1. Copenhagen, Libya & Hendon '>Guidogram Going Out Shortly : Copenhagen, Libya & Hendon 51 minutes ago   permalink

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The Guy News broadcast is only available to Guidogram subscribers this weekend.  Guy News TV sent Tory Bear to report back from Copenhagen and Tripoli, Emily Nomates went to glamourous Hendon to report on the expense claims of London’s most expensive MP, Andrew Dismore.  We also replay that moment of zen between Brillo and Michael White.

2. In a Home to Free Speech, a Paper Is Accused of Anti-Semitism 3 hours ago   permalink

JESSE / NYT > Media

The Berkeley Daily Planet in the San Francisco Bay Area has come under fire, accused of publishing too many letters critical of Israel.

3. This week on TechCrunch: very bad things, irritable Germans, retro fall-outs and shopping til you drop 8 hours ago   permalink

Paul Carr / TechCrunch Europe

If you’re anything like me – and let’s for all of our sakes pray that you’re not – then your first thought as you stagger back to your desk today, bloated and giddy after Thanksgiving, will likely be “what can I do to kill time until the end of the week?” Actual work is out of [...]

4. Informa's Springer talks anger shareholders 10 hours ago   permalink

FT.com

The board of Informa has come under sharp criticism from some of its leading shareholders following news that the publisher is in talks to acquire German rival Springer Science and Business Media

5. Japan's newspapers hold grip on sales 11 hours ago   permalink

FT.com

Japan's newspapers, which are among the world's largest by circulation, will not decline as fast as their peers in the US and Europe, the president of Japan's second-largest newspaper, said

6. Totsy Offers Deep Discounts For Moms, Partners With Genealogy App FamilyBuilder 12 hours ago   permalink

Leena Rao / TechCrunch

While consumers around the U.S. are sniffing out Black Friday deals today, sample sale sites have emerged to provide members with serious discounts year round. Online sample sales sites such as Gilt Groupe, HauteLook, Ideeli, RueLaLa and others, have been picking up serious traction in the past year. We've seen a plethora of sites pop up for ...

7. Psystar’s folly: 12 million clones per year by 2011 12 hours ago   permalink

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We all know that Psystar is busy bleeding out in federal court, but that doesn’t mean the fun stops. We’ll be dissecting their glorious failure for quite some time. The most recent development: it seems their plan for taking a bite out of Apple’s sales was comically ambitious. How many clones do you think they sold in 2009? ...

8. Advertising: On a Mission to Banish the Saggy Bottom 14 hours ago   permalink

CLAIRE CAIN MILLER / NYT > Media

Started in 2007 by two Stanford University housemates, the online trouser company Bonobos could have sales of $4 million this year.

9. Pub 'fined �8k' for Wi-Fi copyright infringement 15 hours ago   permalink

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A pub owner has been fined £8,000 because someone unlawfully downloaded copyrighted material over their open Wi-Fi hotspot, according to the managing director of hotspot provider The Cloud.

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Charles Arthur / Technology news :   Pub fined £8,000 for customer's illicit downloads, ZDNet reports

10. This week in search 15 hours ago   permalink

A Googler / The Official Google Blog

This is part of a regular series of posts on search experience updates that runs on Fridays. Look for the label This week in search and subscribe to the series. - Ed. This Thanksgiving week, and just in time for the holiday season, we give thanks to you, our users, with two new search features. Holiday Interfaces Last Friday, we started showing ...

11. Sky News launches breaking news Twitter channel 17 hours ago   permalink

Laura Oliver / Journalism.co.uk

Following the deal between breaking news Twitter channel @BreakingNews and MSNBC.com, Sky News has launched a new Twitter account for its own breaking news tweets – @SkyNewsBreak. “The latest breaking news, as we get it, direct from the Sky News studio,” says the account’s tagline. According to various tweets from the team ...

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Ann Smarty / Search Engine Journal Manage Your Corporate Twitter Account with TweetFunnel   —  Using Twitter for streaming news on one company or business is nothing new. It's considered perfectly fine to separate your personal Tweets from your business life and maintain several Twitter accounts at a time. This week I am sharing a cool tool called TweetFunnel that allows several people to post to one Twitter account and provides you with ...

12. Tradition helps keep print ahead of pack 16 hours ago   permalink

FT.com

Despite the changes forced by recession, Japan's newspapers are healthy as circulation remains strong

13. Sex and gossip power Apple Daily 16 hours ago   permalink

FT.com

Apple Daily has become Taiwan's second-biggest paper, selling about 500,000 copies daily, thanks to its tabloid-like mixture of sex, scandal, celebrity gossip and graphic photographs

14. We Sing 16 hours ago   permalink

Neil Davey / Technology news

Wii, £49.99 with two microphones, £29.99 game only, cert 12+, Nordic Games Following the success of the SingStar and Lips series on the rival consoles, a spot of Wii karaoke always looked as inevitable as Christmas. What's so surprising, however, is that the resulting game, We Sing, is so limited compared to its rivals. There are no extra ...

15. New Media Age: Interview with William Lewis, editor-in-chief and MD of digital at Telegraph Media Group 17 hours ago   permalink

Martin Stabe / Martin Stabe

Will Lewis: “I’ll take a handful of people with me from Victoria, but in essence want to source new talent, such as engineers, user experience professionals, product people and entrepreneurs who want to do business to create new products and services. In Euston there’ll be no editorial or advertising drive, it will be driven by the customer.

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Martin Stabe / Martin Stabe Roy Greenslade: Mystery of Will Lewis’s new digital ‘promotion’   —  I suspect Greenslade commenter ZigZoomer is closest to the truth: "Lewis went to Harvard Business School. One of the standard B-school formulas for changing and revitalising an organisation is to set up a 'skunkworks' away from the main offices. ... You take some of the brightest staff, and remove them from the influence of the ...

16. Rupert has balls 16 hours ago   permalink

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine

Tweet: Rupert has balls. Well, he used to. That’s the essence of Murdoch: balls. It’s the essence of the culture of News Corp., which I learned from working there (at TV Guide): Australian macho seat-of-the-pants instant decision making. That is the secret to Murdoch’s success. It is also the secret to his failure: Sometimes his [

17. Hammond Announces Quango Number 18 16 hours ago   permalink

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Philip Hammond gave a speech today outlining how a Tory government will be “Doing More With Less”. He austerely told the audience Our challenge is two-fold: First to ensure the rapid implementation across Government and the public services of the many efficiency savings that have already been identified, but not effectively delivered. ...

18. Steve Yelvington: Lookie Lou isn’t really a customer 17 hours ago   permalink

Martin Stabe / Martin Stabe

"Website users are not fungible. Some of them are very valuable. Some of them are worse than worthless, consuming resources or otherwise making a nuisance of themselves beyond reason. If there is a magic to operating a successful website, it's in figuring out how to identify the valuable ones and harvest that value, while not wasting time,

19. Tom Felton: I'm a little bit of a geek 18 hours ago   permalink

Stuart O'Connor / Technology news

Harry Potter actor Tom Felton would much rather drive a hovercraft than a broomstick What's your favourite piece of technology, and how has it improved your life? I don't want to sound like I'm following the crowd, but it has to be the iPhone. For the past year and a half it's been the passion of my life. When was the last time you used it, and ...

20. ORG is four: we need your help 19 hours ago   permalink

Jim Killock / ORG

Four years ago, the ORG story began, with 1,000 digital activists signing up on Pledge Bank to pay £5 a month to create a Digital Rights campaign. Spurred by the example of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, activists asked at OpenTech where the ‘British EFF’ was. Four years later, as we detail in this year's Annual Report, published today,