According to court documents seen by Folio, a number of US magazine publishers have ended copyright action against magazine-sharing website Mygazines.com.
Folio: Publishers settle copyright case against Mygazines.com
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AP: Congress close to passing legislation to save internet radio
US Congress is close to passing legislation that would allow more time for arranging an agreement to help save the emerging internet radio market from a rise in copyright royalty rates.
NYTimes.com: New York Sun closes today
The New York Sun announced yesterday that it would close after publishing Tuesday’s issue.
AP: US House website struggled as millions of users access financial bill information
The US House of Representatives’ website was overwhelmed on Monday as millions of users tried to access information about the financial bailout bill rejected by the House.
NYTimes.com will stream content from three technology sites ‘very soon’
In the latest of the newspaper site online deals (it’s difficult to go a day without one it seems), Readwriteweb, GigaOM and VentureBeat will supply the NYTimes.com newly re-designed technology section with content.
ReadWriteWeb announced on its blog yesterday that over the coming weeks we will start to see ReadWriteWeb content appearing on the section’s front.
“This is great news for us”, ReadWriteWeb’s founder Richard McManus writes, “because it brings our brand of web technology news, reviews and analysis to a much wider audience.
“It also means that the innovative and often little known startups we write about daily get a chance to be seen in a mainstream publication. The New York Times has a reputation for quality and in-depth journalism, attributes that we strive for on ReadWriteWeb – so we’re excited about this partnership.”
Beet TV produced a video interview with Vindu Goel, deputy technology editor at the NY Times.
GigaOM have written about it here, while Vindu Goel blogs about the decision on the NY Times site: he promises ‘a steady stream of content from three of the most respected tech blogs on the Web’ very soon.
NYTimes people get together with NYTimes people
‘Oh my god, we read the same newspaper!’ It’s like Guardian soulmates, but Stateside, and not necessarily for single people. Ok, so it’s not at all like a singles website at all.
In fact, today saw the public launch of the New York Times social network, TimesPeople. As we reported in June it’s a social network that links up the NY Times audience through their shared interests.
It’s a free service, which allows:
- RSS feeds with the latest activities of other users in each network, which can be synced to their updates to their Facebook news
- Users to join in public activities, including readers’ comments, recommendations, reviews, ratings
“We created TimesPeople as a community built around sharing news and information, giving our readers a way to connect with other like-minded readers,” said Marc Frons, chief technology officer of digital operations, at the New York Times, in the release. “TimesPeople is a great way for our readers to discover content on the site they might not have otherwise.”
New York University journalism student banned from blogging on class
In a report for MediaShift, New York University journalism student Alana Taylor called on the institution up its game:
“I was hoping that NYU would offer more classes where I could understand the importance of digital media, what it means, how to adapt to the new way of reporting, and learn from a professor who understands not only where the Internet is, but where it’s going… I am convinced that I am taking the only old-but-new-but-still-old media class in the country,” she wrote.
Commenting on one particular class, ‘Reporting Gen Y (a.k.a. Quarterlifers)’, Taylor acknowledged the talent of her teacher Mary Quigley, but felt let down by the programme’s lack of understanding of social and digital media, twittering her frustration during class.
Taylor’s article prompted the inevitable split of comments between support and accusations of arrogance – a microcosmic version of the response to Tampa Bay intern Jessica da Silva on her blog.
But now Taylor has been told not to blog, Twitter or write about the class again without permission, according to an update from MediaShift.
In response to questions from MediaShift’s Mark Glaser, Quigley said her students were free to blog, twitter, email etc the class after it had finished – adding the caveat that they must ask permission before doing so.
Taylor seems to have been reined in unnecessarily – if her comments had been entirely in praise of the class, there would be no grounds for this blog post.
If NYU has a policy of classes being taught ‘off the record’ then surely this goes against the initiative, observation and analytical thinking that the school is trying to teach and instead discourages students from putting these skills into action?
For those commenters on Taylor’s original post accusing her of being a know-it-all – isn’t the university claiming the same thing if it doesn’t allow its students to freely give feedback like this?
Teachers from the course could instead have interacted with the criticism and opened up the discussion – who knows, other students might benefit from hearing about and witnessing Taylor’s social media experience first hand.
NYTimes.com: The future of The New York Sun
The Sun is at a ‘crossroads’, facing a self-imposed deadline at a time when the newspaper industry itself is suffering from loss of advertising and circulation revenues.
Media Week: MSNBC.com gives ‘predator’ reporter his own website
MSNBC.com have launched a website for their ‘predator’ reporter, Chris Hansen. The site features video and text coverage to go alongside investigative stories featured on his show, Dateline.
MediaGuardian: Murdoch says online WSJ and Dow Jones subscriptions could go up
Online subscription revenues at the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones could go up by $300m every year for up to three years, according to Rupert Murdoch.