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Newspapers Hope for Growth Online

Newspapers are seeing tremendous growth in online advertising, but as executives presented midyear updates to investors Tuesday, analysts still wonder whether it's enough.

Texas to Install Web Cameras on Border

The governor of Texas wants to turn all the world into a virtual posse. Rick Perry has announced a $5 million plan to install hundreds of night-vision cameras on private land along the Mexican border and put the live video on the Internet, so that anyone with a computer who spots illegal immigrants trying to slip across can report it on a toll-free hot line.

Russia Music Web Site Upsets Music Execs

A Russian Web site that lets visitors download albums for less than $1 is a smash hit with music fans — but not with U.S. trade and music industry officials.

TiVo Inks Deal to Offer Web-Based Videos

Digital video recording pioneer TiVo Inc. is teaming up with an online video service to deliver Web-based programming to TiVo's broadband television boxes.

Man Gets Prison for Katrina Internet Scam

A man who falsely claimed he was airlifting aid to Hurricane Katrina victims and collected about $40,000 from donors has been sentenced to almost two years in federal prison.

NYC Fires Employee for Surfing the Web

Despite a judge's recommendation that he only receive a reprimand, a city worker accused of disregarding warnings to stay off the Internet at work has been fired.

Review: Webaroo Service Too Good to Be True

It sounds too good to be true: the highlights of the Web squeezed into a data file small enough to fit on your laptop or mobile phone, letting you browse even when you don't have a live Internet connection. After giving Webaroo a whirl, I found that it is, indeed, too good to be true.

Wash. Website Owner Wins Free Speech Case

The state Supreme Court ruled Thursday a trial judge overreached his authority when he restricted a man from posting information on a Web site.

'Skin Deep' Site Looks at Product Safety

Just because something is derived from a plant, doesn't mean it's entirely safe for humans to use — especially on your skin. Have you ever heard of poison ivy?

N.Y. Democrats Pull Stories From Web Site

The state Democratic Committee on Thursday removed re-edited AP articles from its Web site, a week after the party accused a GOP candidate of doctoring news stories for his Web site.

Microsoft Launches Test of Office Live

Microsoft Corp. is launching a free test version of Office Live, one pillar in the company's plans to compete with the likes of Google Inc. and Salesforce.com Inc. by making more products and services that run over the Internet.

Dozens of Olympic Web Sites Cheer Athletes

The Michelle Kwan Guardian Angels boast of more than 800 Internet members who vow to love and protect the American figure skater from bashing in chat rooms or message boards.

House: Internet Companies Give in to China

Lawmakers on Wednesday accused U.S.-based Internet companies of giving in to pressure from China and helping to censor Web users in violation of American principles of free speech.

Honeywell Investigates Security Breach

Honeywell International is offering credit monitoring and identity theft insurance to approximately 19,000 current and former employees whose personal information — including Social Security numbers and bank account information — was posted on an Internet Web site.

Man Pleads Guilty in Katrina Aid Scam

A man accused of collecting almost $40,000 in donations by falsely claiming he was flying Hurricane Katrina relief flights pleaded guilty Monday to fraud.

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Op-Ed: Stopping the Big Give Away

Source: freepress.net

Senator John Kerry: I voted against this lousy bill for two reasons: because net neutrality and internet build-out are crucial to building a more modern and fair Information Society, and both were pushed aside by the Republicans.

Excite News - Pa. Man Sues Over Web Site Comments

Source: apnews.excite.com

It's called free speech dude. In order for him to prove defamation on this, he has to prove that they knew the information they posted about him was false and yet still posted it.

Xbox 360 for $350

Source: kotaku.com

Xbox 360 for $350 Dell's running a special over on their site right now, offering the Xbox 360 premium box for $360, another $10 off at checkout and free shipping. Sounds like a deal to me.

What the Conversation Tracker Needs, and What I Want

We have all seen it. The day you log into newsvine after being gone for a week. You look at the conversation tracker, and have a heart attack. My tracker read something like 400 the other day, and now is reading 357.

Snipplr - The Areola of Code Management

Source: Jon Henshaw

Snipplr provides an easy way for web designers and developers to store and share code snippets. It also works with TextMate, one of the best text editors for Mac OS X, and allows you to retrieve and post snippets right in the application.

5 ways to start a company (without quitting your day job)

Source: money.cnn.com

Here's a pretty inspiring article about how to start your own company.

Calling all journalist entrepreneurs

Source: ojr.org

Robert Niles: Have you started your own online news site? Is it making money (even just a little)? If so, OJR wants to hear from you.

eStalking.com - Is MySpace Obsolete?

Source: press release

eStalking.com takes a new approach on the standard "profile". No more is it just a static page for someone to put their best food forward. Now no one's profile is safe. In fact, on eStalking, anyone can edit anyone's profile.

Sony Expects PS3 Game Prices from $59, under $99

Source: spong.com

Sony Expects PS3 Game Prices from $59 to $99

Test your web design in different browsers - Browsershots

Source: v03.browsershots.org

Great site. This should help exponentially in browser-testing your site.

WashingtonPost.com on the 21st Century Newsroom

Source:

Early this morning two senior editors of WashingtonPost.com spoke to a small intimate group of web professionals on creating a newsroom in the 21st century.

For the Record, I Know Web 2.0 Isn't All About Design

(Original at ThatMatt) So after my post yesterday there was quite a bit of, how should I say this, @!$%#ing about the write up (see the comments here and here). So I figured I should probably try to clear a few things up, hopefully putting all of this to rest.

Watch Your COGS

Source: Digital Web Magazine

You're a designer, not an accountant, right? Unfortunately, running your own business involves dealing with finances as well as fonts. This week, Business End Columnist Nick Gould offers a crash course on making COGS (cost of goods sold) part of your financial toolkit. Read more

Digg 3.0 Ad Revenue Could Top $800K A Month

Source: blogprofit.net

I was checking out the expanded Digg, and was intrigued by some of the numbers in a thread about Digg users based on a profile at Federated Media, which manages Digg's advertising.

An open letter to my fellow journalists

Source: dneiwert.blogspot.com

David Neiwert, in 'An open letter to my fellow journalists,' invokes Lars-Erik Nelson's warning that "The enemy isn't conservatism. The enemy isn't liberalism. The enemy is bull@!$%#."

Can Daily Kos Control Dems?

Source: msnbc.msn.com

Newsweek highlights fears that Markos Moulitsas Zuniga's popularity will pull the party too far to the left. "We're not sitting around waiting for the so-called professionals to give us power in the party," he tells Newsweek. "We're taking it for ourselves."

Google: Have we put all our eggs in one basket

Source: ethosplanning.com

with new search engines coming out? Should information providers try to readjust what engines people use to find their information?

Microformats – should I be focused on tomorrow’s technology today?

Source: marylandmedia.com

Microformats are here to stay, or so it seems with the announcement of Yahoo! Local’s support. However, should I care about Microformats right now? This was the question of debate among my colleagues today over lunch.

Digg Version 3 released... with typos

Source: thinkmac.net

We are all subject to errors... and in the new release of the digg about page, there is a name typo. I do it all the time.. but its cool to still see people are humans. Plus there is no spell check in graphics...

Teens don't need a cyber police state

Source: cbc.ca

It is often said that knowledge is power. The Internet Generation has grown up, and is sharing personal information online to a degree unheard of in the past. It seems common sense that we ought to be concerned that bad people can use this information for nefarious purposes.

Digg v3 (or Digg 3.0) unveiled

Source: Digg Blog

The new version of Digg, popular social bookmarking website, has been unveiled. Now that Digg allows for a broader range of stories, Newsvine may be up for some serious competition.

Vitamin Features » Ready to Start your Own Business?

Source: thinkvitamin.com

Do you have what it takes to start your own web company? Answer our seven questions to find out.

Is the NSA spying on U.S. Internet traffic?

Source: salon.com

Two former AT&T; employees say the telecom giant has maintained a secret, highly secure room in St. Louis since 2002. Intelligence experts say it bears the earmarks of a National Security Agency operation. [free day pass req'd]

Hide music in your GIF pictures

Source: MP3gif

The GIF format allows for an "application extension block" - an arbitrary section for applications that isn't checked by the GIF parser. Meanwhile, Winamp and other MP3 players ignore all data in the file that isn't marked as an MP3 block.

PHP Designer 2006 update now available

Source: MPSOFTWARE

PHP DESIGNER is a powerful freeware IDE for coding PHP for both professional and novice alike. Designed to help accelerating and enhance the process of edit, debug, analyze and publish PHP scripts all wrapped into a sophisticated streamlined interface!

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