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Judge Tosses Out RIAA's First File-Sharing Conviction, Thomas Granted New Trial!
Posted by Damianmann from Zeropaid
There's the smell of blood in the water over at RIAA headquarters this morning with word that their legal team suffered a dramatic setback today, one that dramatically raises the standards for proving copyright infringement.
As Text Messages Fly, Danger Lurks
Posted by Shemuses from New York Times
Senator Barack Obama used one to announce to the world his choice of a running mate. Thousands of Americans have used them to vote for their favorite "American Idol" contestants. Many teenagers prefer them to actually talking. Almost overnight, text messages have become the preferred form of communication for millions. But even as industry calculations show that Americans are now using mobile phones to send or receive more text messages than phone calls, those messages are coming under increasing fire because of the danger they can pose by distracting users.
Five Ways to Use Social Media to Reach People Who Don't Use Social Media
Posted by Shemuses from Readwriteweb
Are you the only person at work who likes to read blogs? Is it your job to sell things to people who would probably throw you out of their offices if you said the word "twitter?" Are you trying to reach audiences who've never visited a social networking website because they've heard those sites are used by no one but virus peddlers, sex fiends and 14 year old losers? Sometimes it feels like social media is just not relevant to the people you're trying to reach. That's a common dilemma, but we believe it doesn't have to be that way. In this post we discuss five strategies for using social media to reach people who don't use social media, and we've listed specific tools you can use to do it.
NAACP's new president wastes no time reaching out to the Black netroots
Posted by Shemuses
On only his second day on the job as the NAACP's new president, 35-year old Benjamin Todd Jealous convened a conference call where members of the Black press and some Black bloggers were given the opportunity to ask him questions about the NAACP's response to Hurricane Ike as well as its new online voter registration drive called Upload to Uplift. Veteran journalists and neophyte bloggers were afforded the same access and respect -- a perhaps prescient dynamic of which other venerable Black institutions should take notice.
New Canon EOS 5D Mark II Tries to One-Up Nikon in Video
Posted by Jeff from PC Magazine
On Wednesday, Canon announced its first HD-video-capable DSLR, the Canon EOS 5D Mark II, a response to the Nikon D90 announced last month. The new 5D Mark II will retail for $2,600 for the body only and $3,499 with a 24-105mm lens.
Stuck in Google’s Doghouse
Posted by greenhow from New York Times
Some say that Google's near monopoly in search ads puts it in a position to decide which business models it will tolerate and which ones it won't.
Biologist (Almost) Creates Artificial Life
Posted by Jeff from Slashdot
Wired has an interesting story up about how a lab led by Jack Szostak, a molecular biologist at Harvard Medical School, is building 'protocells' from artificial molecules which are very close to satisfying the conditions for being 'alive'. 'Szostak's protocells are built from fatty molecules that can trap bits of nucleic acids that contain the source code for replication. Combined with a process that harnesses external energy from the sun or chemical reactions, they could form a self-replicating, evolving system that satisfies the conditions of life, but isn't anything like life on earth now, but might represent life as it began or could exist elsewhere in the universe.' This obviously raises some questions about creationism, not to mention some scary bio-research-gone-wild scenarios.
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