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Neil Budde joining Yahoo (13 November 2004)
The talk here at the ONA conference is that Neil Budde, founding publisher of wsj.com, is joining Yahoo News. . . .
From Yelvington.com on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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The Internet in Politics 2004 (13 November 2004)
Is it just eleven days after the election? I'm in Hollywood at an election postmortem featuring Arianna Huffington, Joe Trippi, Dave . . .
From Yelvington.com on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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The Private Ryan debacle (15 November 2004)
I was in Hollywood and missed the idiotic pre-empting of Private Ryan by ABC stations all over the country. Viewers back . . .
From Yelvington.com on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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Beware of editing a product for yourself (15 November 2004)
At the ONA conference over the weekend we did a little exercise: Brainstorm a site that will appeal to younger readers . . .
From Yelvington.com on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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Comment spammers should be shot
Our weblog has been hit very hard in the last week with comment spam. This is the worst attack in the two years of posting, with nearly 300 comment spam in the last seven days. As a result, we temporarily shutting off comments until we decide on a viable solution.
From Hypergene MediaBlog on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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Jarvis: "This is a chain-reaction of revolutions"
One of favorite bloggers and media thinkers, Jeff Jarvis, is featured in a lengthy Corante interview. We pick our favorite quotes.
From Hypergene MediaBlog on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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Being the big ear
Steve Rubel, of the wonderful PJ2PR weblog Micro Persuasion, offers some advice to his PR peers: The Art of Listening. Great stuff all around, but Steve (like many others these days) mistakenly elevates the weblog as the end-all-be-all of participatory media.
From Hypergene MediaBlog on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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TIME's People of the Year: Bloggers?
Yes, we do love Steve Rubel. Especially his latest iswa: Bloggers Should Be TIME's People of the Year. Great stuff, Steve. How about we vote for all citizen journalists not just bloggers.
From Hypergene MediaBlog on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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Gillmor's "We the Media" now in HTML
Just a quick post to note that Dan Gillmor's book, We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People, is now online in HTML.
From Hypergene MediaBlog on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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Job opportunity: Web editor in Florida
This is a paid advertisement. HeraldTribune.com, the Web site of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune in Florida, is seeking a Web editor. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in journalism and Web development or technology. HeraldTribune.com is in the heart of the newspaper's newsroom, one of the only converged newsrooms in the country that includes print, Web and television operations from SNN-Channel 6, the paper's 24-hour news channel. <
From Holovaty.com on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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Mobile and Digital Edition Ideas from 'Beyond the Printed Word'
The annual IFRA/WAN/FIPP Beyond the Printed Word online publishing conference was held in Prague yesterday and today. A summary of the presentations is available from WAN and there is an interesting conference moblog. Here from the conference (my thanks to the IFRA and WAN summaries) are some interesting ideas about mobile and digital editions:...
From Digital Deliverance on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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Regret at Not Attending ONA Conference
I regret that I won't be attending this year's Online News Association annual conference, to be held Friday and Saturday in Hollywood. Instead, at the request of Ifra, I'll be in New York on Friday afternoon lecturing, on the subjects of e-mail publishing and about publishing to wireless platforms, to a group of European and Asian newspaper executives who are studying U.S. newspaper new-media efforts. I hope that this year's ONA conference will be as good as was last year's....
From Digital Deliverance on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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Reuters Retreats Two Years on NewsML
This past weekend, most of the stories about the online news industry focused on Associated Press President & CEO Tom Curley's keynote speech at the annual conference of the Online News Association. Though it was good to hear that the AP has finally realized that there's a seismic environmental change underway in media, Curley's speech was about AP intentions, not AP accomplishments. The American wire service has accomplished little with new media during the past ten years. A story that was under-reported weekend was Reuters' postponed deployment of NewsML. The British wire
From Digital Deliverance on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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Garcia Predicts Conversion of American Broadsheets to Tabloid
More than a year ago, we wrote about Mario Garcia, a world renown expert on newspaper design, predicting that the majority of the world's newspapers would became tabloid-sized within his lifetime. Garcia a few years earlier had predicted that a large number of American papers would switch to the smaller format by 2020. This weekend, Garcia updated and accelerated his predictions. "Based on the happenings of the last two years alone, and primarily the last year, I would say it will happen quicker than that. By 2010 we will have many American papers converting," he told the Chicago Tribune.
From Digital Deliverance on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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Why pay for TiVo's ads?
As much as I understand TiVo's new ads will bring much-needed revenue to the table, I'm worried TiVo is beginning to turn a blind eye to its loyal fan base. People bought TiVos to organize their viewing and SKIP COMMERCIALS....
From Lost Remote on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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Say goodbye to ad-free TiVo
The LA Times reports TiVo is making deals to put up advertiser "billboards" on screen when users fast-forward through the broadcast ads. So far, 30 advertisers have signed up. You'll start to see the meta-ads in March. Update: TiVo Community...
From Lost Remote on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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Quote of the week
CBS Chairman Les Moonves at the B&C Hall of Fame party in NY:"I remember when the magazine was called Broadcasting. Then it was Broadcasting & Cable. Now it's just B&C. I just hope 10 years from now, it's not called...
From Lost Remote on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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Talk shows are hot area for marketers
They're fertile ground for product placement like Oprah's big Pontiac giveaway. Now Ellen DeGeneres is attracting high-profile marketers. (WSJ sub. req.)...
From Lost Remote on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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Don't buy the plasma
That's the advice from David Pogue in the NY Times. "Before you drop all that money on a 42-inch plasma TV," he says, consider the new 40+ inch LCD TVs. Better resolution, slimmer, lighter, last longer and they don't burn...
From Lost Remote on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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Just about everyone is afraid of the FCC
NY Times reporter Alessandra Stanley thinks the networks should stop apologizing for everything -- especially over the Monday Night Football flap: "If anyone should apologize, it is the NFL: the organization actually had the nerve to say the skit... was...
From Lost Remote on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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CNN.com tops October news sites
October's edition of the top news sites listed by Nielsen//Netratings....
From Lost Remote on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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Mark Cuban fined for blogging
After the NBA held its opening night on election day -- resulting in very little TV coverage and low ticket sales -- Mark Cuban ripped the NBA on his weblog. So the NBA fined him for it. "I'm sure this...
From Lost Remote on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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Web tax moratorium continues
The House and Senate have agreed to keep the Internet (mostly) tax-free for the next three years. The compromise, which primarily deals with states and local governments taxing VOIP, breaks a year-long deadlock....
From Lost Remote on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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The quest for ratings
Last night, the South Park kids reinvented their school's closed-circuit newscast as "Super Sexy Action News" in an attempt to get better ratings. ("Animals Close-Up With A Wide-Angle Lens" was beating them.) The episode was complete with newscaster hairdos...
From Lost Remote on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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The breathing edge
Now in its fifth year, MIT's $50 milllion dollar Project Oxygen is closer than ever to letting you talk to your computer - which will be everywhere....
From Lost Remote on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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Web buyouts on the rise?
Will the Dow Jones acquisition of MarketWatch lead to new round of media mergers? Wired News doesn't think so. But the story suggests there's more buying to come, with big media companies scarfing up blogs. Could Lost Remote become a...
From Lost Remote on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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R.I. REPORTER FOUND GUILTY OF CONTEMPT
Rhode Island TV reporter Jim Taricani has been convicted of contempt, for refusing to name a source. Taricani, who works at WJAR (an NBC O&O), will not name who handed him an undercover videotape showing a Providence official taking a...
From Lost Remote on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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Vlogging pioneer
This is an invitation for anybody interested in a slice of TVs future to hop on over to Rocketboom, choose the RSS feed for your favorite streaming player, and have this hilarious and creative view of life delivered to your...
From Lost Remote on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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A way cool product for a TV site
Wouldn't it be soooo cool and hip if an avatar that looks like the chief meteorologist delivered the weather on a station's web site? The product outputs Flash, so there's no silly player to download and you could even embed...
From Lost Remote on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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Booming City, Slow Net
I've stayed in two Shanghai hotels on this trip. Both promised broadband Internet connections. Neither has come close to consistently living up to the promise. The economy here is growing like topsy, but even China's most up-to-date city continues to lag in this area. There is a saving grace, however. China offers dial-up access that is basically free. For the cost of a local call I can log onto a major telecom ISP
From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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Fudan University
Here are some members of a class we spoke with this morning. Interesting -- most of the journalism students here are women. I'm not sure what that suggests...
From Dan Gillmor&apos;s eJournal on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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Thank You...
...to the Online News Association for the kind award to this online column. I'm flattered, and honored.
From Dan Gillmor'apos;s eJournal on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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Powell's Departure, Disappointing Tenure
  • NY Times: Good Soldier Powell. Mr. Powell's performance convinced many Americans skeptical about the war that the Iraqi government was a clear and present danger to the rest of the world. His enormous stature and his image as a moderating force within the administration - valued especially by America's European allies - were squandered in defending a unilateral decision he did not agree with to launch a war in which he did not really seem to believe.
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    Back to High Speed
    I've returned to Hong Kong, where the Net connections are excellent. The difference between here and Shanghai is amazing, in many ways.
    From Dan Gillmor'apos;s eJournal on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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    The FCC Censorship Machine
  • Jeff Jarvis: Censorship by the tyranny of the few. With not much original reporting, I discovered that the latest big fine by the FCC against a TV network -- a record $1.2 million against Fox for its "sexually suggestive" Married by America -- was brought about by a mere three people who actually composed letters of complaint. Yes, just three people. The First Amendment is under attack, and I can't understand why the "conservatives" are so happy to see it happen. They've right
    • From Dan Gillmor'apos;s eJournal on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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    FCC Claims Rights to Regulate Your PC
    It's worse than you imagined. As law professor Susan Crawford explains, The FCC says it has "regulatory power over all instrumentalities, facilities, and apparatus 'associated with the overall circuit of messages sent and received' via all interstate radio and wire communication." Crawford points to this brief (big PDF) for the relevant language. It's all in the service of helping the broadcasters and Hollywood
    From Dan Gillmor'apos;s eJournal on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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    Google Shifts Click Behavior
    Just noticed: Google's changed what happens when you click on a link. It now opens a new window by default. You can change back to the original settings -- not opening a new window -- by going to the Preferences page. I did.
    From Dan Gillmor'apos;s eJournal on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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    Remembering Comdex
    This is normally the week when I smugly note that I'm not in Las Vegas, not attending the annual Comdex computer-industry trade show. For six years now, I've been teaching in Hong Kong during Comdex week, and glad of it. Like many former attendees: I got sick and tired of the hassle. Las Vegas in Comdex week, during the show's amazing heyday, was no fun. It was a hassle. Comdex isn't being held this year. It's officially on hiatus, but I'll be amazed if it comes back in anything resembling the original. That will be
    From Dan Gillmor'apos;s eJournal on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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    Copyright Cartel Goes for Big Score
  • Wired News: Senate May Ram Copyright Bill. Several lobbying camps from different industries and ideologies are joining forces to fight an overhaul of copyright law, which they say would radically shift in favor of Hollywood and the record companies and which Congress might try to push through during a lame-duck session that begins this week. The Senate might vote on HR2391, the Intellectual Property Protection Act, a comprehensive bill that opponents charge could make many users of peer-to-peer networks, d
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    Criminal Charge? No Problem if You're a Republican Leader
  • The Hill: Rule change to shield DeLay. The House GOP caucus is likely to vote today to end its rule requiring leaders to step down if indicted, thus shielding Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) in the event that criminal charges are brought against him in a highly controversial case in Texas.
    • From Dan Gillmor'apos;s eJournal on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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    Comments Lose Another Reader
    I got a note today from a longtime reader. He wrote of the comments here (and is far from alone in this sentiment):"I'll no longer be reading them. "Not your fault, really. But there's enough that annoys me in the world without it deliberately trying to be offensive."Amen on the last part.
    From Dan Gillmor'apos;s eJournal on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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    Drupal and Community Sites
    We're using Drupal, an open-source content management system, in our Hong Kong University class on new media, for a class project about Hong Kong politics. I'm amazed at the progress this software has made since the last time I looked at it -- an assortment of enhancements that make it powerful and flexible. It's not easy enough to use for average people yet, however. Some of the arcane terminology shouts that programmers have written this. Let's hope the Drupal community can make it more user-friendly.
    From Dan Gillmor'apos;s eJournal on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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    Cowardly Media Bow to Right-Wing Pressure
  • Frank Rich (NY Times): Bono's New Casualty: 'Private Ryan'. Even without being threatened, American news media at first sanitized the current war, whether through carelessness or jingoism, proving too credulous about everything from weapons of mass destruction to "Saving Private Lynch" to "Mission Accomplished." During the early weeks of the invasion, carnage of any kind was kept off TV screens, as if war could be cost-free. Once the press did get its act together and
    • From Dan Gillmor'apos;s eJournal on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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    Dollar Heading Over a Cliff; Bush Administration Shrugs
  • International Herald Tribune: U.S. won't help on euro, Treasury chief declares. U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow on Wednesday warned Europeans not to expect help from Washington in slowing the ascent of the euro, whose rise to a record against the dollar added pressure on a wobbly Continental economic recovery. The international financial markets have voted since Bush's re-election, and the verdict is thumbs down. The dollar is weaker than ever, and could start dropping like
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    Electoral Vote 2004 Animation
    This map uses state-by-state polling data to show how the electoral vote changed over the course of the election in an animated map of the country. Very cool....
    From CyberJournalist.net on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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    2004 election audio track Search
    Through December 2004, C-SPAN is making part of its 2004 Vote video archive available for keyword searches that identify segments in video files where the topic or word is discussed. That's roughly 175 hours of its most notable election-related events....
    From CyberJournalist.net on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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    ONA conference headlines
    The Online New Association conference is underway in Los Angeles and you can get full coverage all weekend from a team of students from around the country that ONA has organized, at journalists.org. Since this is a gathering of online...
    From CyberJournalist.net on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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    BBC wins 2nd Online Journalism Award for General Excellence
    BBCNews.com won the OJA general excellence award for the second time this weekend: "The judges were effusive in their praise for this site, noting that it has continued to improve and innovate since BBC won the award two years ago....
    From CyberJournalist.net on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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    Dow Jones buys MarketWatch
    Old media scoops up new media. Next up: Slate, on the block with The Washington Post reportedly interested. Why would Dow Jones pay $519 million for MarketWatch? Among other reasons, WSJ.com's subscriber growth has been slowing, so this gives Dow...
    From CyberJournalist.net on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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    More signs dayparting works
    In the 10 months since SeattlePI.com embarked on one of the more aggressive experiments in dayparting and launched a radically revamped "night edition," the site has seen weeknight page-views jump by 35 percent on average. AZCentral also recently reported similar...
    From CyberJournalist.net on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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    30 percent of newspapers have partnerships with TV stations
    Almost 30 percent of daily newspapers in the United States have partnerships with television stations, and those newspaper-television partnerships exist at all circulation levels, according to the first nationwide study of daily newspaper editors regarding their newspaper's convergence routines. The...
    From CyberJournalist.net on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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    Google by phone
    Google is no longer just a great Web and desktop search service. Now you can get information by sending SMS messages to a special five-digit number, 46645, which spells GOOGL on a phone keypad. "People looking for a list of...
    From CyberJournalist.net on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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    NBC plugs Sites' personal blog
    Cory Bergman reports: "This is a first for a network news division. Brian Williams plugged Kevin Sites' personal war blog on NBC Nightly News on Monday. "Our correspondent Kevin Sites has been keeping a weblog of his day-to-day life while...
    From CyberJournalist.net on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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    Kristof wins for interactive op-eds
    New York Times columnist Nick Kristof won the Online News Association's award for online commentary this past weekend for his amazing multimedia op-ed packages, but much of the credit also should go to Naka Nathaniel, the NYTimes.com producer responsible for...
    From CyberJournalist.net on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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    Top news sites for October
    Here are the Top 20 Online Current Events & Global News Destinations from Nielsen//NetRatings for October....
    From CyberJournalist.net on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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    Bloggers' track Wash. governor's race
    Bloggers have been obsessively tracking the Washington state governor's race -- the closest in the state's history -- posting dozens of updates as absentee votes have been counted over the past few weeks, swinging the lead back and forth between...
    From CyberJournalist.net on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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    WSJ.com launches 'Video Center'
    The Wall Street Journal Online at WSJ.com has launched a free ad-supported Video Center. "Although the Online Journal has been offering video on the site, the new center provides its readers with a central location where they can find and...
    From CyberJournalist.net on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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    Rice University Webcasts
    Pretty neat idea, and as the item says, another example of the power of RSS syndication. By Derek Morrison, Auricle, November 17, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect]
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    The Rise of the Creative Class
    Something to listen to on the airplane. "Richard Florida suggests that technology alone in this creative age is not going to make us safe. We need to bring in the kind of creative entrepreneurs who can make great ideas into sustainable business models. We also need aesthetic creativity and we need to pull in political and cultural creativity. Only then, Florida says, will we get real economic growth." By Richard Florida, IT Conversations, October 21, 2004 [Refer][From OLDaily on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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    1100710188
    This is likely to become an issue in the future. "An important article from Joshua Porter, Digital Web on how aggregators already change the content presentation (read the end of the article with graphs)." By Bertrand Pecquerie, Unmediated, November 16, 2004 [Refer][Research][Refl
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    International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning
    A short and early newsletter today, prepared using the free wireless access at Moncton airport as I wait for my flight to Vancouver. In this item, the latest International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning is out and leads with my essay, Learning Networks. Three other solid articles on communication and learning objects are also included. By Various Authors, November, 2004 [Refer][From OLDaily on November 18, 2004 at 5:12 p.m..
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