Bristol's BlogFest

WHAT’S THE BLOGGING STORY? 

Who can you trust when the new media meets the old? An evening of debate with mainstream journalists and bloggers

What’s the relationship between traditional and new media – the tired and the wired as some call them? Is blogging journalism? And who can you believe in this age of blogs, tweets and pay walls?

Join ROY GREENSLADE (The Guardian), DONNACHA DELONG (NUJ President-elect) and a panel of popular bloggers to determine who will dominate the future of news.

A Bristol Festival of Ideas event, in association with the Bristol NUJ branch, the University of the West of England MediaAct project and MediaWise, as party of a weekend study of the impact of the blogosphere. 

19:00

Watershed Media Centre, Bristol

Friday October 22, 2010

Tickets £7/£5 concessions & NUJ members

Box office +44 (0)117 927 5100

http://www.watershed.co.uk/info/box_office.php

NEWSFUTURES 

Workshops for bloggers, venue tba 

11:00-16:00 Saturday October 23 

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Verizon-Google deal will influence net neutrality rules

Writing on the Washington Post's Technology Daily Report website, Cecilia Kang argues that a forthcoming agreement between Google and telecoms company Verizon will establish the basis of a US-wide net neutrality policy. And where the US goes, the EU is bound to follow.

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Straw in the wind?

On 22 July, 2010, the Editor & Publisher website commented on third quarter results announced by Canwest's new owner, Postmedia Network. The results were illuminating.

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Net censorship finds a new expression

A recent item on the website of the NUJ's London Freelance branch rehearses the recent history of the Spinprofiles affair (we suppose you could call it 'Spinprofilesgate'), in which a website was rendered inaccessible after an individual complained about it to the registrar for the site's domain name.

This represents a potentially worrying new form of censorship.

A threat or perceived threat concerning possible defamation is directed not at the authors or publishers of the offending item (the writer or website itself) and not even at the 'distributors' (the hosting service for the website or the service providers who make it available to the public), but at the organisation which effectively licenses the name of the site. It's as though you could threaten Companies House because a company registered there has offended you.

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Other stories

BT and TalkTalk take Digital Economy Act to court

Google Helps Booksellers

Knight Foundation Pushes Neighbourhood News

Publishing's new digital divide

AOL looks to newspapers

FT tops iPad poll

Canwest Settles Freelancers' Suit

iPads to the rescue?

What price the iPad?

EU Commission welcomes 'Digital Agenda'

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