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...easy. India's news business remains mostly closed to outsiders. In June, the government removed one barrier when it allowed foreign newspapers such as the International Herald Tribune to publish in India for the first time. The concession came with a catch: foreign media outlets can sell only international editions?issues can't contain local content or advertising, because that would threaten the country's homegrown publications. Nor can outside media giants buy their way in. There's a 26% cap on overseas ownership of newspapers and TV news channels. The recent changes aren't enough, say some...
...Katrina "perhaps the worst tragedy America has known since the Civil War." But he added, "It may be the greatest opportunity to demonstrate God's love in this generation." And indeed last week, even as the remains of the dead were being gathered and the living were trying to catch their breath at last and the President called for a national day of prayer, help poured in from all sides-offers of rides, housing, food, job counseling, baby clothes, tents, from as far away as Australia. Hindus worked with Baptists working with Methodists alongside Muslims, and perhaps...
...Similarly, skeptics thought making calls via PC wouldn't catch on; Skype has 54 million users, and says it is adding 150,000 new ones every day. All that potential, of course, may not be worth the $4.1 billion that eBay has pledged unless the company can use it to truly transform its business. To do that, eBay will have to integrate voice into the fabric of each listings. Bidders on eBay are comfortable emailing sellers with questions about an item; will they use a "Skype me" button just as readily? More importantly, will eBay sellers pay for the privilege...
That was my city four years ago. In the days that followed, we all carried each other out of the abyss. We rebuilt lower Manhattan, and we vowed as a nation that we would never again let a calamity of such magnitude catch us unprepared...
...interaction with my audience that could only have happened on the Internet. Interactivity is exhausting, though, and after two more days at my computer I decided that the future could go ahead without me. I lay down on the sofa and turned on the TiVo to catch up on all the bad TV I?d missed that week. I?d blogged myself into a coma...