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Bloggers are gaining a higher profile alongside traditional news sources with Yahoo including blogs in its expanding news search system. The decision could reignite the debate over what constitutes news reporting and whether blogs are as valuable a source of news as that from professional journalists. So-called citizen journalists are increasingly dominating the headlines. User-generated content...

NEW YORK - Look out: The blogs are coming to Yahoo! Some 750,000 blogs and other user-generated content will soon show up on Yahoo! (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people ) News search pages, presented right alongside news from mainstream media. But is Yahoo! taking another big step in the blurring of lines between professional media and grassroots journalism? The company is testing a new search tool that...

The US has got an image problem when it comes to the internet. It is seen as arrogant and determined to remain the sheriff of the world wide web, regardless of whatever the rest of the world may think. It has even lost the support of the European Union. It stands alone as the divisive battle over who runs the internet heads for a showdown at a key UN summit in Tunisia next month. The stakes are...

Some 750,000 blogs and other user-generated content will soon show up on Yahoo! (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people ) News search pages, presented right alongside news from mainstream media. But is Yahoo! taking another big step in the blurring of lines between professional media and grassroots journalism? The company is testing a new search tool that includes results from thousands of mainstream media...

The first metasearch engine to be powered by the efficient fuel of RSS technology, Gada.be, went live on Monday. Gada.be strips away the multiple layers necessary to search, which is particularly painful for those attempting to visit a Web site over a mobile device. Instead of plugging in a URL for a search engine, then visiting each page in search results, visitors can merely type in their search...

The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, leading journalists and media executives in over 112 countries, condemns in the strongest possible terms the severe restrictions on press freedom included in the "Ordinance Amending some of the Nepal Act related to Media, 2062," promulgated by King Gyanendra on 9 October. The ordinance will strengthen the state's legislative...

ARTICLE 19 condemns the recent promulgation of an Ordinance by King Gyanendra, which ushers in further draconian measures against an already tightly controlled media. The new ordinance constitutes yet another move towards muzzling independent voices in the country, and granting the Monarchy absolute power, a process initiated in February when the King declared a state of emergency. The Ordinance...

KATHMANDU, Oct. 10: The Ordinance Amending Some Nepal Acts Related to Communication-2062 that has been promulgated by His Majesty the King is oriented towards curtailing monopoly of the media while letting it to abide by democratic norms and values. According to the Ministry of Information and Communications, the ordinance also prohibits dissemination and broadcast of any information that is...

KATHMANDU, Oct 10 - Journalist bodies Monday slammed the government for introducing the press ordinance aimed at imposing restrictions on the media. King Gyanendra promulgated the new ordinance named "Ordinance amending some Nepal Acts related to Media-2062" on Sunday causing many to fear that the government is tightening its grip on the free press. "We strongly condemn the government's ill...

Remember merger mania? Remember the bigger getting bigger yet? Remember when the prices of media stocks weren't stalled? Me neither. DreamWorks and NBC Universal go deep into talks. Microsoft (MSFT ) and Time Warner (TWX ) play footsie over a possible MSN/AOL link-up. In both cases, news of the talks leaks. The gasbags start gasbagging. The headlines get teed up. And...nothing happens. Welcome to...