Presidential Panel Urges Better Use of Spectrum

Source: The New York Times

SAN FRANCISCO — A just-completed report from a presidential advisory committee urges President Obama to adopt new computer technologies to make better use of a huge swath of the radio spectrum now controlled by federal agencies. The ...
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The Atavist matures as a publisher and a platform

Source: Livemint.com

That business is The Atavist, which helps produce multimedia storytelling for digital devices. Last week I found out that the idea was appealing enough to have attracted $1 million of what will eventually be $1.5 million in seed money. But the real punc ...
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Source: Editors Weblog

Eric Newton, senior adviser to the president at Knight Foundation, has criticised the state of journalism education in the US, reports Steve Myers at Poynter. Newton argues that most journalism teaching centers had been slow to adapt to changes ...
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Google Chairman Eric Schmidt: no screens for one hour per day

Source: ITWorld.com

Executive Chairman of Google Eric E. Schmidt delivering the commencement address at Boston University, May 20, 2012. Schmidt addresses Boston University graduation, suggests graduates turn off all their screens for at least ...
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The Breakfast Meeting: Competing on Disney's Turf, and to Catch a Straying Eye

Source: The New York Times

There has been a recent spate of provocative magazine covers , Christine Haughney writes : a mother breast-feeding her 3-year-old son at Time; Newsweek crowning Barack Obama with a rainbow halo and the title “The First Gay President”; and, ...
Full article at: The New York Times  More like this  5 days ago, 8:29am CDT

The Ativist Lands $1.5 Million in Funding

Source: mediabistro.com

Check it out at The New York Times: “[the publisher] attracted $1 million of what will eventually be $1.5 million in seed money. But the real punch line? The backers include Eric E. Schmidt (of Google), Marc Andreessen (a founder of Netscape) and th ...
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BU graduates 6,700 in ceremony that honors four students killed this semester

Source: Boston.com

After one of the most trying academic years in its history, Boston University graduated more than 6,700 students Sunday in a ceremony that paused in silence to remember four students killed this spring but mostly looked ahead with optimism. “This gen ...
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Google's Schmidt challenges: no screen time for 1 hour a day

Source: Reuters India

Executive Chairman of Google Eric E. Schmidt gestures as he delivers the commencement address at Boston University Commencement 2012 in Boston, Massachusetts May 20, 2012. REUTERS - Google Inc Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt challenged college graduat ...
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Professor Eugene Volokh makes the case that Google is a publisher

Source: Economic Times

Is Google search an intermediary like the phone company - simply connecting people with the information they seek? Or is Google search a publisher, like a newspaper, which provides only the information that it sees fit and is p ...
Full article at: Economic Times  More like this  5 days ago, 11:43pm CDT