eldavojohn writes “The proposed rules shielding journalists harbored in Iceland are now official. It appears that sites like Wikileaks and Cryptome could have a friendlier home base. For those familiar with the Icelandic tongue, the voting results and legalese. Some of the details can be found at www.immi.is.”

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Is Digg defining a new direction for the curation economy? And could the new site help us cope with information overload?

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daedae writes “It seems Facebook has been granted a patent for the news feed, as a method of monitoring activities, storing them in a database, and displaying an appropriate set of activities to an appropriate set of users. ‘That sounds pretty broad, and the social-networking world was all atwitter at the possible ramifications. Writing for ReadWriteWeb, Marshall Kirkpatrick proclaimed, “This could be very big. … MySpace, Flickr, Yahoo, Twitter (more…)

Well, we know one up-and-coming reporter who’s well on her way to Pulitzer City. This could be one of the most sensationalized, irrational, unresearched, and absolutely hilarious news reports on the dangers of online gaming we’ve seen in years.

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eldavojohn writes “Wikileaks has been pretty successful on a global scale — from ACTA documents to East Anglian e-mails, it is the definitive place to find suppressed documents. But some are saying that now Wikileaks should begin focusing on a local level. From the article: ‘The organization has applied for a $532,000 two-year grant from the Knight Foundation to expand the use of its secure, anonymous submission system by local newspapers. The (more…)

Activision’s latest Hero, DJ Hero, is not living up to its name according to new demand expectations data from analyst Doug Creutz of Cowan and Company. Cruetz believes the lack in music game sales are because gamers are being turned away by high priced music games during the recession and that the Guitar Hero fad has perhaps run its course.

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France has arrested a researcher at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) for suspected links with al-Qaeda, officials have said.

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Paul Graham has posted an essay questioning whether we ever really paid for “content,” as publishers of news and music are saying while they struggle to stay afloat in the digital age. “If the content was what they were selling, why has the price of books or music or movies always depended mostly on the format? Why didn’t better content cost more?” Techdirt’s Mike Masnick takes it a step further, suggesting that the content itself should be treated (more…)

Bill O’Reilly Introduces a segment on Inside Edition about the Nintendo Entertainment System.

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