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Techdirt (Free subscription) | yesterday
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Dark Helmet alerts us to the news that our good friend Lily Allen is back in the news discussing file sharing again . Tragically, it does not appear that she's used her "time off" to better understand copyright issues very much. Unlike nearly everyone else who complains about copyright infringement, she's apparently "all for" infringing on her copyrights, just so long as you pay...
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Cele|bitchy (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
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Rihanna is quoted as telling German Magazine Bravo that she’s looking for a guy who’s well hung. She supposedly said “He has to be good in bed and the size matters. You know what I mean'” She also allegedly went on about how she sizes a guy up by checking out his package first. It [...]
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James Governor's Monkchips (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
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I just got back Connect 09, IBM’s annual Software Group (SWG) analyst event. After couple of days of intensive briefings and discussions across the entire IBM Software portfolio its hard to know where to start in summing up what I learned. Our man in Austin, Coté, has already put together some sweet roundups of the information [...]
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The Freethinker (Free subscription) | yesterday
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THE happy expressions on the faces of the two children chosen to front the British Humanist Association’s latest poster campaign were put there by Jesus. Apparently. Writing in The Times yesterday, religious correspondent Ruth Gledhill fancied she dropped a bombshell when she revealed that : Charlotte, 8, and Ollie, 7, are from one of the country’s most [...]
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Techdirt (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
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Just this week, James Harding, the editor of The Times (of London), a paper owned by Rupert Murdoch, tried to explain why the news is worth paying for , as the paper starts to put up a new business model to get consumers to pay for news. Unfortunately, Harding apparently didn't get the message himself. As pointed out by Mathew Ingram , just days after making the case for paying for news, The Times...
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Alex Ross - Shipley Labour (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
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I’ve been quite critical of the 10:10 campaign previously, not because I believe it will be damaging or because it’s misguided per se, but because we all know we need to more than wear woollen jumpers, which is one of the things people can do to allegedly reduce their emissions by 10%, and because any [...]
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The Guardian Books Blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
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As someone who works hard to get it right in my own novels, I'm very aware of just how difficult it is to depict well As the bad sex in fiction award shortlist lined up yesterday, the authors and their publishers scrambled to declare they'd have been offended not to have made the cut. Perhaps they were forgetting: it's the quality of the writing, not the sex, that's being assessed – and writing...
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David Thompson (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
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Yesterday’s post mentioned in passing a 2008 Arts Council project that typifies the standards we’ve come to expect from publicly funded art. Jarvis Cocker, the country’s foremost bespectacled socialist pop musician, was sent to the Arctic for “inspiration” and to...
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First Drafts (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
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In the new edition of Prospect—in shops tomorrow, but on subscribers’ doormats today—we have a new poll as part of a fun feature about the politics of Twitter. The claim is that Twitter is an oddly liberal tool: a mouthpiece for what we have (not entirely originally, I must admit) dubbed the “twittering classes.” The killer [...]
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paidContent:UK (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
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The BBC may have been barred, for now, from sharing its iPlayer with TV broadcasters - but it’s still offering to pump radio stations through the service. Tim Davie’s audio and music division, which has, for some time, been wanting to create an industry-wide player to host streams from both BBC and commercial stations, now says it’s got the signatures of Global Radio, Guardian Media...
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Bookninja (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
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I’ve got a crazy week ahead of me, preparing for a big event at my day job, so I’m not sure how much posting will be done. Check back, but don’t send me angry emails if nothing’s here. Here’s a few news items to keep your vampiric desire for media blood blunted. Good news: French townsfolk buy [...]
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Althouse (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
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0:01 — Oprah is incredulous that Sarah Palin hadn't paid any attention — back during the campaign — to the talk about how Oprah had snubbed her. Palin was focused on the campaign. Oprah cannot believe it: "You didn't even know about it?!" — as if Palin is a complete ignoramus not to have been all Oprah-focused. "No offense to you, but it wasn't the center of my...
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The PopCrunch Show (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
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Michael Jackson’s eldest son Prince Michael I inherited his father’s rare skin condition, according to the King Of Pop’s sister La Toya. The late “Thriller” icon suffered with vitiligo — a skin condition which causes depigmentation in patches of skin — and Aunt La Toya claims the singer passed the disorder down to his 12-year-old [...]
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Backspin (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
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Channel 4 posted on YouTube last night's broadcast of Dispatches: Inside Britain's Israel Lobby. Most of the video deals with domestic UK political angles which other UK organizations and bloggers are already addressing. It's at 35:00 in the video when...
