The Economist Tests New Distribution Model

In England and New York City, The Economist is testing a program where customers can order a copy of the magazine by 9 pm on Thursday and have it delivered to their home before 6 am on Friday.

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The good news: you get infinite orgasms out of the deal.

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About twenty years ago people noticed computers and TV were on a collision course and started to speculate about what they'd produce when they converged. We now know the answer: computers. It's clear now that even by using the word "convergence" we were giving TV too much credit.

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About twenty years ago people noticed computers and TV were on a collision course and started to speculate about what they'd produce when they converged. We now know the answer: computers. It's clear now that even by using the word "convergence" we were giving TV too much credit.

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All about the TV personalities hooked on Twitter. As snarky as anything in the Grey Lady will get: Those who say Twitter is a harmless pastime, which skeptics are free to ignore, are ignoring the corrosive secondary effects.

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The ability to surf the Internet on one's television is long overdue. Finally, someone is trying to make it a reality.

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VideoNuze Shares Starz Media Consumption Data

A fall 2008 survey of 5,500 U.S. Internet users suggests that almost two-thirds (62%) watch "online video" each week, making online video more popular than time-shifted television (38%).

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Texas Christian University will add a convergence laboratory to its journalism program.

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What surprised me the most out of all of iSuppli's statistics is that iPhone owners spent less than half the time actually making calls—46.5 percent—compared to 71.7 percent of the time people use other phones for calls.

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Tech Incompetence: Will MSM Ever "Get IT"?

In prep'ing for digital journalism workshops for our UW undergrads, I discovered that the Seattle PI has opened up at least some editorial board meetings to the public via "podcasts." (I challenge you to find the podcast archive/description via the masthead links, however.)

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How does it work? If you see something interesting while out walking for instance, you take a photograph with your mobile phone, select the item of interest with the cursor and in real time preprocessed information on the object selected is sent to your mobile phone.

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Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd.

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Straight from the Motorola press party, we've got video of the ROKR E8. Check out the phone-to-music player's ModeShift keypad morphing action. Could this be the music phone they get right?

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Suggested Books & Exercises for Developing ESP, Openness to Psychic World

We haven't been exactly burning up the Newsvine wires with new stories for this new group on the paranormal. So I finally decided to cobble together a reading list and some practice exercises to help us find our way around the paranormal playground.

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That's right, according to new PR for Sony's upcoming CES showing, Skype is apparently coming to the PSP.

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YouTube Winner In Democratic Debate

I'm late to the post-YouTube-CNN debate party -- aptly dubbed a "quiz show" -- the mind has been willing but the body, incapacitated. But before the event fades from memory, I have a few words on the subject.

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Jeremiah: Biblical and Historical Convergence

Regardless of the "larger debate between scholars known as biblical 'minimalists' and 'maximalists'," this little clay tablet (see image right) proves that the Babylonians knew about Jews and Israel in 595 B.C. Sorry to the historical revisionists: you cannot erase Jewish history.

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Nice quick summary of the current status quo of virtual/real world convergence, though I still think that people take 'Second Life' far too seriously, and the google earth/MS Earth tools aren't showing the potential to have make any substantive changes to our existence yet.

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Interview with an executive of CEA. He talks about the coming convergence of TV and other devices

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convergence is being blocked by the industry because openness and interconnectivity doesn't suit

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TVMama.com, a news blog covering the world of media streaming devices is officially launched at Israeli blogging conference

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Building on its award-winning Weather & Info TV Refrigerator, LG Electronics makes kitchens more innovative and entertaining with the introduction of the first-of-its-kind digital high-definition television (HDTV) Refrigerator.

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Part three in a series about integrated newsrooms

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Part two in a series about integrated newsrooms.

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Part one of a series about integrated newsrooms,

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