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Olympics Channel Launches Amid Strikes in Beijing, Torch Trouble in Paris

The NewsMarket debuted the Beijing 2008 Olympics Channel today. The destination will provide free news content about the Beijing games in both English and Chinese. It will also include video for use by journalists and bloggers. The page went live despite drama about the pending state of internet access over the course of the Games. According to   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, April 8th 2008

MySpace Bug Unearths 'Private' Photos

A MySpace bug was discovered last week that allows anyone to view photos set private by the user, including users who mark themselves "under age 14," which automatically renders their profiles private to anyone outside their networks. The loophole was discussed on message boards as far back as three months. Wired cites an October forum exchange between two self-described "pedo soldiers" who  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 22nd 2008

Tax on Internet, Mobile May Replace French TV Ads

President Nicolas Sarkozy of France has proposed a bill that bans commercials on public television and taxes internet and mobile phone service, reports the International Herald Tribune. On abolishing advertising on public TV, Sarkozy said channels "could be financed by a tax on advertising revenues of private broadcasters and an infinitesimal tax on the revenues of new means of communication like Internet  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 9th 2008

Massive Mistrust in UK over Identity Fraud

Only half (52 percent) of consumers in Great Britain trust their high-street bank or building society (similar to a savings and loan institution) to protect their personal details from identity thieves, a new "trust poll" has revealed, writes MarketingCharts. Travel and gambling companies f  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, October 16th 2007

Americans Concerned about Economy, Financial Situation

In the shadow of Wall Street volatility, a plurality of Americans say the economy is declining. One-third say their own personal finances have gotten worse from a year ago, according to a nationwide Harris Poll fielded in the second week of August, reports MarketingCharts. Overvie  [...]
Posted: Friday, August 24th 2007

WikiScanner Unleashes Much Ado About Propaganda on Wikipedia

Government agencies have been pinned as the origins of more than 11,000 changes to articles over Wikipedia.com, according to The Globe and Mail. The information appeared after yesterday's news on the Wiki  [...]
Posted: Thursday, August 16th 2007

Russia, Estonia Face First Cyberwar, US Enters Fray

The cyberattack that Estonia suffered last May, culminating in a massive distributed denial-of-service attack on the country's major websites, has spawned some response from the US, reports ArsTechnica. The US has sent an investigative team to Estonia to help analyze a large volume of data generated by the attacks to help train Estonian IT workers in securing   [...]
Posted: Monday, July 9th 2007

FTC Gives Net Neutrality the Big 'What For?'

Last week the FTC issued a report dismissing claims that the government must help preserve the fairness of online networks in the U.S., according to Ars Technica. "This report recommends that policy makers proceed with caution in the evolving, dynamic industry of  [...]
Posted: Monday, July 2nd 2007

Self-Censorship May Prove Prodigal Comrade for Russian Bloggers

Human rights advocates and Internet users in Russia are complaining about the increased interest of security forces in the online space, accusing authorities of stirring fear and intimidation, says BusinessWeek. Some worry that the Internet, considered Russia's "last remaining censorship-free refuge" by media professionals, may now  [...]
Posted: Monday, June 18th 2007

Music Industry Offers Unappetizing Royalty to Webcasters

The music industry considerately granted small webcasters the option of paying "below market" royalty rates for songs they play -- by keeping rates the same under the 2002 Small Webcaster Settlement Act, reports ZDNet. Webcasters considered "small" will pay 10 percent of all gross revenue up to $250,000 and 12 percent over that amount. The deal holds until 2010. The net result of this proposal is that   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, May 23rd 2007

YouTube Pulls Video of McCain Singing 'Bomb Iran'

YouTube said Friday it had erroneously deleted and would restore a video of presidential candidate John McCain singing an impromptu song about bombing Iran, reports CNET. During a campaign stop in South Carolina last week, the Arizona senator sang the tune of the Beach Boys song "Barbara Ann," but wit  [...]
Posted: Monday, April 23rd 2007

Utah Bill Could Halt Competitive Keyword Buying

The state of Utah has passed a bill that could impact the practice of buying competitive keywords, reports Search Engine Land. Some search engine marketers buy up keywords associated with the copyrighted terms of their competitors. Utah's Trademark Protection Act would make that practice illegal. The bill creates an "electronic registration mark" as a new form of trademark. Registering that mark will cost $250 but once done a competitor may not use that term to trigger advertis  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, April 4th 2007

IAB to Congress: SPY Act Hinders E-Commerce, Info Flow

The Interactive Advertising Bureau yesterday urged Congress to protect consumers' access to information and entertainment online and be wary of interest-group pressure to pass what IAB termed ill-considered "spyware" legislation. The IAB said the legislation would hinder internet commerce and the free exchange of information. It was among several organizations testifying at the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Con  [...]
Posted: Friday, March 16th 2007

Dan Rather: U.S. Journalism Has Lost Backbone

During his keynote at South by Southwest Interactive, longtime CBS broadcaster Dan Rather said American journalists "have become lapdogs to power, rather than watchdogs," reports CNET. "You can get so close to a source that you become part of the problem," he said. "Some people say that these powerful people use journalists, and they do. And they will use them to the fullest extent po  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, March 13th 2007

Video Blogger Now Longest-Jailed Journalist

Josh Wolf, the video blogger jailed for refusing to turn over video of a political protest, has now set a record for being being the longest-incarcerated journalist, reports the New York Times. The case revolves around raw video that Wolf shot of an anticapitalist rally in 2005 where a small explosive went off, slightly injuring a police officer and damaging a police squad car. Wolf has refused to turn that video ov  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, February 7th 2007

Terrorists, Too, Exploit AdSense Click Fraud

Jim Hedger of Webmaster Radio has made public a report that ads served by Google on the sites of Google AdSense publishers who are connected with Al Qaeda, Hezbollah and other terrorist groups are benefiting those groups, which are resorting to click fraud to derive revenue from Google advertisers,   [...]
Posted: Thursday, December 7th 2006

In Email Battle, DOJ Takes Utah's Side

The U.S. Department of Justice has said that the federal Can-Spam Act does not supersede Utah's so-called child protection registry act, and that the state's Do Not Email registry does not infringe on free speech. The move is a massive blow to efforts to have Utah's Do Not Email law overturned, and it leaves the biggest argument against the registry unaddressed, writes Direct Magazine (  [...]
Posted: Thursday, November 9th 2006

Data Retention Bill to Cover Web Hosts, Registrars

Setting their sites beyond ISPs, politicians on Tuesday told domain name registries and web hosting companies that Congress is considering mandating that they too retain user records. One form of data retention legislation could require ISPs and possibly social networking sites and search engines to record for a year or two which IP address is used by which user, reports  [...]
Posted: Thursday, September 28th 2006

Anonymous AOL Search Data Not So Anonymous

Those who still think that ostensibly "anonymized" data - the type that the U.S. government is seeking (and sometimes getting) from search providers - protects searchers' privacy, should consider the case of AOL searcher No. 4417749. Among the 20 million or so search queries by some 650,000 AOL subscribers recently released by AOL are those by user No. 4417749, who,  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, August 9th 2006

Republicans Target Social Networks

A proposed federal law requires schools and libraries to make social networking sites inaccessible to minors - and because of its broad definition would also likely affect other sites, such as Blogger.com and AOL, and Yahoo's instant messaging features as well as Xbox 360, writes CNET. House Republicans, including Speaker Dennis Ha  [...]
Posted: Thursday, May 11th 2006