The attorney for Casey Anthony, who is accused of killing her daughter, told a court Thursday that ABC News had paid Anthony $200,000 for exclusive rights to reproduce family photos and a video. Several journalists said ABC’s failure to tell viewers of the payment for the pictures was an ethical lapse.

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The rich are getting richer by a federal judge ruling that a financial news site must delay broadcasting buy-and-sell research to enable the major banks and their wealthy clients to profit from that research.

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Rich Get Richer in ‘Hot News’ Stock-Tip Fight (Wired News)

Mediabistro ’s Galleycat makes note of a two-page letter sent by the Authors Guild to its members in reference to letters that Random House and HarperCollins have sent its authors. It seems that those two publishers are trying to get their writers to lock into 25% royalty rates on e-books. While this might look better than the 15% going rate on hardcovers, the Authors Guild warns that the terms may not be entirely desirable: Authors and publishers have traditionally split the proceeds from book sales.

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Authors Guild warns members about Random House, HarperCollins e-royalty rate renegotiation

March 19 (Bloomberg) — News Corp. ’s Dow Jones & Co., the Wall Street Journal ’s publisher, agreed to a contract with union workers that will freeze wages for 17 months and include salary increases of at least 2 percent beginning in 2011.

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News Corp.’s Dow Jones Union Agrees on Labor Contract (Update1) (Bloomberg)

INGOCAR is a developmental concept for a 5 passenger car with a hydraulic drive system in place of a conventional power-train.

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High-efficiency hydraulic hybrid car could get 170 mpg

Ninteno’s guru Shigeru Miyamoto has just revealed that Nintendo might be aiming at a surprising new market for its games consoles: Schools. With all the controversy about distractions and violence, is this sensible? Miyamoto’s words came during an interview with the AP .

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Nintendo DS in Classrooms to Help Japanese Schoolkids Find the Square Root of Mario

A pair of senators, one red, one blue, have today proposed a biometric ID system to “mend” immigration. It’s part of a bipartisan immigration bill backed by President Obama, and proposes to replace everyone’s social security cards with one that stores biometric information about the individual.

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Why the Bipartisan Proposal for Biometric ID Cards Will Probably Fail

Good news for anyone who has old records but no record player: you can make your own record player pretty easily–just add cardboard. Griffiths, Gibson and Ramsay Productions (GGRP), a Vancouver-based sound design studio, exploited the idea in a direct mail marketing piece. The company created a record player from a corrugated cardboard envelope that can hold a 45 rpm record in place

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Cardboard Record Sleeve Turns Into Record Player

A week after the FCC debuted a beta tool for consumers to measure their broadband speeds, we’ve got the first set of stats. 150,000 people decided to avail themselves of the widget, available on Android, iPhone and Web platforms, giving the commission a more realistic idea of the state of the U.S.’s Internet connections than the figures bandied about by the ISPs

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FCC’s Broadband Measuring Tool Gets 150,000 Takers, Shows West-Coast Bias

In the future DARPA’s ISIS blimp may be hovering above the horizon near to conflict zones, feeding real time radar data to troops and smart weapons from on high. True to its name, it’s also a little more magical than the Goodyear blimp as it’s almost totally automated. In fact, the Integrated Sensor Is the Structure has almost nothing in common with the Goodyear aircraft apart from its shape and helium-filling

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DARPA’s Smart Blimp: Mysterious, Hovering Future of Battlefield Surveillance

If you assume a desktop computer’s a big box full of chips, hard drives and other paraphernalia, it’s hard to see how to make it cheaper. Unless you go down the virtualization route: NComputing thinks the ultimate cost could be zero

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How Cheap Could Computing Get: Free? NComputing Thinks So

Earlier today, Paul mentioned that the HP slate might be a better device than an iPad . Here are another couple of devices that might make promising alternatives

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Two more potential iPad alternatives: WePad, Moby

Would you happily buy a car equipped with sensors to track your every move? Robin Chase , founder of ZipCar , would — provided that the data gathered went to her. Her op-ed in the New York Times outlines benefits we would gain if all the cars currently equipped with onboard sensors would fork over the data they’re collecting, in real time, to their owners and makers.

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The Cost of Being Omniscient

The Bookseller.com reports on a study presented at the Book Marketing Limited conference that suggests price is a key driver for e-book sales in the United States . Kelly Gallagher, Bowkers’s VP for publishing services, noted that free content was also an important factor.

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Price, free content most important factors in US e-book sales

Facebook is not only rapidly growing in numbers, it also keeps evolving from a mere social network to a full-scale marketplace. Only lately PayPal was added as a payment option, making in-app-shopping of physical or virtual goods still more easy. So why not start an E-Book-Store within the network service

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German entrepreneurs launch virtual book store app for the social network by Ansgar Warner

It started, as many things do in journalism, with a pen and paper. Close to three years ago at a Journalism That Matters event in Washington, D.C., John Hamer, president of the Washington News Council, was thinking about the double standard that exists with journalism and the institutions and people it covers. “What journalism needs more of…

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The TAO of Journalism

Are you getting timeout errors or “website not available” errors or the like when trying to access us. Please let me know either by sending me an email or posting a comment here. We need to assess our server configuration

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“Oh ar, oi’m a movie pirate, I am. Oh arrrr!”…does that sound sexy to you

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Renaming Digital Piracy: A Smokescreen to Hide Movie’s True Worth?

Every company envies the buzz that accompanies new products released by Apple .

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Apple’s iPad Secrecy Obsession Comes With Blacked-Out Windows

You’ve heard it a thousand times: the money’s in the list. If you’re serious about getting results online, you need to build a list of people who are paying attention to you, typically an email list

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The Betty Crocker Secret to Email Marketing that Works