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Adopt (blog) a Reporter

p. Why I Love the Adopt-a-Reporter Scheme. Why I Dread It. – A weblog devoted to watching the work of a journalist is democracy in action. It is bound to be educational, for the watcher and perhaps for the journalist who is watched. But there are reasons to worry. [ “(extlink)PressThink”:http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/ ] p. Joy Rosen ...

Labels May Pay 2X for DRM CDs

Rights issue dogs CD protection – A dispute over royalty rights on copy-protected CDs and other types of music discs is helping to stall the release of some new music technology, and could result in record labels owing tens of millions of dollars in back payments to music publishers. [ “(extlink)News.com”:http://www.news.com ] This interpretation seems ...

Avoid Looking like Spam

Netiquette Matters ~ Articles # Always include an appropriate, short and accurate SUBJECT:. Many times Spam does not have a SUBJECT: and many email programs auto delete these to Junk/Trash. I receive so many subjectless emails, I no longer take the time to look through all of them to determine “if” one is a legitimate ...

Sue Cable TV – It Makes Wife Fat, Kids Lazy

Man says he’s addicted to cable; wants to sue Charter – Cable TV made a West Bend man addicted to TV, caused his wife to be overweight and his kids to be lazy, he says. And he’s threatening to sue the cable company. The real kicker under this story is that the man is suing ...

Video iPods That Work

The Future of Portable Video Players – But Mr. Jobs outlined three reasons he doubted video players would ever approach the success of audio players – not even counting their high price ($700 and up) and the time-consuming difficulty of loading huge video files onto them. It was clear from his answers that Mr. Jobs ...