As we have predicted (and advocated) many times in BoomTown, including in this post titled “Free to Be, Rupe and We,” News Corp. head Rupert Murdoch indicated yesterday that he is strongly considering taking down the paid wall at The Wall Street Journal’s online site.
Murdoch, the new owner of Dow Jones (and, by extension, [...]
The WSJ.com’s Tech Diary video blogger Andy Jordan tags along with one of the members of Best Buy’s “Geek Squad.”
“I’m an actual geek!” he tells one of his customers. Printer disaster! Too-hot laptop. Clip-on tie, white socks and black shoes! Fun!
Ok, here is my personal nightmare: Having a stranger sitting next to me on an airplane chattering endlessly throughout a flight, when all I want to do is read, watch a movie or sleep.
Now, horror of horrors, there is a service on Virgin America where passengers can do seat-to-seat chatting. WSJ.com’s Tech Diary video blogger [...]
Here is our email from WSJ.com’s Tech Diary video blogger Andy Jordan about his how-people-use-free-wireless post this week: “Weird wacky fun in the park. Rats and opera singers.”
That would be land-mine-finding rats and job-seeking opera singers!
Well, how can we resist posting that? And so we will not!
Here is an interesting video by WSJ.com’s Andy Jordan on a movement called “steampunk,” where modern-day gadgets are rebuilt to look as if they were made in Victorian times. We liked the porthole CD player a lot:
And MarketWatch’s media maven Jon Friedman does a video post related to his Media Web column on the Washington [...]
Should The Wall Street Journal’s paid site, WSJ.com, become free now that media mogul Rupert Murdoch has bought Dow Jones?
That debate has been all over the Web since News Corp. won its battle to buy Dow Jones (owner of this site) last week, including posts by Jeff Jarvis and Fred Wilson in favor of the [...]
Light posting today, as I am in Rochester, N.Y., visiting Kodak headquarters to get a look at what the company is doing in its continuing quest to revive itself after the onslaught of digital media drastically changed its business.
I will be doing one of my “Kara Visits…” videos of my time at the photo [...]
Or more specifically, gets lost in the woods with them in order to go on a treasure hunt/trivia contest using a GPS system. Of course, they get lost! Plus it’s buggy!
Jordan is a new video blogger on WSJ.com with his Tech Diary, where he looks at how people and technology interact.
Here’s the latest video:
While we here at BoomTown are trying to corner the market on funny tech videos–often completely by accident–here’s a new technology reporter at WSJ.com, Andy Jordan, who is also using his camera and wit to see how people and technology interact, often with bizarre results.
Here is his explanatory video podcast and his first post [...]
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