canesta">Canesta demoed the innovative technology to control TV functions</a>, from changing channels to navigating more complex menus, for Walt Mossberg and me at the seventh <strong>D: All Things Digital</strong> conference.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a video of the <strong>D7</strong> demo:</p>
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		<title>Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: The Full D7 Session (Badda-Bing!)</title>
		<link>http://kara.allthingsd.com/20090701/microsoft-ceo-steve-ballmer-the-full-d7-session-badda-bing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kara Swisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As most know by now, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer introduced the software giant's relaunch of its search offering, dubbed Bing, onstage at the seventh D: All Things Digital conference.

You can see that here, as well as Ballmer demoing the product, which is Microsoft's biggest and priciest attempt yet to catch archrival Google and Yahoo in the search business.

It is a market where the typically dominant Microsoft is a mouse in comparison. But, no surprise, that did not stop Ballmer from doing some roaring about Bing.]]></description>
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<p>As most know by now, Microsoft CEO <a href="http://d7.allthingsd.com/speakers/steve-ballmer/">Steve Ballmer</a> introduced the software giant&#8217;s relaunch of its search offering, dubbed Bing, onstage at the seventh <strong>D: All Things Digital</strong> conference.</p>
<p>You can see that here, as well as Ballmer demoing the product, which is Microsoft&#8217;s biggest and priciest attempt yet to catch archrival Google (GOOG) and Yahoo (YHOO) in the search business.</p>
<p>It is a market where the typically dominant Microsoft (MSFT) is a mouse in comparison, although it is also trying to innovate.</p>
<p>That did not stop Ballmer from doing some roaring about Bing, in <a href="http://d7.allthingsd.com/20090528/d7-interview-steve-ballmer/">an interview with Walt Mossberg</a>, as well as the status of other Microsoft products like its upcoming release of the Windows 7 operating system, an arena where Microsoft does rule. </p>
<p>Ballmer also talked about ongoing talks with Yahoo about a search partnership, and other Microsoft initiatives.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the video of Ballmer&#8217;s full <strong>D7</strong> session (this video is missing a promotional video for Bing, which the audience saw, but that Microsoft did not give us video rights to use here):</p>
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		<title>HDNet Chairman Mark Cuban: The Full D7 Session</title>
		<link>http://kara.allthingsd.com/20090630/hdnet-chairman-mark-cuban-the-full-d7-session/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kara Swisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What can one say about Mark Cuban that he can't say himself?

Not much, as you will see from this sassy onstage interview he did with Walt Mossberg and me at the seventh D: All Things Digital conference, where he talked about everything from the idiots of the Internet to the subsidization of Web video by Google.]]></description>
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<p>What can one say about <a href="http://d7.allthingsd.com/speakers/mark-cuban/">Mark Cuban</a> that he can&#8217;t say himself?</p>
<p>Not much, as you will see from <a href="http://d7.allthingsd.com/20090527/d7-interview-mark-cuban/">this sassy onstage interview</a> he did with Walt Mossberg and me at the seventh <strong>D: All Things Digital</strong> conference, where he talked about everything from the idiots of the Internet to the subsidization of Web video by Google (GOOG) to the next big innovation.</p>
<p>Cuban hardly needs an introduction&#8211;he&#8217;s been a Web mogul, an entrepreneur, a sports team owner, a blogger, a theater owner, a high-definition evangelist and most of all, a digital gadfly.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the full <strong>D7</strong> video session:</p>
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		<title>Welcome to the FCC, Julius: Now Get to Work on a National Broadband Plan, Please&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kara Swisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, after much delay, longtime Internet exec Julius Genachowski was confirmed by the Senate as the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.

It is an important role for the future development of the Web, of course, although it took a dog's age into the new Democratic administration to approve him.

Hopefully, he and the other commissioners can soon get to work on a wide range of major digital issues, such as a national broadband plan that does not cost Americans a fortune.]]></description>
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<p>Last week, after much delay, longtime Internet exec Julius Genachowski (pictured here) was confirmed by the Senate as the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.</p>
<p>It is an important role for the future development of the Web, of course, although it took a dog&#8217;s age into the new Democratic administration to approve him.</p>
<p>Hopefully, he and the other commissioners can soon get to work on a wide range of major digital issues, such as a national broadband plan that does not cost Americans a fortune.</p>
<p>Genachowski, a close tech adviser to President Barack Obama, was seated along with Commissioner Robert McDowell, a Republican appointee who was confirmed for a second FCC term. </p>
<p>After the Senate approves two others&#8211;Democrat Mignon Clyburn and Meredith Attwell Baker for the GOP&#8211;in the next month, it will round out the five-member panel.</p>
<p>(The other FCC commissioner is a Dem, Michael Copps, who has been acting chairman while Genachowski got approval.)</p>
<p>Genachowski, a former FCC staffer, was most recently working as a VC at Rock Creek Ventures and LaunchBox Digital. But he is best known to many in Silicon Valley as a top exec at IAC/InterActiveCorp. (IACI).</p>
<p>He is likely to make his debut to chair his first meeting this coming Thursday, and it is a humdinger of dull:</p>
<p>According to the FCC&#8217;s Web site, the July open meeting, held in Washington, D.C., will consider three items:</p>
<blockquote class="memo"><p>1.) Amendment of the Commission’s Rules to Provide Spectrum for the Operation of Medical Body Area Networks: The Commission will consider a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to allocate spectrum and establish service and technical rules for the operation of Medical Body Area Networks to monitor patients’ physiological data.</p>
<p>2.) Amendment of Service and Eligibility Rules for FM Broadcast Stations: The Commission will consider a Report and Order concerning changes in the FM translator rules to allow AM broadcast stations to rebroadcast their signals on eligible FM translator stations.</p>
<p>3.) Amendment of Part 101 of the Commission’s Rules to Accommodate 30 Megahertz Channels in the 6525-6875 MHz Band: The Commission will consider a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking addressing whether to provide licensees with authority to operate on channels with bandwidths up to 30 megahertz in the Upper 6 GHz band and whether to extend conditional authority to two additional channel pairs in the 23 GHz band, as well as an Order addressing a related waiver reques.</p></blockquote>
<p>But the site also mentioned that &#8220;the Meeting also will include a presentation on the status of the Commission’s process for developing a National Broadband Plan.&#8221;</p>
<p>Now, that is something BoomTown <em>would</em> like to know about since this country is effectively still in the dirt-road period, in terms of high-speed broadband access for Americans.</p>
<p>But, of course, the cost of what we do get&#8211;which is very substandard compared to a lot of other countries&#8211;is also very pricey.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s hope Genachowski&#8211;who has a lot of other issues on his plate, especially as the media industry undergoes drastic reconfiguration too&#8211;can do something about it. </p>
<p>In a related note, Lawrence Strickling was also OK&#8217;d to run the telecom division of the Commerce Department, which is the agency with the dough ($4.7 billion in government funds) to help the create this supposed Internet infrastructure boom with the FCC.</p>
<p>I remain dubious of any movement in the arena, but still hopeful.</p>
<p>And, until there is some action from Genachowski, here is a <a href="http://d6.allthingsd.com/20080529/video-martin-mcadam-1">highlights video from an onstage interview</a> Walt Mossberg and I did with former FCC chairman Kevin Martin&#8211;along with Verizon (VZ) Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam&#8211;at the sixth <strong>D: All Things Digital</strong> conference in 2008.</p>
<p>Here is the <strong>D6</strong> video:</p>
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		<title>News Corp. Chief Digital Officer Jon Miller and MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta: The Full D7 Session</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kara Swisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last weeks, News Corp. Chief Digital Officer Jon Miller and MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta have had their hands full directing massive layoffs at the flagship social-networking site, as well as throughout the Fox Interactive Media division.

The pair discussed the many challenges faced by the giant media company in its digital enterprises in an onstage interview at the seventh D: All Things Digital conference last month.]]></description>
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<p>Over the last weeks, News Corp. Chief Digital Officer <a href="http://d7.allthingsd.com/speakers/jon-miller/">Jon Miller</a> and MySpace CEO <a href="http://d7.allthingsd.com/speakers/owen-van-natta/">Owen Van Natta</a> have had <a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20090625/photobucket-layoffs-today-one-third-of-staff-let-go-other-fim-units-also-impacted/">their hands full directing massive layoffs</a> at the flagship social-networking site, as well as throughout the Fox Interactive Media division.</p>
<p>The pair discussed the <a href="http://d7.allthingsd.com/20090527/jon-miller-and-owen-van-natta/">many challenges faced by the giant media company in its digital enterprises</a> in an onstage interview with Walt Mossberg and me at the seventh <strong>D: All Things Digital</strong> conference last month.</p>
<p>That included everything from how News Corp. (NWS) online content is paid for to the need for MySpace to innovate, as Facebook has surpassed it.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the video of the full <strong>D7</strong> session:</p>
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<p>(Full disclosure: News Corp. owns Dow Jones, which owns this site.)</p>
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