guardian.co.uk Society:
Every character in Cast Offs, which starts tomorrow, is played by a disabled actor with the same disabilityFrom the one-armed presenter Cerrie Burnell joining CBeebies to James Partridge – who has a facial disfigurement – reading the lunchtime news on Five, disability in the media has itself been the subject of intense medi (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
EarthLink email customers experienced outages over much of the weekend, according to numerous online complaints.Starting Friday, Twitter users began to post updates about service outages. Alex Mendez tweeted “33:40 minutes on the cellphone dealing with TW / earthlink. UGH,” and Diane Fischler wrote, “Not getting email messa (Read More)
New York Times:
Microsoft has held talks with the News Corporation about a tie up, which would involve News Corp. getting paid to take its news Web sites off Google, according to press reports. (Read More)
Mashable!:
It’s not too often that legacy media learns a new mass communication tool along with its audience. But that’s exactly what’s going on now because of Google Wave. Although it’s still invitation only and in preview, the real-time wiki collaboration platform is being used by some media companies for community building, real-ti (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
Astronomer Stuart Clark joins us in the studio to look at the latest thinking about the effects of variations in solar activity on the Earth's climate. Dark matter gets a mention too. Over the coming days he will be conducting question-and-answer sessions on Twitter - both on solar activity and dark matter. Follow him at Dr (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
The digital economy bill is misnamed. A more honest title for the legislation, recently introduced in the Lords, would be the copyright protection and punishment bill. It is less about creating the digital businesses of the 21st century than protecting the particular 20th century business models used in music and film.The b (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
On the eve of the bill determining Britain's digital future, Ben Bradshaw attacks the Tory leader's 'pact' with the Murdochs and defends the BBC, if not its Trust, from its 'circling enemies'. He speaks to James RobinsonAfter years of debate, two weighty reports and endless agonising over BBC funding, the future of Channel (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
But voters want Palin to tell them how she intends to solve health-care problems and handle foreign policy in Iraq and Afghanistan -- not to talk about her beef with the media.
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The Guardian:
According to a Financial Times report, Microsoft is in discussions with News Corporation and others about pulling content from Google The next battle in the search wars could be over access to news content. The FT reports that Microsoft – which has made increasing the market share of its Bing search engine its top online pr (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
A Conservative government would scrap the Export Credit Guarantee Department that invests in 'dirty' power stations and instead use the fund to encourage green technologyA Conservative UK government would bring to an end the practice of the government underwriting investment in "dirty" fossil fuel power stations around the (Read More)
The Guardian:
PCC rules paper breaches code twice by making unsubstantiated claims over boy's behaviour and failing to do enough to conceal his identity. By Chris TryhornThe News of the World has been censured by the Press Complaints Commission over a story about a seven-year-old "knife thug".In its ruling the PCC said the paper had brea (Read More)
The Guardian:
Ofcom clears Dannii Minogue of breaching broadcast code over comments about sexuality of contestant Danyl JohnsonOfcom has cleared The X Factor judge Danii Minogue of breaching the broadcasting code for her remarks about the sexuality of contestant Danyl Johnson, despite receiving almost 4,000 complaints that her comments w (Read More)
Guardian Unlimited: Technology:
Yesterday AOL provided us with a preview of its coming up new brand identity as the official spinout from Time Warner at December 10 comes near. Is shows a plain new text logo presented with various pictures, from a weird staring at you goldfish to a ping floating brain and a rock-star hand symbol. The new logo was created (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
The Web consulting firm Blue State Digital helped the Obama campaign raise some $500 million online, catapulting a relative political novice into the Oval Office. Its next challenge: Help fashion bible Vogue magazine cash in on its far-reaching influence at a time when advertising dollars are bleeding out of print. Vogue h (Read More)
BBC:
What kind of technology does the modern multimedia reporter need to master - and where is the boundary these days between the professionals and amateurs? Two questions I've been debating over the last couple of weeks with journalism students at the Cardiff School of Journalism, and with colleagues from other broadcasting or (Read More)