Yesterday, influential web designer Jeffrey Zeldman wrote “there is no such thing as a calm discussion of improvements to a Microsoft browser,” and then proceeded to accidentally prove his own case. Zeldman aimed a withering broadside at Microsoft and its “enforced bragging” about Internet Explorer 9.
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IE9: Microsoft’s new browser gets no respect at all
The Committee to Protect Journalists recently announced that the January earthquake in Haiti resulted in the “disappearance under the rubble” the nation’s sole Creole paper, Bon Nouvel . The loss of the monthly newspaper to the earthquake, which decimated the small island nation, is seen as a “real blow” according to the newspaper’s director, Rev. Jean Pierre Nzemba .
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CPJ announces Haiti’s only creole newspaper remains lost "under the rubble"
Jonathan Stra y from the Nieman Journalism Lab recently conducted an analysis of the amount of original news content found in news articles through Google . In conducting the analysis, Stray took a major headlining article in the news and then tracked how many articles pertaining to the subject contained original content.
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Analysis of Google finds only 11% of news content original
Global revenue from mobile applications — including paid downloads and mobile advertising — could increase to $17.5 billion by 2012, from $4.1 billion last year, according to an independent study commissioned by GetJar, an app marketplace and rival to Apple’s App store. Associated Press Apps for smartphones such as Apple’s iPhone are likely to grow rapidly in popularity, according to recent analysis. The study also estimates that downloads of applications could increase to almost 50 billion by 2012 from about 7 billion in 2009
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Studies Forecast Rapid Growth in Mobile Apps
A deaf woman who claims she hasn’t been able to sell items on eBay Inc.’s ecommerce Web site has filed a lawsuit saying the Internet giant violates federal and California state laws that protect disabled people against discrimination. Getty Images A sign outside of the eBay headquarters in San Jose, Calif. The federal lawsuit, filed Tuesday in U.S
From China Real Time Report : A group of Google Inc.’s partners in China have sent a letter to the Internet giant, saying their businesses are in jeopardy if Google closes its Chinese search engine and demanding to know how they will be compensated. The company said it received the letter and was reviewing it Tuesday
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Letter from Google Partners in China
The end result of a collaborative six-month project between USC’s Anneberg Journalism School and the Center for Investigative Journalism will premiere March 19th.
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USC J-school, CIR along with other news outlets collaborate on a high-quality multimedia reporting projecy
Tech Today gathers all the biggest technology news of the morning’s Wall Street Journal into one place for your reading pleasure. Tech Wealth Gap Widens: A handful of cash-rich companies are consolidating power in the tech industry, using their wealth to expand into new businesses and making it harder for small competitors to break through
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Tech Today: Tech Wealth Gap Widens, Google’s China Partners Issue Plea
The European Fund for Investigative Journalism, or Journalismfund.eu , launched in February 2009 with a plan to raise funding for investigative reporting that involved cross-border collaboration in Europe. “In Europe we can see that politics, business, even organised crime all cross borders, while journalists and their coverage are often focussed purely on a national target group and are reluctant to cross borders,” director Brigitte Alfter explained in an interview last year. Just over a year on, two investigative stories have been published and eight more are currently being researched, with groups of two to six journalists working on each
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Journalismfund.eu funds stories investigative money-laundering and slave labour
Law firm Bingham McCutchen said Tuesday that Daniel Cooperman, the former general counsel at Apple and Oracle, will rejoin its Silicon Valley office and focus on “corporate and transactional matters.” One of things that Mr. Cooperman says he intends to do: bring the firm up to speed.
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Former Apple Counsel Joins Bingham
A piece published on The New York Times posed a provocative question: could wiki technology help find Osama Bin Laden? The answer is maybe. If any Pakistani or Afghan were armed with a mobile phone to send text messages to authorities with anonymous tips on where to look
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What journalists should know about Ushahidi
National Public Radio is creating a new version of its website to accompany the launch of Apple ‘s iPad early next month, according to Poynter . In addition to the iPad-friendly website, similar to those digital editions designed solely for smartphone access, NPR is preparing an app for the Apple’s tablet too. Media Memo ‘s Peter Kafka reports that when the iPad launches on April 3rd, users who want to access NPR’s content through their brand new iPads will be able to either download a version of the broadcaster’s iPhone app, optimized for the iPad, or to visit NPR.org, which will detect the user is accessing from an iPad and will show a tailored site with “no traces of Adobe’s Flash ,” software that the device does not support.
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NPR creating new iPad-friendly website
The Seattle Seahawks have released safety Deon Grant, who has been a starter the previous three seasons. Grant turned 31 on Sunday, and he was in Hawaii attending the NFL Players Association meetings on Maui as one of the Seahawks’ representatives. Grant has been a defensive captain for the Seahawks, and reached by phone after the announcement, he was very professional though he did say that this was a move he didn’t necessarily see coming.
I’m here in a brightly lit ballroom at the Mandalay Bay Hotel Conference Center in Las Vegas, waiting for the keynote address that will kick off Microsoft’s MIX10 conference. The focus today is on Windows Phone 7 Series, and I’m here with an all-star group of Microsoft-focused bloggers to liveblog the event. My collaborators include
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MIX10 Liveblog, Day 1: Windows Phone 7 Series and more
Brandon Marshall’s history includes multiple arrests, police responding to calls of domestic disturbances and suspensions levied against him by both his team and the league. But the meaning of his history is deeper than just a recitation of his record, points out Dave Krieger of the Denver Post.
Tight end Chris Baker is visiting Seattle Friday, and staying an extra night on his visit. The price of tight ends in this market was demonstrated by Ben Watson’s three-year deal for $6 million guaranteed, $12 million overall. There are other teams interested in Baker so we’ll see what happens over the weekend
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TE Chris Baker in Seattle, staying an extra night
All eyes will be on the new Windows Phone 7 Series at MIX10 next week. But I’m getting ready to ask a bunch of questions about the other big news set for release in Las Vegas. I’ve got plenty of questions about Internet Explorer 9, starting with “Who cares?” I’m also planning to ask about HTML5, performance, and compatibility
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IE9 and MIX10: six big questions for Microsoft
Oregon running back LaGarrette Blount wasn’t at his school’s pro day on Thursday, but that was not a surprise. He never planned to be, according to agent Zeke Sandhu. Sandhu said in a phone interview Thursday night Blount always planned to work out at Oregon’s second pro day on March 18, and NFL teams were advised of that.
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LaGarrette Blount always planned to work out on March 18
Update: This item was updated at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday with the inclusion of an explanation for Blount’s absence, and that reason was he never planned to be present. He always planned to work out at Oregon’s second pro day, which is next Thursday, March 18
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LaGarrette Blount never planned to be at Oregon’s pro day
Microsoft plans to release Office 2010 to manufacturing next month, with availability to business customers in May and in retail channels in June. I’ve put together a poll to help me determine how I cover the product, and specifically which alternative products I use for comparison purposes. Please take a minute and cast your vote.
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Poll: Which office software suite have you chosen?