Universal Broadband “While the US talks, other countries are acting. Both Finland and Spain have now decided to add ‘broadband’ to their universal [telephone] service requirements.
"By 2011, any Finn or Spaniard, no matter where they live, should be able to get a reliable 1Mbps connection at a reasonable price,” ars technical.com reports.
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It’s news to me: Who to trust? “For the first time in recent years, voters trust Republicans more than Democrats on all 10 key electoral issues regularly tracked by Rasmussen Reports. The GOP holds double-digit advantages on five of them,” Rasmussen reported today, 10-24-09.
The polling organization asked this question: “I’m going to read you a short list of issues in the news. For each, please let me know which political party you trust more to handle that issue.” Responses were:
Healthcare
...D-40%; R-46%
Education
...D-38%; R-43%
Social Security
...D-37%; R-45%
Taxes
...D-35%; R-50%
Economy
...D-35%; R-49%
Abortion
...D-35%; R-47%
Immigration
...D-33%; R-40%
National Security
...D-31%; R-54%
Iraq
...D-31%; R-50%
Government Ethics
...D-29%; R-33%
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The court of public opinion often is the ultimate arbiter of controversial issues. If that turns out to be the case in the Tiger Woods situation, the final outcome may be neither pleasant nor profitable.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey, released today (12-09-09) shows that “news coverage of [...]
Are the new media — the likes of Twitter, Facebook, etc. — “the beginning of new ways savvy PR pros will pitch and interact with the press?” That is the question posed recently among PR professionals, and it implies potential confusion between the media and the message — and the need to understand the role each [...]
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Social media like Twitter and Facebook are growing up and [...]
If you didn’t know it before, now it’s official and confirmed: Twitter is a business tool, not just a kid’s toy. The time-suck that’s often been maligned by senior management is reaching out to them with a classic features-and-benefits pitch.
Twitter just launched “Twitter 101: A Special Guide” for business people that claims, “Every day, millions [...]
“I confidently predict that within the next 12 months, almost all news organizations will be charging for content,” said Financial Times editor Lionel Barber in a speech at London’s Media Standards Trust, which is an independent not-for-profit that seeks to foster high news standards.
Barber told the audience that major media are building Internet news platforms that will [...]
The New York Time may be on the verge of taking the big jump into paid-access-only-land for its online publication, according to news reports as diverse Bloomberg, The Financial Times and The Sydney Morning Herald.
“The New York Times website, nytimes.com, is considering charging a monthly fee of $US 5 to access its content, including all its [...]
American newspapers are contorting their analog products into digital configurations hoping to breath new life into their dated formats.
The obvious goal is to wrench new money from decades-old products and even older business models. This approach is in dramatic contrast to the creation of visionary new products with imaginative go-to-market strategies designed to [...]
Social media presents senior management with a conundrum. Wisdom dictates open and eager adoption of new techniques and technologies that can improve business while experience demands caution — even fear — of the unknown and uncontrollable. Social media tilts the scale at both ends.
This creates an anxious tug-of-war for management: Jump in early [...]
Since our initial comments on the publishers’ meeting in Chicago — the meeting where print owners were trying to find a solution to the online content pricing challenge — we’ve learned that the confab was significantly larger than we first believed. In fact, based on at least one report, the players attending were the [...]
When the gray lady of journalism, The New York Times, appoints a full-fledged “social media editor,” you know that print journalism is undergoing tectonic change.
In a memo “To the Newsroom,” deputy managing editor Jonathan Landman announced yesterday that Jennifer Preston would assume that new role, after 25 years slogging through numerous other Times [...]
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