links for 2008-07-15

The case is expec­ted to have far-reaching con­sequences for third parties who use or pub­lish inform­a­tion from social net­work­ing sites. Law­yers say it could place a duty on all second-hand users to estab­lish the truth of everything they want to repub­lish f

Amer­ican journ­al­ists, I real­ised, regard them­selves as mem­bers of a respect­able pro­fes­sion – like law­yers or bankers. Their Brit­ish coun­ter­parts gen­er­ally prefer the idea that they are outsiders.

“Advert­ising which has kept us all afloat is retreat­ing and divert­ing to the web and we haven’t yet seen a for­mula for mak­ing money out of the web.” Snow admits “nobody in their right money would spend private money on Chan­nel 4 News because it’s too expe

A kern, in the lit­eral sense, is any part of a char­ac­ter that extends bey­ond the body. The more del­ic­ate a kern, the more likely it is to break off dur­ing use, and Arabic is among the world’s most sinewy scripts.

“Monck over­looks much that is incon­veni­ent, but he is astute about the low com­mer­cial value of ser­i­ous news, right about the spread of rational ignor­ance and right that copi­ous sup­plies of news have not cre­ated a soph­ist­ic­ated electorate.”

the libel laws of Eng­land and Wales are tilted so heav­ily against the defend­ant and involve such monu­mental costs that they amount, in effect, to cen­sor­ship by private interests: a sedi­tion law for the exclus­ive use of millionaires.