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Philippine news magazine on-line

The  Philippineo news magazine Newsbreak has just launched its web site.
This should be an interesting source of information from the area.
Amongst the first items is an article showing how fake election returns (ERs) were manufactured and filled up during the Christmas week of 2004. The article uses cell phone pictures as evidence.

50 Million Americans Get News Online Every Day

The daily audience online for news has grown dramatically since 2002 - a surge that has been fueled by the rise in home broadband connections. Some 50 million Americans now seek out news on the internet on a typical day.

In a survey in December 2005, the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that a major segment of broadband users now say the internet is their primary news source, surpassing even  television and newspapers as their source of choice. Some 71% of these high-powered online news consumers go online for news on the average day, while 59% get news from local TV. Just more than half get news from national TV and radio on the typical day and about 40% turn to local papers.

Across age groups, the impact of online news is greatest for American adults under the age of 36 who have a high-speed internet connection at home. For this group, the internet is now on par with local TV and newspaper as a daily source for news, and surpasses national TV, radio, and local papers as a news source. Fully 46% of this group gets news online on the typical day, compared with 51% who turn to local TV, 41% who turn to radio, and 40% to national TV news.

full report at www.pewinternet.org

Why Bush went to war

Greg Palast on why Bush went to war:

There you have it.  Yes, Bush went in for the oil -- not to get more of Iraq's oil, but to prevent Iraq producing too much of it.

UR föreläsning

Jag höll en föreläsning igår som en del av UR-serien "Berätta med media".
Powerpoint-bilderna finns nu att ladda ner.

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Good source of new medical research information

  MedPage Today is a clearinghouse of new medical news information. Along with updates, the site also includes “Teaching Brief” articles which help clinicians and consumers to understand the implications of new discoveries and developments in the medical world.

The site has a number of RSS feeds and an email allert function.

The site is housed at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

UK is world leader in digital television viewing

Ofcom today publishes its Communications Market: Digital TV Progress Report for the fourth quarter of 2005. The report examines data provided by the main digital television platform providers for the October-December 2005 period. The report shows that the UK has the highest digital penetration of any country in the world. As of 31 December 2005 digital television was viewed by just under 70% of all UK television households, up from 65.9% in the previous quarter.

Googles finances

American publicly traded companies have to file a large number of documents so that shareholders can make decisions about the value of the stock.
As Google is now such a company we can begin to see some of the inner financial workings of the company. Worth a read for tech and business journalists.

Google has just filed its 2005 Annual Report with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
It makes for some interesting reading.
For example where they lease office space (Bangalore, Beijing, Belo Horizonte, Copenhagen, Dublin, Duesseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Istanbul, London, Madrid, Melbourne, Mexico City, Milan, Montreal, Mumbai, Munich, New York, Oslo, Paris, Rome, Sao Paolo, Seoul, Shanghai, Stockholm, Sydney, Tel-Aviv, Tokyo, Toronto, Trondheim, Warsaw and Zurich, to mention a few).

It is also interesting that revenues from the UK have dropped, something Google explains by the strengthening of the dollar 

"Advertising spending in certain verticals (advertising segments) in the United Kingdom decreased from the three months ended September 30, 2005 to the three months ended December 31, 2005 due to seasonality." [page 49]

What seasonality means in this context is a little unsure to me. You would think that in the run-up to Christmas ad revenue would increase, not decrease.

On pages 10, 11 & 12 of the report we can read about Google AdWords and AdSense, offering short but highly detailed explanations of the many features and tools included in the two paid-advertising packages. This is a must-read section for anyone interested in AdWords or AdSense, including experienced search marketers. To see all the features listed in one place is a good reminder of how Google’s paid advertising machine works and why it works so well.

National Libraries of the World

National libraries can be hugely valuable resources.
They often have collections of historical and actual information of great use to researchers (both in journalism and elsewhere). There is the National Treasures site from Austrailia or the fact that the official email address to the national library of Libya is hotmail address :-) [E-mail:[email protected]]

There is a good list of them from IFLA (The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) at: http://www.ifla.org/VI/2/p2/national-libraries.htm

Competitive Intelligence - A Selective Resource Guide

Journalism has a lot to learn from the business world. I am not talking about the destructive "bottom line" ownership strategies here but about business or competitive intelligence systems.
Just as the "deep web" exists outside the sphere of the search engine so too does much of the world of competitive intelligence. There is in fact quite an overlap.

Have a look at Competitive Intelligence - A Selective Resource Guide from the LLRX site.

 

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