Monday, May 12, 2003

NY Times: 'New Media': Ready for the Dustbin of History? The companies that spent hugely on the "digital convergence" of media and Internet-era computing, AOL Time Warner and Vivendi Universal, which bought Mr. Diller's media properties, are in turmoil. And their visionary architects, Stephen M. Case at AOL Time Warner and Jean-Marie Messier at Vivendi Universal, have been ousted. [Tomalak's Realm] 8:32:15 AM

Etch a Site as Easy as Pie. Denim, a new sketching tool that allows entire websites to be designed as a series of rough drawings, is becoming a hit with designers. It's also being used by open-source programmers to build better interfaces for Linux. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News] 8:31:59 AM

Apple Tweaks Microsoft Over a New Computer. A few years ago, when Steve Jobs introduced Apple's popular iMac computer, his archrival, Bill Gates, groused that Apple had reduced innovation in the personal computing world to translucent colored plastics. By John Markoff. [New York Times: Technology] 8:31:48 AM