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Archive for April, 2006

Will Two Congress Bills Limit Web Use Freedoms?

Monday, April 24th, 2006

This from News.com:
For the last few years, a coalition of technology companies, academics and computer programmers has been trying to persuade Congress to scale back the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Now Congress is preparing to do precisely the opposite. A proposed copyright law seen by CNET News.com would expand the DMCA’s restrictions on software that […]

How to Keep Folks at MySpace: Let Them Build It

Sunday, April 23rd, 2006

Last year MySpace had 28.8 billion page views, according to a New York Times article. Here is why MySpace founder Chris DeWolfe thinks way his vast under 30 audience will not become fickled and go away:
“People are truly invested in the site,” he said. “All their friends are on it. They spent months building […]

UT Panelist: Journalists Now Need Multiple Skills

Saturday, April 22nd, 2006

Knoxville News, a community blog, bullet points one panel’s highlights from Journalism and Electronic Media Week at the
University of Tennessee’s College of Communication and Information.
Jack Lail, Knoxville News Sentinel, highlights:
Newspapers are looking for reporters with more diverse skills. In addition to writing skills, photography, videography, and even technical online publishing/web skills (with a background in […]

Edit Open Source Online Weblogging Mini-Movie

Friday, April 21st, 2006

Robin Good has collected more than 140 video clips of people answering the question: What is a Blog? They include some top names like Howard Rheingold. Now Good invites you to edit them into an open source mini-movie.
It is all free and possible online. He has the details at his site. I mentioned […]

In First Year Poynter’s NewsU Registers 14,000

Friday, April 21st, 2006

The Poynter Institute’s online NewsU celebrates its first year and Howard I. Finberg reports it has registered 14,000 journalists, students and educators from 157 countries.

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