Results tagged “digital”

Gizmodo is reporting a really, really bad thing: Amazon has deleted digital books from customers' Kindles after they've already bought them. The kicker? The books were Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm. (This irony is delicious! Where did you get it?) Gizmodo says the publisher "changed its mind" about having electronic versions, which we don't actually believe. We don't see Amazon bowing and scraping before publishers much, let alone offering to break into customers' devices for them to erase purchased products. Stay tuned for the full story--just maybe not on a Kindle.

Ouch! TechFlash reported this morning that Microsoft has hired Morgan Stanley to unload digital ad agency Razorfish, possibly on some unsuspecting French ad giant. TechFlash theorizes that the Razorfish layoffs of late have been prep work, to get the firm into auction-block shape. One place Razorfish laid-offs can skip applying at is Wongdoody, which just cut its staff by 17 (or 10 percent). This is what they get for colorizing penguins.

If you've been living under a rock or are a procrastinator, or are a procrastinator living under a rock, you might be surprised that your analog or "regular" TV is broadcasting snow on June 12. That is because broadcast television has now switched to digital or "unleaded" transmission, which among other things will reduce that pinging sound your TV makes going up a hill. Here's a map of the places you can get help and digital converter boxes in Washington. If you already have a converter box, you still need to tell it to rescan for channels, because we understand they've changed in the official switch. You want to make sure you get channel 7.2, KIRO's Retro Television, which is rebroadcasting such classic fare as Sheriff Lobo, Airwolf, and The Incredible Hulk.

Speaking of Mike Davidson, the Seattle PostGlobe posse, and all-digital news platforms, tomorrow night is round two of No News Is Bad News: "Making It Work" (7-9 p.m., Bertha Landes Room, City Hall). The focus is on current and near-term models in the post-newspaper ecosystem, and Cory Bergman (MSNBC, LostRemote.com, MyBallard.com) moderates a panel that includes WSB's Tracy Record, Penny Arcade's Robert Khoo, Newsvine's Davidson, Instivate's Scott Durham, Seattle PostGlobe's Kerry Murakami, and InvestigationsWest's Rita Hibbard. You can reserve your free ticket here.

Microsoft-owned Razorfish, one of the largest digital ad buyers in the world, has a new virtual book out, the 2009 Digital Outlook Report. These reports are very much documents of their moment--as Forbes points out, two years ago Razorfish was announcing that portals were back from the dead; this year portals have an icy gray hand clutching their ankles again.