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Army Now Allowing Media To Cover Palin Event At Fort Bragg

The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago

RALEIGH, N.C. — The U.S. Army said Friday it would open Sarah Palin's appearance on Fort Bragg to media, a reversal from earlier in the week when the military wanted the event closed out of fears it would prompt political grandstanding against President Barack Obama. The attempt to ban media at the event scheduled for Monday was met with protests from The Associated Press and The Fayetteville...

Talking Social Media with USA Basketball's Craig Miller

Peter Robert Casey (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

I recently caught up with the Chief Media and Communications Officer for USA Basketball , Craig Miller , to talk about social media, breaking into the sports media industry, and the 2010 World Championships. To read the interview, click on the picture above or just click here . Enjoy your weekend!

AOL shows worst not over for media cos

Indian Express (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

If AOL's announcement on Thursday of another 2,500 job cuts is anything to go by, the painful layoffs that have ravaged the media industry over the past year are nowhere near over.

Murdoch Media Busted Stealing Story From Blog...

YOUR NEW REALITY (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago

Murdoch Media Busted Stealing Story From Blog By Darryl Mason You may recall Rupert Murdoch, and his minions, recent spectacular fury at "plagiarist" bloggers, search engines and aggregators "stealing" Murdoch news empire's content and then republishing it on their own websites without Murdoch's permission, and without payment. Here's a reminder of Murdoch's words : "The aggregators...

AOL shows worst not over for media job cuts

The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday

If AOL's announcement yesterday of another 2,500 job cuts is anything to go by, the painful layoffs that have ravaged the media industry over the past year are nowhere near over.

• AOL shows worst not over for media job cuts - Reuters

NEWS: VIDEO: Skifta offers media sharing app

Pocket-lint (Free subscription) | yesterday

Shift content to any DLNA device A small startup from Poole has created an app that aims to make it easier to share your digital media collection between your various gadgets. It's called Skifta , and allows you to shift content between a number of devices with just one catch - they have to be DLNA enabled. If you watch the more-than-a-little-cheesy intro video above, you'll see that it works with...

AOL shows worst not over for media job cuts

Reuters UK (Free subscription) | yesterday

LOS ANGELES, Nov 19 (Reuters) - If AOL's announcement on Thursday of another 2,500 job cuts is anything to go by, the painful layoffs that have ravaged the media industry over the past year are nowhere near over.

• AOL shows worst not over for media job cuts - Reuters

NASA Pushes Social Media Experience to New Heights

PR News Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA launched a social media experience at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida that quickly turned into an unprecedented world-wide event as more than 100 Twitter users got a unique look inside America's space program and front row seats to the Nov. 16 liftoff of the space shuttle Atlantis.

Tories Urge Overhaul of U.K Media

ShoutWire.com (Free subscription) | yesterday

Tory culture secretary Jeremy Hunt demands massive media reform to "allow media operators more flexibility to own businesses operating on both the same and different platforms" and enact light touch regulation. The price of Rupert Murdoch's support!

2 videos: How social media changed the journalist’s day; and making money from content

Online Journalism Blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

Here are 2 very interesting videos from a recent talk by Karl Schneider, Head of editorial development at B2B publisher Reed Business Information, at UCA Farnham. In the first Schneider takes a look at how the typical journalist’s day has changed – I particularly like the concept of previously only ‘20%’ of a journalist’s activity being visible, and 80% invisible, but...

Destiny Media Technologies to Present at 2nd Annual LD MICRO Conference at the Luxe Sunset Bel Air

PR News Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday

VANCOUVER, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Destiny Media, the world's largest secure digital distributor of pre-release music used by record labels to transfer music, broadcast quality videos, full length concerts, radio shows etc. to radio stations, music reviewers, music buyers, movie and television producers through Play MPE®, announced today that CEO, Steve Vestergaard, will be presenting...

What alternative media need to do to survive

Everyday Ethics (Free subscription) | yesterday

The Kojo Nnamdi Listen to Thursday's WAMU discussion of the state of alternative media. The guests: Mark Jurkowitz of the Project for Excellence in Journalism; former Washington Blade editor Kevin Naff ; Richard Karpel of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies; and Washington City Paper editor Erik Wemple .

YouTube Will Soon Block Access From Set-Top Devices [Media Center]

Lifehacker (Free subscription) | yesterday

It won't affect your PS3, Wii, TiVo, or other licensed YouTube partners, but Google's streaming video service will start blocking API access to TV-connected devices as of Dec. 2. The COO of set-top box maker Popcorn Hour writes that the firm tried to negotiate with YouTube to retain the service, but YouTube/Google seems to be standing firm—just as the site starts to transition to 1080p video...

Chicago mayor blames media for Oprah's departure

Everyday Ethics (Free subscription) | yesterday

Chicago Sun-Times Richard Daley says gripes in the media about the city of Chicago shutting down part of Michigan Avenue for Oprah Winfrey 's season kickoff may have been too much for the talk show queen. "You keep kicking people, and people will leave. Simple as that."

Online Marketing/Media Firm Quinstreet Files for $250 Million IPO

Paidcontent (Free subscription) | yesterday

Quinstreet , the Foster City, CA-based vertical media and marketing firm that recently bought Insure.com and Internet.com, has filed for an IPO to raise as much as $250 million, according to its S1 . Last month Quin paid $16 million for Insure.com, and its related media assets, and the month before it bought Internet.com division from WebMediaBrands ( NSDQ: WEBM ) for about $18 million. The company...

One word today that is on every ones mind is Vivienne Jewelry

wwdlu | 18/11/2009

One word today that is on every ones mind is CZ jewelry. These are in hot demand and fashion stores are turning head over heels to meet this demand. CZ jewelry is the name given to those items that are made with cubic zirconia instead of diamonds. This is a rather cheap imitation of diamond jewelry but it is very hard to differentiate between the two. And this is the reason that this artificial jewelry...

Banned on the INTERNET? Innocent Vintage Erotica Blog Returns as a Book Vernacular Erotic Photography Vintage

bestshill | 10/11/2009

A website exhibiting antique amateur photographs which was receiving 40,000 hits per month and was considered too hot for the internet has been reborn as an 80 page book. Shy Shamed Secret Shadowed Hidden , which posted a vintage photograph of a women posing in a manner indicated by the title was closed by the internet provide (a big one) as being "in violation of terms" when in fact the photographs...

Vintage Vernacular Erotic Photography Shy Shamed Secret Shadowed Hidden Published as a BOOK

bestshill | 10/11/2009

The popular blog SHY SHAMED SECRET SHADOWED HIDDEN which was shut down as "a violation of terms" has been published at an 80 page book. The book contains 80 pages of vintage photography, all which depict a woman hiding herself in some manner. The Photography collection covers over 100 years of amateur photography and includes essays on the relationship between the camera, the model and the nature of...