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Simulation Shows Impact Could Have
Produced Pluto's Moon
Simulation Shows Impact Could Have
Produced Pluto's Moon
02/01/2005 09:58 PMEarthday Site Shows Adverse Population
Impact can be Reduced Via Internet
Earthday Site Shows Adverse Population
Impact can be Reduced Via Internet
04/12/2004 04:53 AMEnvironmental News Network Apr 12 2004 9:18AM GMT
The Impact of the New Media
The Impact of the New Media
03/25/2005 11:26 PMThe Brookings Institution is webcasting a briefing entitled "The
Impact of New Media" next Tuesday, covering weblogs and old media ..
panel discussion on New
Media
brookings.edu/comm/events/20050322.htm
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Three O'clock Ltd. Launches the Worlds
First Multimedia Marketing Tool for
Marketers Wishing to Utilize The Colour
Screen of a Mobile Telephone
Three O'clock Ltd. Launches the Worlds
First Multimedia Marketing Tool for
Marketers Wishing to Utilize The Colour
Screen of a Mobile Telephone
08/23/2004 03:16 AMThree O'clock Ltd., a mobile marketing company, announces the launch
of the world's first multimedia marketing tool which will supersede
SMS marketing. The Three O'clock service provides consumers with free
access to multimedia magazines to watch and read on their java-enabled
mobile phones. These multimedia magazines are filled with entertaining
and interesting content provided by marketers wishing to promote a
brand or product. [PRWEB Aug 23, 2004]
Smarts Adds Dashboard to Business Impact
Analysis Tool
Smarts Adds Dashboard to Business Impact
Analysis Tool
05/07/2004 04:21 PMSmarts Inc. is stepping up its efforts to better link the management
of IT infrastructure to business objectives through a new version of
its InCharge suite of root cause and impact analysis software.
Digital Print Management with new BPM
tool.
Digital Print Management with new BPM
tool.
09/22/2004 02:24 AMThe new cBrain BPM tool makes it possible to create, edit and compile
XSL style sheets and isolate and correct possible syntax errors and
when error free, immediately produce a PDF document for verification
of look-and-feel. The result is a template which can then be uploaded
to the cBrain Digital Print Solution and made available for end-users
to add content to produce professionally looking collateral materials
on the WEB. [PRWEB Sep 22, 2004]
Web Journals Make Media, Activist Impact
Web Journals Make Media, Activist Impact
01/23/2004 07:36 PMSan Jose Mercury News Jan 23 2004 11:32PM GMT
Webcrawler: Print media has online
challenge
Webcrawler: Print media has online
challenge
06/14/2004 07:45 PMThe Statesman,India-2 hours ago ... alternative. Personally, Google,
Yahoo, Newsbooster, among others, each comb 4,500 plus online editions
every hour or less than 30 minutes. ...
Last Call: CSS3 Paged Media and CSS
Print Profile
Last Call: CSS3 Paged Media and CSS
Print Profile
12/18/2003 06:05 PM2003-12-18: The CSS Working Group has released two Last Call Working
Drafts, parts of the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language. Comments
are welcome through 31 January 2004. The CSS3 Paged Media Module adds
pagination, page margins, headers and footers, footnotes and endnotes,
and cross-references with page numbers. The CSS Print Profile works
with XHTML-Print for printing to low-cost devices. Visit the CSS home
page. (News archive)
CSS 2.1, CSS Print Profile and CSS3
Paged Media Are W3C Candidate
Recommendations
CSS 2.1, CSS Print Profile and CSS3
Paged Media Are W3C Candidate
Recommendations
03/06/2004 01:50 AM2004-02-26: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of three
Candidate Recommendations for the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
language. A snapshot of CSS usage, CSS 2.1 adds a few highly requested
features, fixes errata and brings CSS2 in line with implementations.
CSS Print Profile works with XHTML-Print for printing to low-cost
devices. CSS3 Paged Media Module adds pagination, page margins,
headers and footers, footnotes and endnotes, and cross-references with
page numbers. Comments are welcome through 25 August. Visit the CSS
home page. (News archive)
Microsoft shows off multisearch tool
Microsoft shows off multisearch tool
07/29/2004 08:27 PMZDNet Jul 30 2004 0:26AM GMT
Adobe GoLive CS: Print-Savvy
Web-Authoring Tool Stumbles With Complex
Interface, Flawed Support
Adobe GoLive CS: Print-Savvy
Web-Authoring Tool Stumbles With Complex
Interface, Flawed Support
01/23/2004 02:23 PMIf you depend on Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign documents to
fill your Web pages, GoLive CS is an invaluable tool for accelerating
the Web-development process. But while the program offers many
advanced features for building and managing Web sites, its lackluster
support for current CSS techniques and its sometimes complex and
overwhelming interface are serious drawbacks. By David McFarland
(Macworld via MyAppleMenu)
CA Shows Beta Wireless Site Management
Tool
CA Shows Beta Wireless Site Management
Tool
05/24/2004 03:47 PMThe tool, demonstrated by CTO Yogesh Gupta at the company's CAWorld
conference, is capable of managing encryption keys across all wireless
devices and access points and preventing unauthorized access through
the use of virtual security zones inside the network.
Just don't trust Rupert Murdoch's print
media who pulled a "Dewey Defeats
Truman" moment
Just don't trust Rupert Murdoch's print
media who pulled a "Dewey Defeats
Truman" moment
07/07/2004 09:40 AMThe Rupert Murdoch Accuracy in Reporting Award goes to .. New York
Post Exclusive: Gephardt for Vice President!!! .. veep scoop flop ..
The Smoking Gun .. oops ..
real
thesmokinggun.com/archive/0706041post1.html
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"Just don't trust Rupert Murdoch's print
media who pulled a "Dewey Defeats
Truman" moment."
"Just don't trust Rupert Murdoch's print
media who pulled a "Dewey Defeats
Truman" moment."
07/06/2004 08:07 PMDWP Omnibus survey shows 60% of Local
Authorities not using important e-tool
DWP Omnibus survey shows 60% of Local
Authorities not using important e-tool
09/02/2004 04:18 AMPublicTechnology.net Sep 2 2004 8:34AM GMT
MEDIA SPIN
AND ITS IMPACT ON PUBLIC OPINION
MEDIA SPIN
AND ITS IMPACT ON PUBLIC OPINION
05/25/2004 04:27 PM
 Ira Basen, a producer
with the CBC and a friend of mine from Carleton University days, is
writing a book on media spin,
a term often used interchangeably with bias. But Ira says spin is actually subtler and more
insidious. It is the shading of
meaning or interpretation of events in favour of a particular point of
view, and it is sometimes inadvertent or even unconscious.
There are several ways spin will creep into a story, including:
- The use of emotional words: The use of terms like
'terrorist', 'freedom fighter', and 'resistance movement', for
example. Did you know that Reuters' policy
is not to use
these, or similar terms charged with emotional baggage, unless they
are
used in quotation marks with the unambiguous source of the quotation
cited, even with pseudo-qualifiers like 'alleged' or 'so-called'. The
job of the media is to report the facts, and to avoid subjective
labels, even if they may be substantiated in the reporter's, or most
people's, minds. In some cased, this spin technique can be used in
reverse: the term 'abuse' instead of 'torture', or the use of
'casualties' or the infamous 'collateral damage' instead of 'dead
civilians'.
- Orwellian misuse of words: The Bush Administration is
notorious for this, using words like patriot, freedom, and peace
to mean nearly the exact opposite, and attempting to entrench public
and media misuse by naming programs and laws with Orwellian terms
(Patriot Act, Operation Iraqi Freedom). Improper personification and
similar techniques (e.g. using the name of a country or the name of
its
people instead of 'the government of', to confuse government policy or
actions with popular opinion: "Iran Building up Nuclear Arsenal",
"Syrians Refuse to Stop Funding Terrorists") can accomplish the same
end more subtly.
- Self-censorship -- What is not reported:
The choice of what not to report at all, and when (before or after the
public is focused on it) and where (front page or at the end of the
continuation of a story on page 32) to report, can have a greater
impact on viewers or listeners than what is actually, factually
reported. Recently, for example, the media had an abrupt about-face,
ceasing their self-censorship of showing flag-draped coffins and even
reading the names of American dead (oops, casualties)
in the Iraqi war, because they realized to what extent that
self-censorship impacts public perception. Likewise, the media have a
natural propensity to not
report stories that they believe are complex (e.g. the violations of the Geneva Conventions
by the US Government), long-term
(e.g. environmental deterioration and biodegradation), distant (e.g. Third World genocides
and wars unless US troops are involved) or intractable (e.g.
famine in East Africa and North Korea), because they are hard,
expensive stories to do well, and hence do not offer the ROI of, say,
a
celebrity scandal or shaggy dog story. This is not especially
political
-- it's the same phenomenon that has led to prime time TV being filled
with cheap 'Reality TV' programs instead of serious drama or
intelligent comedy. It's about lack of money, more than lack of
integrity.
- The way something is reported:
Being in a commercial business, the media have a natural temptation to
sensationalize, to create extraordinary buzz, because it's good for
ratings or circulation. If CBS had chosen merely to describe what it
had learned about Abu Ghraib, and not to show the photos, the impact
of
the story would have been much different, and it is not surprising
that
the Bush Regime (oops. some senior
policy-makers in the US Government)
have since trotted out videos and photos of Saddam Hussein's brutality
and murder to counter the emotional impact of the Abu Ghraib
photos.
- Oversimplification:
Although I have an optimistic view of most people and believe they are
capable of and interested in learning in detail about issues and
programs that affect their lives, the media have a more jaundiced view
that the public (oops, the majority
of citizens)
either can't understand, or don't care about, such detail and
subtlety.
Especially in political campaigns, there is therefore a tendency to
try
to reduce the differences between the voter's choices to an absurd
degree of simplicity. The parties and candidates exploit this by
feeding the media sound bites and negative ads that exaggerate and
oversimplify (or outright misrepresent) their opponents' positions or
actions. So whether the public wants to be or not, the media are
complicit in the 'dumbing down' of issues to a dangerously
over-simplified degree. The only question, and one which I understand
Ira's book is going to address, is whether the media are pandering to
citizens' inability to understand complex and subtle issues, or to
politicians' desire to oversimplify these issues for political
advantage. Or perhaps both.
There are other 'spin' techniques, of course, such as Failure to present
opposing interpretations of the facts, Giving credibility to unidentified
and unsubstantiated sources ("One senior former official said",
"Saddam was believed to have...") and Assuming facts without evidence
(e.g. most of what we read about WMD), but I think these are the most
common and most insidious. Let's take a look at a case study. Before
you read the following article, please note -- this is important -- It
is slamming the media's spin in handling the Clinton Administration for its bombing of Sudan,
before 9/11 and before the recent
wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Now, please read this
article. It's long, and a bit strident, but worth the read.
Finished? Did you shudder a bit when you read, in an article written about Clinton in 1998,
"Is bin Laden's new assignment perhaps to be a bogey-man of
convenience
whom the U.S. government can link to any government it wishes to
bomb?"
With the benefit of hindsight (and the opposing political party in
power) it's easy to see the incredible spin in the venerable Times'
reporting in 1998, and to see that to some extent this ubiquitous
media
spin contributed to the overwhelming bipartisan approval for the US to
launch a war against Afghanistan, against precisely the people we had
supported and financed earlier in their
war against the USSR, the enemy of that earlier day. I confess that I
had few misgivings about war with the Taliban, despite the fact that I
am a life-long pacifist. Why? Because nowhere (except the discredited
extreme conspiracy-theorist papers) were we presented with spin-free
reporting (or opposite-spin reporting, if you think spin-free
reporting
is an oxymoron) on what exactly was, and had been, going on in
Afghanistan, and why things were the way they were. There is almost always a rational
explanation for things that appear absurd or unreasonable in the
absence of the facts. We
are just now beginning to realize the degree to which our money and
support made the Taliban both popular and tyrannical in Afghanistan.
And still we are missing most
of the facts about that country, and about Iraq. The facts, alas, are
not the same as the news. The media's job is to report the news, not
to
dig up the facts. Investigative journalism is what we desperately
need,
but there is no money in that, surprisingly little demand for it, and
precious few willing to take the enormous risks to pursue that
thankless career.
It's easy to take sides, especially when the current US administration
is so unapologetically propagandizing (i.e. deliberately and
systematically spinning) every issue it deals with, to a degree not
seen since the Vietnam War. But the reality is that the media, taken
as
a whole, are neither liberal nor conservative. The political position
of each media outlet on any given issue is somewhere in the middle of
(a) the position of its editorial board, (b) its perception of the
position of the 'average' reader/viewer, (c) the position of the
reporters covering the story, and (d) the position of the people
presenting the story (usually the administration of the day). That
means that to right-wingnuts like this guy,
the media will always appear liberal, and to unabashed left-wingers
like me, the media will always appear conservative. But the truth is,
at least in their story
reporting (editorials and schlock talk radio aside), there is no vast
media 'conspiracy' at either end of the political spectrum. Most
people
in the media are doing their best to do their jobs in a way that
balances the views of the above four 'interest groups'. They are
vulnerable to the spin techniques listed above -- if you've ever
interviewed someone, you'll appreciate that unless you're really
treated abusively there's an earnest desire to represent what they had
to say clearly, favourably, but above all objectively.
To the extent they get it right, they deserve a lot of credit -- it's
a
difficult, thankless, often dangerous and tedious job. To the extent
they, and their editors, let spin creep into their stories, we
have a duty as readers and viewers and citizens to recognize it, and
discount it accordingly. The fact that so many of us are using the
Internet to learn more, to check out other interpretations of events,
and to get behind the stories so we can understand and talk about the
issues facing our world more knowledgeably, we are contributing to the
democratic process, and helping to reduce spin. At the same time,
there
is a tendency in the blogosphere to frequent sites authored and
populated by like minds, and some of the hysterics of extremists of
every stripe are quite frightening. My blog wears its left-spinning,
overtly editorial stripes quite proudly and unapologetically, but I
make a point of reading a few of the more moderate conservative blogs
on each new issue, and occasionally some of the bizarre extreme
leftist
blogs -- because the danger of exposing yourself to a lot of spin is
that, if you're not careful, you can find yourself permanently
off-balance.
And as we all know, "fair and balanced" is another term that's subject
to a lot of spin. George O. must be 'spinning' in his grave.
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Use Skype as a community media
production tool
Use Skype as a community media
production tool
03/29/2005 11:48 AMCitizen journalists might be interested in learning how Skype can be
used to conduct interviews which can be saved to hard drive, edited
and then placed on the web. This article shares tips and techniques
for doing so, along ...
Adware T.V. Media Removal Tool KB 886590
Adware T.V. Media Removal Tool KB 886590
09/22/2004 04:06 AMUsing Skype As A Community Media
Production Tool
Using Skype As A Community Media
Production Tool
03/28/2005 08:07 PMAdware T.V. Media Removal Tool (KB
886590)
Adware T.V. Media Removal Tool (KB
886590)
09/22/2004 12:14 AMThis tool will help to remove the adware T.V. Media from affected
computers. This adware interferes with successful installation of
Windows XP Service Pack 2. T.V. Media is bundled with certain
advertisement-supported applications such as Speed Blaster and Memory
Meter. Users should uninstall these applications before running this
tool and before installing Windows XP SP2.
Nvidia touts media access tool for
'living room' notebooks
Nvidia touts media access tool for
'living room' notebooks
06/02/2004 02:36 AMComputex Play music, movies, view photos without
having to boot up first
All-in-one tool to build Flash websites,
Flash intros, slide-shows and more.
All-in-one tool to build Flash websites,
Flash intros, slide-shows and more.
07/18/2004 02:20 AMOne-click Flash website and intro builder. [PRWEB Jul 18, 2004]
'Google' & 'Amazon' tool for media
creators updates news, speed & stability
'Google' & 'Amazon' tool for media
creators updates news, speed & stability
01/04/2005 06:15 PMIntelligent Assistance has released the 4.1 update to it's free
centralized resource hub specifically that offers google/amazon-like
convenience for Apple's professional audio and video users. This
update to the free software Pro Apps Hub includes a faster browser,
improvements to speed and stability and an upgrade news and tips
section.
[Links from this story may be found on MacMerc.com. Click the title to
delve deeper.]
Advanced Media Productions Announces New
Web Based E-mail Tool for Web Hosting
Clients
Advanced Media Productions Announces New
Web Based E-mail Tool for Web Hosting
Clients
07/29/2004 02:49 AMAdvanced Media Productions has launched AMPwebmail, a free web-based
email client that gives their web hosting clients the ability to read,
write, and send email messages via the POP3 email protocol using most
standard web browsers. [PRWEB Jul 29, 2004]
Forum Stories: Two Forests - what to
do.....
Forum Stories: Two Forests - what to
do.....
09/20/2004 06:53 PMThird Channel Communications LLC
Announces New Proprietary Media Asset
Allocation Decision Support Tool
Third Channel Communications LLC
Announces New Proprietary Media Asset
Allocation Decision Support Tool
06/17/2005 03:27 PMThe first channel was TV, the second channel was the Internet, the
THIRD CHANNEL is the cell phone. [PRWEB Jun 14, 2005]
Roadless Rules for Forests Set Aside
(washingtonpost.com)
Roadless Rules for Forests Set Aside
(washingtonpost.com)
07/12/2004 10:41 PMwashingtonpost.com - The Bush administration said yesterday it plans
to overturn a Clinton-era rule that made nearly 60 million acres of
national forest off-limits to road-building and logging, setting aside
one of the most sweeping land preservation measures in decades.
Administration Overhauls Rules for U.S.
Forests
Administration Overhauls Rules for U.S.
Forests
12/24/2004 12:55 PMThe overhaul of the guidelines will make it easier for forest managers
to decide whether to allow logging, drilling or off-road vehicles.
Act TODAY to save California's
old-growth forests
Act TODAY to save California's
old-growth forests
08/04/2004 04:57 AMWhen I lived in San Francisco, I made no secret of the fact that the
city and its environs really bummed me out, There were the ocassional
highlights, like Fry's Electronics and the Musee Mechanique, but in
the main, San Francisco left me cold.
There's one major exception to this, though: the ancient redwoods
across the Golden Gate Bridge, in Muir woods and elsewhere. These
millennia-old giants are Northern California's most beautiful and
humbling feature. Standing alongside of one was like being in the
presence of something holy. I think that if I'd spent more time with
them, I might have stayed in California.
Today, California's old-growth forests are being indiscriminately
logged. Conservation of these irreplaceable trees is a nonpartisan
issue: it's an issue of humanity. If you love life, if you
love your children, if you love your world, then saving these trees is
something you should support.
The California Heritage Tree Preservation Act (SB 754) is being voted
on today (August 4th) by California's Assembly Appropriations
Committee. Before you go to work this morning, send your California
Assembly Member an email and a fax in support fo SB 754:
I urge your support of SB 754, the Heritage Tree Preservation Act.
This bill has been carefully written to protect some of California's
largest and oldest trees while minimizing impacts to landowners, jobs
and state revenues. The bill minimizes and offsets costs and it
preserves revenues to the state from tourism, recreation and
fisheries.
Fewer than one percent of California's old-growth trees remain
standing on non-federal forestland. SB 754 will protect these trees
and the ecological and economic benefits they bring to our state.
Millions of tourists flock to California's forests each year to
witness these towering giants with their own eyes. The trees protected
by this bill are among the oldest, tallest, and largest living things
on earth.
Please approve SB 754 and help us preserve California's ancient trees
for future generations.
LinkCalif. Considers Closing National
Forests (AP)
Calif. Considers Closing National
Forests (AP)
07/23/2004 05:58 PMAP - Facing another potentially disastrous fire season, authorities in
Southern California are contemplating drastic steps to keep flames at
bay, including closing popular national forests to visitors.
Calif. considers closing national
forests
Calif. considers closing national
forests
07/23/2004 07:52 PMCalif. Fires Could Shut National Forests
(AP)
Calif. Fires Could Shut National Forests
(AP)
07/24/2004 01:17 AMAP - Facing another potentially disastrous fire season, authorities in
Southern California are contemplating drastic steps to keep flames at
bay, including closing popular national forests to visitors.
Mapuche Indians in Chile Struggle to
Take Back Forests
Mapuche Indians in Chile Struggle to
Take Back Forests
08/11/2004 06:22 AMThe Mapuches, complaining of false land titles and damage to the
environment, are struggling to take back the land they say is theirs.
Windows 2000/2003: Multiple Forests
Considerations White Paper
Windows 2000/2003: Multiple Forests
Considerations White Paper
02/12/2004 03:20 PMThis paper describes the conditions that warrant creating more than
one Active Directory forest for a single enterprise, including
security, legal, pilot, and business mergers and divestitures.
Print It! 1.0 beefs up Mac OS X print
features
Print It! 1.0 beefs up Mac OS X print
features
04/19/2004 06:55 AMMacEase Software has released Print It! 1.0, a US$24.95 printing
utility for Mac OS X...
"PATRICK BELTON: JUST IN THE OFF CHANCE
THAT THE EVENT doesn't attract much
attention from the print media,
sovereignty passed today from the CPA to
Iraq's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This
makes the Foreign Ministry the eighth
Iraqi ministry to quietly,..."
"PATRICK BELTON: JUST IN THE OFF CHANCE
THAT THE EVENT doesn't attract much
attention from the print media,
sovereignty passed today from the CPA to
Iraq's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This
makes the Foreign Ministry the eighth
Iraqi ministry to quietly,..."
05/12/2004 11:08 PMPrint Audit Announces Print Audit
Australia/New Zealand
Print Audit Announces Print Audit
Australia/New Zealand
06/09/2004 02:43 AMPrint Audit, the leading print tracking software developer, announced
today the creation of a new Australia and New Zealand division. Print
Audit, which is headquartered in Canada, now has divisions in the
United Kingdom and Australia. [PRWEB Jun 9, 2004]
Print Audit Announces Four Webinars to
Introduce Print Audit 5
Print Audit Announces Four Webinars to
Introduce Print Audit 5
06/05/2005 11:39 PMPrint Audit, the leading print management software developer announced
today that its President, John MacInnes, will be conducting four
separate online presentations that will introduce Print Audit 5.
[PRWEB Jun 4, 2005]
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