Google targets Bell in CRTC letter

God Bless America.  I don't say that very often but thanks to good old American innovation and the companies it spawns, the shameful conduct of Bell Canada is now being questioned.  Google has put its...

Europe rejects anti-piracy plans

"European politicians have voted down calls to throw suspected file-sharers off the net.The idea to cut off persistent pirates formed part of a wide-ranging report on creative industries written for the European parliament.But in a narrow vote MEPs backed an amendment to the...

$10,000 Reward Fund - Info - Housing/Shelter Staff Drug Dealing, etc.

Pilot program that is looking for volunteer coordinators and funding sources for start-up, short term and long term funding.  Also looking for partners in communities, law enforcement, journalism and legal industries to make sure the program succeeds in placing a very...

Web Mashups Turn Citizens Into Washington's Newest Watchdogs

You can already feel the impact user-generated news will make in the upcoming 2008 US elections. This article in Wired Mag highlights a few of the players but ignores several others.I'm thinking The Examiner,...

Web Mashups Turn Citizens Into Washington's Newest Watchdogs

You can already feel the impact user-generated news will make in the upcoming 2008 US elections. This article in Wired Mag highlights a few of the players but ignores several others.I'm thinking The Examiner, NewAssignment.net, Cleveland-Park  (a community we've been...

Dan Rather at SXSW: Journalism is gutless, spineless

Dan Rather, formerly of CBS (he left last year due to well publicized scandal), now of HDNet, was the keynote speaker at this year's SXSW Interactive. He spent much of his hour-long speech talking about the past,...

Costly Red Campaign Reaps Meager $18 Million

Sometimes even the best intentions don't get you very far..."COLUMBUS, Ohio (AdAge.com) -- It's been a year since the first Red T-shirts hit Gap shelves in London, and a parade of celebrity-splashed events...

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A Giant of Journalism Comes Up Short

"WATCHDOGS OF DEMOCRACY? The Waning Washington Press Corps and How It Failed the Public By Helen Thomas Simon & Schuster, 215 pp., $25 Helen Thomas's new treatise, "Watchdogs of Democracy?," is really two books in one. The first is a pleasant memoir about the Greatest...

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