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Full story: Add your voice to the illegal file-sharing debate
News today that the government is pledging to combat internet piracy in the UK with a series of new measures, including £50,000 fines for those found guilty of illegal file-sharing. The Guardian says that the move is being pushed through by Lord Mandelson, the business secretary, in a bid to deter the estimated seven million people who illegally share films, music and games online in the UK. […] It has been reported that the new measures, which include severing the…
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Full story: Is this a future for the newspaper business?
More than 500 newspapers have signed up for an online news charging scheme, says Brand Republic. A US company called Journalism Online has signed up newspapers and online news outlets across the USA to use its e-commerce system for charging readers to access online content. Brand Republic says the company intends to launch this autumn. Journalism Online was founded in April by Steven Brill, journalist and journalism lecturer at Yale; Gordon Crovitz, a former publisher of the Wall Street Journal;…
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Full story: PR Boo #1
One of the things I often do early on a Sunday morning is an RSS catch-up – an opportunity to go through much of the content I subscribe to in FeedDemon, my RSS reader, and which I’ve bookmarked to read at my leisure. Today was no different. What was different, though, is that I decided to record a sort of summary of some of the content in a 5-minute Audioboo and share it. So welcome to PR Boo #1. Here’s…
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Full story: Email on the go via Google Apps
Email and I have a love/hate relationship, leaning mostly towards hate. One of the things I’ve never been able to organize effectively is access to my domain email from any device, especially mobile devices. Email hell endured for almost an entire month when I took a stab at that earlier in the year. Yet whether I like it or not, being email-connected from wherever you are is something I have to do even if this brings to mind an image…











