Every three years the US Copyright Office reviews copyright law and makes revisions and exemptions. Six new rules out from the office will radically alter the tech landscape in the months and years to come. CrunchGear breaks down the changes for us: Defeating a lawfully obtained DVD’s encryption for the sole purpose of short, fair […]
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The New York Times is reporting that Google will soon unveil a one-click payment system for content called “Newspass.” According to the newspaper La Repubblica, Google, a brand built on free apps for consumers, is creating the infrastructure for a system that would allow publishers to charge readers for content. “Later this year, Google will
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The Slate is reporting that the Gray Lady will no longer tweet. That’s according to the New York Times’ standards editor Phil Corbett, who is pleading with writers to avoid using the word in their copy whenever possible, invoking the paper’s disdain for “colloquialisms, neologisms and jargon.” There are tweet partisans: The Associated Press gave
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Blame “the media” if you want. But come January 1, we’ll dump the “two-thousands,” and we’ll get cozy with the “twenty-tens.” So say the language mavens, reports The Plain Dealer. In 2000, there were “uncertainties,” said David Crystal of the Cambridge Encyclopaedia of the English Language, so we ignored the example of 1900 (“nineteen-hundred”), and
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With the advent of “citizen journalism,” anyone with a camera, an Internet connection, and a few questions can become a member of the fourth estate. But how do you know if this reporting is accurate? AppScout reports that YouTube has a new portal, dubbed YouTube Direct, intended to provide news organizations with a more organized
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Fast Company reports that it’s called “hNews,” and it could provide instantaneous context for any online news article. HNews is the product of a project overseen by none other than Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the physicist who created the first Web protocol in 1990 and is widely regarded as the “inventor” of the World Wide Web.
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Reader’s Digest has an interesting profile and interview with the guy who parlayed a childhood fascination with computers into one of the nation’s most-visited news websites, Kevin Rose. Digg.com gets 35 million different visitors a month. One link from Digg’s home page can produce a tsunami of traffic that can turn a Web newcomer into
TechCrunch: NPR has received $3 million in funding to launch a new journalism project that will focus on providing in-depth, hyper-local coverage on community-specific issues on an online platform. NPR received $2 million from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and $1 million from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The new funding
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The New York Times: If your business depends on free publicity from newspapers, what do you do when the papers can no longer afford to send reporters to cover you? In professional sports, the answer, increasingly, is hire your own. The Los Angeles Kings hockey team last week hired Rich Hammond, who had covered the
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Lansing State Journal: Cheryl Miller and Heather Lewis are moms who want their kids to learn something in every situation – even in the car on the way to after-school activities. But when they bought educational CDs to play on the way to skating and drum lessons, the women found them lacking. “They all sounded
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