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...officers in Henan province beating up a college girl that had been posted to several major video-sharing websites. And this week, mobile phone videos showing hundreds of people protesting against a proposed extension of Shanghai's maglev train line have appeared on YouTube as well as on mainland web portal Sina.com...
CONTEXT Turns out that video snacking happens a lot during the office lunch hour. Web content providers have long known that usage spikes at midday during the workweek and are creating content specifically for that window. Sites like ComedyCentral.com are competing with YouTube by splitting shows into short segments; others, like PoliticalLunch.com are creating short midday webcasts...
...choose between the two. To cover what is the most wide-open election in our lifetime, we have assembled the premier political team in journalism, a group that combines decades of campaign experience with the agility required to keep readers informed across a range of platforms. From the guerrilla Web videos on our Swampland blog to Mark Halperin's The Page at TIME.com to our ongoing coverage in the print magazine to round-the-clock TV appearances by TIME correspondents, we offer the world's smartest, most inventive campaign coverage in every medium. All of which adds...
...fury, since France currently enjoys one of the cheapest ISP markets in the developed world. Average monthly Internet access in France costs around $37, which is 37% below the norm for OECD members. That comfort margin may be one reason Sarkozy dared to challenge received thinking on taxing the web...
...snag in the idea is that taxing web use is widely stigmatized as a sure way to stunt economic growth. "Generally speaking, taxing the Internet is considered a bad idea, and a potential brake to net use and development," says Audrey Mandela, founder of the independent London consulting agency Mandela Associates. "But without knowing the details of the French proposal, it's difficult to say how problematic an Internet tax there would...