Posts on ‘November 14th, 2008’

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 are usually a widget feed from the AP. However, in order to maximize search engine traffic and [...]

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 since the Franklin Roosevelt administration, will be posted to YouTube, starting this [...]

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 service providers. But in “The Durable Internet,” a paper released Wednesday by the libertarian Cato Institute, Tim [...]

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 surprisingly few court rulings providing guidance as to the circumstances when linking could result in liability.
A court [...]

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 whether crowdfunding can work on a larger scale to help fund traditional journalism, which is being hit [...]

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 well documented by social media tools like Twitter, Flickr, blogs and through [...]

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 this year.
Those ties may explain why Facebook was willing to ignore its own privacy policy [...]