Jim Muttram

BuzzMachine has an interesting post about beatblogging. It's well worth a read. Could this be the future of journalism? I think beatblogging can get journalism back to its essential mission, discarding the distractions brought on by the means of production and distribution to which the…

BuzzMachine reports that Guardian Unlimited now has a bigger audience online that the New York Times. According to Nielsen/Netratings the Guardian recorded 18.4m users in October compared to 17.5m for NYTimes. Powered by ScribeFire.

paidContent reports that the financial results of DMGT point to success of the data acquisitions compared to the conventional old media assets. The shares have yet to catch up with the news. Powered by ScribeFire.

eWeek reports on experiments in a Japanese university where paralyzed people learn to control avatars in Second Life. Electrodes attached to the scalp can pick up electrical charges associated with brain activity and this can be interpreted by a computer to manipulate an online persona.

CIO Insight reports that Google plans to launch a service to store users' data quoting a report in the Wall Street Journal - the so-called Gdrive. According to the story users would be able to house files they would normally store on personal computers—such as…