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Research and Markets: A Comprehensive Overview of the Trends and Developments in the Telecommunications and Digital Media Markets in Sri Lanka

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009

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Citizen journalism gaining steam, filling in blanks left by mainstream media (Canoe Money)

Terex Cedarapids to lose 120 production jobs by... (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

TORONTO - It took Mike Boon a few years of blogging until he finally beat the mainstream media to a story, an especially big accomplishment considering he lives in Toronto, with its hyper-competitive media market and four newspapers fighting for scoops.

• Citizen Journalism Gaining Steam: An Article About Me - Toronto Mike's Blog

TURKEY: High-stakes political battle pits media mogul against premier Tayyip Erdogan

Babylon & Beyond (Free subscription) | yesterday

Last year, the smash-hit Turkish soap opera Noor spellbound millions of viewers across Turkey and the Arab world. These days, a new media drama is gripping the nation anew with its juicy ingredients of money, power and famous main characters....

C. Edwin Baker, Was 62

The Laboratorium (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

Although I wasn’t always enthusiastic about Ed Baker’s work, there was no gainsaying its importance. Media, Markets, and Democracy is a rich book; I went through an entire highlighter marking up my copy. I had the pleasure of seeing him...

Citizen Journalism Gaining Steam: An Article About Me

Toronto Mike's Blog (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

Remember when I wrote about being interviewed by The Canadian Press last week? The article about me is out there. So far I've seen it in the Winnipeg Free Press and Metro News . Here's the article in its entirety. I'll share some thoughts at the end. TORONTO - It took Mike Boon a few years of blogging until he finally beat the mainstream media to a story, an especially big accomplishment considering...

We’re expanding our Global Cultural Observer Network

Iconowatch (Free subscription) | yesterday

Are you a curious, engaged observer of your cultural environment with a background in communications, media, market research, or the social sciences? Do you spend your days (and nights) watching and exploring the world around you? Are you interested in having your observations shape new products, marketing campaigns and brand positioning for the world’s largest [...]

Against Intellectual Property, by Arnold Kling

EconLog (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

David K. Levine and Michele Boldrin write , Is intellectual property needed as a shield for the weak against the strong? Those of us who have yet to make our name in the media markets should fear obscurity rather than piracy. Nor is intellectual property protection against merciless corporations. Rather, it is a tool these corporations use against the small. They argue that the patent...

Ed Baker

Legal Theory Blog (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

... Liberty and Freedom of Speech (Oxford 1989) Advertising and a Democratic Press (Princeton, 1994) Media, Markets, and Democracy (Cambridge, 2002) Media Concentration and Democracy: Why Ownership Matters (Cambridge, 2007) Ed began his career at the University of Toledo and moved to the University of Oregon before moving to Penn. He was a gentleman and a scholar.

Sham NARAL ad targets Stupak

jillstanek.com (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009

So what else is new? The pro-abortion group NARAL began running a deceitful ad this weekend on tv cable channels in pro-life Democrat Rep. Bart Stupak's MI district. The ad falsely describes the House amendment he co-sponsored to keep public funded abortion out of its socialized healthcare bill. According to Freep.com , NARAL will also run the ad "in other key midsize media markets,...

Kent Conrad Tried To Intimidate Journalist After Town Hall Story This Summer

Say Anything (Free subscription) | yesterday

... with such thuggish intimidation should reveal the slimy underside to North Dakota’s lapdog media. People often wonder how Conrad and his colleagues Dorgan and Pomeroy get away with so little criticism from the collective state media. And the answer is because they threaten and intimidate anyone who does criticize them. On my radio show on Saturday BismarckMandanBlog.com blogger...

More Chinese 'communist' capitalism

Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago

ARTICLE: Chinese Agencies Fight For Control Of Web Game , AP, Nov. 04, 2009 Interesting struggle, one in which I think we'll see greed win out over ideology time and time again. Funny to see allegedly "communist" government officials fight over who gets to tax new media markets. It was all so much simpler under the elderly Mao, when only a handful of propaganda-laden operas were approved...

Shifting gears

Indian Express (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009

A few days ago the media and markets were very excited about the growth in sales of automobiles. The year-on-year growth of passenger cars rose to nearly 30% in November.

Hard and Soft DRM: Part 2

Booksellers Association (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009

... obvious technology is one watermarking. Watermarking has already proved its worth in the audio and media markets which when used has not resulted mass infringement. If we look at the two most popular digital ebook format we have different issues, opportunities and challenges. The Adobe ebook pdf format can be visibly watermarked on each page and also this can be protected from open...

BS.Player Pro 2.50.1017 Multilingual Portable

pro-dz (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009

BS.Player Pro 2.50.1017 Multilingual Portable | 10.6 Mb BS.Player Pro is used by more than 70 million multi media users throughout the world and it has been translated into more than 90 languages worldwide. All downloaded versions of our FREE version exceed the sum of all downloads of competitive media players and payable DivX or DVD players. Because it does not use much of the CPU processing...

Bill White Reveals Timeline in Switch to Gubernatorial Race on Inside Politics

Burnt Orange Report (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009

This morning on WFAA's Inside Politics in the Dallas/Fort-Worth media market, Houston Mayor and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill White, revealed he was considering a ballot switch as early the day prior to Farouk Shami's entrance into the race on November 19th. When Mayor White was asked by Brad Watson, How much of a challenge will it be to run against Farouk Shami? White answered: He...