News
January 2010
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The computer, the Internet and Social Media are not the downfall of man
posted by in
Tue 12th
Over the last 10 years, we’ve seen social media galvanize thousands over politics, create as many industries as it has destroyed, and offer an abundance of visual and audio entertainment. But has all this incredible change actually changed us, or just the world we live in?
December 2009
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Could 2009 be the Last Great Year of Free News?
posted by in
Mon 7th
News publishers—at least the ones that maintain expensive newsrooms– are pissed because their online revenues have failed to offset the bleeding in their print arms. They’ve sought out scapegoats. Thus, groups like the Fair Syndication Consortium have accused Google of running more than half of the unlicensed newspaper content currently floating around on the web. Talk about biting the hands that feeds you. Consider that Google sends news publishers, in the words of Eric Schmidt, “a billion clicks a month from Google News and more than three billion extra visits from our other services, such as Web Search and iGoogle.”
The computer, the Internet and Social Media are not the downfall of man
posted by in
Over the last 10 years, we’ve seen social media galvanize thousands over politics, create as many industries as it has destroyed, and offer an abundance of visual and audio entertainment. But has all this incredible change actually changed us, or just the world we live in?
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Could 2009 be the Last Great Year of Free News?
posted by in
Mon 7thNews publishers—at least the ones that maintain expensive newsrooms– are pissed because their online revenues have failed to offset the bleeding in their print arms. They’ve sought out scapegoats. Thus, groups like the Fair Syndication Consortium have accused Google of running more than half of the unlicensed newspaper content currently floating around on the web. Talk about biting the hands that feeds you. Consider that Google sends news publishers, in the words of Eric Schmidt, “a billion clicks a month from Google News and more than three billion extra visits from our other services, such as Web Search and iGoogle.”
