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...success of her site has allowed Huffington, 58, to reinvent herself again, from Bush-bashing pundit to media mogul and digital pioneer. But as the enterprise grows, even a pedigreed networker like Huffington may find that it's hard to keep friends in the media when she's killing their business. (Read "The HuffPo Gets to Question Obama - Making History...
...says Huffington. "And then they get such a reaction that they get hooked and start writing a lot." Her special brand of Greco-American wrangling lured so many boldface names that the merely interesting wanted to write for her too. The Huffington Post now has 3,000 bloggers, all - media moguls take note! - unpaid. (Read TIME's 1995 story on Huffington, "A Woman on the Verge...
Some of the journalistic resentment exists clearly because it's populist media done better than it's been done before. Another part of it is really about Huffington. HuffPo's speedy rise to prominence, courtesy of others' work, reminds some of its founder's own journey. Female ambition is a curious force. When its outlets are blocked, it sometimes seems to settle on the nearest object - a spouse, a child, a cause. But in rare cases, it finds its perfect vehicle. When that happens, it's best to get out of the road or jump in for the ride. Huffington...
Good news for old-media sufferers! On Wednesday, Fujitsu announced the world's first color e-reader. It renders text as cleanly as a printed page, displays 260,000 colors, weighs three-quarters of a pound and is connected to the Net via WiFi. It costs $1,000, a price tag that's probably three times too high, which is typical for products aimed at early adopters...
Still, I think the Fujitsu "FLEPia" brings us - the people who make magazines, newspapers, books, TV shows and movies - one step closer to fixing our badly broken business model. (The perfect media device also needs to be able to do video.) Once we've got the All-Media Device, we're back in business. In the meantime, the migration from the Web to the post-Web world - where content is easier to consume on new mobile devices, but no longer free - is fully underway. (Read about the new iPod Shuffle...