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Bravo, SPIN. With a little flourish and some Klosterman karma, you fooled hundreds of bloggers into thinking that Axl Rose was finally going to deliver after 15 years with Chinese Democracy.

One advantage the print newspaper has over the online publication is its portability, but that’s about to change. Belgian newspaper DeTijd is going digital with a device called the iLiad eReader from iRex Technologies.

In a recent interview, movie star Harrison Ford said he hates the internet because he feels that it allows people to spread gossip and misrepresent him. Does anyone get Mr. Ford’s complaint here? I sure don’t.

YouTube is finally being censored ... by itself. Reuters reports that YouTube is taking off all videos over 10 minutes long due to the consistency in which such videos violate copyright laws.

As stated in my most recent post, Apple and other vendors of digital music and technology are in a bind in France.

We've been discussing the future of the newspaper in our posts. Will it succumb to the internet and become obselete, or continue to be a part of our daily lives? But what about radio?

Most of us want our privacy protected. Privacy on the Internet has been a hot issue, especially with the recent ruling that Google should turn over some of its search data to the government.

Gravitas: It's one of those journalistically ambiguous words, like blogging or "spin," and people seem to have a hard time explaining what it is. They can only tell when people don't have it.

Kids and newspapers are rarely seen together nowadays. Actually, now that I think about it, where they ever? I don’t ever remember seeing my classmates pick up the morning paper and bring it to school. And I bet my parents didn’t either.

After talking a bit about Google and its battle with the U.S. government a week ago, it seems fitting to see something a bit related. Here we have a real life example of Yahoo aiding the Chinese government in the arrest of one of its users.

I am so sick of the nightly cable news show hosts, along the lines of Greta Van Susteren, Donny Deutsch and Rita Cosby. What really gets to me is their generalist attitude; the fact that in certain subjects they just are not any more knowledgable than me or you.

As more and more newspapers try to carve out a spot in the blogosphere, the Online Journalism Review reports on a system designed to go the other way: bringing the blogs to papers.

Google, the little search engine that could, has joined the lobbying in-crowd. It’s hungry for international conquest and, like Yahoo and Microsoft, it won’t let something like a little red tape thwart its plans.

If you read Esquire, I bet you have been, too. In its April issue, the magazine that calls itself a "guide for men who want to live a fuller, richer, more informed and rewarding life" pulled a hoax of literally mammoth proportions.

We all shuddered with anticipation when an email slipped into our inboxes announcing a surprise guest for March 22. Well, at least I did.

Kurt Andersen says celebrities are dead and we’re slowly beginning to shun their dying personas. I think he’s wrong – and Paris Hilton is probably banking on it, Sidekick and all.

BBC World News is a real 24 hour news network. While watching BBC World News this morning, I saw a live report from Palenstine followed by a countdown to the results of the Israeli elections.

Detectives ID'ed six robbers and racists by using MySpace profiles to put faces to the names. The victim only knew her attackers by their first names, so detectives pulled up her friends list to get some of the suspects.

As more and more well-known, established journalists start their own blogs, it seems as though the career path also goes in the other direction. According to an article in Newsday, blogging is merely a stepping stone to a more traditional media outlet--for many journalists.

The recent resignation of Washington Post blogger Ben Domenech proves that blogs are valuable to mass media and the future of journalism will be better than ever.