Broadcasters plan defence against online content asking: why isn't Netflix counted as a broadcaster????- Politics - CBC News

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A very short article & I want to know more:

"Broadcast industry groups met Friday in Ottawa to plan strategy for dealing with online content providers such as Netflix.

The industry is struggling to keep up with emerging trends that see consumers gobbling up bandwidth to watch TV and movies online – known as over-the-top content – rather than subscribing to cable companies...."

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My son, the pink boy - Real Families

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Moms ask if my "feminine" son is gay. Strangers tell me I'm being too permissive. Here's what they don't understand

BY MARCI RISEMAN

"...Random Moms across America think they know: My son has got to be gay. He wears khakis today but wore a dress to school from age 4 to 6; he used to do ballet and still doesn't like sports; in preschool he was all about playing princess but now is all about Pokemon; and, in spite of the clear gender divisions in third grade, he plays with both girls and boys. I mean, what straight boy is into that kinda freaky gender mash-up?

Well, my husband, for one. And all metrosexuals, for another coupla-million-ish. My husband used to help his mother choose curtains. He now drives a motorcycle and hunts deer. He still likes curtains, which he now calls "window treatments" (How gay is that? Random Mom mutters). But really, haven't you met a guy like this, the one you think is gay when you first met him, but then realize that his sexuality doesn't match his gender presentation?

And if you get busy thinking about femmy boys who grow up to be straight, you might also start thinking about butch boys who grow up to be gay, like all those bears and leather daddies I see walking around the Castro. Then you might have to admit that, though it often does, childhood gender expression doesn't always correlate to adult sexuality...."
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The Happiness Machine: Definition 6's Paul McClay on concept behind Sharing the Happiness - Business News - Business Review USA

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Excerpt:

BY: Nadia Ibanez | Wed Oct 27, 2010

"Atlanta-based Definition 6 was established 14 years ago as an integrated interactive marketing agency looking to bring a new communication platform to the table. Years ago, traditional marketing agencies weren’t nimble enough to capitalize on a new community of consumers who were seeking a more digital means of reaching out to customers. Definition 6 created a brand experience to drive proven business results.

Michael Kogon, CEO of Definition 6, saw an interest in this new targeted audience and when consulting firms couldn’t adopt this form of media or take the digital age seriously, he branched off onto his own and created his six-step plan to make marketing digitalized.

Definition 6 joins forces with clients to help them craft inventive and measurable customer experiences across all media channels, by implementing their verified strategies and creativity, along with originality and imagination. From e-Commerce maintenance and website design, to rich media and interactive marketing applications, Definition 6 bridges the gap between marketing and technology...."

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Get ready for the Oscars!: "TV Industry Taps Twitter and Facebook for Viewers' - NYTimes.com

By the time the first ballot is opened at the Academy Awards next Sunday, millions of people will be chatting about the awards show on the Internet. And ABC will be ready.

Trying to exploit viewers’ two-screen behavior, the television network has built a companion Web site with behind-the-scenes video streams, so Oscar winners will be seen accepting an award on the TV set, then seen celebrating backstage on the stream.

Experiments like this one are a sudden priority in television land. As more and more people chat in real time about their favorite shows — on Facebook, Twitter and a phalanx of smaller sites — television networks are trying to figure out how to capitalize.

It’s as if people are gathered around the online water cooler — and the television executives are nervously hovering nearby, hoping viewers keep talking and, by extension, watching their shows.

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Have a very good look at this: Infographic of the Day: Who the Broadband Revolution Left Behind | Co.Design

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Read Cliff Kuang's full post:

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1663257/infographic-of-the-day-who-the-broadband-...

Excerpt:

"The new National Broadband Map shows that rural communities barely have internet access. But the Obama administration hopes to change that.

In America's rural areas, the internet barely exists as you and I know it: People can't get broadband in their house; they use dial-up modems at home; and the only place they can hope to watch a YouTube video is the local library...."

Someone's saying 'Oh Crap.': American who sparked diplomatic crisis over Lahore shooting was CIA spy

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Full article on the Guardian UK - wow.

• Raymond Davis employed by CIA 'beyond shadow of doubt'
• Former soldier charged with murder over deaths of two men
• Davis accused of shooting one man twice in the back as he fled

• Special report: A CIA spy and a diplomatic whirlwind

Very very interesting: Social Media Lure Academics Frustrated by Traditional Publishing - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education

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By Jennifer Howard

"Social media have become serious academic tools for many scholars, who use them for collaborative writing, conferencing, sharing images, and other research-related activities. So says a study just posted online called "Social Media and Research Workflow." Among its findings: Social scientists are now more likely to use social-media tools in their research than are their counterparts in the biological sciences. And researchers prefer popular applications like Twitter to those made for academic users.

The survey, conducted late last year, is the work of Ciber, as the Centre for Information Behaviour and the Evaluation of Research is known. Ciber is an interdisciplinary research center based in University College London's department of information studies. It takes on research projects for various clients. This one was paid for by the Emerald Publishing Group Ltd. The idea for the survey came from the Charleston Observatory, the research arm of the annual Charleston Conference of librarians, publishers, and vendors.

An online questionnaire went to researchers and editors as well as publishers, administrators, and librarians on cross-disciplinary e-mail lists maintained by five participating publishers—Cambridge University Press; Emerald; Kluwer; Taylor & Francis; and Wiley. Responses came from 2,414 researchers in 215 countries and "every discipline under the sun," according to David Nicholas, one of the lead researchers on the study. He directs the department of information studies at University College London. . ."