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"In the complaint, Gatehouse says it wants NYTCo to shutter Your Town Newton, one of Boston.com’s new local sites, reports GateHouse’s Newton TAB. GateHouse says that Boston.com’s month-old Newton site used content belonging to The TAB’s online counterpart—called WickedLocalNewton.com—and its sister pubs. Specifically, GateHouse charges that Boston.com both through advertising and its direct aggregation is confusing readers about where the articles actually originated. And even though Boston.com does link back to GateHouse sites, the publisher is frustrated that the links do an end-run around the ads on its homepage." There'll be more and more of this.

"The growth and spread of fan fiction is a way for the fans to participate directly in, say, the Harry Potter universe or the Tolkien universe. You see something that wasn’t possible even ten years ago, both because the technologies are in place but also, much more importantly, because now these tools reach most of society. Right, it’s not just when a tool comes along that change happens. It’s really when it becomes ubiquitous and even boring. And what’s happened now is that the Web has gotten boring for a whole generation of teens and twenty-somethings. And so, because they can take it for granted, they’re using this platform to add interactivity around regular media consumption."

America sides with the Islamists: "Co-sponsored by France and the Netherlands, the declaration was signed by all 27 European Union members, as well as Japan, Australia, Mexico and three dozen other countries. There was broad opposition from Muslim nations, and the United States refused to sign, indicating that some parts of the declaration raised legal questions that needed further review."

El Gordo interviewed on CBBC. He's adopted the Blairite glottal stop..

Very, profoundly, landscape-changingly cool.

Don't know if I'll ever find the time, but the one where Yosemite Sam rides a dragon to get into Bugs Bunny's castle is my number one anyway. "I hates dragons."

Watch it. I can't stand Monbiot, but he pins the CPRE down as a right-wing bunch of Nimbys headed by an ineffectual central secretariat.

A site which fisks tabloid stories. I've been waiting all my life for this. And it's been running for two years. So much for the wisdom of crowds, huh?

"If 80 verses seem excessive, that's because Leonard Cohen belongs to the old school of proper, serious, tortured songwriters." What on *earth* does this mean?

New global nav went live across the whole site today.

"Today, the media organisations look to Google to explain what is really happening in the world. Convinced that they can't lead, the only option left is to follow. So they reflect ourselves - or more accurately, they reflect the unstinting efforts of small self-selecting pockets of activists - back at us. In the absence of editorial confidence, Google - the Monster that threatens to Eat The Media - now defines the purpose of the media. All media companies need do is "tap into the zeitgeist" - Google Zeitgeistâ„¢!"

"For the record, the Telegraph works with lots of technology partners - including Apple, the BBC and Adobe - but our work with Google has been about ensuring our stories can still be found in an environment where audiences are fragmenting. I've explained this at some length in a recent article for the British Journalism Review."

"The report also looks at whether the Times could ever succeed as a web-only product, and concludes that it could — once NYT.com starts generating 1.3 billion page views a month. By Ms. Fine's back-of-the-envelope calculations, that kind of traffic would bring in $300 million in quarterly advertising revenues, about what the flagship paper is expected to generate in the fourth quarter."

Andy Pipes on the changes to channel4.com and what they mean.

Our GetSatisfaction site. Everything you need to give us feedback on Channel 4's new media undertakings.

"Fans of Channel4 TV shows have a new place to soak up their favourite shows. Channel4.com aims to be the source fans turn to first for content around each of its television shows. In this post we take a look at a few ways we’re trying to deliver on that promise. We’ll run through a typical programme area in the new site, followed by a few of the things to look out for in the near future."

Richard on the goodies being unlocked at channel4.com

The New C4 listings guide. Best on the planet, reckons Steve Bowbrick.

Jesus.

"So Public Service Partnerships lays out a route to a more open BBC but does so in such a hedged and politically defensive way as to effectively neutralise its intent: sharing iPlayer will only make sense, finally, when anyone who creates content of public service value can use it. When it becomes a hub for the exchange of the nation’s public service genius. Openness at the BBC is surely about more than sharing the vast licence fee dividend with the anointed few. Can an Aussie import and impatient tech guru like Rose make a genuinely open iPlayer a reality? I hope so."

Exquisite collection of user reviews. Amazon in Better Than Onion shock.

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