Links for April 1st 2008
April 1st, 2008 | by Tama |Interesting links for March 31st 2008 through April 1st 2008:
- Police take a tip from YouTube [Australian IT] - “Call it BlueTube. Citizen-supplied video evidence of crimes appears set to take off with police forces around Australia.”
- Embracing the torrent of online video [BBC NEWS | Technology] - Very positive piece from Michael Geist on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s decision to make one of their shows available for free, without DRM, via peer to peer Bittorrent networks.
- Decline Of US Newspapers Accelerating [Tech Crunch] - “Figures released by the Newspaper Association of America show that the decline of newspapers is more rapid than previously thought, with total print advertising revenue in 2007 plunging 9.4% to $42 billion compared to 2006…”
Tags:broadcasting, convergence, digitalculture, newspapers, p2p, panopticon, police, print, stats, surveillance
