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Journalism From the Ashes? Paid Members Public
> In March, Hearstclosed the 146-year-old Post-Intelligencer [http://www.seattlepi.com/business/403793_piclosure17.html]newspaper and dumped 140 of us onto the street in the depths of the recession. [What happened next?](http://safetynetseattle.blogspot.com/2009/11/seven-months-later-whats-happened-to.html) For the majority, the story is pretty depressing. The
Le Web 08: Some Follow-Ups Paid Members Public
Here’s a few follow-up posts to Le Web 08 that I’ve noted on my web travels: * Loic apologises for the three major organisational problems [http://www.loiclemeur.com/english/2008/12/apologies-for-o.html] of the show. * Kevin from Travolution asks whether startup competition finalist Zoover is, in fact,
Le Web 08: Christine Lagarde Paid Members Public
[![](https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2008/12/3097352271_3ecf269109.jpg?w=960)](http://www.flickr.com/photos/adders/3097352271/ "photo sharing")Christine Lagarde on stage at Le Web 08 [http://www.flickr.com/photos/adders/3097352271/], originally uploaded by Adam Tinworth [http://www.flickr.
Le Web 08: Startup Competition Finalists Paid Members Public
Update: Surprise guest judge – [Christine Lagarde](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Lagarde), is on stage. She’s the French Finance Minister.WiFi permitting, I’ll post ’em here as they appear:1. [Zoover](http://www.zoover.co.uk/) – a site for user-generated travel reviews. 2. [Webnode](http://www.webnode.
Le Web 08: Google, Recession and The Future Paid Members Public
Nikesh Arora, SVP, Google and President, EME Operations, talks the future of the search engine.
Le Web 08: Microsoft, Bizspark and Openness Paid Members Public
Markets collapse and rebuild, he suggested. That’s when you can have real change. Silverlight? It’s a front and centre tech at Microsoft. Cross-platform and cross-browser. Is Microsoft warm and cuddly, now, with all this cross-platform, open standards stuff? “A little bit.” Are they going to buy Twitter? “I
Web 2.0 Expo Berlin: The Wednesday Keynotes Paid Members Public
Leisa Reichelt – Drupal.org redesign How do you design for a large Open Source Community? That was the problem Leisa Reichelt [http://www.disambiguity.com/] faced when commissioned to do the redesign of the Drupal.org [http://www.drupal.org/] site. “You can’t do it behind closed doors,” she
Why FreeConomics Doesn't Work* Paid Members Public
One presentation I was genuinely sorry to miss today (along with Lee Bryant [http://www.headshift.com/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=1&id=20]‘s Niche Social Networks FTW [http://webexberlin2008.crowdvine.com/talks/show/2109]) was Alan Patrick’s presentation on the Limits of