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Haystack is a new program designed to provide unfiltered internet access to the people of Iran. The software package is compatible with Windows, Mac and Unix systems, and specifically targets the Iranian government's web filtering mechanisms

Anti-censorship technology, of current interest in light of developments in Iran.

At least they're trying...

AP gets ready to play rough with news aggregators and search engines - and with the notion of fair use.

Under normal circumstances, the fact that Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson's latest book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price, logged over 17,000 free views in a day on upstart "social publisher" Scribd would be the story. The real story, however, lurks in the comments left on the Scribd web site.

This upsets me so much.

Publishers fail again at basic fact-checking.  The assumption must be that the reading public doesn't care about the truth when something is called a memoir.

This guy was fired over his Facebook status posting. Is this ethical, and worse, could it happen to YOU?

Just watched a story on the Facebook Effect on CNBC that discussed another educator being fired over FB statuses. Very interesting...

No penalty for misrepresenting a work of fiction as truth. The lesson of "A Million Little Pieces" is publishers will not worry about misrepresentation when it generates publicity for book.  We have a new category of work "semi-fiction" - formerly know as BS.

It's a dream tucked in the backs of many journalists' minds: the article they write becomes a blockbuster movie and they reap a healthy share of the profits, a walk on the red carpet and - who knows? - maybe even an Oscar.