Media - Internet

LONDON, England -- An anonymous Iraqi woman has been nominated for a major literary award for her Internet blog account of the impact of war on ordinary Iraqi people. "Baghdad Burning" by a 20-something university graduate, who uses the pen name Riverbend, was among the titles announced Monday in the competition for the 30,000-pound ($52,000) Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. The prize -- the...

A judge has ordered an internet blogger to pay £10,000 in compensation after she accused a Parliamentary candidate of being a 'racist bigot' and 'sex offender' in a landmark case. Tracy Williams, from Oldham, Lancashire (North-West England), used an alias identity on her blog and also a chatroom. The decision was made earlier after the comments were made around April 2004 about a former...

MARCH 21, 2006 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Google Inc. got hit with a lawsuit on Friday by a Web publisher that alleges it has suffered significant financial harm because its site got dropped from the search engine's index. KinderStart.com Inc., which operates a Web site for parents of children under 7 years old, filed its lawsuit as a class action in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of...

NEW YORK: During the recent controversy surrounding Dan Froomkin's blog at The Washington Post, editors not only decided to clearly label his column "opinion" but also to make an effort to hire a conservative blogger to balance his alleged liberal slant. Today, the Post launched the result: A new blog called "Red America," created by Ben Domenech, co-founder of RedState, a popular community blog...

March 21 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc., the most-used Internet search engine, is adding a finance site to its stable of offerings, a move that sparks fresh competition for Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo! Inc. Google Finance lets users search for stocks and mutual funds and displays company information, news stories and interactive charts. Users can also track the performance of stocks they own, said Katie...

ONE could almost imagine George Clooney, robed and slippered, taking to the veranda of his Italian lakeside villa and hunkering over a laptop for his maiden voyage into the blogosphere, which appeared in the form of a passionate left-wing call to arms at HuffingtonPost.com last week. "We can't demand freedom of speech then turn around and say, 'But please don't say bad things about us,' " the...

MARCH Madness starts this week in America, and for the rest of the month millions of basketball fans will watch the country's college teams dunk on each other, until the final of the men's national championship on April 3rd. CBS, a broadcast-television network, has shown the event since 1982–but this year it is conducting an experiment. As well as broadcasting the games on TV, it is streaming them...

Rupert Murdoch last night sounded the death knell for the era of the media baron, comparing today's internet pioneers with explorers such as Christopher Columbus and John Cabot and hailing the arrival of a "second great age of discovery". The News Corp media magnate nurtures a long-held distaste for "the establishment" but last night confided to one of the few clubs to which he does belong - The...

NEW YORK The search marketing industry now has 90 million reasons to take click fraud more seriously. In what may set an ominous precedent for the lavishly praised search advertising marketplace, Google has agreed to settle a lawsuit with an Arkansas company by awarding $90 million worth of advertising credit for any and all marketers who can claim they have been subject to click fraud. In a...

Microsoft Corp. is releasing an overhauled Internet search engine, under a new name, still looking for traction in a market where rivals Google and Yahoo! have continued to pull ahead. The Redmond company today plans to issue a preliminary version of Windows Live Search, with a new look and additional features that Microsoft says should make it easier to find information on the Web. The company's...