RSSFlash: Adobe Buys Macromedia
Adobe Systems acquires Macromedia for a reported $3.4 Billion.
Macromedia is known for Flash, a software program for animating Web pages, and Dreamweaver, a program for designing Web pages.
intended to bolster Adobe’s presence in the market for design tools for the Web and document management software for mobile phones and other wireless devices, markets in which Macromedia has gained an early lead.
The merger will combine two well know software names in an attempt to battle market giant, Microsoft and their increasing competition.
It also comes as the software industry awaits Longhorn, the next generation of Windows from Microsoft, that is expected to incorporate much of the same capabilities as Acrobat.
Churchill wanting his Free Speech, But Giving None in Return (aka Do as I say …)
So it looks like Ward Churchill still wants to spout out his hate and lies in the spirit for “Free Speech”, but does not want to reciprocate. Gee Ward, what do you have to hide? If you are so proud of what you say, then why don’t you want ALL of us to hear it?
Two Reed students invited Churchill to the Southeast Portland campus, said Beth Sorensen, a Reed spokeswoman. His speech in Kaul Auditorium was not publicized and was limited to students, faculty, staff and guests.
Cameras and recording devices were banned “in the spirit of creating an open forum for debate and discussion,” according to a written statement released by the college.
More like in the spirit of squelching the lies and hate and the opportunity to report what Mr. Churchill has been passing off as free speech.
Michelle Malkin has some more insanity from Churchill including photos.
It seems that Ward Churchill is challenging what others are saying about him. Funny Ward, why is it that you don’t open your forums up to ALL?
On Saturday, Churchill said his words had been distorted by conservative commentators such as Bill O’Reilly of the Fox network. “No matter how you parse it, the word ‘justified’ does not appear,” Churchill said.
Take a good look and listen for yourselves. Complete with audio and video at what Ward Churchill did on his Spring Break.
Turn Out the Lights the Party’s Over for MNF on ABC
In a bar somewhere in Texas I can hear Dandy Don Meridith crooning. Now I know I am getting old with this staple of my youth has forever been changed. After 35 of Monday Night Football on ABC after his season will be on ESPN.
Moving “Monday Night Football” to ESPN, which currently broadcasts Sunday night games, keeps the brand under The Walt Disney Co. umbrella. Disney owns both ESPN and ABC.
The deal will also bring the usual Sunday night football presently seen on ESPN to NBC.
ESPN, which has been broadcasting Sunday night games since 1998, will pay $1.1 billion a year over eight years for Monday night games, two sources familiar with the deals told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
NBC will broadcast Sunday night football for $600 million a year over six years, according to the sources. That annual figure is the same price ESPN paid for Sunday night football over the course of its current eight-year deal. NBC will also get the Super Bowl in 2009 and 2012.
So I guess it will not matter anymore if MNF does any pre-game lead ins like they did last year with T.O. and Nicollette Sheridan of ‘Desperate Housewives,’ Its CABLE.
One can only imagine what this means in the future for potential Super Bowls. This would be a football, sports fans greatest dream come true. A Super Bowl on ESPN. An entire network whose sole purpose is sports. Is America ready for a 24 hour Pre-Game Super Bowl Show?
Seems like Wizbang is on the right track with some of the financial motivations that may have driven this deal.
And … Monday Night Football Switches to ESPN [via OTB]
NY Times Reporting Style Comes to the Boston Globe
It was only a matter of time before the New York Times methodology for reporting politically charged topics came to the Boston Globe. I am beyond being surprised by this. Actually, I am sure these practices are long standing, and it is only now because of Digital McCarthyites are out there that these fallacies are being brought out in the light.
Boston Globe told readers in an editor’s note published April 15 that portions of a story it ran on a seal hunt off Newfoundland and Labrador were fabricated by a freelance reporter who was not at the scene.
The Globe said the reporter, Barbara Stewart, did not attend the event, which had actually been postponed because of bad weather, and that Globe editors should have demanded attribution for details she provided about the hunt.
“The story should not have been published in the Globe, and the Globe has discontinued use of the freelancer,” the newspaper said in the editor’s note.
The article, published in April 13 editions of the Globe, said that the largest seal hunt in a half a century had resumed, involving hunters on about 300 boats “shooting at harp seal cubs by the hundreds, as the ice and water turned red.”
In its editor’s note, the Globe said: “The article included details of the day’s hunt as if it had taken place and without attribution or other source, as if the writer had witnessed the scene personally. … The author’s failure to accurately report the status of the hunt and her fabrication of details of the scene are clear violations of the Globe’s journalistic standards.”
Helen Donovan, executive editor, said the newspaper became aware there were problems with the story after it was contacted by the Canadian federal fisheries department.
Donovan said Stewart, who worked for The New York Times for about a decade, had written three pieces for the Globe since last year after moving to Halifax, Nova Scotia, and no other problems had occurred with her work.
Stewart did not return an e-mail message seeking comment.
Update: The actual correction can be found here.
