A news story that will make national or international headlines is
breaking. Quick...what do you do? If you don't have already have a game
plan for how to report a crisis online, now's the time to start making
preemptive plans. Most newsrooms already have reporters to turn to for
print stories and broadcast news coverage, but here are few multimedia
components to consider so the internet audience is informed as well.
[excerpt]
On Tuesday, the Icelandic parliament is expected to introduce a measure
aimed at making the country an international center for investigative
journalism publishing, by passing the strongest combination of source
protection, freedom of speech, and libel-tourism prevention laws in the
world.
Supporters of the proposal say the move would make Iceland an "offshore
publishing center" for free speech, analogous to the offshore financial
havens that allow corporations to hide capital from authorities. Could
global news organizations with a home office in Reykjavík soon be as
common as Delaware corporations or Cayman Islands assets?
"This is a legislative package to create a haven for freedom of
expression," Icelandic member of parliament Birgitta Jónsdóttir confirmed
to me, saying that a proposal for comprehensive media law reform will be
filed in parliament on Tuesday, and that whistle-blowing specialists
Wikileaks has been involved in drafting it. There have been persistent
hints of an Icelandic media move in recent weeks, including tweets from
Wikileaks and a cryptic message from the newly created @icelandmedia
Twitter account.
The text of the proposal, called the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative, is
not yet public, but the most detailed evidence comes from a video of a
talk by Julian Assange and Daniel Schmitt of Wikileaks, given at the Chaos
Communications Congress hacker conference in Berlin on Dec. 27:
We could just say we're taking the source protection laws from Sweden, for
example…we could take the First Amendment from the United States, we could
take Belgian protection laws for journalists, and we could all pack these
together in one bundle, and make it fit for the first jurisdiction that
offers the necessities of an information society.
[...]
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The International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) is accepting
applications until April 9, 2010 for the Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship and
accepting nominations until March 5 for the Courage in Journalism Awards.
The Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship is named for the Boston Globe
correspondent who was killed in Iraq in 2003. She was a winner of the
IWMF's Courage in Journalism Award in 1998.
One woman journalist will be accepted to spend the academic year in Boston
(September 2010—May 2011) in a tailored program designed to combine
academic research with training in covering human rights. The fellowship
is open to women journalists from around the world whose work focuses on
human rights and social justice. Journalists working in print, broadcast
and Internet media—including freelancers—are eligible. Applicants should
have at least three years experience in journalism. Excellent written and
verbal English skills are required.
Learn more about the fellowship in this press release and these FAQs. See
also this list of previous fellows, who include Jenny Manrique of
Colombia. The application is available here.
Separately, the IWMF is seeking nominations for its Courage in Journalism
Awards. Past winners from Latin Americas include Lydia Cacho and Maribel
Gutierrez Moreno from Mexico; Mabel Rehnfeldt, Paraguay; Marielos Monzon,
Guatemala; Jineth Bedoya Lima and Maria Jimena Duzan, Colombia; and Blanca
Rosales Valencia, Peru. Nominations can be made here.
An excerpted version of the guide is available as an embedable interactive
widget (left). A PDF version of the guide, including an extended text and
additional sections, can be downloaded
in English here,
http://www.icfj.org/disaster/ICFJ_disaster_ENG.pdf
and in Spanish, here.
http://www.icfj.org/disaster/ICFJ_disaster_ESP.pdf
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Understanding China -
"See a person's means
Observe his motives.
Examine that in which he rests.
How can a person conceal his character? "
Presented by History Is A Weapon. A Note and Disclaimer are below.
1. Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress
3. Persons of Mean and Vile Condition
7. As Long As Grass Grows Or Water Runs
8. We Take Nothing by Conquest, Thank God
9. Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom
14. War Is the Health of the State
16. A People's War?
18. The Impossible Victory: Vietnam
19. Surprises
20. The Seventies: Under Control?
21. Carter-Reagan-Bush: The Bipartisan Consensus
23. The Clinton Presidency and the Crisis of Democracy
January 27: iphone effect
shortly after one person in the group brings out their iphone, the rest follow suit, ultimately ending all conversation and eye contact.
"Hey, what do you want to order for drinks?" "Not sure, let's see what Imbibe Magazine has for their best beer this month." First iphone comes out of the pocket--enter safari search. Next iphone comes out--enter Facebook post. Third iphone makes an entrance -- the iphone effect has arrived.
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Ausschnitt aus der Arte Sendung "Zapping International" vom 06.08.2009 über den Eskimo-TV-Superhelden "Super Shamou" - sehr lustig :D
Ausschnitt aus der Arte Sendung "Zapping International" vom 06.08.2009 über den Eskimo-TV-Superhelden "Super Shamou" - sehr lustig :D
Super Shamu.. Video Clip The only #Inuit Super Hero comic book cover on Flickr http://ow.ly/ZzDU -Vince, 7 likes to read books about Super Shamu http://ow.ly/ZzFQ - YouTube video excerpt of IBC's Peter Tapiti as the original Super Shamu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb6tgpIfADo
Ausschnitt aus der Arte Sendung "Zapping International" vom 06.08.2009 über den Eskimo-TV-Superhelden "Super Shamou" - sehr lustig :D
This is for all of us that are tired of endless Facebook apps, invites and people that we never really liked in high school anyways. I'm @UnMarketing on Twitter, I don't ming high school "friends" on there :) http://www.Twitter.com/unmarketing
Lyrics:
I hear the ding on my laptop
I'm lying here, wondering who is that?
I ponder who you are tonight
Who is texting me, on my phone
The memories come back very slow
Oh I hope its not that dude with the fro
Oh no....
Till then, I was doing fine on my own
I never really cared about u in high school
And now it chills me to the bone
Why dont you leave me alone
Why dont you leave me alone
You know I've never really wanted
To be a pirate, farmer or samuri.. noo
You don't know how much I have hated
People who tell me to join a mafioso
And people who say LOL
Please KMA, DIAF
FML
AHHHH ALOOONE
Back then, I always got by on my own
You were a prick to me in high school
And now send texts to my phone?
Why dont you leave me alone
Why dont you leave me alone
on 01/13/2010 O'Reilly, Hannity, Beck coverage totaled less than 7 minutes
#journalism
[excerpt embedded URLs at the above link]
Media Matters published an interesting study that reveals just how
dismissive Fox News is of professional journalistic standards. On the day
after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, Fox News practically ignored it
on its most watched programs.
While this isn't particularly surprising, at this difficult time it is
definitely disturbing. This is not just another sad disaster on foreign
soil. There were reportedly 40,000 Americans in Haiti at the time of the
earthquake. But even that isn't enough for Fox to take it seriously.
"On January 13, Fox News' three top-rated programs for 2009 — The
O'Reilly Factor, Hannity, and Glenn Beck — devoted a combined total of
less than 7 minutes of coverage to the earthquake in Haiti, instead
choosing to air such things as Beck's hour-long interview with Sarah
Palin, Bill O'Reilly's discussion of Comedy Central host Jon Stewart,
and Sean Hannity's advocacy for Massachusetts candidate Scott Brown's
Senate campaign. By contrast, the content of MSNBC's three top-rated
shows underscored the significance of the Haiti disaster; Countdown,
The Rachel Maddow Show, and Hardball devoted a total of more than two
hours to the earthquake."
A proposed amendment to the Digital Economy Bill in the UK exempts search
engines from copyright infringement claims from third parties – Rupert
Murdoch presumably included. The amendment would give Google legal
immunity with which to index News Corp. content, settling that thorny
topic once and for all. However, under the amendment a publisher blocking
search spiders with a robots.txt file would be taken as withholding that
right. [Guardian]
[excerpt]
Tags: China, Circumvention, Google, Internet Surveillance, Malware.
Google has just announced that there were successful attacks against their
infrastructure resulting in the theft of intellectual property. Google
traced the attacks to China and although the attribution regarding the
Chinese government is unclear, Google also discovered that the attackers
also attempted to compromise the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights
activists.
But the most interesting result was due to the combination of attacks,
surveillance and censorship Google has decided to reassess their
operations in China:
[excerpt]
OTTAWA — Canada's second-oldest magazine, The "B e a v e r", is changing
its name after 90 years because the title is too often censored by online
"p o r n" filters, preventing it from reaching new online readers.
The Winnipeg-based magazine was launched in 1920 to celebrate the 250th
anniversary of the Hudson's Bay Company and the fur trade that led to the
early exploration of Canada.
But in modern times, the term "B e a v e r" has become slang for women's
genitals.
"The "B e a v e r" was an impediment online," publisher Deborah Morrison
told AFP.
"Several readers asked us to change the title because their spam filters
at home or at work were blocking it," she said. "I've even had emails
bounce back because I had inadvertently typed the term in the heading."
[...]
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Paul Gillin explains the appeal and potential of blogs, the Swiss-Army knife of the Social Media world. Learn why so many people, businesses and organizations are using blogs to reach the world. Paul explains why they are so effective and gives advice on how to create blogs that people will want to read.
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In fact, that is exactly what has just happened.
While the patent system has been around since the 17th century when it was
developed by nobles in Italy and England, it may surprise you that the
system was designed to benefit you. Patents were supposed to be a public
disclosure to advance science and useful knowledge. If someone shared
sufficient information to teach the public about a novel development or
useful technology, they would have a limited time (about 20 years) to
decide who could use that idea.
There's some bad news and some good news. First, the bad news: For the
past 30 years, patents have been abused. Rather than serving the public's
expansion of knowledge, they've been used as business and legal weapons.
Over 50,000,000 patents covering everything you do have served to keep you
from benefiting in many aspects of your life. Many life-saving treatments
have been kept from the market because they threaten established business
interests. The world's ecosystem has been severely damaged because
efficiencies have been kept from entereing the market.
In the face of all this, however, there is the good news: The thirty year
"cold war" of innovation is over. Today, you now have access to it all. In
the Global Innovation Commons, we have assembled hundreds of thousands of
innovations - most in the form of patents - which are either expired,
no-longer maintained (meaning that the fees to keep the patents in force
have lapsed), disallowed, or unprotected in most, if not all, relevant
markets. This means that, as of right now, you can take a step into a
world full of possibilities, not roadblocks. You want clean water for
China or Sudan - it's in here. You want carbon-free energy - it's in here.
You want food production for Asia or South America - it's in here.
But here's the catch. We're sharing this under a license. The license is
really simple. If you use this information, you must share what you're
doing with everyone else. If you improve upon it, you must share your
improvements with everyone else. And finally, if you use any of this
information, you must reference the "Global Innovation Commons." That's
it. When you take the next step, turn the possibilities into realities.
The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, a project of the Columbia
University Graduate School of Journalism, is dedicated to informed,
innovative and ethical news reporting on violence, conflict and tragedy.
Whether the topic is street crime, family violence, natural disaster, war
or human rights, effective news reporting on traumatic events demands
knowledge, skill and support. The Dart Center provides journalists around
the world with the resources necessary to meet this challenge, drawing on
a global, interdisciplinary network of news professionals, mental health
experts, educators and researchers.
DartCenter.Org
The Dart Center's website provides timely articles, expert interviews,
journalist-to-journalist advice, tipsheets and other resources. The
website also serves as a multimedia venue for discussion of controversies
and breakthroughs in trauma science, policy and media coverage.
Many people have words of wisdom and stuff that inspires them. Desiderata is one of them. Deteriorata, its parody, though, is the best I've got! This is off a compilation LP called "Greatest Hits of the National Lampoon" Hey, I've even included the lyrics!
[excerpt]
Stung by a satire at the Copenhagen climate conference, Canada's
government has shut down two parody Web sites criticizing the Great White
North's glacial policy on global warming.
In the process, however, it has taken down 4,500 other Web sites that had
nothing to do with the prank played two weeks ago at the global climate
summit.
The two "offending" sites, developed by "Yes Men" pranksters, announced
that Canada would reduce greenhouse gas emissions in 2020 40 percent from
1990 levels, and 80 percent by the year 2050.
The "announcement" came as Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government was
privately circulating a plan to permit a 165 percent INCREASE in emissions
from Alberta's huge, dirty oil sands project.
The two Web sites, "enviro-canada.ca" and "ec-gc.ca" are "directly
connected to a hoax which misleads people into believing that the
Government of Canada will take certain actions in relation to
environmental matters," Mike Landreville from Environment Canada wrote in
an e-mail to the German Internet Service Provider (ISP) Serveloft.
The Great White North carries weight with ISP.
Serverloft immediately turned off a wide block of provider addresses,
knocking out 4,500 websites that had nothing to do with "Yes Men" or the
parody that raises such hackles among Harper's minions.
"We are sorry to see that the Canadian government will not 'take certain
actions' that could help stave off catastrophic climate change," said Mike
Bonanno of "Yes Men," "and we are sorry to see that they don't care so
much for free speech."
[excerpt]
After a two-hour hearing, the court ordered both sides to talk but did not
set a deadline for reporting back, according to the author's lawyer.
She is seeking damages of 61,000 yuan ($8,950; £5,576) and a public apology.
The lawsuit was filed in October after Google scanned one of Mian Mian's
books, Acid House, into its library.
Google said it had removed the book as soon as it learned of the lawsuit,
but had no further comment on the case.
[more links via URL http://bit.ly/6qoruA ]
New rulings by the Supreme Court allow news organizations to defend
themselves against defamation charges if they can prove they acted in the
public interest. "This means stories that have stayed under wraps because
of 'libel chill' will emerge into the light," writes columnist Dan Leger,
director of news content for The Chronicle Herald of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
"It means powerful and well-financed individuals won't so easily avoid
public scrutiny just because they have pit-bull lawyers."
[excerpt]
Eleven-year jail sentence for free speech activist Liu Xiaobo, court
sneakily issues verdict on Christmas Day
"It is a disgrace that Liu Xiaobo is going to spend the next eleven years
in prison when all he did was defend free expression and participate in a
debate about his country's future with many other Chinese intellectuals,"
Reporters Without Borders said. "It is also disgraceful that such a
sentence was announced on Christmas Day."
The press freedom organisation added: "Where are the universal values of
freedom of expression that China is supposed to represent in Shanghai in
2010? The national and international pressure for this famous dissident's
release must be redoubled. The international community must not be
manipulated by the Chinese authorities, who are trying to minimise
reaction by concluding this case during the end-of-year holidays."
[...]
A former University of Beijing philosophy professor and winner of the
Reporters Without Borders press freedom prize in 2004, Liu is committed to
the idea that the Chinese media will one day be able to operate as a real
fourth estate and stand up to the omnipotent Communist Party. [...]
http://www.ifex.org/australia/2009/12/22/internet_censorship/
(RSF/IFEX) - In an open letter to the prime minister, RSF expresses
serious concern over the government's plan to introduce a mandatory
Internet filtering system to combat child sex abuse:
Open letter to Australian Prime Minister
The Hon Kevin Michael Rudd MP
Prime Minister
Canberra, Australia
Paris, 18 December 2009
Dear Prime Minister,
Reporters Without Borders, an organisation that defends free expression
worldwide, would like to share with you its concern about your
government's plan to introduce a mandatory Internet filtering system.
While it is essential to combat child sex abuse, pursuing this draconian
filtering project is not the solution. If Australia were to introduce
systematic online content filtering, with a relatively broad definition of
the content targeted, it would be joining an Internet censors club that
includes such countries as China, Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Communications minister Stephen Conroy announced on 15 December that,
after a year of testing in partnership with Australian Internet service
providers (ISPs), your government intended to introduce legislation
imposing mandatory filtering of websites with pornographic, paedophile or
particularly violent content.
Reporters Without Borders would like to draw your attention to the risks
that this plan entails for freedom of expression.
Firstly, the decision to block access to an "inappropriate" website would
be taken not by a judge but by a government agency, the Australian
Communications and Media Authority (ACMA). Such a procedure, without a
court decision, does not satisfy the requirements of the rule of law. The
ACMA classifies content secretly, compiling a website blacklist by means
of unilateral and arbitrary administrative decision-making. Other
procedures are being considered but none of them would involve a judge.
Secondly, the criteria that the proposed law would use are too vague.
Filtering would be applied to all content considered "inappropriate," a
very slippery term that could be interpreted very differently by different
people. In all probability, filtering would target "refused
classification" (RC) sites, a category that is extremely controversial as
it is being applied to content that is completely unrelated to efforts to
combat child sex abuse and sexual violence, representing a dangerous
censorship option. Subjects such as abortion, anorexia, aborigines and
legislation on the sale of marijuana would all risk being filtered, as
would media reports on these subjects.
The choice of filtering techniques has not been clearly defined. Would it
be filtering by key-words, URL text or something else? And what about the
ISPs that are supposed to carry out the filtering at the government's
request? Will they be blamed, will they be accused of complicity in child
sex abuse if the filtering proves to be ineffective, as it almost
certainly will?
Your government claims that the filtering will be 100 per cent effective
but this is clearly impossible. Experts all over the world agree that no
filtering system is effective at combating this kind of content. On the
one hand, such a system filters sites that should not be affected (such as
sites about the psychology of child sexuality or paedophile crime news).
And on the other, it fails to filter targeted sites because their URLs
contain key-words that are completely unrelated to their content, or
because their content (photo and text) is registered under completely
neutral terms. Furthermore, people who are determined to visit such sites
will know how to avoid the filtering by, for example, using proxy servers
or censorship circumvention software or both.
The Wikileaks website highlighted the limitations of such as system when
it revealed that the ACMA blacklist of already banned websites contained
many with nothing reprehensible in their content. According to Wikileaks,
the blacklist included the Abortion TV website, some of the pages of
Wikileaks itself, online poker sites, gay networks, sites dealing with
euthanasia, Christian sites, a tour operator's site and even a Queensland
dentist's site.
The US company Google has also voiced strong reservations. Google
Australia's head of policy, Iarla Flynn, said yesterday: "Moving to a
mandatory ISP filtering regime with a scope that goes well beyond such
material is heavy handed and can raise genuine questions about
restrictions on access to information."
As regards paedophilia, the most dangerous places on the Internet are
websites offering chat and email services. So if this project were taken
to its logical conclusion, access to sites such as Gmail, Yahoo and Skype
would also have to be blocked, which would of course be impossible.
There are more effective ways to combat child pornography, including
tracking cyber-criminals online (by means of cookies, IP address
comparison, and so on), combined with police investigation into suspects
and their online habits. Why did your government end the programme
launched by the previous government, which made free filtering systems
available to Australian families? This procedure had the merit of being
adapted to individual needs and gave each home the possibility of
shielding its children from porn.
A real national debate is needed on this subject but your communications
minister, Stephen Conroy, made such a debate very difficult by branding
his critics as supporters of child pornography. An opportunity was lost
for stimulating a constructive exchange of ideas.
We also regret the lack of transparency displayed by your government as
regards the tests carried out in recent months using procedures that have
been kept secret. Your government paid some 300,000 Australian dollars to
ISPs to finance the tests. Australian taxpayers have a right to be given
detailed information about the results.
Finally, you must be aware that this initiative is a source of a concern
for your compatriots. In a recent Fairfax Media poll of 20,000 people, 96
per cent were strongly opposed to such a mandatory Internet filtering
system, while around 120,000 Australians have signed a petition against
Internet censorship launched by the online activist group GetUp. The
withdrawal of this proposal would therefore satisfy public opinion as well
as prevent a democratic country from introducing a system that threatens
freedom of expression.
I thank you in advance for the consideration you give to our recommendations.
Sincerely,
Jean-François Julliard
Reporters Without Borders
Secretary-General
Source
http://www.ifex.org/australia/2009/12/22/internet_censorship/
Reporters Without Borders
47, rue Vivienne
75002 Paris
France
rsf (@) rsf.org
Phone: +33 1 44 83 84 84
Fax: +33 1 45 23 11 51
[excerpt]
CBC.ca
New libel defence allowed: Supreme Court
2 publications fighting $1.5M, $100K libel awards
Canada's highest court ruled Tuesday in two decisions that publishers can
escape liability if they can show that they tried to verify the facts and
the published material is a matter of public interest.
The decision was prompted by appeals from two Ontario newspapers — the
Ottawa Citizen and the Toronto Star. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court ordered
new trials for both of them in light of the new defence available to them.
Journalists across Canada, as well as bloggers, can now use the defence of
"responsible communication on matters of public interest" as a defence
against libel.
However, in order for them to do so, a judge must confirm to the jury that
the published material relates to a matter of public interest.
The judge may also rule out the use of the "responsible communication"
defence if the case does not meet the criteria outlined in a checklist
issued as part of the rulings.
China has issued new Internet regulations, including what appears to be an
effort to create a "whitelist" of approved Web sites that could
potentially place much of the Internet off-limits to Chinese readers. The
Ministry of Industry and Information Technology ordered domain management
institutions and Internet service providers to tighten control over domain
name registration, in a three-phase plan laid out on its Web site
(http://www.miit.gov.cn). [Billboard]
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media platform that aims to bring together the voices of journalists,
academics, human rights reporters, public education professionals, and
bloggers. We want to see and hear your stories, and we want to share them
with the world. Your work can live beyond a professor's desk. Your expert
opinion can reach a mass audience beyond your peers. Coupled with citizen
journalism submissions, your story will include those parts of the story
that mainstream media misses.
More than just another social network, UPIU wants to harness the powers of
both traditional and emerging new media to bring the stories that matter
to the world's attention, beyond just the internet. Our editors constantly
review your submissions, seeking the stories that deserve global
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and videos through print, radio, TV and other multimedia outlets
throughout the world.
Catapult your journalistic career. When you post your content, you can get
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respond to content with your own content, you can both contribute and gain
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An Opportunity for Faculty
UPIU strives to help journalism, communications, and otherwise specialized
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The Controlled Vocabulary Survey regarding the Preservation of Photo
Metadata by Social Media Websites
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Overview
Do the social media websites or other image sharing services you use
preserve your embedded photo metadata after upload? The answer to that
question isn't clear, so we are conducting a survey of various services to
find out.
Digital images, saved in the JPEG format support the embedding of photo
metadata, and most social media sites support the uploading of JPEG
images. However, many of these social media services do not preserve this
information that you have taken the time to embed in your image files. In
some instances this information is removed on upload; in other cases, it
may preserved in the original uploaded file, but any images derived from
the original may no longer retain that same information.
As a result, anyone downloading an image of yours for reference may not
know where that image came from or who to contact, without at least some
basic information stored within the image file. Based on preliminary
survey data, the amount and type of embedded photo metadata preserved in
an image online varies. Much seems to depends on the type of server side
software they use and the type of image processing they are performing
when resizing, or creating thumbnails.
Some may claim they remove this information to decrease download time for
those viewing the images. Indeed, some social media services automatically
resize your uploaded images to a smaller size, as their primary concern is
to have your images take up less disk space. Since most do not charge any
membership fees, and the service is basically free, many users don't
complain, even if they are aware.This downsizing may make sense for the
service, but not for users of their service that are interested in
protecting their intellectual property. While your images may take up
fractionally less space on their servers by intentionally removing the
embedded photo metadata and/or ICC profile, the space savings is not
justifiable if the pixel dimensions remain the same.
The real and present danger is that by having your attribution information
removed (such as the creator/author field which indicates who took the
photograph, or the copyright notice field, or provider), the service is
creating potential "orphan works" of your property. In some instances the
service may only preserve the older "legacy" form of IPTC metadata, and
thus detailed contact information will be missing in any file that may be
downloaded for later reference.
Journalists and news outlets are accustomed to offering comments and criticisms about others, but they're not as used to being the subject of public comment themselves. In the online world, where technology can and does upend established relationships, journalists and online news outlets are joining the ranks of the commented-upon.
The shift has taken place due to the increased presence of commenting and feedback features on news websites, and partly thanks to the use of comment-friendly platforms such as WordPress. In these contexts, the news outlets have chosen to accept user comments, and they retain a certain amount of control over which ones appear on their site. Now, a new technology, Google's Sidewiki annotation tool, is poised to present a challenge to website owners, including news outlets, that attempt to control the interface between their site and end users. Suddenly, they won't have as much control over comments related to their content.
And that change in control might lead to some legal tussles down the road.
[excerpt]
British Telecom (BT) has admitted its chairman is the only person in a
village on the Oxfordshire-Buckinghamshire border with broadband.
Other people in Hambleden were told they could not have broadband because
of the distance to the exchange.
BT said Sir Michael Rake's connection was part of a trial of new
technology, and no company could afford to provide broadband to the area.
One local resident said it was not fair and that Sir Michael should resign.
Full story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/2/hi/uk_news/england/8386224.stm
5. ETHIOPIA: STATE INTERFERENCE IN MEDIA CONTENT; SHIFT IN MEDIA LAW
Despite some positive changes in media law, Ethiopian journalists operating
within state media have no editorial independence, says the International
Press Institute (IPI) after a recent fact-finding mission to Ethiopia.
After meetings with local media and the head of the Office of Government
Communication Affairs (OGCA), IPI learned that the OGCA involvement with
state media reinforces government influence. A document published in 2008
"invites the media to focus on developmental journalism and informs
journalists that they should focus on success stories." Some say the
document is an effort to curb media efforts to hold the government
accountable, reports IPI.
IPI expressed concern about an ongoing legal case in which several media
owners are trying to secure publishing licenses for political newspapers
shut down in 2005. According to IPI, the head of the OGCA said he was not
willing to award the licenses on the basis of supporting a pluralistic
media environment.
However, there have been positive developments. There has been support for
freedom of information laws as well as the removal of the authorities'
power to hold journalists in jail while pursuing an investigation.
IPI has made several recommendations. The government should: ensure the
proper development of public service media; recognise dissenting, plural
voices; resist the temptation to adopt practices of other countries without
first considering if they are in accordance with the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights. IPI also urges the media to establish best practices for
its own credibility.
More on the web:
- IPI fact-finding mission reports on Ethiopian press freedom:
http://www.freemedia.at/startpage/singleview/ipi-fact-finding-mission-reports-on-ethiopian-press-freedom/164e15fb41/
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U.S. journalist grilled at Canada border crossing
Officials demanded to know what she would say publicly about 2010 Olympics..
U.S. journalist Amy Goodman said she was stopped at a Canadian border crossing south of Vancouver on Wednesday and questioned for 90 minutes by authorities concerned she was coming to Canada to speak against the Olympics.
Goodman says Canadian Border Services Agency officials ultimately allowed her to enter Canada but returned her passport with a document demanding she leave the country within 48 hours.
Goodman, 52, known for her views opposing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, told CBC News on Thursday that Canadian border agents asked her repeatedly what subjects she would cover at scheduled speaking engagements in Vancouver and Victoria.
"grilled at Canada border crossing"
- CBC News - British Columbia - U.S. journalist grilled at Canada border crossing (view on Google Sidewiki)
http://www.ifex.org/international/2009/11/25/women_journalists/
[excerpt]
The massacre and rape of at least four women journalists in the
Philippines this week is emblematic of the additional risks women
journalists face. That is why 40 IFEX members are marking the
International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women today, 25
November, with a joint call for action.
Spearheaded by the IFEX Gender Working Group, which is chaired by the
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the joint action calls
attention to the many women journalists who are targeted because of their
gender. They face a range of violations, including death threats,
abduction, physical attacks, including assaults, flogging and killings, as
well as sexual, verbal and judicial harassment.
This year, several women have been murdered or threatened with death for
speaking out against corruption and violations of human rights.
[...]
John Plunkett
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 25 November 2009 18.58 GMT
The BBC has been hit by a major technological breakdown affecting its
phone and computer networks that could cause chaos for the corporation's
news output and leave it marooned in a "pre-digital age".
Serious technical issues have caused problems across the corporation
today. One BBC insider described the situation as "absolutely chaotic" and
said there had been "major phone and computing problems over the past 72
hours or so".
[...]
In an email seen by MediaGuardian.co.uk, one BBC News editor told staff:
"Don't assume you'll have a normal start to the day. Either the network is
in a happy state, or you're walking into a pre-digital world.
"In a best-case scenario we will lose all outside connectivity - ie agency
feeds, lines, internet access etc.
[...]
The email said there would be "two Macs" in the BBC's Television Centre
newsroom in west London that had webmail and internet access via wi-fi in
case the computer system went down overnight.
[...]
Neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene explains his quest to understand how the
mind makes sense of written language By Stanislas Dehaene
Scientific American
November 17, 2009
[excerpt]
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=your-brain-on-books
Stanislas Dehaene holds the chair of Experimental Cognitive Psychology at
the Collège de France, and he is also the director of the INSERM-CEA
Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit at NeuroSpin, France's most advanced
neuroimaging research center. He is best known for his research into the
brain basis of numbers, popularized in his book, "The Number Sense." In
his new book, "Reading in the Brain," he describes his quest to understand
an astounding feat that most of us take for granted: translating marks on
a page (or a screen) into language.
He answered questions recently from Mind Matters editor Gareth Cook.
Ubuntu Studio is aimed at the GNU/Linux audio, video and graphic
enthusiast as well as professional.
We provide a suite of the best open-source applications available for
multimedia creation. Completely free to use, modify and redistribute. Your
only limitation is your imagination.
Starting with a HAL 9000-like image of a CCTV lens, the video of "Mapping
CCTV In Whitehall" has a glitchy techno aesthetic of sound and images with
a post-MTV-Style Guide reportage feel. The first half consists of a
recording of the police stop-and-search interviewing Luksch under
anti-terrorism legislation, with a map of the area superimposed. The
second half consists of CCTV views of the range of Camera number 40 being
taped out, and of the people caught within those bounds. Words flash on
the screen to identify the subjects of CCTV (....Artists! Sexy Arses!).
This redeployment of the language of mass media visual persuasion opens up
what we see rather than closing it down, making it a very effective
encapsulation of the project's ideas and aesthetics.
(Source:UNESCO,2009)
http://zunia.org/index.php?id=11728&tx_dgcontent_pi1[tt_news]=292586&cHash=622040631d
or
Direct download URL
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001832/183285e.pdf
This report discusses presentations and panel discussion in Washington,
DC, United States, on July 7 2009, in which new media practitioners, Iran
specialists, and interested observers attempted to clarify the role of new
media in the Iranian elections and the implications of these technologies
for future democratic movements. The report is the result of a Center for
International Media Assistance (CIMA) workshop in which approximately 150
people came together to discuss the impact of new communications
technologies in Iran...
[excerpt]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8368750.stm
Newspapers should become "radically open" if they want to make money in
the online world, the co-founder of social networking site Twitter has
said.
Biz Stone said that he would "love to see what happens" if newspaper mogul
Rupert Murdoch went ahead with plans to block Google from his websites.
"The future is in openness not [being] closed," he told the BBC.
Mr Murdoch recently said that search engines could not legally use
material such as headlines in search results.
Earlier this year, he said his News Corp business would start charging
customers for access to its websites.
News Corp owns the Times and Sun newspapers in the UK and the New York
Post and Wall Street Journal in the US.
Mr Stone said he should be allowed to "fail fast" with the proposal.
"They should be looking at this as an opportunity to try something
radically different and find out a way to make a ton of money from being
radically open rather than some money from being ridiculously closed," he
told an event organised by the National Endowment for Science, Technology
and the Arts (Nesta) in London.
Canadian Syllabics & Latin Scripts
Euphemia covers most languages which use the Canadian Syllabic script
including various Cree orthographies, Inuktitut and the historical
Carrier/Dakelh script (dulkw'ahke). Three fonts are available with free
end-user licences in TrueType-OpenType format (.ttf).
Pigiarniq, Uqammaq and the Inuktitut Keyboard Driver
Macintosh keyboards for Inuktitut are available with Mac OSX 10.3 or
later. They are compatible with both the version of Euphemia available
here as well as the version of Euphemia that comes with OSX, as well as
any other Unicode-encoded Inuktitut fonts or UCAS fonts. If you wish to
have the latest version, and/or a version of Euphemia that has the extra
features (smallcaps, old-style figures etc.) you can download the version
from this site.
http://www.tiro.com/syllabics/resources/index.html
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Information & Media Specialist
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http://www.thestar.com/living/article/726499--flarf-the-poetry-of-googled-search-terms
Riddles; is curry an acid or a base; are dreads sexy; the difference
between a sea and an ocean; fish that clean other fish; the life and times
of Scrooge McDuck; what's my zip code; where does the money go? -By Kate
Dawson and Ori Barbut, from 'Searchbar History Vol. 1'
https://sslearthquake.usgs.gov/ens/
This system provides automated free email and email-based SMS text message
notification for worldwide earthquakes.
The U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program Earthquake
Notification Service (ENS) is a customizable system provided free to
everyone. You can receive earthquake notifications for any earthquakes
located by the ANSS/NEIC (Advanced National Seismic System/National
Earthquake Information Center) in the U.S. and around the World.
Information for earthquakes in the U.S. is generally available within 5
minutes; information for earthquakes elsewhere in the World is generally
available within 30 minutes.
Customizable Options:
* Functional in English and Spanish
* Specify your local time zone
* Specify affiliation
* Aftershock exclusion option
* Update Notifications option
* Defer Notifications option
* Add, remove, or change multiple email addresses (up to 15)
* Define multiple notification profiles
* Activate/Deactivate each profile individually
* Set notification magnitude thresholds for night and day hours
* Receive emails in 3 formats: long, short (for pagers and cell
phones), and raw CUBE format messages.
* Create a notification profile region from a list of predefined regions
* Create a rectangular profile region from four specified lat/lon points
* Specify a circular profile region from a center point and radius, or
pick it on a map
* Make a custom polygon profile region by picking points on a map, or
uploading XML
* Select seismic networks to receive events from (scientists only;
default is to receive from all networks)
* Remove profiles
* Manage/Delete account
http://beamartian.jpl.nasa.gov/welcome
This site was created under a Memorandum of Understanding between
NASA/JPL-Caltech and Microsoft.
[excerpt]
"Daily Show" producer Ramin Hedayati spends his morning flipping back and
forth between the "Today Show" and "The Early Show," glancing at major
news sites and political blogs and reading The New York Times. When he
gets into the office, he scans through news shows recorded on the office's
13 TiVos and looks for glaring inconsistencies, misleading reports and
humorous soundbites.
While watching Sean Hannity's coverage of an anti-health-care-reform rally
at the Capitol last week, he knew something wasn't quite right. "I
remember saying to myself …'There couldn't be a more beautiful day for
this rally.' Then all of a sudden it went to cloudy footage," said
Hedayati. "Hannity used footage from Glenn Beck's 9/12 rally to make his
rally look bigger … We were surprised that no one else caught it."
Hannity responded last week to the show's uncovering of the inconsistency,
saying the video switch-up was an "inadvertent mistake."
While its touts itself as a comedy show first and foremost, "The Daily
Show" is also an unabashed media critic and ombudsman of sorts that
exposes journalists' wrongdoings and shortcomings.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8358908.stm
[excerpt]
Web search giant Google faces a court case in Switzerland because of
privacy concerns over its Street View service.
The application allows a 360-degree view of any street-level location.
"Numerous faces and vehicle number plates are not made sufficiently
unrecognisable," said data protection commissioner Hanspeter Thuer.
Google said it was disappointed by the move. The firm says it is sure that
Street View is legal in Switzerland and will "vigorously contest" the
case.
Line of sight
Mr Thuer is especially concerned about people shown in sensitive locations
such as hospitals, prisons or schools.
He also said that the height of the camera was problematic because it
allowed a view over fences, hedges and walls, meaning that more could be
seen from Street View than by a normal passer-by.
Copyright Watch collects and monitors copyright laws from all over the world.
http://www.copyright-watch.org/
The details of copyright law used to be important for only a few in the
creative industries. Now, with the growth of the Internet, we are all
authors, publishers, and sharers of copyrighted works.
Our dream was to build a user-friendly resource of national copyright laws
to help citizens of the world undertake comparative research. We wanted to
raise awareness of the importance of balanced copyright law in the
information society, and draw attention to points of commonality and of
difference in countries' laws and legal traditions. We also wanted to
create an information sharing resource, where copyright watchers could
post information about proposed amendments to their own copyright laws,
and understand the changes in others.
We hope that Copyright Watch will be a resource maintained and driven by
the Access to Knowledge community and that copyright monitors in each
country will help to keep this information up to date and relevant.
Finally, we hope that Copyright Watch will help document the importance of
copyright to all aspects of cultural life and human freedom. Balanced and
well-calibrated copyright laws are extremely important in our global
information society. The smallest shift in the legal balance between the
rights of copyright owners and users of copyrighted knowledge can destroy
or enable business models, criminalize or liberate everyday behaviour, and
transform or eradicate new technology. A law that is passed in one nation
can quickly be taken up by others, through bilateral trade agreements,
regional policy initiatives or international treaties. We all need to keep
watch.
[excerpt]
By David Ljunggren
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Twitter 1, Elections Canada 0.
In this era of smartphones and the Internet, the federal elections agency
is struggling to enforce a rule that bans the general broadcasting of
voting results until all the polls have closed.
As Canadians in four electoral districts spread right across the giant
country cast ballots on Monday to fill vacant seats in the House of
Commons, Elections Canada asked a newspaper to remove from its website a
story revealing initial results from one constituency where voting had
ended early.
The agency did not notice reporters had been discussing the same
by-election results on the microblogging network Twitter, which is
accessible across Canada.
One journalist even sent a Twitter message saying "Oh dear. Have just
realized I may have been violating law because of my poor understanding of
Twitter". Elections Canada did nothing.
It is little wonder that critics use terms like absurd and archaic to
describe a provision that, in large part, comes from an era before the
Internet was born.
The rule -- part of the Canada Elections Act -- aims to prevent abuses in
the world's second largest country. Canada has six time zones, which means
results from the East start to come in while polls are still open in the
rest of the country.
To head off the chance that the majority could somehow be influenced by
early voting, media organizations are banned from nationally broadcasting
any results until the last polling station has closed.
http://ca.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idCATRE5A94XM20091110
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boys, from spending hours on the web.
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of physical exercise and counselling.
Two boys were beaten at separate camps earlier this year, one died and the
other was severely injured.
"When intervening to prevent improper use of the internet we should...
strictly prohibit restriction of personal freedom and physical
punishments," the ministry said in a draft guideline quoted by Reuters
news agency.
[excerpt]
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# Refugee media ( 1 items )
This section deals with how refugee communities can set up and operate
successful news organisations in areas which are often poorly covered by
the mainstream media. The author, T.P. Mishra (left) set up a media
operation in the Bhutanese refugee camps in Nepal over an eight year
period. Now living in New York under a refugee resettlement project,
Mishra, the author of 'Becoming a Journalist in Exile' has put together a
number of guides for those who want to follow his lead.
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| Monday, 02 November 2009 | |
 Trainee journalists on one of the courses - Photo Mona Rath Pokhrel The Media Network Bhutan (MNB), run entirely by volunteers, is approaching its third anniversary. It claims its training courses have helped hundreds of Bhutanese journalists living in the refugee camps in Nepal. The aim now is to bring together the overseas Bhutanese refugee communities that have been resettled in the West in order to strengthen their media skills and to mobilise them in a campaign for media freedom within Bhutan. | |
