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WSJ.com and social networking--new experiment (started Tuesday, September 16).

News Corp. CEO Murdoch said traditional newspaper and television advertising markets are picking up, but they still must devise new strategies to compete with Internet ads and free online news." />

Dow Jones announced an online venture that combines The Wall Street Journal's Web site with Dow Jones's business-to-business news service and databases." />

Arnie, I read this this past Friday-really interesting about how insurance companies would stop sending ads to people who eat at fast food places because they would be bad insurance prospects

An interesting article about the effect of eBooks on authors themselves.

A must-read series on online privacy by the Wall Street Journal.  If you browse the web, if you write email, if you have an ISP you should know about this  

I know we've discussed in class how Google (and other entities) seems to know so much about us, but isn't it a bit naive to assume the opposite? We expose a piece of our private lives in every way: credit cards for example track where we go, where we eat, what we buy, and the like. Even if paying cash at places, we're signing up for list servs, blogs, campaigns, donating to charities that require contact information, filling out surveys. Given this, is it all that surprising that we are being "watched"? I don't think it's possible to function in today's society without exposing much of ourselves (when you want to pay cash somewhere, the bank knows when, where, what time of day you withdrew money), unless we change our names or deliver false information.

More on the Google-AAP settlement. Key take-away ""But content owners also belatedly realize that simply suing consumers who find new, convenient ways to access content online is not as good as finding new business models to profit from customer interest that technology makes possible."

Makes the case for a firm hand in the editorial office and bemoans budget cuts that eliminate editorial positions. "But without strong editors, writers are like cars with accelerators but no brakes. "

With new technology, there are endless possibilities for creating new works, this article explains why current copyright law inhibits this from happening, and why you should think twice about reusing music by Prince.

New Kindle feature infringes on audio rights?