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Internet overtakes television to become biggest advertising sector in the UK | Media | The Guardian
How Teenagers Consume Media: the report that shook the City | Business | guardian.co.uk
This is the full copy of the research note written by Matthew Robson (aged 15 years and seven months), an intern at Morgan Stanley, which caused a stir after it was published by the bank
Should linking be illegal? | Dan Kennedy | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Should linking be illegal?
In a misguided attempt to aid newspapers, one of America's most influential judges is suggesting a new copyright law
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Those who wish to keep the internet free and open had best dust off their legal arguments. One of America's most influential conservative judges, Richard Posner, has proposed a ban on linking to online content without permission. The idea, he said in a blog post last week, is to prevent aggregators and bloggers from linking to newspaper websites without paying:
Expanding copyright law to bar online access to copyrighted materials without the copyright holder's consent, or to bar linking to or paraphrasing copyrighted materials without the copyright holder's consent, might be necessary to keep free riding on content financed by online newspapers from so impairing the incentive to create costly news-gathering operations that news services like Reuters and the Associated Press would become the only professional, nongovernmental sources of news and opinion.
Read me first: Google isn't making us dumb – or smart. That's the problem, says Andrew Brown | Technology | The Guardian
Last year, Nick Carr wrote a forceful article for the Atlantic magazine, arguing that Google was making us stupid. It's not just Google, of course, but the whole chaotic wave of technology that seems to be sweeping us into the future, surrounded and sometimes battered by the flotsam and wreckage of old certainties. And that was before Twitter hit the big time.
This month's issue of the magazine has a riposte by Jamais Cascio, who has spent a long time in the future, and who believes that technology has already made us enormously smarter. This won't happen, he says, because of the kind of dramatic stuff that crops up in conventional speculation, like digital brain implants. No, it is all around us already, in the web and all the things that it lets us do. The trouble is the things the web lets us do aren't actually all that intelligent. Cascio gets round this by redefining intelligence as "fluid".
Professorial podcasts | Digital student | The Guardian
To many students, the opportunity to listen to lectures without the bother of leaving home or even changing out of their pyjamas will sound too good to be true. But iTunes U, Apple's new educational service, now makes it possible.
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