WordPress
What the hell is happening at Automattic (part 2)?
The CEO of Automattic has declared war on WP Engine as a bad citizen of the WordPress ecosystem. What the hell is going on?
Social Media
Media’s no good, very bad week
More proof that VC funding and journalism are poor bedfellows — and that you should never trust a social media platform.
brand journalism
The end of Future
Andreessen Horowitz’s short-lived foray into tech journalism is over. When even VCs don’t see a future in tech hype media, what does that mean for the rest of us?
Fred Wilson
LeWeb: Fred Wilson on the wearable problem and the healthcare opportunity
After meditation and a photography discussion, LeWeb proper kicks off with breakfast with a VC: Fred Wilson [http://avc.com] It’s not obvious at the time what the right investments. They’ve made investments in identity, mesh networks, healthcare and bitcoin this year – which is what they planned to
Ello
The long, slow Ello
So, Ello [https://ello.co], then. I’m on there [https://ello.co/adders]. Lots of people are on there (even if they’re not really using it yet [http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/29/no-people-are-not-leaving-facebook-in-droves-for-ello/] ). But I’m very far from convinced just yet. Being wary of Facebook’s
business models
31-3.8 - Journalism will survive - but you might not recognise it
The future of journalistic publication might not look very much like its past…
bloggers
It's Change Or Die Time For Media Companies
When publishers first went online, and when new online publishers set up, they basically recreated magazines and newspapers online – they didn’t create anything that was fundementally tailored to the new medium. In fact, it’s much like the early days of the printing press, when many of the first
humour
Bubbleicious
[Via [Roam4Free](http://blog.roam4free.ie/off-the-richter-scale/)]
bubble
Le Web 3: Is there a Web 2.0 bubble?
Here comes the VCs… Is there a web bubble? It seems not, but there are some issues to be resolved. For example, is the available talent split amongst too many small start-ups? Would some mergers pull more talent together? The lack of a market bubble may be attributable to Sarbanes-Oxley,