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Secure technically doesn’t mean secure legally

The EFF have an interesting investigation into WSJ and Al-Jazeera ‘leaks’ sites and terms and conditions which suggest users’ anonymity is anything but protected: “Despite promising anonymity, security and confidentiality, AJTU can “share personally identifiable information in response to a law enforcement agency’s request, or where we believe it is necessary.” SafeHouse’s terms of service reserve the right “to disclose
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Twitter promoted tweets – the AdWords for live news?

Remember all that fuss about newspapers bidding on Google Adwords to drive traffic to their site? Well here’s a Web 2.0 twist on the idea: Al Jazeera using sponsored tweets to raise awareness of their Egypt coverage. Twitter itself has the background. Some notable differences to Adwords are that the promoted tweets can be replied to and retweeted just like
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Shift is happening – useful advice for young journalists

Financial crisis, digital revolution, crumbling media companies – these are shaky days for media and everyone involved in the field. How can journalism students make sense of it all? I asked several of the speakers and participants at the Digital News Affairs conference in Brussels one question: What is the best piece of advice you will give to journalism students
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Another Week in Online Journalism

Virtual intern Natalie Chillington rounds up last week’s online journalism-related news Google Google will announce a new metrics tool to measure web site audience, to rival current power players Nielsen and ComScore. Lots of debate over whether Google is making us stupid WordPress Puffbox.com announces it will be sponsoring WordCamp UK in July,bringing together around 100 devotees of WordPress in
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