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Giving print subscribers free archive access (20 December 2004)
The Internet has upset the apple cart for magazines just as it has for newspapers, and it's interesting to see the . . .
From Yelvington.com on December 21, 2004 at 12:56 p.m..
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Gillmor keynoting World Editors Forum (20 December 2004)
I think this is great news: Dan Gillmor will be the keynote speaker at the 12th World Editors Forum. Bertrand Pecquerie says: . . .
From Yelvington.com on December 21, 2004 at 12:56 p.m..
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The Bastardization of Beta
Mary Hodder beats us to the punch on something we've been thinking about a lot lately: It seems that every new web application now sports the 'beta' tagline. Furthermore, it seems to stay that way for an indeterminable amount of time. This begs the question whether the 'beta' term has lost its definition.
From Hypergene MediaBlog on December 21, 2004 at 12:56 p.m..
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Sony to pull out of plasma TVs?
The company denies a report it's ditching plasmas to focus solely on LCDs. UPDATE: Sony says it will keep producing plasmas... for now...
From Lost Remote on December 21, 2004 at 12:56 p.m..
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'Kill him on TV'
Howard Rosenberg wants to see Scott Peterson executed on TV. " I want to see for myself, not just hear from others, what it's like when government ends a life. That would be a reality show," he writes....
From Lost Remote on December 21, 2004 at 12:56 p.m..
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WRAL adds cell news service
For $3.99 a month, WRAL-TV is offering text news headlines, weather forecasts and still pictures of traffic cameras to cell phone users. The new cellphone application is the result of six months of work by Sprint and DTV Plus....
From Lost Remote on December 21, 2004 at 12:56 p.m..
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Always a good interview
Fox News CEO Roger Ailes appeared on C-SPAN's Q&A. Here the transcript. Alex Ben Block: Fox News has changed the game...
From Lost Remote on December 21, 2004 at 12:56 p.m..
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'The Contender' lands record ad deal
In the most expensive ad integration deal to date, Toyota will pay $16 million for 30-second spots and product placement over 13 weeks of Mark Burnett's new reality show, The Contender. The show debuts on NBC in February....
From Lost Remote on December 21, 2004 at 12:56 p.m..
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The best and worst ads
The WSJ picks the best and worst ads of 2004. Among the best: Burger King's Subservient Chicken and Apple's U2-iPod ad. Among the worst: Trump's live speech thanking Chrysler at the end of The Apprentice. (Sub. req.)...
From Lost Remote on December 21, 2004 at 12:56 p.m..
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Going tapeless for a day
LittleLostRobot demos a Panasonic P2 camera for a day and writes about it....
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BBC closing niche websites
The BBC will shutter some of its popular cult sites devoted to such shows as "The 4400," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel." Also: The BBC press release on the cuts...
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First TiVo, now Dish Network
Both companies are trying to capitalize on Comcast's delay distributing DVRs in the Bay Area. "San Jose, Where's the DVR cable promised you?" reads a Dish newspaper ad. On Friday, TiVo gave away free DVRs to Comcast subs....
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Nielsen expands to gaming
Next year the ratings company will begin tracking ads in video games....
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Fox's 24 has got game
WildTangent announced its launching a video game based on the Fox drama 24. The game's sponsor, LG Mobile, will not only have ads embedded in the game, but LG Mobile subscribers can sign up to receive text messages from the...
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'Desperate' tops TiVo list
Here are the top ten Season Pass shows recorded by TiVo subscribers for the week ending 12/19: Desperate Housewives, The Apprentice, CSI, Lost, ER, The West Wing, CSI Miami, Survivor and CSI New York. The full 25 here. Earlier: Is...
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NECN seeks shield law
My station, NECN, is looking to gain support among Massachusetts news organizations for a "shield law" in our state. News Director Charles Kravetz is working with our station's lawyer to draft a law that would ask judges to use "better...
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Discovery brings dead to life
I was watching the Discovery Channel's "Virtual History: The Secret Plot to Kill Hitler" earlier this week, and found the actors' resemblances to Hitler, FDR and Churchill remarkable. The secret? CGI. They mapped the real historical figures faces on digital...
From Lost Remote on December 21, 2004 at 12:56 p.m..
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A Journalism Giant Retires
Bill Moyers has completed his last episode of NOW with Bill Moyers, a PBS program that looked in depth at critical issues. Moyers is a hero in journalism. He's not always right, but he's been asking the tough questi
From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on December 21, 2004 at 12:56 p.m..
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Wal-Mart's Linux Push
Wal-Mart is pursuing its own Linux strategy, retail-style, with desktop computers and now this laptop model. For under $500 you can get a well-equipped machine with both the OS and OpenOffice. I'm no fan of Wal-Mart, and I won't shop there. But the Wal-Mart ruthlessness that makes me dislike the company is also responsible for what may be one of the only serious challenges to the Windows monopoly to date.
From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on December 21, 2004 at 12:56 p.m..
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OpenOffice 2.0 Preview Available
UPDATED The OpenOffice folks are giving the world peek-plus at version 2.0, which looks pretty snazzy. Of course, the Mac OS X version is still basically missing in action. At the rate things are going, it'll never be close to ready for prime time, much less at parity with the other versions. UPDATE: More from The Inquirer.
From Dan Gillmor'apos;s eJournal on December 21, 2004 at 12:56 p.m..
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Query for OS X Mail Users
Does anyone know a keyboard combination that takes you to the last message in a folder (or the first)? Or to go from one message to the next one in the folder? I've looked at the various keyboard shortcuts but find almost nothing in the way of navigation. Please post any answers below. Thanks.
From Dan Gillmor'apos;s eJournal on December 21, 2004 at 12:56 p.m..
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Few Postings This Week
I'm a bit under the weather, so will be posting infrequently.
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N.C. paper aims for 'revolutionary change' by turning news site into a 'public square'
The Greensboro News & Record is looking to make a "transformative, revolutionary change" by turning its Web site into "more of an online community or public square" starting Jan. 3.......
From CyberJournalist.net on December 21, 2004 at 12:56 p.m..
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Small paper big on video
California's Ventura County Star is building a video studio in the online department of the newspaper's new building, director of new media Howard Owens tells E&P. There are currently a few staffers who shoot and edit video, and Owens is...
From CyberJournalist.net on December 21, 2004 at 12:56 p.m..
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News sites, White House in dogfight over 'BarneyCam' video
The White House has in the past claimed exclusive online rights to its popular 'BarneyCam' videos, and last December it distributed it to TV stations but not Web sites, insisting news sites link to the video on WhiteHouse.gov, CNET.com reported....
From CyberJournalist.net on December 21, 2004 at 12:56 p.m..
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The State of Distance Education: Observations
Survey article looking at the state of online learning today. The major points: online learning is growing rapidly and it's getting easier all the time. The article also mentions blended learning and takes a look at mobile learning. No mention of blogs or RSS, and the PBS Campus website does not appear to have an RSS feed either. So 2003. By Candice Kramer, PBS Campus, December, 2004 [Refer][Rese
From OLDaily on December 21, 2004 at 12:56 p.m..
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OPEN Public Commonwealth Support System of Distance Education (PCSSODE)
E-learning, like everything else in China, must be developed on a huge scale. This paper outlines one aspect of that project, a public commonwealth support system of e-education (PCSSODE). The service works "by setting up a franchise system based on CRTVU system employing satellite transmission and web technology. The ongoing pilot project reached milestone of service 15000 students and 13 Universities by now." By Tao Hou, International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning, December 20, 2004 [From OLDaily on December 21, 2004 at 12:56 p.m..
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Encouraging Creativity in Student Online Work
The December IJITDL is out; I carry two articles. In this first item, the author argues that "Distance educators could learn valuable lessons about encouraging creativity from today's business organizations." What follows is a bit of an overview of creativity, ranging from Amabile's six myths about creativity to Havvind and Tinker's five types of questions to encourage richer student responses. By Brent Muirhead, International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning, December 20, 2004 [-->
From OLDaily on December 21, 2004 at 12:56 p.m..
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Quality and Standards
"A brief outline of my position on quality and standards, submitted because it exists..." What follows is the shortest version ever of my 'Resource Profiles' paper, with some comments on quality recommendation thrown in. The item has received some comments also worth a look (and to which I will probably reply shortly). By Stephen Downes, Learning Circuits Blog, December 19, 2004 [Refer][Rese
From OLDaily on December 21, 2004 at 12:56 p.m..
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2004 In The Rear View Mirror
Something piqued me last year and I came out with 2004: The Turning Point, a foolhardy foray into short-term prediction. I say a lot of things, and some of them might not be true. And people rely on my projections, perhaps not so much as they rely on astrologers, but enough all the same. So how did I do? Let's look at the article. By Stephen Downes, Stephen's Web, December 19, 2004 [Refer][R
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