This is funny. Lee Rosenbaum writes that the Pritzker Prize Web site revealed this year's winner yesterday with a note saying, "Embargoed For Release 29 March 2007". The world wide web is a dumb place to stash your secret news. Not something bloggers, even Time bloggers, are likely to hold to—hell, even the Washington Post ran Philip Kennicott's take yesterday.
It's a good thing, though, that traditional media outlets are taking their cues from bloggers about whether they should adhere to news embargoes. They don't make much sense within a virally driven media.
UPDATE: Richard Lacayo says it was a Spanish newspaper that broke the embargo, which prompted the Pritzker people to permit people to post publicly.
Posted by Kriston at March 29, 2007 11:48 AM