AFI BLOG: Media and Technology

The New York Times
hey work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home.
A growing work force of home-office laborers and entrepreneurs, armed with computers and smartphones and wired to the hilt, are [...]

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Venture Beat
Attributor is showing online publishers how to use plagiarism of their content by other sites to their advantage.
It offers a service that a publisher track how its articles, images and videos are being used on other sites, without its permission. Then, it offers ways for these publishers to contact the offending parties and [...]

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AOL Goes Open With AIM - paidContent.org
AOL has opened up its AIM messaging client, the biggest in the market, to third party developers, after years of trying to stave them off. Now services like Meebo or all-in-one IM clients like Trillian or Pidgin, can plug into the AIM service without resorting to hacks. Until now, [...]

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