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Whether you read Monday's Washington Post story, "A Newspaper Chain Sees Its Future, And It's Online and Hyper-Local," or not, you have probably noticed that Gannett and the information world are moving more and more towards the Internet and away from
Second Life virtual people 'use as much power as Brazilians' Infomatics
Author Nicholas Carr has claimed that virtual inhabitants of the online world Second Life are having a real-world impact. In a recent posting on his Rough Type blog, Carr suggests that the users of each avatar in the virtual word consume as much electricity keeping their online creations functioning as the average citizen of Brazil.
Yahoo and Reuters launch citizen journalist portal Infomatics
Yahoo has teamed up with Reuters to launch a portal aimed at collecting media from 'citizen journalists'. Yahoo will collect the images and video, while Reuters will distribute some content to its print and broadcast customers.
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TT racer honoured after pressure from Citizen news team holdthefrontpage.co.uk
The Lancaster and Morecambe Citizen raced towards a remarkable win when the local council backed a newspaper campaign to get TT ace John McGuinness honoured.
Neighborhood America Delivers Enterprise Social Networking Capability to Businesses, Media and Government Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
NAPLES, Fla.----In a year marked by a dramatic surge in citizen journalism, social networking and consumer/brand participation, Neighborhood America announced that its 'Software as a Service' solution enabled governments, media and enterprises to engage more than 3 million individuals about the issues most important to them.
Today’s top 10 The State
STUDY: NO LINK BETWEEN CANCER, CELL PHONE USE A huge study from Denmark offers the latest reassurance that cell phones don’t trigger cancer. Scientists tracked 420,000 Danish cell phone users, including 52,000 who had gabbed on the gadgets for 10 years or more, and some who started using them 21 years ago. They matched phone records to the famed Danish Cancer Registry that records every citizen
With cellphone video, little brother is always watching USATODAY.com via Yahoo! News
Comedian Michael Richards (Kramer of TV's Seinfeld) launches into a racist rant at a West Los Angeles comedy club. A police officer repeatedly uses a taser gun on a student in the UCLA library. A high school teacher calls a student a homophobic name. Another yells at a student for not standing during the national anthem.
Tampa Tribune, Fla., Tom Jackson Column RedNova
By Tom Jackson, Tampa Tribune, Fla. Dec. 5--WESLEY CHAPEL -- Patti Hannaway, born the year Americans first learned the potential pitfalls of the stock market, regards herself as a fairly savvy retired citizen.
A Newspaper Chain Sees Its Future, And It's Online and Hyper-Local Post-Tribune
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Could this be the future of newspapering? Darkness falls on a chilly Winn-Dixie parking lot in a dodgy part of North Fort Myers just before Thanksgiving. Chuck Myron sits in his little gray Nissan and types on an IBM ThinkPad laptop plugged into the car's cigarette lighter.citizen+online: citizen+online