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The AP and Google reach a licensing renewal agreement — here’s what it might mean for their relationship

yesterday at 2:58:54 PM - from: Nieman Journalism Lab

This afternoon, Google and The Associated Press announced that they’ve struck a new licensing deal that will allow Google to continue posting the content of the news cooperative. The renewal is an extension of the agreement between Google and the AP that goes back to 2006 — the one that permits Google to host AP [...]

Perhaps Avoiding Links Is Really A Way To Get People Not To Read The Details Of The Studies You're Misrepresenting

yesterday at 2:47:53 PM - from: Techdirt

Earlier this year, as part of a discussion about Nick Carr's most recent book we pointed to some reports that noted Carr appeared to misrepresent the scientific research to support his point. It appears that others are finding more examples of this as well. There was a little web-hubbub that I ignored earlier this year when Carr declared that ...

Journalism Warning Labels: This Article Is Just A Press Release Copied & Pasted

Saturday, August 14, 2010 - from: Techdirt

Romenesko points us to an amusing offering from a guy, Tom Scott, who noted that newspapers put warning labels on content that involves "sex, violence or strong language," but have no such warning labels for "sloppy journalism and other questionable content." So he made them. He's put together a printable document of journalism warning labels ...

Six reasons to watch local news project TBD’s launch next week

Sunday, August 08, 2010 - from: Nieman Journalism Lab

I don’t know if it’s eavesdropping since I was invited, but this afternoon I listened in by phone on a preview of the much anticipated new local news project in Washington, D.C., TBD. They’re set to launch sometime next week that will integrate with a local television station, WJLA. In the past few months, parent [...]

Google to discontinue social networking application Google Wave

Friday, August 06, 2010 - from: Wikinews

Thursday, August 5, 2010
Google has decided to retire the Google Wave social-networking service after one year, citing lack of user adoption.
Urs Hölzle, Google senior vice president for operations, said in a blog post that "Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked. We don't plan to continue developing Wave as a stand-alone ...