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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “techdirt”

• If You Make A Mistake With A Paywall, It Can Linger For A Long T...

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 169
  Scott Rosenberg has a column up at The Guardian where he discusses Salons experience with a paywall back at the beginning of the decade, highlighting how the damage from a paywall can be a lot more troubling than many people take into account. read more
  4 hours ago

• You own a printing press: Of blogs and editorial balance

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  Over on TechDirt , Mike Masnick writes an editorial blog post in which he talks about companies’ attempts to get “equal time” when blogs cover them. He raises an interesting question which is one that journalists and bloggers alike should be thinking about in this new Age of the Blog. Masnick’s post ...
  8 hours ago

• You own a printing press: Of blogs and editorial balance

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  Over on TechDirt , Mike Masnick writes an editorial blog post in which he talks about companies’ attempts to get “equal time” when blogs cover them. He raises an interesting question which is one that journalists and bloggers alike should be thinking about in this new Age of the Blog. Masnick’s post ...
  8 hours ago

• You own a printing press: Of blogs and editorial balance

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  Over on TechDirt , Mike Masnick writes an editorial blog post in which he talks about companies’ attempts to get “equal time” when blogs cover them. He raises an interesting question which is one that journalists and bloggers alike should be thinking about in this new Age of the Blog. Masnick’s post ...
  8 hours ago

• Author Sherman Alexie’s Rants On Colbert Against Ebooks, Piracy And ‘Open Source Culture’

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 142
  Image via Wikipedia On last night’s Colbert Report, author Sherman Alexie spent most of the interview ranting against digital books and how “piracy” was destroying the book business . The whole thing was odd not just because of how uninformed it was, but also because he seemed to contradict himself ...
  23 hours ago

• Yet Another Nobel Prize Winner Says That Intellectual Property Is Harming Science

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 142
  Image via Wikipedia We’ve discussed in the past how Noble Prize winning economists have been worried about the impact of intellectual property laws, and how at least one Nobel Prize winning physicist is warning that strict intellectual property laws are harming science and innovation. Now we can add a ...
  23 hours ago

• What Arianna Huffington said at the FTC Workshop on Journalism & The Internet

  
  Midas Oracle .NET — Authority: 118
  Danny Sullivan : Arianna Huffington, Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief, The Huffington Post. Jokes her great grandmother says never bet on a company that takes itself out of Google. Desperate times lead to desperate metaphors. .. and revenue modelos … and require better journalism than we’ve had. Her view is ...
  2 days ago

• There Are Lots Of Ways To Fund Journalism

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 142
  Image via Wikipedia As various folks in the news business (and outside of it) continue to fret about how it could be possible to ever fund the production of news, some are taking more positive looks at the space. Jay Rosen has listed out 18 different sources of subsidies for funding journalism (or ...
  1 week ago

• Techdirt’s Cwf + RtB. [del.icio.us]

  
  Remarkk! — Authority: 126
  Connect with Fans (CwF) and give them a Reason to Buy (RtB). CwF+RtB=$$$
  2 weeks ago

• Viacoms General Counsel Lecture On Copyright Leaves Out Certain...

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 169
  Someone once told me that Viacoms top lawyer, Michael Fricklas, has been known to read Techdirt on occasion. read more
  2 weeks ago

• Inventing a Better Patent System

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 142
  Image via Wikipedia A great source of information on the new frontier of patents, copyright and the ongoing battles of intellectual property protection is: www.techdirt.com GARY LOCKE, the secretary of commerce, has urged Congress to overhaul the nation’s patent law by the end of the year. Although a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Last Call For Techdirt DMCA Takedown Shirt

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 169
  Just a final reminder that if you want the Techdirt DMCA Takedown T-shirt , today is the last day to order them, either alone or with my Approaching Infinity book . read more
  2 weeks ago

• About Blogging – and Journalism

  
  UNIX Administratosphere — Authority: 413
  There is a very interesting article over at the Columbia Journalism Review about how U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was misquoted, and the diversity of reactions by the various media outlets (including old school and new school) that had to correct their words. What makes this even more interesting is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Free Doesn’t Mean Devalued

  
  Unity Behind Diversity — Authority: 118
  Ive tightened up my post on why free music doesnt mean devalued music for Techdirt. If youve read the original, its largely the same content, but cleaned up a little and much more concise. Free Doesnt Mean Devalued : The concept of zero took ages for societies to recognize, let alone understand. Mike has ...
  2 weeks ago

• Email Marketing Blog Roundup: CAN-SPAM, Court Cases, and Contrition

  
  The Sign-Up.to Blog — Authority: 118
  As part of a court case, last week saw the decision by a US court that falsifying data used in whois records is illegal according to the CAN-SPAM act, and can lead to up to three months in prison (!) – something which has fairly far-reaching implications on many in the email marketing industry. Here’s a few posts ...
  3 weeks ago

• Rupert Murdoch Decries Web “Parasites” Yet Exploits Aggregation

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 796
  Rupert Murdoch dropped the hint that he was thinking about pulling The Wall Street Journal’s content from Google earlier this week, decrying Google News and aggregator sites as thieves, “plagiarists,” and “parasites.” Conveniently overlooked: plenty of News Corporation sites pull content from other ...
  3 weeks ago

• Posting MP3’s for Free Helps Drive Sales

  
  RouteNote Blog — Authority: 440
  Australian blogger Andrew McMillen recently hosted a panel on the digital music industry in Perth, on which sat Simon Wheeler – director of digital at Beggar’s Group, an amalgamation of some big indie labels here in the UK [theyre on the same road as my old primary school ]. Mr. Wheeler has some pretty ...
  3 weeks ago

• Free Music Doesn’t Mean Devalued Music

  
  Unity Behind Diversity — Authority: 118
  Mike Masnick does a great job of explaining why some libertarian and "free market" types freak out when they see a zero dollar price tag . The concept of zero took ages for societies to even recognize, nevermind understand. Its not a number, but the absence of a number. A stumbling block for mathematics and physics ...
  4 weeks ago

• Stop punishing fans and start selling to them

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  Kicking file sharers off the internet wont help the entertainment industry sell more products writes Mike Masnick.
  4 weeks ago

• Another Wild OverReach by the Guru of Free

  
  Stuff Channel — Authority: 105
  I really enjoy reading the Techdirt blog mostly because it’s fun to watch Mike Masnick tie himself in knots trying to prove things. He is forever posting very speculative things, drawing conclusions that just aren’t obvious, and then to solidify these masterpieces of logic, he then quotes and links them in later ...
  4 weeks ago

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