ReadWriteWeb:
If your job requires you to have your finger on the pulse of an industry, then you should take note. Curated feed community, Collected offers users a great option for aggregating the latest info from their favorite sites. Fir (Read More)
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines:
More than 40 people were kidnapped and at least 30 killed Monday in the Philippines in an incident that authorities are considering to be a politically motivated massacre, according to the Los Angeles Times. The group of civi (Read More)
The Washington Independent:
During this morning’s American Spectator breakfast with journalists, Carly Fiorina, who is running for a U.S. Senate seat in California, fielded a friendly question about whether Sarah Palin would back her over her 2010 GOP p (Read More)
Smashing Apps:
Who in your company spoke last with one of your customers? When and what did they talk about? You can use Timetonote to log conversations, calls or emails and keep a history of communications with customers, suppliers, leads (Read More)
The Guardian:
Distinguished translator of Chinese classics jailed during the Cultural RevolutionWhen they came during the Cultural Revolution to take away Yang Xianyi, China's distinguished translator who has died aged 94, he had one regre (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Papers step up efforts to cover devastation caused by huge flooding - and pledge: 'We'll be here when everybody goes home'.Local newspapers in Cumbria have gone to extra lengths to provide essential information and coverage o (Read More)
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flickr: Paul KeleherA lot of freelance writers have probably come across this: Certain magazine outlets have a different per-word rate for "freelancers" and "regular contributors" (who are also, by definition, freelance, beca (Read More)
AlterNet.org:
Harvard's Citizen Media Law Project will provide free legal services for online media, just as Congress is trying to provide protection for traditional journalists and bloggers. (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Instead of targeting high-profile science communicators, climate deniers are now encouraging mistrust of those who collect and interpret global warming dataThe theft and web publication by climate change deniers of private em (Read More)
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Follow the Latest Swine Flu Developments with H1N1 News TodayH1N1 News Today Examines the Swine Flu Virus from a Global Perspective; Read the latest H1N1 Virus Vaccine & Prevention News from EIN NewsNovember 23, 2009 / EIN PR (Read More)
Submitted by frinsen
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Rupert Murdoch has taken aim at Google for “stealing his content”. Google has riposted by saying that news content “is not a big part of how we generate revenue”. Observers have argued that Murdoch doesn’t get the Internet an (Read More)
TechCrunch:
As a blogger, sometimes the most difficult part of writing a post is contacting the company it is about. First, you either have to search your contact list, or the web, to figure out who to reach out to. And then you might no (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Former prime minister is first living politician to have portrait hung in official residence of PMMargaret Thatcher returned to 10 Downing Street today to attend the unveiling of a portrait.The former prime minister was greet (Read More)
FOXNews.com:
Dozens of gunmen hijacked a convoy carrying journalists, and family and supporters of a candidate for provincial governor, killing at least 21 of the travelers Monday in the southern Philippines' worst political violence in y (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
There was no evidence of conspiracy among climate scientists in the leaked emails – so why was the University of East Anglia's response so pathetic?The lay public, when presented with confusing data and competing arguments ab (Read More)
The Guardian:
Victims included wife and sisters of deputy mayor of Buluan townshipAt least 21 people have been killed in the southern Philippines in a massacre that has shocked a country almost inured to election violence.The victims, 13 w (Read More)
Media Matters for America:
Ugh, what a gruesome week it was for news consumers as the "serious" press showered time and attention on two GOP-friendly stories that defined "trivial pursuits": a book release and a bow. Sadly, this is what the Beltway pre (Read More)
BBC:
There's a fascinating story in this morning's edition of the Financial Times, which could signal a big shift in the balance of power between parts of the web and other parts of the media. The piece says that Microsoft has bee (Read More)
New York Times:
A group of 36 people — including lawyers and journalists — were kidnapped by armed men on Monday, and military officials said that 21 of them had been killed.
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www.guardian.co.uk:
The latest issue of Vanity Fair carries a good piece by Christopher Hitchens on the posthumous success of the Swedish crime writer Stieg Larsson.The Larsson Millennium trilogy is a must-read for journalists, despite it being (Read More)