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Julian Assange, The Man Behind WikiLeaks — Talks To Steve Kroft About The U.S. Attempt To Indict Him And The Criticism Aimed At Him For Publishing Classified Documents — (CBS) Just a few months ago, most people had never heard of a Web site called WikiLeaks, or of its mysterious and eccentric founder, Julian Assange.
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WikiLeaks: The Guardian's role in the biggest leak in the history of the world
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Cable companies: Add Al Jazeera English *now* — What the Gulf War was to CNN, the people's revolutions of the Middle East are to Al Jazeera English. But in the U.S., in a sad vestige of the era of Freedom Fries, hardly anyone can watch the channel on cable TV. — Cable companies: Add Al Jazeera English NOW!
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Why I was wrong about Quora as a blogging service ... I must apologize to Dave Winer. He warned me about supporting services that aren't the open web and I wasn't willing to listen to him a month ago, because I was infatuated with a cool new service that lots of insiders were supporting.
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iPad Mags Need A New Blueprint — Ever since the iPad came out, print media companies have been feeling their way in this new medium, but so far they've just been stumbling over themselves. — They are latching onto the iPad as a new walled garden where people will somehow magically pay …
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Exclusive: KIT digital Acquires KickApps, Kewego AND Kyte For $77.2 Million — TechCrunch exclusive - If you'd never heard about KIT digital before, you will after today. — The provider of cloud-based video asset management solutions has acquired not one, not two but three social software and video companies.
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Political Blogs Are Ready to Flood Campaign Trail — MANCHESTER, N.H. — Tim Pawlenty, the former Minnesota governor who is flirting with a bid for president, has none of the usual campaign accoutrements. No tour bus, campaign manager or yard signs. Few Americans, in fact, even know his name.
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Phone, Internet, TV ... And Gas? — In Australia and a few other locations, some communications carriers have begun to experiment with bundling utility services into their cellular and cable TV packages. — The idea is both simple and radical at the same time.

Not Every Journalist Can Be an Entrepreneur — Am I the only one who's tired of being lectured about how all journalists need to be entrepreneurs? — Jeff Jarvis has been doing this for some time, but more recently I came across this post by Robert Niles.


On the Media: Fox News ‘pollster’ Frank Luntz's sleight of phrase — GOP consultant Frank Luntz gives Fox News a room full of President Obama opponents and feeds them misleading information. — We all know by now that cable TV news provides cozy destinations for the two political poles: Liberals go to MSNBC for aid and comfort.

Is Gawker Planning to Force You to Watch Embedded Advertisements? — I was playing around on Gawker's beta test site just now and came across something a little jarring. (Yes, this is how I spend my Sunday evenings when there isn't a football game to tune in to.)


A Mistake to Write Off the Weinsteins — Remember the benevolent Bruce Willis character in “The Sixth Sense” who wandered through the whole movie not knowing he was dead? That was Harvey Weinstein, except for the benevolent part. — Since forming the Weinstein Company with his brother …
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A News Corp. Digital History Lesson For The Daily — Evan Rudowski is co-founder of SubHub, a paid content platform. He was previously an online manager at Newsday and business development director at News Corp.'s iGuide. — As I watch the coverage of Rupert Murdoch's upcoming iPad publication …
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