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...than 4 million blogs and countless RSS feeds each day, Sifry has seen firsthand how Web users are running their own virtual newsrooms. "There will be a big shake-up of what are considered established brands," Sifry says, with people supplementing established names like the New York Times and BBC News Online with blogs and other nontraditional sources of information. Perhaps, but it is just as likely that the current news leaders will use RSS to further augment their position. Says Bill Grueskin, managing editor of WSJ.com: "I think our RSS headlines have value because the Wall Street Journal...
DIED. JOHN PEEL, 65, BBC radio host whose live broadcasts were a showcase for new musicians; of an apparent heart attack; in Cuzco, Peru. Since 1967, Peel Sessions has brought hundreds of rock bands, including Nirvana and the Smashing Pumpkins, into its studio to perform, often before a group had a recording contract. The sessions, in wide circulation both as bootleg and commercial recordings, have become invaluable time capsules of rock history...
...DIED. JOHN PEEL, 65, British disk jockey whose keen ear for new talent helped shape modern rock 'n' roll; while on holiday in Cuzco, Peru. Peel joined the BBC in 1967, the year Radio 1 was launched, and was the first DJ to broadcast songs by Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie and the Clash. He went on to help create an audience for punk and, later, for alternative bands like the Smiths and Nirvana. In the 1980s, he hosted the Peel Sessions, live performances by a range of acts, many of which became classic recordings. Described by friends as an eternal...
...premature to sound the alarms. After all, following the lead of pioneers like Fox and HBO, Zucker recently pronounced the end of the traditional September-May viewing calendar, and he has a slew of new shows ready to roll out, including an American takeoff on the BBC hit The Office and a boxing reality show, The Contender. To help ensure some much needed stability in such an unpredictable business, Zucker has re-signed Law & Order creator Dick Wolf through 2008 (a fourth edition is in the works) and engineered a smooth transition at the Tonight Show, where his old Harvard...
...chance to thank him properly. John made a huge difference to my life. I imagine that all over Britain there are musicians - and not only musicians - thinking much the same thing. It's quite possible that without John, I wouldn't have made a career of music. His BBC broadcasts, from 40 years ago until last week, provided enough new ideas to excite and stimulate me and remind me that there is always astonishing new music being made, somewhere, by someone - and it could be someone like me. In late 1971, John saw Roxy Music, the band...