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To give Kashmiri language the place it deserves is not the concern of the intelligentsia only but demand comes form almost every section of the society. Of late the majority of those who speak and understand Kashmiri but unfortunately cannot read and write it have given vent to their demand that their mother tongue be given the status it deserves. It is now evident enough that different cultural...

Mr. Yang, My name is Liu Xiaobo. I was born in Changchun, China, in 1955, and am now a freelance writer in Beijing. I can't address you as the "respectful Mr. Yang", because I write this letter for the sake of my friend Shi Tao, who is now in a Chinese prison. In preparation for writing this letter, I read your resume for the first time and learned that you co-created the Yahoo! Internet...

SAN FRANCISCO– America Online Inc. has agreed to buy Weblogs Inc., a network of Internet sites focused on niche topics ranging from food to gadgets, for around $25 million, a source familiar with the deal said on Wednesday. AOL , a unit of Time Warner Inc., could announce the acquisition of New York-based Weblogs Inc. as early as Thursday, the source said. A spokesman for America Online declined...

You would expect an announcement that would forever change the face of the internet to be a grand affair - a big stage, spotlights, media scrums and a charismatic frontman working the crowd. But unless you knew where he was sitting, all you got was David Hendon's slightly apprehensive voice through a beige plastic earbox. The words were calm, measured and unexciting, but their implications will be...

At a Web-related confab Thursday, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel shared his thoughts on everything from 21st century media companies to his company's struggle with Google to the ethics of doing business in a communist country. At the Web 2.0 Conference 2005, sponsored by Yahoo, Google, MSN Search and others, Semel said Yahoo is blazing a trail as a new kind of new-media company, rooted in technology and...

Washington � U.S. officials are engaged in ongoing talks with other governments, private enterprise and nongovernmental organizations working to craft an agreement on the future of Internet governance for presentation at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) to be held in Tunis, Tunisia, November 16-18. Discussions continue after a preparatory conference ended in Geneva September 30...

NEW YORK (AP) - MSNBC invited viewers to share photos of their interactions with the late Pope John Paul II, while The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Wash., anointed eight readers with the power to publicly criticize the newspaper's coverage on its very Web site. Newspapers in Greensboro, N.C., and Boulder, Colo., are even letting citizens write their own news stories -- on weddings, awards, even a...

Journalists have enough worries: cutbacks, bloggers, a geriatric audience. But here's one more: They should worry that bright young people who might once have been heading into newsrooms are going into public relations instead. Worse, these people aren't going just for the money. Journalism – assailed by self-doubt and public mistrust – is in danger of losing its next generation of idealists to PR...

Ten communications unions representing a million workers are banding together to provide a united front in the face of "rapid media consolidation and massive technological shifts." That will include organizing, collective bargaining, and pushing for public policy. And in a separate move, one of those guilds, the Writers Guild of America East, joined with its West Coast counterpart Thursday to mend...

LONDON - The Wall Street Journal is publishing an eight-page guide to the compact version of its European and Asian editions, which launch later this month. The guide, which will be published on Monday October 10, will explain the new format to readers of the paper's international editions and is being produced in the same format as the new compact version. It will contain many of the design...