New Media
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Report: Mobile Internet Use Has Reached “Critical Mass”
Posted by ars technica on 18 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: News, New Media
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By Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica Using the Internet from mobile devices is a lot more popular than some of us realize, and even more surprising is the fact that the US leads the pack when it comes to mobile Internet usage. |
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New Webcast Series: ‘Meet the Bloggers’
Posted by Brave New Films on 17 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: News, North America, New Media
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By Brave New Foundation The The premiere episode of ‘Meet the Bloggers’ will introduce the world to the first regularly-scheduled, high production-value, internet-only live broadcast devoted to news analysis and opinion from the blogosphere. |
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Members Of European Parliament Urged To Support Global Online Freedom Act’s European Version
Posted by Reporters Without Borders on 17 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: News, Europe, Media Freedom, New Media
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By Reporters without Borders Reporters Without Borders is backing a proposed directive which Dutch MEP Jules Maaten will submit to the European Parliament on 17 July and which would prevent Europe’s Internet companies from being forced to cooperate with repressive regimes in censoring and monitoring the Internet. |
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Microsoft Attacks Google-Yahoo Deal
Posted by guardian.co.uk on 16 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: News, New Media
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By Jemina Kiss, Guardian.co.uk The search advertising deal between Google and Yahoo should be blocked, Microsoft has told a US congressional committee, saying the advertising industry has never seen one company dominate 90% of a market. |
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Pope’s Message Goes Hi-Tech In Australia
Posted by Agence France Press on 15 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: News, New Media, Australia
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By AFP Pope Benedict XVI took a new hi-tech road to spreading his message Tuesday, sending a mobile phone text to pilgrims attending World Youth Day celebrations in Australia, organisers said. |
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Technology Stokes New Web Privacy Fears
Posted by LA Times on 14 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: News, North America, New Media
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By Peter Whoriskey, LA Times Consumers worry about their Internet privacy. Politicians vow to investigate. And two of the nation’s biggest tech companies, Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp., support federal legislation for data collection. So why isn’t much happening? |
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Democrats and Republicans fight about making the web more accessible to congress - at least they’re trying
Posted by Venture Beat on 11 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: News, North America, USGOP, USDemocrats, Politics, New Media
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By Eric Eldon, Venture Beat It seems like the Republicans have pinpointed a particular representative’s trouble in articulating House rule changes intended to officially let House members speak more freely on the web. |
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Professional journalists’ opinion wanted: Annotation and search of multimedia items
Posted by MediaChannel on 09 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: News, Europe, New Media
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By European Jouralism Centre The European Jouralism Centre (EJC) is taking part in a multi-national research venture called CASAM, or Computer-Aided Semantic Annotation of Media. |
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Ethiopia: New Media Law, New Threat To Press Freedom
Posted by IPS News on 08 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: News, Africa, New Media
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By Najum Mushtaq, IPS News A new media law clears the way for government to continue to harass and persecute the messenger when the message is not in line with the whims of the rulers. |
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A Brave New Worldwide Web
Posted by guardian.co.uk on 07 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: News, North America, New Media
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By Sarfraz Manzoor, Guardian.co.uk The huge audience draw and the immediacy of the internet have made one director with a social conscience switch from feature films to online video |
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Google Must Divulge YouTube Log
Posted by BBC News on 03 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: News, New Media
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By BBC News Google must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched any video on YouTube, a US court has ruled. |
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Public Health Projects to Use Citizen Media to Empower Community Voices
Posted by Global Voices on 02 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: News, Africa, New Media
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By David Sasaki, Global Voices Rising Voices and Open Society Institute’s Health Media Initiative are happy to announce the six newest health-focused citizen media outreach projects. |
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PopTok lets movie snippets do the talking in online messaging
Posted by Agence France Press on 01 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: News, New Media, Middle East
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By AFP Israeli startup PopTok on Monday began inviting people to test a free service that weaves snippets from memorable films or hot music videos into instant messages and email |
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Firestorm In Swedish Media Over ‘EU Blogger Registry’
Posted by EUobserver on 30 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: News, Europe, New Media
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By TERESA KUCHLER AND LEIGH PHILLIPS, EU Observer Swedish media have erroneously reported that the EU plans to register and bill all bloggers, setting off a firestorm of reaction in the country. |
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Quarter Of The Planet Online By 2012
Posted by vnunet.com on 26 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: News, New Media
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By Shaun Nichols, Vnunet.com Researchers are predicting that one quarter of the world’s population will be connected to the internet within the next four years. |
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