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Anti-Piracy Group Claims Mass Mininova Torrent Deletion
An Italian anti-piracy group is claiming a “major offensive” against nternet links to infringing music. Created by IFPI, the Federation Against Music Piracy (FPM) says that 20K torrents were removed… Read more »
Hero Pirate Stephen Fry Stars In BitTorrent Game
Just last week, multi-talented entertainer and general all round good guy Stephen Fry confirmed what everyone had secretly hoped he would, that he pirates TV shows with BitTorrent. Now, to… Read more »
Crowdsourcing platform Help Me Investigate is live - and generates its first story
View Birmingham’s parking ticket hotspots in a larger map Today the Birmingham Post publishes the first story to come out of the crowdsourcing platform I’ve been creating - Help Me Investigate… Read more »
Elsevier’s ‘Article of the Future’ resembles websites of the past
Elsevier, the Dutch scientific publisher, has announced details of their grandly titled Article of the Future project. Their prototypes, published at http://beta.cell.com, are the result of what Emilie Marcus, Editor… Read more »
Did Michael Jackson’s kids make the Daily Mail the most visited UK newspaper site in June?
The Daily Mail surprisingly overtook the Telegraph and Guardian in the June ABCes - with more unique visitors than any other UK newspaper. However it was only 4th in terms… Read more »
2 great analyses of the Associated Press’s plans to be the RIAA of news
Pat Thornton writes on AP’s plans to stop people sharing news content… DRM always works like this: It never stops people who really want to steal or break the law… Read more »
Copying text from a Daily Mail article? You’ll get a URL at the end {updated}
Here’s a curious feature of stories on the Daily Mail website. When you copy text from an article and then paste it elsewhere you get something like the following appended… Read more »
Who links to the report they’re reporting on?
This week the UK government released a report into social mobility. While mainstream reporting focused mainly on the broad picture, I wanted to read the original government report itself. Which… Read more »
Managing Editor wanted for Bureau of Investigative Journalism
These days any journalist job ad is news, but this one is particularly worth blogging about. The recently formed Investigations Fund has in turn launched the Bureau of Investigative Journalism… Read more »
The future of journalism: Will journalists be paying out of their own pockets?
While talking to an editor at a newspaper that had made a splash with a crowdsourced investigative story a couple years ago, I remember the subject of payment coming up… Read more »
