[ Essay ] Lessons from Pandodaily and TechCrunch

  by  Ananth Narayan S  Following TechCrunch’s debacles, ex-senior editor Sarah Lacy has started a new tech news site, PandoDaily. She assembled other TechCrunch alumnus, which made PandoDaily (almost) TechCrunch 2.0. I stopped...

[ Essay ] How can translation survive?

  by  tochis  This blog post (Japanese) tells us that one of Japan’s largest toy companies, Bandai-Namco (they have the cult classic Ghost in the Shell), is retreating from retailing anime products in the U.S. market, due to...

[ Tech Comm ] The Return of the Fingerprinting World

  by  Pink Sherbet Photography  I helped a friend of mine connect her iPad to a wireless router. She needed to enter the DSL password, which was supposed to be jotted down in a note she couldn’t find. After two hours of search, she gave up and called the network...

[ Essay ] Books never die, publishers will

  by  splityarn  Here is a collection of whinings from book publishers feeling threatened by Amazon. Low prices, disappearing retailers, brain-drain…in a word, they are facing death. What happened to the music industry has been occurring in the publishing...