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The management of the Philadelphia Media Network — which publishes The Inquirer, The Daily News and Philly.com – has pitted itself against its newsroom leadership over coverage of a potential sale, Amy Chozick and David Carr write. Reporters and editors say they believe coverage has been steered to favor an investor group that includes the area’s most powerful Democrats – among them former Mayor Ed Rendell – and fear what might happen once they control the papers. The management, while conceding that an article and blog post related to the sale had been killed, said those were mistakes that would not be repeated.

The writer Buzz Bissinger, a former Philadelphia Inquirer reporter, has an Op-Ed piece on the issue: “If the sale goes through, Philadelphia will become the first major city in the country to actually cease to have a real daily newspaper.”

The scrapbook/social-networking site Pinterest is getting some mainstream media attention: The Wall Street Journal focuses on the question of how the company, which has 16 employees based in Palo Alto, Calif., will convert its fast-growing user base into a profitable business. (There are businesses like the online crafts marketplace Etsy.com that credit Pinterest with sending a lot of buyers their way – but how it gets a share is still being worked out.)

David Pogue reviews Pinterest and gives it high marks (starting with having a name that makes sense – “you pin things based on your interest), but for design and ease of use, too. Most significantly, it is a outward-looking activity, rather than a self-absorbed one like Facebook or Twitter can be.

Mitt Romney’s faltering effort to lock up the Republican presidential nomination has been hurt by his “distant, complicated relationship with many of the conservative media’s leading voices,” Jeremy Peters writes. Even as he has gone out of his way, at times, to meet with these conservative pundits, they report that he has failed to connect and take their advice to heart. Ann Coulter, for example, an early backer of Mr. Romney, says she has never had a conversation with him or his campaign.

A good excuse as any to include the recent all-purpose cable pundit sentence posted by Hendrik Hertzberg of the New Yorker: “At the end of the day, the game changer is a narrative that resonates going forward.”

Two media outlets were among the organizations awarded grants by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Felicia Lee writes on the ArtsBeat blog. The Center for Investigative Reporting, which has a staff of 40 and is based in Berkeley, Calif., received $1 million. The Moth, a New York-based group dedicated to storytelling that has an influential radio show, received $750,000 to produce its show weekly.

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15-02-2012 03:48 As novel as it sounds, Mardan's 18-year-old Shahzad has developed a social networking portal that does not require an internet connection -- "Smile SMS". tribune.com.pk

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BRUSSELS -- A European Union court ruled Thursday that social networking sites cannot be compelled to install general filters to prevent the illegal trading of music and other copyrighted material.

The decision is a victory for operators of social networking sites in the EU, but a setback for those who seek to protect copyrighted material from being distributed without payment or permission.

It also comes as protests are growing in Europe against ACTA, the proposed international Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, which is meant to protect intellectual property rights.

In Thursday's decision, the EU Court of Justice, which is based in Luxembourg, ruled that requiring general filters that would cover all the site's users would not sufficiently protect personal data or the freedom to receive and impart information.

SABAM, a Belgian company that represents authors, composers and music publishers, filed the lawsuit leading to Thursday's ruling. In it, the company objected to the practices of Netlog NV, a social networking site, saying users' profiles allowed protected works to be shared illegally.

Michael Gardner, head of the intellectual property practice at London law firm Wedlake Bell, called the ruling a further blow to copyright owners because it appears to rule out forcing operators of social network sites and Internet service providers -- at their own expense -- to impose blanket monitoring and filtering aimed at stopping

infringements.

In November, SABAM lost a separate case in which it sought to require Internet service providers to install filters that would prevent the illegal downloading of files.

Gardner said the ruling would not stop copyright owners from seeking more limited injunctions against social networking sites or Internet service providers, but he said the injunctions would have to be more "proportionate" in scope and effect.

"Under EU law, there has to be a balance between the interests of copyright owners and the rights of privacy and freedom of expression," he said. "So far, the courts seem to have rejected the draconian solutions urged on them by the rights owners."

Mark Owen, head of the intellectual property practice at London law firm Harbottle & Lewis, said the new ruling shows how difficult it can be to protect intellectual property.

"As clouds continue to gather around Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement and other attempts to control online use of copyright works, today's ruling from the European Court provides a useful illustration of the practical challenges enforcement poses," Owen said.

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Satter reported from London. Follow Don Melvin at http://twitter.com/Don--Melvin

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15-02-2012 16:29 This is a single audio-video discussing the creation of new currencies based on new technologies or what can be called, Chip Currency or Network Currency. Initially, when considering financial systems and their problems I wondered why not just abolish money altogether but I see now that this would just create new problems. Propping up existing currencies is equally unappealing and is clearly impractical. So, we need to create alternative and/or complementary currencies that better serve our individual and collective needs. One could argue that all we need is new small businesses and local economic development to address our financial concerns. This sounds good but with all of the new millionaire's and billionaire's that we have there is no reason for these investments to not have already occurred if at all. The problem is not so much one of a lack of investment but rather an unfair and unequal allocation of resources. For instance, in Silicon Valley there are all of these Internet and Technology companies, so why is there not full employment for the residents of East Palo Alto? Another perfect example is Richmond, CA, where the Chevron Refinery is located but how many job opportunities are there for Richmond residents within this International Corporation? Investment sounds real good until you do the actual mathematics and it is just another word for the phrase, "the rich get richer." The systemic inequalities within all of our present currencies are unresolvable, within ...

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