Independant Media

Nazeer Ladhani, AKDN, presents at Salzburg Global Seminar on Strengthening Independent Media

Ismailimail (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009

The Salzburg global Seminar is a high level gathering of development agencies, foundations and other international donor organizations. The goal of the meeting was to discuss the role of independent media as a driver of positive change, underwriting development goals, and increasing the effectiveness of development programs. The meeting was held from October [...]

Bush's Fate and Bugliosi's New Movie

democrats.com (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

By David Swanson One of the best features of a visit to Los Angeles is the opportunity to hang out with the guy who put Charles Manson in prison, the most successful criminal prosecutor we're ever likely to see, Vince Bugliosi (105 convictions in 106 felony jury trials, 21 convictions in 21 murder trials). I spoke with him on Tuesday about his forthcoming documentary film (pre-order DVD here http://www.indiegogo.com/bush...

AOL Changes Its Logo, and More

The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009

It's official: AOL is now Aol. As the fading Internet giant nears its 20th anniversary , the newly independent media company is prepping for another revamp. The latest step is a new logo, as seen below. The corporate name is now spelled with an upper case "A," a lower case "o" and "l," and a period: Today's AOL, er, Aol. --my spell checker sure hates that period -- is...

The announcement you may or may not have heard this weekend

The Power Liberal (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009

For those of you who didn't get to make it to my panel, or that I didn't talk to over the weekend, I wanted to let you all know that after almost three and a half years, I am now in the process of leaving the Center for Independent Media . For background, when they arrived here in 2006 I was hired to set up and launch the Minnesota Monitor (now the renowned Minnesota Independent ), which I did until...

Egypt versus Algeria: all for you, Jamal Mubarak

Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009

An Arab journalist in Cairo (who does not want to be identified) sent me this (I cite with his/her permission): " I was at that demonstration in Zamalek, Cairo. The protestors were chanting slogans along the lines of these two, the most common two by the way: "Algeria, get lost: you're the country of one million prostitutes" (ya gaza'ir imshi foot, ya balad millyun sharmout) "1,2,3...

Somalia, Afghanistan ranked most corrupt countries in annual survey

JURIST (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

[JURIST] The conflict-ravaged nations of Somalia, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Sudan, and Iraq rank among the world's most corrupt, according to the 2009 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) published Tuesday by Transparency International (TI). The index ranked 180 countries based on observations by businesspeople and analysts, giving each a score between 0 and 10. Somalia had the lowest score of 1.1, while...

• New Zealand tops Denmark as world's least corrupt nation - World Affairs Board
• Report on Corruption - The Whig
• See the 4 articles on the same subject

Honduran Dictatorship is A Threat to Democracy in the Hemisphere

From The Wilderness (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

By Mark Weisbrot 11-19-09 A small group of rich people who own most of Honduras and its politicians enlist the military to kidnap the elected president at gunpoint and take him into exile. They then arrest thousands of people opposed to the coup, shut down and intimidate independent media, shoot and kill some demonstrators, torture and beat [...]

Ben Bradshaw's distasteful remarks

political views from a conservative perspective (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

When the bbc rejected the gaza disaster appeal -due to their belief in political neutrality there was a hornets nest of disgust - saying the bbc was pro israel etc - this is the same organisation though who as i have showed on my blog is steadfastly pro israel. I did not know then but do know now, that the culture secretary ben bradshaw says israel has a long reputation for bullying the BBC. this is...

Buscombe clarifies blogging intentions: only volunteers will be regulated

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009

PCC chairman Peta Buscombe has said she does not want to regulate bloggers after all unless they sign up for it Further to the earlier posting about the bloggers' response to Baroness Buscombe , chairman of the Press Complaints Commission ... Buscombe has pre-empted the sending of a letter by blogger Sunny Hundal by responding to the criticisms in advance of it being sent. In her letter she refers...

Mobixell Networks Announces Rich Media 7 to Deliver Optimum User Experience of Messaging, Web and Video Rich Media Services in a Single Centralised Hub

PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009

HONG KONG, November 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Mobixell, a leading provider of innovative Mobile Multimedia Messaging, Mobile TV, and Mobile Advertising solutions has today announced the introduction of Rich Media 7, a new generation of its popular Rich Media Service Centre (RMSC) solution deployed at over 120 mobile operators, which offers a single, streamlined content adaptation hub for video, MMS, offline...

Fact-check for Guido on PCC

Next Left (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009

There has been a good deal of excitement over the idea that the Press Complaints Commission is musing about whether its remit should extend to the blogosphere, a kite flown by PCC chair Baroness Bascombe in an interview with The Independent's Ian Burrell, as reported in his blog on The Independent website . Well, this could be fun, judging by the letter which Unity has drafted on Liberal Conspiracy...

2009 Corruption Index

MyDD (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009

New Zealand, Denmark, Singapore, Sweden and Switzerland are the top five least corrupt nations according to a new survey released today by the NGO Transparency International . The United States with a 7.5 (out of ten) score ranked 19th just behind the United Kingdom and Japan. Somalia, Afghanistan, Myanmar, the Sudan and Iraq ranked as the most corrupt in that order. In the Americas, Haiti (ranked...

• South Africa drops to 55th place in corruption index - I Luv SA
• New Zealand named world's least corrupt country - The Telegraph
• See the 14 articles on the same subject

Murdoch's News Corporation Makes a Move

Bigthink - Site Features Feed (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009

A variety of English media reported today that the Times of London will begin charging its customers for 24-hour access to the Times’ website by spring. The Times, roughly the English equivalent of the New York Times, is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation and will likely be the first major newspaper to adopt a mandatory online payment scheme. Since Murdoch’s News Corp. is...

Look out - the blog police are coming

The Church Mouse (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009

Well, they're probably not actually, but apparently they'd really like to. Iain Dale has a post pointing to comments to Baroness Buscombe, the new chairman of the Press Complaints Commission. Apparently she'd like to look at whether the PCC's remit should be extended to cover blogs. The source is, of course, another blog , that of Ian Burrell, who edits The Independent's Media Pages. According to Burrell,...

Fusion-io 80GB ioXtreme Pro

Hard Drive Reviews (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009

The Fusion-io ioXtreme, and ioXtreme Pro PCI Express Solid State Storage devices are the best storage solution for PCs and workstation applications that are I/O intensive or bandwidth starved. With 80GB of high performance, non-volatile storage you can edit, copy, or save massive files five times faster. Built using ioMemory and MLC NAND flash technology, the ioXtreme performs better than its SATA...