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Google Begins Hosting News on Its Site - Forbes.com
Google News now directly publishes stories from AP and 4 other major news services. “Could diminish traffic to newspaper and broadcast co sites where those stories and photos are also found, which could reduce their revenue from online advertising.” (tags: business media news+biz advertising wire+services tidbits+fodder trends content-rights)

BoingBoing says they’re filing a FOIA : Joe Think » Online News Blog Archive
“Boing Boing say they’re doing the FOIA-dance on behalf of detained-by-TSA air-travelers. This will likely make FOIA’s popular in the a-list blog crowd, who will scour the corners of the interwebs for something they can sic their FOIA-request on.” (tags: FOIA info+access blogs government citizen+journalism)

Lisa Williams » GTD for Public Speaking: Event Prep Checklist PDF and Lisa’s Presentation Tips
“My Event Prep worksheet is useful to people who are traveling to conferences as a speaker or panelist or are giving a talk locally. It puts everything you need to know and do to handle the logistics of your talk on one page.” Download PDF file (tags: productivity travel tools)

Terry Heaton’s PoMo Blog » Blog Archive » For Media 1.0, it’s always about control
“If NBCU’s content accounts for 40% of iTunes video downloads, they assume their content that drives those downloads. Apple would argue that it is the presence of the content on iTunes that drives the downloads. So who is right?”(tags: video business syndication distribution tidbits+fodder)

Se una notte d’inverno un giornalista: Un wiki per tenere aggiornate (e corrette) le notizie online
“Una delle obiezioni maggiori di qualcuno (e lascio apposta indefinita la definizione di “qualcuno”) è sempre piuttosto rozza, ma efficace in una parte del mondo degli affari: che cosa ci guadagno nell’investire soldi perfino nel correggere per i poster (tags: mycoverage AmyGahran wiki accuracy transparency credibility news+biz newspapers)