Friday 17 May 2013

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How Google Music wants to take on Spotify, Rdio and Rhapsody

Google launched its own music subscription service Wednesday. Currently, it's not very different from all the other services out there. So how does it want to compete?

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Is sensor journalism feasible, or even ethical? Columbia’s Tow Center hopes to find out

Journalists and organizations now have the ability to use sensors to collect their own real-time data and report on it. The practice raises both practical and ethical questions, Columbia's Emily Bell said Thursday.

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Google CEO Larry Page: Do as I say, not as I do

Google CEO Larry Page, who has been suffering from vocal cord issues, showed up at the end of the Google I/O keynote and spent some time talking about his vision of technology and took questions from the audience. And that's when the fun started.

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Producer of The Ring and Mulholland Drive releases new horror movie as an iOS app

Neal Edelstein, producer of hit movies like The Ring and Mulholland Drive, has a new film project: A film delivered in chunks directly through an iOS app.

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Top jobs of the week in digital media

Looking for a job in digital media? Each week we highlight some of the most interesting positions posted to paidContent's jobs board. Check out the latest gigs at media companies across the country.

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Publishers to testify against Apple in price-fixing trial

Apple's exposure in a closely-watched price-fixing case over ebooks looks more serious as the CEOs of major publishers -- which have already settled with the government -- will testify about Apple's role in the case.

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New Yorker launches “open-source anonymous inbox” built by Aaron Swartz

The New Yorker has launched Strongbox, an open-source software system that allows users to submit confidential documents to the magazine anonymously. Strongbox was built by Aaron Swartz before his death.

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Ebooks made up 20% of the U.S. consumer book industry in 2012, up from 15% in 2011

The U.S. consumer book publishing industry had a strong 2012, fueled in part by the growth of ebooks.

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German online publishers’ anti-adblock campaign backfires

A public campaign by some of the biggest German online publishers against ad-blocking software may have backfired, as downloads of one popular ad-blocking product have more than doubled.

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Crowdsourcing is here to stay — now it’s about building tools for networked journalism

NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen says that many of the cultural barriers to doing "networked journalism" have been lowered, and he is trying to help media outlets develop smart tools and ways of making use of crowdsourcing.

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