Octubre 2011
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Lanzan dos libros digitales sobre ética de... →
El Centro Knight para el Periodismo en las Américas lanza los libros digitales en español “Conjunto de Guías Éticas para Hacer Periodismo en la Web”, originalmente publicado en inglés por el Poynter Institute, y “Las 10 mejores prácticas para redes sociales, directrices útiles para las organizaciones periodísticas”, de James Hohmann y el Comité de Ética y Valores de ASNE (American Society of News...
China Cracks Down on Bloggers and 'Excessive'... →
Political censorship in this authoritarian state has long been heavy-handed. But for years, the Communist Party has tolerated a creeping liberalization in popular culture, tacitly allowing everything from popular knockoffs of “American Idol”-style talent shows to freewheeling microblogs that let media groups prosper and let people blow off steam.
Now, the party appears to be saying...
The tablet - a saving grace for the news industry? →
In 2009 68.7% of all American Households had Internet use at home. It is now 2011 and 11% of all American adults have internet access via their very own tablet computer, Poynter reported.
Although still a niche device, the explosion in tablet computing seems to have outstripped the rate of transition from other media platforms; for instance, the shift from VHS to DVD was far slower, taking...
It’s not Google vs. Apple. It is Apple & Google... →
It has been a while since I mailed out my last Om Says. I have been busy playing around with a lot of new gadgets, doing some thinking. Nevertheless, over last few days these stories caught my eye and sparked some thoughts that I wanted to share with you.
- Apple sold 4 million iPhone 4S devices during the first weekend.
- Google has 190 million Android phones.
- Nokia is developing Meltemi...
Presentado el último libro de José Luis Orihuela,... →
“Saldrá adelante el ‘periodismo mejorado’, el que sepa competir con los nuevos formatos gratuitos que se ofrecen en la red”, ha afirmado el autor durante el acto
José Luis Orihuela ha presentado esta mañana en fcom su nuevo libro ’80 claves sobre el futuro del periodismo’. Esta nueva obra es una recopilación de ochenta temas, basados en las entradas del propio profesor de fcom en su blog de...
Iraq: end of a war that has cost more than $800... →
Obama Pulling Troops From Iraq by End of Year
President Barack Obama announced that the U.S. will pull out all of its troops from Iraq by the end of December, drawing the nine-year war to a conclusion.
By Julian E. Barnes, Carol Lee and Siobhan Hughes
WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama announced that the U.S. will pull out all of its troops from Iraq by the end of December, drawing the...
La Universidad de Navarra obtiene la calificación... →
El centro académico recibirá 4 millones de euros para proyectos que potencien la investigación, mejoren la docencia e impulsen la implicación social
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"We are the 99%," but the 1% Buy Elections,... →
As the “Occupy” protests spread across the country with the slogan “we are the ninety-nine percent,” two reports released this week demonstrate how the top one percent are playing an increasingly outsized role in American elections.
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Conflicting reports emerge on way to confirming... →
A look at how the news spread the morning of October 20, when news began to break that former Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi had been captured/injured/killed. The news of his killing was later confirmed, but only after a lof of confusion.
It was a little after 7 am ET when news began to spread that that former Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi had been captured. Things would get very confusing...
The Story of the Gaddafi Story →
How news of the Libyan leader’s demise spread on Twitter
By Craig Silverman
How to tell the truth during a revolution? →
In a joint panel session of the World Newspaper Congress and the World Editors Forum on “How to tell the truth during a revolution,” moderator Magda Abu-Fadil, Director of Journalism Training Programme, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, discusses the many difficulties of reporting events such as the recent Arab uprisings
Covering those events raises a number of questions and...
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Huffington Post to launch French edition with Le... →
Huffington Post to launch French edition with Le Monde
The Huffington Post has partnered with Le Monde and Les Nouvelles Editions Independantes to launch Le Huffington Post, an international version of the American site
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New Furore over Facebook Cookies →
What’s the Latest Development? In May, the Wall Street Journal reported that Facebook like buttons and other website widgets were setting cookies on visiting browsers that could then be read later and used to track the user across different web properties and back to the Facebook site. As a result of that report, the cookie in question—datr—was removed. Now it is back, writes Nick...
Amazon's Cloud Gives Its New Browser an Unfair... →
Among the features announced with Amazon’s new Kindle Fire tablet is an unexpected and innovative new piece of software: a Web browser called Amazon Silk that taps into Amazon’s enormous cloud infrastructure to speed up the delivery of content to a mobile device.
Browsing the Web on a smart phone or tablet can often be a frustrating experience, even when using the latest device over...
The Cloud Imperative: treating computing as a... →
But now it makes financial sense—a historic shift that is reshaping the IT industry.
Before Facebook and Google—even before the Internet—scientists at MIT had a radical vision they called the computer utility. “Computing may someday be organized as a public utility just as the telephone system is a public utility,” Professor John McCarthy said at MIT’s centennial celebration in...
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President Barack Obama: Enduring Terror Double... →
President Barack Obama ordered the targeted killing of al-Qaeda figure and American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki despite the lack of any legal due process. But the same week, the U.S. government continued to turn a blind eye to a Cuban-American terrorist harbored in Miami, writes Robert Parry.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney may have expressed the pervasive American double standard on human rights...
