links for 2008-06-25
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Semantics did not dramatically improve over the last decade. Automated summaries, for instance, a problem that has kept semanticists busy for the past 40 years, are still not expected for a distant future.
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NYTimes.com and IHT.com — the International Herald Tribune — are considering merging into a single site. One of the ideas is the international edition of NYTimes.com will carry both brands with expanded IHT.com content.
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Two journalists and their editor were arrested on Tuesday night in Hyderabad, India for publishing an allegedly offensive story on Dalit organisations and its leaders.
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“Most media people don’t realise that blogging is a community strategy. They think of it as a publishing process and, perhaps, as articles published with a particular tone of voice. They certainly don’t think of it as a conversation.”
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Facebook will soon be making it possible for members to leave comments on each others’ “mini-feeds” of activity, according to an announcement Wednesday from the social network.
