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A website user is facing legal action over statements he made about a yachting company on a magazine’s forum….The comment was published on the IPC Yachting World website, but the writer has no connection to the magazine and IPC is not being sued.
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A one-year statute of limitations for bringing libel lawsuits in Texas also applies to articles posted on the Internet, a federal judge has ruled.
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Recently, Edelman PR has taken a lot of heat over the fake weblog (flog) they created on behalf of client Wal-Mart, Walmarting Across America. A seminal expose of this PR gaffe appeared Oct. 12 in MediaPost’s Online Media Daily….
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As Vincent Maher noted yesterday in Tidbits, blogs can be a good source of leads, investigation, and even breaking news that the mainstream media can pick up on and amplify. (Even though news orgs often neglect to credit blogs for their work.) However, I
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This effort, Global Perspectives in a Digital Age, will help ensure that public media organizations whose past innovations fostered the rich array of programs we now take for granted will have funds to create a new generation of programming in a rapidly c
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In overturning Jameel v Wall Street Journal Europe, the House of Lords have handed the British media a significant victory. It is a resounding restatement of the principles set down by Reynolds v Times Newspapers, the seminal case in 2001 that changed lib
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This appeal raises two questions on the law of libel. The first concerns the entitlement of a trading corporation such as the second respondent to sue and recover damages without pleading or proving special damage. The second concerns the scope and applic
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With the recent news that the Iranian government has decided to limit ADSL bandwidth above 128 kbps for all ISPs (BoingBoing reported it before Reuters) without giving a reason, it makes sense that this is an opportune time to take stock of state-mandated
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“Today we announced plans to help build the emerging field of digital media and learning, committing $50 million over five years to the effort.” Debuting online at the same time is the foundation’s new website titled Building in the Field of Digital
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The Joint Economic Committee (JEC) of the US Congress has announced it is investigating the amount of commerce taking place in virtual game worlds.
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….will award $5 million in grants in 2007 to “new ideas, pilot projects, commercial products and leadership initiatives that will improve the flow of information and news in the public interest
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People are healthier when they’re exposed to things that stretch them, challenge them and make them consider their feelings, thoughts and beliefs. That’s true whether it applies to art, politics or work. Will recommendation technology turn us into closed-
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It’s like a Tucows for macs…