Links for 2008-07-22 [del.icio.us]Stewart Brand: Keep Designing — Discussions from The Hackers' Conference, November 1984 "information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand. information wants to be free, because the cost of getti...Read the full post from Preoccupations via Blogdigger blog search for newspapers.

I promised a real t shirt OR.....I am in a regional coverband. We have t-shirts we sell at our shows. I love taking our shirts and doing cool stuff with them (even though the guys in the band don't always appreciate my efforts). I had made the original shirt and wore it to a show and one fan liked it so much she asked me to make he...Read the full post from t-shirt surgery via Blogdigger blog search for newspapers.

The Gambia - Two newspaper journalists briefly detained, one charged with sedition(MFWA/IFEX) - Abdulhamid Adiomoh and Pa Bajika, Nigerian publisher and reporter, respectively, for the privately-owned Banjul-based "Today Newspaper", were on 17 July 2008 arrested and briefly detained at the headquarters of The Gambian Police Force over a story that the paper published....Read the full post from IFEX All Regions via Blogdigger blog search for newspapers.

Internet Father Vint Cerf Says Telcos Harming National InterestVint Cerf, father of the Internet and chief Internet evangelist for Google. I interviewed Mr Cerf at the Fortune Brainstorm conference in Half Moon Bay. He often speaks about net neutrality. In this interview he says that companies such as Verizon misquoted him in full page adverts in major newspape...Read the full post from Silicon Valley Watcher - reporting on the business of technology and mediaTags: Tech Policy via Blogdigger blog search for newspapers.

Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert gave two big thumbs-down to Jay Mariotti, who resigned Tuesday as a Sun-Times sports columnist, in an open letter on Thursday. Apparently, Mariotti's exit looked to be the feel-good move of the year, but ...

Fairfax Media newspapers including The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald will be published as normal this weekend despite staff striking until Monday, the company's chief executive David Kirk said today. Editorial staff in Melbourne and Sydney walked ...

OMAHA - The Omaha World-Herald Co. has purchased the Grand Island Independent and York News Times newspapers from GateHouse Media. Terry Kroeger, president of the World-Herald, announced the purchase today. ``We are fortunate to have the opportunity ...

Mix-up over remains of victims of Madrid plane crash Two families receive wrong bodies Investigation launched into what happened RELATIVES of two victims of last week's plane crash in Spain have reportedly received the wrong sets of remains. A ...