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The DPI or deep packet inspection threat

There’s this caption for a picture in this New Scientist piece — chilling. DPI is coming to a computer you:

Deep packet inspection makes it possible for your every online move to be tracked without your knowledge.

Tim Berner’s-Lee confirms that DPI is ominous for the Internet.

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This is about fatigue — News Fatigue

On the face of it, this looks bad. But it needs closer reading to pass judgement. Check it out:

http://www.ap.org/newmodel.pdf

Blogged with the Flock Browser

Tags: AP, news, info overload, journalism

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Music: the inexorable march

Can this steam Apple’s transformation into a media company is to be seen.

MySpace said on Thursday that as part of the deal it would turn its popular MySpace Music site into a joint venture, bringing in Universal Music Group, Sony BMG Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group as minority owners. The music companies are expected [...]

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Real badware

That ain’t no innovative headline, believe me.

It is in fact about RealPlayer. RealPlayer 10.5 to be precise.

According to StopBadware.org, 10.5 “is badware because it fails to accurately and completely disclose the fact that it installs advertising software on the user’s computer.”

What’s also bad, or should we say as worse, is it installs “Rhapsody Player Engine [...]

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Media most trusted institution. Eh?

Media most trusted institution: Survey

Indian’s never cease to surprise! Isn’t it?

technorati tags:media, credibility, newspapers

Blogging & RSS

Debriefing after an unconference

BlogCamp drew to a close yesterday. Successful? Yes. I managed to spend some time there, yesterday.

What I came back with is a sense that the online scene is “manned” by sensible people. This bright spark dawned on me not at the sessions but at the smokers’ corner. The conservations that smokers strike when confined to [...]

Business

An Indian media observer

It was a pleasant surprise to happen upon a newsletter on the Indian media by Chronosphere’s CEO Bhupesh Trivedi “personally”. Trivedi’s been bringing it out since May 2004, all the more surprising that I found out only now.
The newsletter’s available at http://www.chronosphere.biz/IMO/.

Ethics & Legal issues

AN HONOUR!

From Mrs. Suha Arafat
Email; suhaarafat200@yahoo.com

Dear Intending partner,

This mail may not be surprising to you if you have been following current events in the international media with reference to the Middle East and Palestine in particular I am Mrs. SUHA ARAFAT, the wife of YASSER ARAFAT, the Palestinian Leader who died recently in Paris. Since his [...]

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Where IOJ stands

From Webmaster Toolkit:
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Ethics & Legal issues

Basis of media reform

If public interest is the basis of media reform then the professional and economic independence of media practitioners is a yardstick to measure the scenario.
From the multi-edition big newspapers to the small town tabloids a de-unionised workforce is the norm. The implications are manifold: contract labour, job insecurity, harassment of various kinds and so [...]

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The best President

Without a doubt K.R. Narayanan was the best President of India. It is a relief that this great man did not suffer much at the end. His illness was brief.

He was proof that in post-1960s India, even in the centre of the political space, people of high moral standing can survive, and, indeed, succeed – [...]