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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[This article is part of our continuing series, "Social Media: Promise & Peril." Series posts are denoted by the signature logo, and are collected on the Social Media page, a link to which you will find at the Social Media tab at the top of this page.]
Social media like Twitter and Facebook are growing up and [...]
Newspaper owners have spent considerable time fretting about their general decline in circulation, influence and revenue. Many believe that these misfortunes come at the hands of a Web parasite that ceaselessly and increasingly seeps into a publication’s every pore, then sucks out all the news that’s fit to exploit.
The antidote for this national print media [...]
While every media chain, news outlet and their pooch seem to be working on a plan to corral and control access to their news content, the Associated Press board of directors has voted to move ahead swiftly — and broadly — with a strategy to limit access to their copy. AP is “the world’s largest [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Publishers hiring content cops to ferret out rogue quoters harkens back to the music moguls of yore who raided college dorms and attacked Napster for alleged audio file sharing.
Now the venerable Associated Press has come up with an Intellectual Property Protection program to protect their clients’ content form un-contracted publication. While ever on the [...]
Relatively few tears will be shed as daily print newspapers pass into extinction, and most of those will be gray. That’s our conclusion from the latest Rasmussen national telephone survey (5-12-09), which shows a clear distinction between the Boomer and post-Boomer age groups, and with predictable results.
Who reads what, and what will they [...]
General circulation, general interest publications — think daily newspapers — seem to be headed for the tar pits of extinction. That death rattle haunts us almost daily [no pun], and we’re told that traditional print media may not be able no overcome the digital wave.
Some real curmudgeons see the prospects for the ink-on-dead-trees [...]
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