Check Netvibes. It allows users to create personalised home pages that include news, email, search engines and other features. The process is very non-technical. Although I’d like more flexibility.
Year: 2006
Heading in the same direction
A headline in The Progressive reads thus: VA Nurse Investigated for “Sedition†for Criticizing Bush. Hallelujah! It surprised me to hear a journalist-friend say that he wasn’t particularly concerned about what Yahoo!, Google or AOL do with the personal information they have of their customers as long as he gets to use what’s on offer…
A step forward
The January 24 newsletter by Frank Barnako has two noteworthy titbits on online journalism: LATimes is to move members of its online team “to take seats in regular newsroom departmentsâ€. Now that is nothing novel, and, indeed, such moves can only make sense with a rethink about the entire news process, which obviously means that…
Downlinking norms
According to the new guidelines for downlinking for foreign television channels announced by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry: The companies operating in India must be registered under the Indian Companies Act. For what that amounts to, visit the FAQ by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Ministry of Commerce and Industry: http://siadipp.nic.in/publicat/most_frq.htm The company…
Basis of media reform
If public interest is the basis of media reform then the professional and economic independence of media practitioners is a yardstick to measure the scenario. From the multi-edition big newspapers to the small town tabloids a de-unionised workforce is the norm. The implications are manifold: contract labour, job insecurity, harassment of various kinds and so…