Children who use technology are ‘better writers’ BBC Children who blog, text or use social networking websites are more confident about their writing skills, according to the National Literacy Trust.
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P2P | Music:- “The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs,” said Hunter S. Thompson. Thing are even worse in the digital 21st century where the major labels call their own customers — including young children — criminals, publicly humiliating them in the lamescream media and dragging them through the courts as they try to gain control of how music is distributed online, and who distributes it
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p2pnet news view Advertising | P2P | Politics:- Britain’s plans to implement the entertainment cartel three strikes and you’re off the net bidniz plan have just been doomed. “With their MPAA as the front, the major Hollywood studios have escalated their efforts to force ACTA, their secret copyright ‘initiative’, into being,” said p2pnet recently, continuing: ” ‘Our interests in a robust ACTA are broad, ranging from providing ex-officio authority for law enforcement and customs officials to securing both the legal and practical tools necessary to protect intellectual property rights online,’ says the LaLaLand enforcer. “Ex-officio authority for law enforcement?
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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- I recently had an opportunity to re-read a pamphlet I wrote in 2000 for a series on new thinking about mutualism published by the Co-operative Party.
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The New York Times Launches Times Skimmer BUSINESS WIRE The New York Times announced today the release of Times Skimmer (http://www.nytimes.com/timesskimmer/), a new application for NYTimes.com that provides online readers with the layout and experience of paging through a newspaper, making it easy to browse through headlines and discover stories deep within sections of the Web site. Times Skimmer displays a collection of headlines and short summaries of articles in a grid layout.
p2pnet news view | Advertising:- Giant adco Google has come up with a paywall paywall. Under First click free, it explains >>> We’ve worked with other subscription-based news services to arrange that the very first article view by a Google News user (identifiable by referrer) doesn’t require subscription. While the first article can be seen without subscribing, all clicks on the article page are “trapped.” This means that if users click anywhere else on that page, they’ll be prompted to sign up.
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p2pnet news view P2P:- “The Internet age cannot just be the triumph of amateur hour.” So says Wall Sreet Journal chief scribe Robert Thomson. But, Robert, it already is, and has been for the best part of this century.
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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Italian authorities still want four Google executives behind bars.
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p2pnet news view | Off Topic:- Christmas is coming and everyone, everywhere, is hurting because of the George W. Bush recession —- —- including the (Business Software Alliance) BSA. In 2006, “residents of US president George Bush’s home state of Texas can earn, “cash rewards of up to $200,000 for qualifying software piracy reports starting May 1 through June 30,” p2pnet quoted the Dallas Business Journal as stating.
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p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- “Put simply, the music business is the commercial interface between musicians and fans,” says Allison Outhit in Exclaim! Magazine . But, she states, “when the industry lost control of digital music files on the web, the interface broke down.” It did and now, “Fans are getting music willy-nilly — sometimes without even paying! — while musicians are reaching directly out to fans — sometimes without even charging!”- Allison observes, continuing »»» You might think having musicians and fans communicate directly can only result in a promotional paradise, but it actually creates a commercial hell for the industry. If artists and fans find ways to successfully transact between them, then, uh, what’s the rest of the music business for
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