Perhaps you have already read the article in the New York Times World section today about the enormous amount of violence in the Philippines that seems to be caused by karaoke renditions of Frank Sinatra‘s “My Way.” Things have apparently gotten so bad that the Filipino media records the crimes under the subcategory of “My Way Killings.” But the reporter on this story, Norimitsu Onishi, is notable himself, consistently getting American audiences interested in Asian news.

Right now Jeff Jarvis and CUNY are hosting their “New Business Models For News” conference which attempts to wrangle with wild, runaway world of new-old media every year, financed by the burgeoning bank of the link economy. It’s a great line-up of speakers (see here) and they’ve put various models online for those at home [...]