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April 10, 2011 Media / The Solomon Scandals

Torn between two e-books? Go for the one without Digital Rights Management, if forced to choose. DRM is the ‘Scandal’ of e-publishing.

In character, one of Rob Pegoraro’s last “Faster Forward” columns for the Washington Post is on Digital Rights Management, aka

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April 8, 2011 Media

Rob Pegoraro, gutsy consumer tech reporter, to leave Washington Post: Why not instead assign him to chronicle America’s declining tech prowess?

Imagine working for a newspaper and vigorously knocking its iPhone app as a waste of money, even at $2 a

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December 17, 2010 Media / Washington area life

Politics and Prose bookstore: A role model for the Washington Post, with potential Post-Kaplan synergies?

Something bizarre is happening at Politics and Prose, and perhaps a few other bookstores in the Washington area—and therein may

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December 13, 2010 Media / Politicians / Washington area life

Junk economics or the Onion? $250K a year barely enough for family of four in pricey cities, says Fiscal Times, a Washington Post partner

Does the Washington Post want to be an opinion rag for the rich or serve Washingtonians and Americans as a

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December 11, 2010 Media / The Solomon Scandals / Washington area life

Washington Post update: iPad app still shines, Sally Quinn gets honored, and I remember the darker side—the Post’s role in Gary Webb’s suicide

Do Ben Bradlee and other Washington Post luminaries actually use the iPad app they touted in one hoot of a

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November 3, 2010 Media / Washington area life

Washington Post hyperlocal launch expected in the ‘late spring,’ Post source tells me

So what’s “close”—the word that a TBD headline used in describing the Washington Post’s hyperlocal launch”? Psst! A Post source

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November 3, 2010 Media / Washington area life

Extra-hyperlocal editions of the Washington Post may debut soon—with lessons learned from the Loudoun County debacle

Update, 7 p.m.: Looks as if "close" is late spring 2011. – D.R. I hated the Washington Post’s hyperlocal edition

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November 2, 2010 Media

I hate video games: Why do newspapers and magazines FORCE me to play them?

If you love video games—fine. But will the Washington Post, New York Times and a good part of the rest

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October 21, 2010 Media / Washington area life

Washington Post iPad app due by year’s end: Slate-ish layout someday?

If I ruled the world and the Washington Post, you would have been able to read the paper on a

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