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However, Mr Justice Eady, a High Court judge who specialises in defamation cases such as the recent Max Mosley trial, ruled on Friday, July 17, that Google was not a publisher of the comments, only a facilitator through automated results and therefore could not be held responsible for them.
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In what may prove a far-reaching ruling, Joan Madden, a New York supreme court judge, rejected the blogger's claim that the blogs were a "modern day forum for conveying personal opinions, including invective and ranting" and should not be treated as factual assertions.
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She received a small fee – a matter of cents – every time a visitor to her site clicked on an advert. In the six months since launching she had raised just $238.75, barely more than a dollar a day.
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Finland's Ministry of Transport and Communications has committed to ensuring that every person in Finland can access the internet at a minimum speed of one megabit per second from July next year.
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The Greater London Authority is holding an event this month to ask developers how it can best make its data available for reuse – a plan that resembles San Francisco's efforts to stimulate widespread use of local government information.
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Glad to see Kate and friends are still going strong in Manchester…
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Graham has done an incredible job of creating a distributed publishing system for his Rwanda project – very very cool.
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"The injunction, brought against the Guardian, was withdrawn last night after Trafigura and Carter Ruck decided it would be more fun to try and intimidate everyone with a computer…"
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Oscar's father Joe, 29, an IT specialist from Reading in Berkshire, said: "Oscar was recently telling my wife about the reproductive cycle of penguins…"
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While police interventions to halt online harassment are not uncommon, this is believed to be one of the first cases of someone being detained for a poke – one of the most rudimentary forms of virtual communication.
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"Here's a case where it allows people to rally around a movie they care about and for them to have a sense of participation, then tell other people, 'Hey, this is something you should see, too.'"
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"A recent job advert for an online reporter at the Sunday Times attracted a reported 1,200 applications (possibly more); just one example of how competitive it has got out there…."
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his 10-page case study from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University in the United States (US) explores the US-based Cable News Network (CNN)'s iReport, launched in August 2006 to collect citizen-generated media for potential use by CNN programmes. Billed as a location for "uncensored, unfiltered, unedited, user-generated community news," the iReport.com website features photos, videos, and text on topics ranging from current events to personal stories and opinion submitted to the site by registered users, or "iReporters."
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Though British households enjoy the highest income, at £35,730 a year, £10,325 higher than the European average, British families have to contend with a high cost of living, with fuel, food and alcohol all costing more than the European average.
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There’s now no doubt that Guardian News & Media is planning a local online news project. It’s hiring for metropolitan “beatbloggers” in Cardiff, Leeds and Edinburgh for local news services that will launch early next year.
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But any journalist who fails to get to grips with social networking tools, or who allows their own online personality to be subsumed in corporate blandness and bla, will risk irrelevance and invisibility in the future. We all know, as journalists, that our reputations are the foundations for our career. Our reputations belong to us, not our employers.
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Jamie Taylor's family has sold the Evening Standard at London Bridge Station for nearly 80 years – but, as he explains, that tradition is coming to an end.
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The warning addresses one of the more popular online scams, perpetrated on sites like Facebook and Myspace: Criminals plant malicious software on a victim’s computer, hijack their social networking account, then use the account to send emergency distress messages, for example claiming they are in legal or medical peril, requesting money from their social network contacts.
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This post makes some major allegations…
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Map of all the rooze ghods Videos #iranelection
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It is the eighth largest economy in the world, with a population of 37 million. If it was an independent country it would be in the G8. And if it were a company, it would likely be declared bankrupt.
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"At its simplest, evolutionary graph theory deals with the future of a network and the individuals that live at its nodes when the network begins to evolve and its individuals start moving, mutating and influencing their neighbours. A network can evolve in two ways: either individual nodes evolve while the network stays the same (a new strain of flu enters a population; one person gets 10 friends to vote for Obama), or the network itself changes (as continents drift, they separate subpopulations of the same species; someone makes 10 new friends on Facebook)."
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Bloggers who offer endorsements must disclose any payments they have received from the subjects of their reviews or face penalties of up to $11,000 per violation, the Federal Trade Commission said Monday.
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Sections of the draft guidelines the public are being asked to comment on include the following: "Intimidation, humiliation, intrusion, aggression and derogatory remarks are all aspects of human behaviour that may be discussed or included in BBC output.