Eye on the City: Do Cameras Reduce Crime?

"The New York Police Department announced Monday that it was creating a web of surveillance in lower Manhattan that will eventually include 3,000 public and private security cameras to track terrorists. By the end...

ASCAP Bullying Coffee Shops over Cover Tunes

Whilst the actions undertaken by ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers), may be technically legal, it is also seen by many as greedy (see below). Indeed, if they are trying to turn public opinion against piracy, this is perhaps the worst way to go about...

How to stay famous. Lindsay Lohan,Britney,Victoria Beckham,Paris Hilton do

"How to stay famous. Lindsay Lohan,Britney,Victoria Beckham,Paris Hilton do How do they stay famous? Unless you are Madonna, Britney Spears, Angelina Jolie, Lindsay Lohan or even Donald Trump. The technique they use to stay famous, is to take away all of their publicists time...

Are teens stealing premium content to place on YouTube?

"Are teens stealing premium content to place on YouTube? Are the studios coming after the teens that posted the premium content that they are not authorised to post? The studios might be going after Facebook and Myspace accounts of teens around the world. The kids today have...

Schools are allowing outsiders to arrest students on campus for file sharing

"Schools are allowig outsiders to arrest students on campus for file sharing Michael Goldstein of Stun Mobile Media and the USA Group have been following the court cases of file sharing of illegal content over the internet, and came across the new alarming article by Melissa...

Podcaster Unconference Saturday July 28

Podcamp City Online, a podcamp sponsored and organized by PodcasterWhosWho.com, and http://www.AvaHosting.Biz , will be an online Podcamp held on Saturday, July 28, 2007 from 9:30 AM to 9:30 PM EST. to freely educate and share information about podcasting to beginners and...

Paris Hilton is out of Jail

Ms. Hilton checks out early...Steve Whitmore, spokesman for the LA County Sherriff's Dept, has held a press conference, the details of which are below. For our Australian friends, this is, quite literally,...

Narco News: Don't Cry for Venezuela's RCTV

Yet another perspective on the Venezuela media debacle.--------------------------------------------"Don't Cry for Venezuela's RCTV > By Charlie Hardy, > Posted on Sun May 27th, 2007 at 04:27:42 PM EST > > As I write this, I am looking at a Venezuelan newspaper, El...

Privacy Up in Smoke: "Coffeeshops" to Store Customer ID

Maastricht's cafés licensed to sell decriminalized marijuana are attempting to appease critics and avoid forced closure by collecting and retaining fingerprint and ID data from customers. Netherlands...

Yemen Government restricts SMS news services

"Just a reminder at how much freedom of information most of the world has, despite our own governments influencing media.      Government restricts SMS news services     The government has been restricting some SMS news services and blocking...

Dancing for the sake of dance: NYC residents take to the streets

We here at NowPublic have been covering New York's tendencies towards becoming a nanny city over the last year (No trans fats? No metal bats? No iPods across the street? No slurs?) Not least of all the bans was...

The Trouble With Palm OS :: Symblogogy

"The trouble isn’t that the operating system doesn’t work, or is reliable, or even that it isn’t even owned by the company that had originally developed it. The trouble with the Palm OS is that everyone...

Paris Hilton - Why I Accept My Fate!

"Hotel heiress Paris Hilton is speaking out after being sentenced to 45 days in the slammer for violating the terms of her probation in an alcohol-related reckless-driving case. It looks like she has finally come to terms with her fate, realizing she has no choice but to face...

Have a Pint and Save Your Local Institution

Here in the UK, the pub is as important a community centre as it is in Ireland. We cannot allow our neighbourhood institutions to perish, so hoist a pint for local business! " That trademark Irish venue, the...

Paris Hilton goes to jail!

UPDATE: Paris begins her three-week sentence today (the sentence was reduced from 45 days due to shortage of space in California's jail system). How will she do? Something tells me we'll hear about it... Paris...

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