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A competitor of Daylife. Mentioned in the wave episode of "This Week in Google"
Daylife: A new way to explore the world
a competitor of Evri. Mentioned on the wave episode of "This Week in Google"
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Amazon Erases Orwell Books From Kindle Devices - NYTimes.com - 2009
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Justin Gawronski, a 17-year-old from the Detroit area, was reading “1984” on his Kindle for a summer assignment and lost all his notes and annotations when the file vanished. “They didn’t just take a book back, they stole my work,” he said.
How Amazon's remote deletion of e-books from the Kindle paves the way for book-banning's digital future. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine - 2009
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If Apple or Amazon can decide to delete stuff you've bought, then surely a court—or, to channel Orwell, perhaps even a totalitarian regime—could force them to do the same.
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Zittrain writes: "Imagine a world in which all copies of once-censored books like Candide, The Call of the Wild, and Ulysses had been permanently destroyed at the time of the censoring and could not be studied or enjoyed after subsequent decision-makers lifted the ban."
Realize Versus Realise - C2 wiki
English spelling rules - where they come from
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Within the set of words from Latin and Greek roots, English spelling is almost perfectly consistent.
The spelling rules, however, are complicated. They relate to morphemes as much as to phonemes, and they also relate to some peculiarities of Latin. The classic example is the -tion morpheme in words like nation, collection, rotation, etc.
Carter Ruck Press release regarding the Iain Dale story | Tom Watson MP
The Daily Mail says Iain Dale was wrong - rather than fight Tom Watson's lawyers.
Air Force Calls In Twitter Air Strike - Government IT Blog - InformationWeek - May 2009
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Social media helps put he-said-she-said journalists out of a job, because the government official -- and his opponent -- can get their message directly to the people themselves. That means journalists need to concentrate on going beyond the public record and provide analysis and investigation.
PARMAGEDDON - Bad Science - April 2009
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“Will you come and talk about the media overhyping swine flu?” asked Case Notes on Radio 4. No. “We need someone to say it’s all been overhyped,” said BBC Wales.
I assumed they were adhering, robotically, to the “balance” template, but no: he kept at it, even when I protested and explained.
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I’ve never been hit by a car, but it’s not idiotic to think about it.
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Leading article: Bad judgement - Leading Articles, Opinion - The Independent
Reaction to Jeremy Bowen's censure
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When a good journalist needs to be robustly defended, it must not be afraid to do so.
Bowen 'breached rules on impartiality' - April 16, 2009 - The Independent
some detail and context
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The BBC said it had no intention of taking any disciplinary action against Bowen. Nonetheless, the findings were made by the BBC Trust's editorial standards committee – which includes such figures as Richard Tait, the former editor-in-chief of ITN, and David Liddiment, the former director of television at ITV – and will cause great concern within the BBC newsroom.
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"It was not necessary for equal space to be given to the other arguments, but ... the existence of alternative theses should have been more clearly signposted."
People: Jeremy Bowen under fire over Israel reports | News | The First Pos | Apr 16 2009t
Pressure of deadlines is not an excuse, but it does increase the burden of proof for intent. In addition, in a complex story like this, balance arises from the totality of coverage, and an individual report can only be approximately neutral. Should we not expect an experienced reporter like Bowen to provide some original interpretation of motives?
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Greg Dyke, the BBC's former director general, who said it was wrong for the trust to spend months investigating individual reports by journalists that had been compiled under pressure and tight deadlines.
"The problem is that journalism is not an exact science,"
Ben Goldacre: Bad Science Science journalists? Don't make me laugh | Comment is free | The Guardian
Ben's own version of this story has links to the articles he criticizes, as well as to the NEJM site. See <a href="http://www.badscience.net/2009/03/venal-misleading-pathetic-dangerous-stupid-and-now-busted/">http://www.badscience.net/2009/03/venal-misleading-pathetic-dangerous-stupid-and-now-busted/</a>
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link directly and transparently to scientific papers, which mainstream media still refuse to do.
Journalists insist that we need professionals to mediate and explain science. From today's story, their self-belief seems truly laughable.
- I notice that The Guardian proved Ben's point by not posting his links: I don't know why it doesn't link it from its web site to the news sources. - on 2009-03-21
Another day, another cover letter | Jody Godoy |March 2009
Aspiring journalist
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Though I sometimes have my doubts, they can’t lessen my determination to be writing and editing full time by July.
BBC NI - Blast NI - Media Job Profiles - Radio Presenter and Producer
This is what I thought a producer did - after all, I have seen a few episodes of Frasier!
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My days doing production work for John Daly are spent booking guests, coming up with feature ideas, speaking to contributors, sorting out music for the show, putting together running orders and making sure that everything is in place for a good show each week. On the day of the show, I'm responsible for getting each guest on the air when they're supposed to be there, making sure that everything runs smoothly, and keeping an eye on timings to make sure we can fit everything in....Being a freelancer, there's very little job security
BBC NI - Blast NI - Media Job Profiles - TV Reporter
Short and sweet insight.
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You might be researching your story, bashing phones, or trawling around the country in your car gathering all the little bits of information that make your story. Knocking doors, chatting to people. Then there is the filming, the interviews, walking and talking in front of a camera. Then a laborious edit, scripting, structuring your programme, arguing with your producer and editor.
Newswriting for Radio: Three Styles: The Vivid Style
This contrast in styles is interesting. It will take practice to write consistently in one style or another - and more effort to see what is most useful to an audience.
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The vivid reader is more conversational in sentence structure, beginning with a quotation that is back-referenced and ending with a conditional ("if...then") clause. The standard reader is prosaic, with simple sentence followed by simple sentence.
Newswriting for Radio website
This is an interesting website from a US perspective, with plenty of examples. It shows how to prepare a news bulletin, from basic editorial decisions, to choosing words and formatting for an actual script.
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the website is not meant to replace a broadcast newswriting textbook ... In The Basics, you learn fundamental lessons and characteristics of broadcast newswriting. Three different newscast formats are examined in The Styles. You'll examine some of the questions surrounding what deserves coverage in the section on News Judgment. Finally, The Newsroom teaches you about creating an organized environment that allows you to be better prepared for stories.
BBC - Writersroom - ScriptSmart
sounds interesting - I wonder if it works in OpenOffice.org or NeoOffice
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Script Smart is a set of Microsoft Word templates to help writers format their scripts.
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