The final edition of the Rocky Mountain News is captured in this Vimeo video. After 149 years and 311 days, the Rocky Mountain News published its final edition on February 27, “Stop The Presses” now sounds pretty pathetic. What newspaper do you think will go next?

In a bid to stay afloat in an industry in crisis, magazine and newspaper publishing giant Hearst Corp. is getting set to launch an “electronic reader” later this year, a device designed with periodical-reading in mind. Hearst publishes a number of titles, including magazines Seventeen, Cosmopolitan and Esquire, and newspaper The San Francisco Chronicle. Fortune […]

Tim O’Reilly has published an opinion piece today saying that the Kindle must open up or die: Unless Amazon embraces open e-book standards like epub, which allow readers to read books on a variety of devices, the Kindle will be gone within two or three years. In developing the business plan for the Kindle, Amazon was no […]

Uptime and performance monitoring service Pingdom has done a study of social network uptime in 2008. They looked at some of the more heavily-used sites – Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter, Friendster, LiveJournal, Orkut, Bebo, Hi5, Windows Live Spaces, Last.fm, Classmates.com, Reunion.com, Xanga and Imeem. Twitter and LinkedIn experienced the greatest amount of downtime in 2008, […]

Web-wide business content tracking and programming platform company Attributor has announced the private beta version of FairShare. The program is a free service intended to help help bloggers track their content’s usage throughout the Web – and whether that usage complies with your copyright and licensing requirements. Late last year, Attributor published a report about […]

The Pew Internet Project reports that, as of December 2008, 11% of online American adults have used a service like Twitter or another service to share updates about themselves or to see the updates of others.

Talk throughout the business world seems certain that satellite radio behemoth XM/Sirius filing for bankruptcy in the coming days. If this indeed comes to pass, what’s to become of those big-name, big money radio personalities who stand to lose a hefty salary? Howard Stern left terrestrial radio (and an estimated 12 million listeners) for satellite, […]

Blog search widget Lijit has launched a new Content Networks service to let content publishers band together and create a network. Lijit is an interesting and useful search tool in that, when installed on your website, readers can search not just for relevant blog posts, but also for other related things you’ve bookmarked, put on […]

Zoom has introduced the next generation in its handheld audio recorder line, the H4n. Zoom’s H4n features built-in X/Y stereo condenser mics that allow variable recording patterns at either 90° or 120°. Other new features include digitally controlled high-quality mic preamps and the ability to use internal and external mics simultaneously, for 4-channel recording. The […]

A new version of free, open source HD video player Miro launched today. The makers of Miro 2.0 say that this is the “biggest update in the project’s history.” Miro is a collaborative project developed by the Participatory Culture Foundation (PCF), a non-profit organization, and by volunteers around the world. PCF has a mission to […]