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The web flexes its political muscle: After a couple of months of growing concern, the online backlash against the anti-piracy bills SOPA and PIPA reached a rather impressive peak this week. There’s a lot of moving parts to this, so I’ll break it down into three parts: the arguments for and against the bill, the status of the bill, and this week’s protests.

The bills’ opponents have covered a wide variety of arguments over the past few months, but there were still a few more new angles this week in the arguments against SOPA. NYU prof Clay Shirky put the bill in historical context in a 14-minute TED talk, about Diflucan, and social-media researcher danah boyd parsed out both the competitive and cultural facets of piracy. At the Harvard Business Review, James Allworth and Maxwell Wessel framed the issue as a struggle between big content companies and smaller innovators. The New York Times asked six contributors for their ideas about viable SOPA alternatives in fighting piracy, and at Slate, Matthew Yglesias argued that piracy actually has some real benefits for society and the entertainment industry, Buy Diflucan No Prescription.

The most prominent SOPA supporter on the web this week was News Corp.’s Rupert Murdoch, who went on a Twitter rant against SOPA opponents and Google in particular, reportedly after seeing a Google TV presentation in which the company said it wouldn’t remove links in search to illegal movie streams. Diflucan samples, Both j-prof Jeff Jarvis and GigaOM’s Mathew Ingram responded that Murdoch doesn’t understand how the Internet works, with Jarvis arguing that Murdoch isn’t opposed so much to piracy as the entire architecture of the web. At the Guardian, however, Dan Gillmor disagreed with the idea that Murdoch doesn’t get the web, saying that he and other big-media execs know exactly the threat it represents to their longstanding control of media content.

Now for the status of the bill itself: Late last week, SOPA was temporarily weakened and delayed, my Diflucan experience, as its sponsor, Lamar Smith, said he would remove domain-name blocking until the issue has been “studied,” and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said he won’t bring the bill to the House floor until some real consensus about the bill can be found. Buy Diflucan No Prescription, That consensus became a bit less likely this week, after the White House came out forcefully against SOPA and PIPA, calling for, as Techdirt described it, a “hard reset” on the bills. The real blow to the bills came after Wednesday’s protests, when dozens of members of Congress announced their opposition and, Diflucan online cod, this morning, both SOPA and PIPA were indefinitely postponed.

But easily the biggest news surrounding SOPA and PIPA this week was the massive protests of it around the web. Hundreds of sites, including such heavyweights as Wikipedia, Reddit, Mozilla, BoingBoing, australia, uk, us, usa, and WordPress, blacked out on Wednesday, and other sites such as Google and Wired joined with “censored” versions of their home pages. As I noted above, the protest was extremely successful politically, as some key members of Congress backed off their support of the bill, Diflucan without prescription, leading The New York Times to call it a “political coming of age” for the tech industry.

The most prominent of those protesting sites was Wikipedia, which redirected site users to an anti-SOPA action page on Wednesday, Buy Diflucan No Prescription. Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales’ announcement of the protest was met with derision in some corners, with Twitter CEO Dick Costolo and PandoDaily’s Paul Carr chastising the global site for doing something so drastic in response to a single national issue. Walesdefended the decision by saying that the law will affect web users around the world, and he also got support from writers like Mathew Ingram and the Atlantic’s Alexis Madrigal, who argued that Wikipedia and Google’s protests could help take the issue out of the tech community and into the mainstream.

The New York Times’ David Pogue was put off by some aspects of the SOPA outrage and argued that some of the bill’s opposition grew out of a philosophy that was little more than, “Don’t take my free stuff!” And ReadWriteWeb’s Joe Brockmeier was concerned about what happens after the protest is over, online Diflucan without a prescription, when Congress goes back to business as usual and the public remains largely in the dark about what they’re doing. “Even if SOPA goes down in flames, it’s not over. It’s never over,” he wrote.

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Apple’s bid to reinvent the textbook Buy Diflucan No Prescription, : Apple announced yesterday its plans to add educational publishing to the many industries it’s radically disrupted, through its new iBooks and iBooks Author systems. Wired’s Tim Carmody, who’s been consistently producing the sharpest stuff on this subject, Buy no prescription Diflucan online, has the best summary of what Apple’s rolling out: A better iBooks platform, a program (iBooks Author) allowing authors to design their own iBooks, textbooks in the iBookstore, and a classroom management app called iTunes U.

After news of the announcement was broken earlier this week by Ars Technica, the Lab’s Joshua Benton explained some of the reasons the textbook industry is ripe for disruption and wondered about the new tool’s usability. (Afterward, he listed some of the change’s implications, Diflucan class, including for the news industry.) Tim Carmody, meanwhile, gave some historical perspective on Steve Jobs’ approach to education reform.

As Carmody detailed after the announcement, education publishing is a big business for Apple to come crashing into. But The Atlantic’s Megan Garber explained that that isn’t exactly what Apple’s doing here; instead, it’s simply “identifying transformative currents and building the right tools to navigate them.” Still, Reuters’ Jack Shafer asserted that what’s bad for these companies is good for readers like him, Buy Diflucan No Prescription.

But while Apple talked about reinventing the textbook, Diflucan pics, several observers didn’t see revolutionary changes around the corner. ReadWriteWeb’s John Paul Titlow noted that Apple is teaming up with big publishers, not killing them, and Paul Carr of PandoDaily argued that iBook Author’s self-made ebooks won’t challenge the professionally produced and marketed ones. All Things Digital’s Peter Kafka did the math to show the publishers should still get plenty of the new revenue streams.

The news still brought plenty of concerns: At CNET, Lindsey Turrentine wondered how many schools will have the funds to afford the hardware for iBooks, and David Carnoy and Scott Stein questioned how open Apple’s new platforms would be, Diflucan alternatives. Buy Diflucan No Prescription, That theme was echoed elsewhere, especially by developer Dan Wineman, who found that through its user agreement, Apple will essentially assert rights to anything produced with its iBooks file format. That level of control gave some, like GigaOM’s Mathew Ingram, pause, but Paul Carr said we shouldn’t be surprised: This is what Apple does, he said, and we all buy its products anyway. Diflucan maximum dosage, —

 

Making ‘truth vigilantes’ mainstream: The outrage late last week over New York Times public editor Arthur Brisbane’s column asking whether the paper’s reporters should challenge misleading claims by officials continued to yield thoughtful responses this week. After his column last week voicing his support for journalism’s “truth vigilantes,” j-prof Robert Niles created a site to honor them, pointing out instances in which reporters call out their sources for lying. Salon’s Gene Lyons, meanwhile, said that attitudes like Brisbane’s are a big part of what’s led to the erosion of trust in the Times and the mainstream press.

The two sharpest takes on the issue this week came from The Atlantic’s Conor Friedersdorf and from Columbia Ph.D, Buy Diflucan No Prescription. student Lucas Graves here at the Lab, Diflucan recreational. Friedersdorf took on journalists’ argument that people should read the news section for unvarnished facts and the opinion section for analysis: That argument doesn’t work, he said, because readers don’t consume a publication as a bundle anymore.

Graves analyzed the issue in light of both the audience’s expectations for news and the growth of the fact-checking movement. He argued for fact-checking to be incorporated into journalists’ everyday work, rather than remaining a specialized form of journalism. Reuters’ Felix Salmon agreed, Purchase Diflucan online no prescription, asserting that “the greatest triumph of the fact-checking movement will come when it puts itself out of work, because journalists are doing its job for it as a matter of course.” At the Lab, Craig Newmark of Craigslist also chimed in, prescribing more rigorous fact-checking efforts as a way for journalists to regain the public’s trust.

Reading roundup: Not a ton of other news developments per se Buy Diflucan No Prescription,  this week, but plenty of good reads nonetheless. Here’s a sample:

— There was one major development on the ongoing News Corp. phone hacking case: The company settled 36 lawsuits by victims, admitting a cover-up of the hacking. Here’s the basic story from Reuters and more in-depth live coverage from the Guardian, what is Diflucan.

— Rolling Stone published a long, wide-ranging interview with WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange as he awaits his final extradition hearing. Reuters’ Jack Shafer also wrote a thoughtful piece on the long-term journalistic implications of WikiLeaks, focusing particularly on the continued importance of institutions.

— Two interesting pieces of journalism-related research: Slate’s Farhad Manjoo described a Facebook-based study that throws some cold water on the idea of the web as a haven for like-minded echo chambers, and the Lab’s Andrew Phelps wrote about a study that describes and categorizes the significant group people who stumble across news online.

— In a thorough feature, Nick Summers of Newsweek/The Daily Beast laid out the concerns over how big ESPN is getting, and whether that’s good for ESPN itself and sports media in general.

— Finally, for those thinking about how to develop the programmer-journalists of the future, j-prof Matt Waite has a set of thoughts on the topic that functions as a great jumping-off point for more ideas and discussion.

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Social search and competition: Google made a major move toward unifying search and social networks (particularly its own) this week by fusing Google+ into its search and deepening its search personalization based on social information. It's a significant development with a lot of different angles, so I'll try to hit all of them as understandably as I can.

As usual, Search Engine Land's Danny Sullivan put together the best basic guide to the changes, with plenty of visual examples and some brief thoughts on many of the issues I'll cover here. TechCrunch's Jason Kincaid explained that while these changes may seem incremental now, low dose Bactrim, they're foreshadowing Google's eventual goal to become "a search engine for all of your stuff."

PaidContent's Jeff Roberts liked the form and functionality of the new search, but said it still needs a critical mass of Google+ activity to become truly useful, while GigaOM's Janko Roettgers said its keys will be photos and celebrities. ReadWriteWeb's Jon Mitchell was impressed by the non-evilness of it, particularly the ability to turn it off. Farhad Manjoo of Slate said Google's reliance on social information is breaking what was a good search engine, Order Bactrim. Comprar en línea Bactrim, comprar Bactrim baratos, Of course, the move was also quite obviously a shot in the war between Google and Facebook (and Twitter, as we'll see later): As Ars Technica's Sean Gallagher noted, Google wants to one-up Facebook's growing social search and keep some of its own search traffic out of Facebook. Ben Parr said Facebook doesn't need to worry, though Google has set up Google+ as the alternative if Facebook shoots itself in the foot.

But turning a supposedly neutral search engine into a competitive weapon didn't go over well with a lot of observers, generic Bactrim. The Atlantic's Alexis Madrigal saw a conflict between Google's original mission (organizing the world's information) and its new social mission, and Danny Sullivan said Google is putting score-settling above relevance. Several others sounded similar alarms: Mathew Ingram of GigaOM said users are becoming collateral damage Order Bactrim, in the war between the social networks, and web veteran John Battelle argued that the war was bad for Google, Facebook, and all of us on the web. "The unwillingness of Facebook and Google to share a public commons when it comes to the intersection of search and social is corrosive to the connective tissue of our shared culture," he wrote.

For others, the changes even called up the specter of antitrust violations. MG Siegler said he doesn't mind Google's search (near-) monopoly, but when it starts using that monopoly to push its other products, Bactrim no rx, that's when it turns into a legal problem. Danny Sullivan laid out some of the areas of dispute in a possible antitrust case and urged Google to more fully integrate its competitors into search.

Twitter was the first competitor to voice its displeasure publicly, releasing a statement arguing that deprioritizing Twitter damages real-time search. (TechCrunch has the statement and some valuable context.) Google responded by essentially saying, "Hey, you dumped us, Bactrim pictures, buddy," and its executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, told Search Engine Land they'd be willing to negotiate with Twitter and Facebook.

Finally, some brief journalistic implications: Poynter's Jeff Sonderman said this means SEO's value is waning for news organizations, being replaced by the growing importance of building strong social followings and making content easy to share, and Mathew Ingram echoed that idea, Order Bactrim. Daniel Victor of ProPublica had some wise thoughts on the meaning of stronger search for social networks, Bactrim reviews, concluding that "the key is creating strategies that don’t depend on specific tools. Don’t plan for more followers and retweets; plan for creating incentives that will gather the most significant contributions possible from non-staffers."

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Innovation and its discontents: Washington Post ombudsman Patrick Pexton inducing a bit of eye-rolling among digital media folks this week with a column arguing that the paper is "innovating too fast" by overwhelming readers and exhausting employees with a myriad of initiatives that lack a coherent overall strategy. J-prof Jay Rosen followed up with a revealing chat with Pexton that helps push the discussion outside of the realm of stereotypes: Pexton isn't reflexively defending the status quo (though he remains largely print-centric), but thinks there are simply too many projects being undertaken without an overarching philosophy about how or why things should be done.

Pexton got plenty of push-back, not least from the Post's own top digital editor, Raju Narisetti, who responded by essentially saying, where can i buy cheapest Bactrim online, in Rosen's paraphrase, "This is the way it’s going to be and has to be, if the Post is to survive and thrive. It may well be exhausting but there is no alternative." GigaOM's Mathew Ingram said he was just about to praise the Post for its bold experimentation, and the Guardian's Martin Belam argued that Pexton is actually critiquing newness, Online buying Bactrim, rather than innovation.

J-prof Alfred Hermida argued Order Bactrim, — as Pexton himself seemed to in his chat with Rosen — that the issue is not about how fast or slow innovation is undertaken, but whether that innovation is done in a way that's good or bad for journalism. Former Sacramento Bee editor Melanie Sill responded that many newspapers remain stuck in 20th-century formulas, blinding them to the fact that what they consider revolutionary change is only a minor, outmoded shift. She noted that all the former top editors she's talked to have had the same regret: that they hadn't pushed harder for change. And Free Press' Josh Stearns pointed out that we should expect the path toward that change to be an easy one.

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'Truth vigilantes' and objectivity: Pexton wasn't the only ombudsman this week to be put on the defensive after a widely derided column: New York Times public editor Arthur Brisbane drew plenty of criticism yesterday when he asked whether Times reporters should call out officials' untruths in their stories — or, as he put it, where to buy Bactrim, act as a "truth vigilante." Much of the initial reaction was a variation of, "How is this even a question?"

Brisbane told Romenesko that he wasn't asking whether the Times should fact-check statements and print the truth, but whether reporters should "always rebut dubious facts in the body of the stories they are writing." He reiterated this in a follow-up, in which he also printed a response by Times executive editor Jill Abramson saying the Times does this all the time. Her point was echoed by former Times executive editor Bill Keller and PolitiFact editor Bill Adair, Buy Bactrim from mexico, and while he called the initial question "stupid," Reuters' Jack Shafer pointed out that Brisbane isn't opposed to skepticism and fact-checking.

The American Journalism Review's Rem Rieder enthusiastically offered a case for a more rigorous fact-checking role for the press, as did the Online Journalism Review's Robert Niles (though his enthusiasm was with tongue lodged in cheek), Order Bactrim. The Atlantic's Adam Clark Estes used the episode as an opportunity to explain how deeply objectivity is ingrained in the mindset of the American press, pointing to the "view from nowhere" concept explicated by j-prof Jay Rosen. Rosen also wrote about the issue himself, arguing that objectivity's view from nowhere has surpassed truthtelling as a priority among the press.

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How useful is the political press?: The U.S, buy Bactrim online no prescription. presidential primary season is usually also peak political-journalism-bashing season, but there were a couple of pieces that stood out this week for those interested in the future of that field. The Washington Post's Dana Milbank mocked Order Bactrim, the particular pointlessness of this campaign's reporting, describing scenes of reporters vastly outnumbering locals at campaign events and remarking, "if editors knew how little journalism occurs on the campaign trail, they would never pay our expenses."

The New Yorker's John Cassidy defended the political press against the heat it's been taking, arguing that it still produces strong investigative and long-form reporting on important issues, and that the speed of the new news cycle allows it to correct itself quickly. He blamed many of its perceived failings not on the journalists themselves, but on the public that's consuming their work.

The Boston Phoenix reported on the decline of local newspapers' campaign coverage and wondered if political blogs and websites could pick up the slack, Bactrim use, while the Lab's Justin Ellis looked at why news orgs love partnering up during campaign season, focusing specifically on the newly announced NBC News-Newsweek/Daily Beast arrangement.

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A unique paywall model: The many American, British, and Canadian publishers implementing or considering paywalls might marvel at the paid-content success of Piano Media, but they can't hope to emulate it: A year after gaining the cooperation of each of Slovakia's major news publishers for a unified paywall there, the company is expanding the concept to Slovenia, no prescription Bactrim online. As paidContent noted, Piano is hoping to sign up 1% of Slovenia's Internet-using population, and the Lab's Andrew Phelps reported that the company is planning to bring national paywalls to five European nations by the end of the year. As Piano's CEO told Phelps, the primary barrier to subscription has not been economic, but philosophical, especially for commenting, Order Bactrim.

Elsewhere in paywalls, media consultant Frederic Filloux looked at what's making the New York Times' strategy work so far — unique content, Bactrim results, a porous paywall that allows it to maintain high traffic numbers and visibility, and cooperation with Apple — and analyst Ken Doctor wondered whether all-access subscriptions across multiple devices and publications within a company could be a key to paid content this year.

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Reading roundup: Tons of smaller stuff going on this week outside the glare of the Google-Facebook-Twitter wars. Here's a quick rundown:

— One item I forgot to note from late last week: The AP and a group of 28 other news organizations have launched NewsRight, a system to help news orgs license their content to online aggregators. Poynter's Rick Edmonds offered a detailed analysis, but GigaOM's Mathew Ingram was skeptical, Bactrim steet value.

— The online commenting service Disqus released some of its internal research Order Bactrim, showing that pseudonymous commenters tend to leave more and higher-quality comments than their real-name counterparts. GigaOM's Mathew Ingram used the data to argue that a lack of real names isn't nearly as bad as its critics say.

— No real news in SOPA this week, but the text of Cory Doctorow's lecture last month on SOPA and the dangers of copyright regulation has been posted. It's long, but worth a read.

— Finally, three fantastic practical posts on how to practice digital journalism, from big-picture to small-grain: Howard Owens of the Batavian's list of things journalists can do to reinvent journalism, Melanie Sill at Poynter on how to begin doing open journalism, and Steve Buttry of the Journal Register Co. on approaching statehouse coverage from a digital-first perspective.

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