Are Web-connected TVs going to cause problems for broadcasters? The first TVs fitted with Yahoo-Intel’s widget engine have begun to ship in Europe amid speculation about their potentially disruptive impact on the TV landscape. On the one hand web-enabled TVs retailing over £1000 (US $1600) are unlikely to attract a mass market, outside early adopters,… Continue reading
Author: John Farrell
Writer and producer working in Boston.
Larry Kudlow goes out on a limb: Even today, as unfashionable as it sounds, and given Washington’s attack on horsepower, Americans are still in love with automobiles. They still like going to showrooms, checking out the new models, inhaling the great new-car smell, and yes, kicking the tires and making a buy. Cars may no… Continue reading
Publishers are growing less tolerant with authors who can’t meet their deadlines: But as book sales fall and publishing houses look for ways to cut costs, many literary agents are growing increasingly worried that publishers looking to trim their lists will start holding authors to deadlines and using lateness as an occasion to renegotiate advances… Continue reading
Every once in a while, PZ Myers stops beating the drum and remembers he’s a scientist: We miss something important when we just look at the genome as a string of nucleotides with scattered bits that will get translated into proteins — we miss the fact that the genome is a dynamically modified and expressed… Continue reading
Jane Friedman and Larry Kirshbaum, both former CEOs of major publishing houses, discuss the future of the industry.