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An spanish newspaper reported yesterday that Google is also moving into "paper-based" ads. They'll start shortly a test phase with 50 american newspapers, among others The New York Times and The Washington Post.

So, when will they rename the company to "Ads'R'Us"?

PS: fsck! The domain is already taken. There goes my oportunity of becoming rich with a mere $10 investment...

I quoted it from memory. Now I have done some actual research: http://portal.aragob.es/pls/portal30/docs/FOLDER/I AEST/IAEST_0000/IAEST_01/IAEST_0105/IAEST_010500/C RE.PDF (page 2, down-right, in spanish): 67,4% And from this article, also in spanish: http://www.elpais.es/articulo/economia/Madrid/fue/ comunidad/crecio/2005/seguida/Extremadura/Murcia/e lpporeco/20060419elpepueco_4/Tes/ Extremadura: 14.051 euros, Spain: 20.838 euros (67,43%)

Please go tell how safe it is to the thousands of people affected by the Chernobyl accident. Up to 40% of Europe's land mass and population were affected by the radioactive cloud produced by that disaster and much of this land is still contaminated with high levels of cancer among children, land that you can't grow shit on, and animals that you cannot sell and need to be quarantined.

El Pais is Spain's most prominent newspaper, the equivalent of the Nytimes or the Washingtonpost. Check this out

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I regularly read newspapers from the US, the UK, France, Germany, Spain, latin america and Denmark. IT's interesting to see them looking for different formulas to adapt to the challenges of the internet.

Several french newspapers (like Liberation and Le Monde) have tried to specialize their print and web based deliveries in such a way that the print edition offers in depth reports and analisys, while the web based portion is kept up to date with the cutting-edge-now-unfolding stuff. A few spanish papers seem to be following this trend (like El Pais).

I get the impression that danish papers don't really have a strategy, which stikes me as odd since Denmark is one of the most wired countries in the world. A lot of newspapers there seem to see their web presence as a way to publicize their paper and maybe sell a few stories, but there is no overarching strategy.


In the US you see lots of different approaches, like the Wall Street Journal which practically cut itself out of the blogging trend by keeping all of its material under lock and key except to paying subscribers, thereby insuring that their stories aren't linked to, the New York Times wants you to sell your soul to read anything, and Salon has the interesting strategy of making you watch an add to read their stuff. A kind of contract based approach.

I would really like to see a comparative study of the merits and shortcomings of different approaches. I would also like to see studies on how different reader demographics respond to different paper-web mixes.

So you assume that since US newspapers have crap international sections (except maybe for the New York Times and compared to some other international quality papers like the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the Neue Zurcher Zeitung or El Pais its international section is less then stellar) all foreign papers must have incompetent dweebs writing about the US?

This is not only ignorant its also arrogant. Specifically when you are very obviously have no clue about what you're talking.

There is no need to thank me.

As a portuguese person, I live some 200 miles from spain and can more or less understand spanish.
It's odd to me that you american fellows are not well informed about what goes on here in Europe, but Spain has an awful terrorist problem.
First you have to understand that there is no "spain" country per se. Spain is merely a collection of kingdoms that have been subdued by the kingdom of Castilla. The only ones who have managed to fend off their attacks throughout 1000 years of history have been us, the Portuguese, the only remaining independent country in the Iberian Penninsula, and even so, they are occupying a portion of our land called Olivença which they have colonized so no one there is truly portuguese anymore.
There isn't a spanish language or a spanish people either. There are 3 or 4 different languages for the different kingdoms.
This means that the peoples of the Iberian Penninsula have managed to maintain a certain cultural identity throughout this long history of Castillian domination. In Galicia, the spanish kingdom to the north of our country, there have been protests claiming that they want to integrate with us, since their language and culture is more similar to ours, and they are a natural extension of our territory, since they occupy the strip of land between our northern border and the northern sea.
In Pais Vasco, however, the Basque protests are all but peaceful. They have a very different language and culture from all of us. It does not even derive from Latin. They are a separate people, which they have been throughout history, their territory is split between France and Spain, and no one cares about them. I think it is obvious that they more than deserve their freedom, although I cannot support their actions.
You see, some of the Basques have formed a terrorist organization called ETA which has commited numerous atrocities throughout the past few decades. Many important people have been assassinated, numerous bombs have been planted, injuring innocent bystanders.
Batasuna is an independentist left-wing party aiming to promote the freeing of the Basque people and territory from their Castillian opressors.
A link between the party and the terrorist organization has never been established, their site does not promote or even mention ETA or any form of violence, so it is terribly anti-constitutional to illegalize the party and block their website.
I am amazed that I cannot reach the website without the anonymizer link, since I don't live in Spain. Would this mean that our government secretly agreed to block it as well? I find it highly unlikely.
If you want more information about spanish events there is an excellent newspaper at http://www.elpais.es (use the fish).

He doesn't talk about technology specifically, but he makes some interesting observations about what 9/11 has done to accelerate our progression toward a 1984-like totalitarian state. That was a forbidden topic in rally-'round-the-flag media at the time. It has since been published in edited form in several different languages -- most recently in Spain's El Pais about two weeks ago (untranslated version).

He's the kind of author whose opinion is so highly valued that the networks will fly out to Italy to solicit it, but they pull the plug on him in mid-sentence when he says something "unpopular" on live television. If the name sounds familiar, here are some helpful tidbits:

• You may remember his cameo in Gattaca -- he played the murderous director ("Jerome? Is this... the approach path we discussed? Quite right.")
• He's Al Gore's cousin (their grandfather was the first Senator of Oklahoma)
• He ran for Congress against JFK (and lost), but through some cosmic irony his mother later married Jackie Kennedy's stepfather

So far the best graphics I've found, far surpassing any of the lousy diagrams I've seen on CNN, come from the Spanish paper El Pais. This page includes two interactive, animated flash documents (Grafico -- currently the first two pictures) which shows the paths of all four planes, the way they hit the buildings, and how the supports in the towers got severed, leading to the collapse.

Helps if you know spanish (which I don't), but the pictures speak for themselves.

The actual animations are at http://www.elpais.es/multimedia/internacional/plan tilla10.swf and http://www.elpais.es/multimedia/internacional/estr uc.swf .

June 30, 2000: MP3 Summit Ian at MP3 Summit webcast
You can find Ian's hour long talk at the MP3 Summit about 1 hour 8 minutes into the Wednesday webcast.

June 16, 2000: Guardian Free market fight for music moguls
Interesting article in a British national newspaper.

May 27, 2000: LA Weekly Genie 1, Bottle 0
Very amusing article on Freenet and copyright. Highly recommended.

May 24, 2000: Channel 4 News Hackers stay one step ahead
A very cool news item talking about recent attempts by the British government to censor the Internet and how Freenet will make this very difficult. Includes text and streaming video of the item.

May 23, 2000: Libération L'anarchie est au bout du clavier
An interesting French article about Freenet, concentrating on the freedom of information aspects of the system rather than just copyright.

May 12, 2000: National Post Napster secured page in Internet history
Interesting description of why Freenet is not vulnerable in the same way that Napster is, although I must say that their "final thought" is slightly perplexing!

May 12, 2000: O'Reilly Network Gnutella and Freenet represent true technological innovation
A nice article concentrating, for a change, on the technical side of Freenet and Gnutella. Reasonably accurate, although it understates the efficiency improvement that Freenet should provide (describing it as of comparable efficiency to the WWW where it should be much more efficient).

May 12, 2000: Het Nieuwsblad Vrijheid van downloaden
A Belgian article about Freenet.

May 10, 2000: Houston Chronicle Software developer pledges to foil all intellectual property watchdogs
A version of the article below, doesn't require that you register.

May 10, 2000: New York Times The Concept of Copyright Fights for Internet Survival
One of the better articles; concentrates on the copyright issue. Requires free registration.

April 27, 2000: PCFormat Daily FreeNet
A brief article on Freenet.

April 27, 2000: Heise News-Ticker World Wide Anarchy: Netz ohne Kontrolle
A German article on Freenet.

April 26, 2000: CNET.com Free, anonymous information on the anarchists' Net
Entertaining article with some nice quotes.

April 17, 2000: The Irish Times Anarchy Rules Alternative Web
A rather amusing article on Freenet.

April 16, 2000: Freshmeat Client As Server: The New Model
An interesting article discussing distributed systems and how systems like Freenet are actually in a similar spirit to the original Internet.

April 13, 2000: El País Freenet propone una red sin censuras, alternativa a la WWW
A Spanish article about Freenet.

April 10, 2000: Slashdot.org FreeNet's Ian Clarke Answers Privacy Questions
A very informative interview conducted by the readership of SlashDot.org, probably the closest thing to a FAQ, aside from our faq.

March 25, 2000: ABC News Freedom on the Net?
A rehash of the New Scientist article below, but likely to reach a much larger audience.

March 25, 2000: New Scientist Out of control
A "big bad Internet"-style article, but it is reasonably well researched and seeks the opinions of those who might be considered Freenet's opposition.

March 23, 2000: Heise.de Ein Netzwerk, das Zensur unmöglich machen soll
A German article on Freenet.

March 14, 2000: OLinux Freenet, a polemic concept to deal with WWW
An English translation of a Brazilian interview with Ian Clarke. Focuses on the technical aspects of Freenet, and goes into a reasonable amount of detail as to how the system works.

March 10, 2000: Webwereld Anoniem Freenet ultieme schuilplaats voor piraten
A Dutch article on Freenet. My Dutch is a little rusty but it looks like it is primarily inspired by the Wired article below.

March 8, 2000: no spoon FreeNet : le réseau anonyme distribué qui supplantera le Web
An excellent French article on Freenet, draws an interesting parallel between Freenet and the writings of Neal Stephenson.

March 3, 2000: Need To Know sufficiently advanced technology: the gathering
A brief but excellent article again approaching Freenet from a pro-freedom standpoint.

February 24, 2000: PigDog Journal Get in on the Ground Floor of Freedom
A very positive little article describing Freenet and why they think it is interesting using some rather "colorful" language.

August 14, 1999: Brave Gnu World FreeNET
One of the first articles about Freenet back when it was 100% theory. Still an excellent introduction to the way Freenet works.