Paid news -- Media monitoring

Here is a quick look at whats up on the sujbect of a personalized &/or customized news service, generally aggregated by a newspaper (for its audience) or a third party (with an agenda or a business motive). See also: syndication

What is paid news? By Ashutosh Nandi, Cuttack, THE TIMES OF INDIA
Paid news or paid content are those articles in newspapers, magazines and the electronic media, which indicate favourable conditions for the institution that has paid for it. The news is much like an advertisement but without the ad tag. This kind of news has been considered a serious malpractice since it deceives the citizens, not letting them know that the news is, in fact, an advertisement. Secondly , the payment modes usually violate tax laws and election spending laws. More seriously, it has raised electoral concerns because the media has a direct influence on voters.

• 'Paid News': The Buried Report, The report they don't want you to read. Full text of the controversial report by the Press Council of India's subcommittee to probe the Paid News scandal, by Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, K. Sreenivas Reddy http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?266542
• Major papers launch online paid news service, Jennifer SaBa, NEW YORK — The Globe and Mail
• The Pointlessness of Paid News Applications --Extract: "Now, I have nothing against paid content, great content  and journalism costs money to create and if it’s above average in quality, then I’m willing to pay.
  
  However, The Telegraph believes that its iPad application is synonmous with a pre-internet era printed newspaper, and is charging accordingly $1.99 per day. Per day! Or $16.99 per month."
• Who Would Pay for Online News? - Centre d'études sur les médias

Who is in this business?

• CANOE -- Technology: Papers launch online paid news service
• Five Best News Aggregators 
• 5 Best News Aggregators for getting the most out of your phone
• Comparing The New Aggregators: Flipboard, Pulse, Zite, Float And More - paidContent.org, By Amanda Natividad

European Commission (EC) details Google's proposed search concessions

EC details Google's proposed search concessions

CNET, by Stephen Shankland, 25 April, 2013 Google offers to label its own services in search results and give some prominence to rivals. European competitiveness regulators now want feedback, and critics are lodging objections.

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Do Google's Search Proposals Go Far Enough? Is the EU pushing Google too far?   WebProNews Chris Crum, 25 April, 2013

Extract: "The Commission views Google as dominant in search and search advertising, and says it is abusing its dominant position in four areas: specialized search, content usage, exclusivity agreements with publishers for the provision of online search advertising on their sites, and contractual restrictions on the portability and management of online search advertising campaigns across AdWords and competing platforms." continue reading

Google’s Search Proposal to EU, Networks, February 6th, 2013

Internet Security Research and Insight about Keywords and Phrases

Info courtesy: Stephen Abram's post (based on Phrases used by corporate fraudsters
Via Cory Doctorow):

Special Librarians and Information Forensics

Many special librarians and information science researchers are intimately involved in information forensics work.  This FBI/E&Y study is an interesting insight into how searching and metadata skills assist this kind of investigation. Hey, we can catch white collar crooks with our skills.

In total more than 3,000 terms are logged by the technology, which monitors for conversations within the “fraud triangle”, where pressure, rationalisation, and opportunity meet, said the FBI and Ernst & Young…
1.   Cover up
2.  Write off
3.   Illegal
4.   Failed investment
5.   Nobody will find out
6.  Grey area
7.   They owe it to me
8.  Do not volunteer information
9.  Not ethical
10.  Off the books   continue reading

 See also:

• Internet Security Research and Insight - Team Cymru,

  www.team-cymru.org/ -- It all begins with metadata ...

• FBI Software Pinpoints Top Phrases Used by corporate fraudsters ... by Bianca Dima

   

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Leaked document angers Rockford Public Library fans

Reading this news story, competitive intelligence, best practices and what not comes to your mind.
Leaked document angers Rockford Public Library fans By Susan Stephens @ Northern Public Radio
Extract:

The Rockford Public Library’s board of trustees can expect to see something unusual at its meeting Monday night… a large crowd. That’s because two confidential reports by the library’s executive director have been leaked to the public.
The documents detail ways to offer the public more digital services by cutting staff, closing some branches, and heavily “weeding out” print materials.
The Public Library has been an important institution in Rockford since it opened its first reading room in 1872. And the 110 year old Carnegie library on the banks of the Rock River now anchors a six branch system. Continue reading Leaked document angers

Using SharePoint for Legal KM

Jennifer McNenly, Event Host

Talk: Recorded Live
About the exploring the role of the knowledge worker in the modern social-media savvy enterprise
Using SharePoint for Legal KM, Slideshare

Organized by knowledge workers, October 20, 2010, Toronto

Records Management and Knowledge Mobilisation -- Reading now

Records Management and Knowledge Mobilisation: A Handbook for Regulation, Innovation and Transformation, by Stephen Harries. Chandos Publishing (Oxford) Ltd / Woodhead Publishing -- Distributed in the US by Neil-Schuman Publishers (2011). ISBN-10: 1843346532
About the Book:

Over the last 15 years, records managers have tackled problems of electronic information and built a strong case for information governance based on a model of regulation and management control. The public sector environment is now changing rapidly, with more emphasis on efficiency, flexibility, loosening regulation, and cutting budgets. This book shows how records management can continue to contribute to public sector reform and transformation in this new climate. By linking practical ideas about the use and management of knowledge, Harries draws on insights from the study of policy-making and program delivery to show how managing the relationship between records and knowledge and their creation and use can thrive and reconcile the demands of regulation through a wider concept of the governance of knowledge and information.

CONTENTS:

Managing records and growing knowledge: an interactive strategy

Records management in a turbulent world

The turbulent world of records management

What is knowledge mobilisation?

Connecting records management and knowledge mobilisation
PART 1: PRINCIPLES

The changing role of government: transformation

Concepts, codes and meanings: bridging knowledge and records

Records, knowledge and action: an interacting design model

Regulation and institutions: rules, roles and frames

Innovation and change: ideas, networks and communities
PART 2: PRACTICES

Bridging policy and delivery with knowledge: the case for intervention

Achieving added value: efficiency, effectiveness and public value

Planning a knowledge-based intervention: strategy, tools, analysis

Fomenting knowledge development: plans, techniques, architecture

Reframing records management: towards knowledge governance

Structural change in the public sector

A strategic role for knowledge governance