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Mexican Drug Wars Fought
in Cyberspace

Gangs use Web to recruit, plan, and intimidate rivals; cops are clueless

Apr 9, 07 4:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - Mexican drug cartels are making themselves at home on YouTube, posting music  videos that show off the bloodied bodies of their tortured and executed competitors. The gangs have turned to the Internet to recruit members, plan attacks, and intimidate and threaten rival gangs. The result is an al-Qaeda–like virtual... More »

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Internet • YouTube • War on Drugs • drugs • law • law enforcement • Mexico • organized crime • Mexican drug war • drug cartel

Turkish Band
Faces Jail in
YouTube Flap

Fan's video of 7-year-old song dissing entrance exams runs afoul of officials

Apr 9, 07 12:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - A seven-year-old song resurrected on YouTube has five punk rockers facing time in a Turkish prison. The song, an anti-authoritarian rant against the Turkish college entrance exam by the band Deli, was the sound track to a video posted by a fan, who lip-synched the lyrics while jumping around frantically... More »

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music • Turkey • Internet • YouTube • free speech • college

Obama Raises $25 Million

Senator surprises pundits with grassroots results

Apr 4, 07 4:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama has raised $25 million for his presidential bid, more than doubling his own projections for the quarter and falling just short of archrival Hillary Clinton’s $26 mil. Obama announced the figure to the Chicago Tribune today, revealing donations that have been far more diffuse than Clinton's—from... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Internet • Democrats • politics • presidential campaign • campaign fundraising • Election 2008

Tribune Saddled With Daunting Debt

New owner must repay $12 billion
with declining revenues

Apr 4, 07 8:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sam Zell 's bid for the Tribune Co. beat back his well-heeled rivals, but it saddled an already struggling enterprise with over $12 billion in debt. Now the Wall Street Journal wonders how he expects to pay it back. The likely annual interest fees alone will reach $1 billion, only... More »

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Internet • newspaper • Sam Zell • Chicago • news • business

225 Days Later,
Blogger Walks

Joshua Wolf freed
after turning over protest video to feds

Apr 4, 07 8:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - Joshua Wolf, the blogger who set a record for time served by an American journalist for withholding information, was freed from a federal prison yesterday after 224 days. Wolf was released after he posted footage of a 2005 anarchist protest on his Web site and gave a copy to reporters,... More »

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Internet • California • Joshua Wolf • prison • news • blogging • blog • journalist

Google Scores First Deal to Serve TV Commercials

Automated system allows advertisers to buy and track commercials

Apr 3, 07 9:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - Drunk with its success at dominating the internet ad business, Google wants to start serving up TV commercials, too. The first company to sign up is EchoStar Communications, a satellite TV provider which will announce today a deal with Google to broker commercials across its 125 TV channels. More »

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television • technology • Google • Internet • advertising • commercials • sattelite • satellite TV

Google Stares Down Viacom, Copyright

How do the boys keep YouTube from turning into  Napster?

Apr 2, 07 7:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - With Viacom incubating "the biggest copyright lawsuit in history" against YouTube, the video-sharing site is beginning to smell a bit like Napster. Which leads Clive Thompson to ponder in New York why the Google boys decided to acquire YouTube—and its looming crisis—last year. And why, once they... More »

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media • Google • Internet • Viacom • YouTube • Web 2.0 • intellectual property • copyright • Sumner Redstone

Web Sexism Spurs Meltdown

Salon Editor offers
mea culpa for years
of telling women to
ignore it and "man up"

Apr 2, 07 7:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - Salon Editor-in-chief Joan Walsh admits that sexist web trolls are a serious problem, despite her own longtime dismissal of the issue. Her mea culpa follows the implosion of programming instructor and game developer Kathy Sierra's blog after Sierra was assaulted, on her site and others, by crude sexual insults and... More »

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Internet • feminism • women • sexism • discrimination • blog

Big Guns Battle Video Sharing With Free TV Shows

Copyright-protected content will be available for free online in new NBC-News Corp. partnernship

Mar 23, 07 9:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - TV biggies NBC Universal and News Corp. are teaming up to hit YouTube with the full force of their their combined TV content, offered online for free. Starting this summer, AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft's MSN and News Corp. subsidiary MySpace will hope to win over internet users (and the advertising that... More »

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television • Yahoo • Google • Internet • YouTube • AOL • Microsoft • MSN • Rupert Murdoch • MySpace • Heroes • 24 • NBC • advertising • intellectual property • consumer • copyright • file sharing • Internet advertising • News Corp

Bochco Switches to Shorts

Keep it snappy;
I'm sick of this buffer bar

Mar 20, 07 8:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - Steven Bochco, the brains behind "L.A. Law" and "Hill Street Blues," is the latest to move from the small screen to the short attention span. His new project is "Cafe Confidential," an online video featuring a series of brief clips from members of the... More »

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entertainment • television • Internet • Steven Bochco • Cafe Confidential • online media

News Wars

PBS takes on the future of news

Mar 19, 07 5:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - From “infosnacking” to “hyperlocal” news, there is a whole new terminology describing the evolution of news, particularly the move to online news.  The PBS show Frontline has developed a four-part series that examines the ‘News Wars’ taking place all around us.  More »

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television • media • radio • Internet • newspaper • news • Frontline • news distribution • online news • journalism

Viacom Sues Google

Mar 14, 07 8:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Viacom filed a $1 billion lawsuit against Google yesterday for what it says is gross copyright infringement on YouTube, the company's newest acquisition. Google has promised to work with companies to remove copyrighted material, but Viacom complains that illegally posted clips of its programs like "The Daily Show" have... More »

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media • Google • Internet • Viacom • YouTube • copyright • lawsuit • acquisition

Futures Market Predicts Libby Pardon   

Online traders put their money on
Scooter walking

Mar 11, 07 4:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - Traders at the online market Intrade.com betting big that President Bush will pardon Scooter Libby.  CNN reports that at the "prediction market," where people buy and sell futures contracts on real-world events, 63 percent of traders are bullish on the prospect of Libby receiving a pardon... More »

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Internet • trade • Intrade • futures contracts • Lewis Scooter Libby • George W. Bush

Bloggers
Battle Over Hillary Hoax

Out-of-context audio clip used to make her look fake (not just hopelessly white)

Mar 8, 07 2:40 PM CST
(Newser) - Conservative blogs went into overdrive Tuesday when an audio clip of Hillary Clinton "putting on" a southern drawl began circulating, but the accent was more miscalculated than counterfeit. The clip was culled from a speech in Selma in which Clinton quoted a hymn written in vernacular. Conservative commentators went... More »

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Hillary Clinton • blogosphere • Internet • accent • blog

Turkey
Bans
YouTube

Greek videos are "insulting to Turkishness"

Mar 8, 07 1:03 PM CST
(Newser) - A Turkish court banned YouTube on Wednesday after Greek videos on the site insulted Turks—in particular Ataturk, the country's modern founding father—calling them homosexuals. The videos, part of an escalating "virtual war" between Greek and Turkish citizens belittling each other, were deemed an insult to Turkishness, a... More »

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entertainment • Turkey • Google • Internet • YouTube • European Union • virtual war • Turk Telekom • freedom of expression

Lawsuits Aimed at Swapping Students

Record honchos hit college campuses
to make the music stop

Mar 5, 07 10:40 PM CST
(Newser) - The recording industry is bringing out the big guns in its battle to stop illegal music downloads, threatening to sue hundreds of college students each month if they don't stop swapping swiped tunes. The kids need to be taught some download etiquette, says RIAA President Cary Sherman. "Remember... More »

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education • music • Internet • music industry • music downloads • Cary Sherman • Recording Industry Association of America • network • file sharing • college • college student

Newmark Brains Scammers

Craig's List founder tracks online
swindlers the old-fashioned way— brainpower

Mar 5, 07 6:20 PM CST
(Newser) - “We are not really that high-tech of a company,” the man who brought classifieds into the Internet age, Craig’s List founder Newmark, tells the New York Observer, explaining why he uses a combo of customer feedback and his own memory—instead of techie solutions like IP-address... More »

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technology • Internet • entrepreneurs • Craig Newmark • online fraud • NYPD • real estate • New York real estate • fraud • Craigslist

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