March 2007
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Hired by Microsoft to be an “enthusiast evangelist”, to “go out and mingle, bond and touch influential end users and show them all the cool things that Microsoft has to offer”, lifestyle blogger Stephanie Quilao quit after only nine and a half weeks. It wasn’t just that working for Microsoft made her feel like Martha >>>
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YouTube uses its users to steal from the work of honest artists toiling to create original content, says Viacom as it finally sues YouTube for “massive intentional copyright infringement”: YouTube is a significant, for-profit organization that has built a lucrative business out of exploiting the devotion of fans to others’ creative works in order to >>>
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Flip away from the enthusiasms of the Web 2.0/participatory media crowd; the future suddenly loses its shine. In a paper published last year by Harvard’s Shorenstein Center, Robert G Picard gives a detailed account of what’s gone wrong with American news journalism: Many of the challenges of news organization today exist because the professionalism of >>>