Daily Archives: November 14, 2008

How Newspapers Can Increase Their Google Juice

Via Media Shift by Mark Van Patten, November 14, 2008 There isn’t much difference between what appears in a small newspaper’s print edition and online. Many photographs make it online that don’t make it to print, and the AP stories … Continue reading

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Obama White House to Broadcast Weekly Radio Address on YouTube

Via Mashable November 14, 2008 – 10:38 am PDT – by Adam Ostrow Some signs of how President-elect Barack Obama will use his massive Internet following are starting to surface. The President’s weekly radio address, a staple of American politics … Continue reading

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Is government regulation needed to ensure net neutrality?

Via ARS Technica By Julian Sanchez | Published: November 14, 2008 – 09:40AM CT The debate over net neutrality typically pits proponents of an open Internet defined by an end-to-end architecture against defenders of more selective, less egalitarian routing by … Continue reading

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Canadian Court Rules Linking to Libel Isn’t (Necessarily) Libel

Via Media Shift by Jeffrey D. Neuburger, November 13, 2008 Linking to content is the essence of the online experience — it’s the “Web” in the World Wide Web. But there’s a lot of legal gray area around linking, and … Continue reading

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Can Crowdfunding Help Save the Journalism Business?

Via Media Shift by Mark Glaser, November 13, 2008 Bands do it. Filmmakers do it. President-elect Barack Obama made an artform out of it. “It” is crowdfunding, getting micro-donations through the Internet to help fund a venture. The question is … Continue reading

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CrisisWire: Your Aggregate Source for a Catastrophe

Via Mashable November 14, 2008 – 2:58 am PDT – by Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins Right now, as per usual, California is burning. The current catastrophe is dubbed the “Tea Fires,” and like many crises in recent months, is being very … Continue reading

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The Very Curious Microsoft-Facebook User Data Relationship

Via Tech Crunch by Michael Arrington on November 14, 2008 Facebook’s ties to Microsoft go back to 2006 when they first signed an advertising deal. A year later they took a $240 million investment, and the advertising relationship was extended … Continue reading

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