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I have often seen people trying to find appropriate players for Videos and audios of various different formats.

So here is what I use - Open source, attractive, no-nonsense players for both.

Miro for Video

and Songbird for Audios.

Check for yourself , you’ll be blown away by what you were missing.

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An article discussing legalities every blogger in US should be aware of.

Nice written article; Click here to access it.

PS: Just by linking the article, I violated law 2 :). So here is the disclaimer - The above linked article is owned by Directory Aviva.

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On May 2, 2007, at 12.32 am when most of the readers/reporters are asleep or finishing next days’s stories,  an event is happening on the internet that will become an example to news organizations.

Thousands of geeks and free speech enthusiasts used digg effect to bring Digg server down.

The feud started when Digg deleted a post [...]

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If you want to use the power of citizen journalism databases, like Washington post’s US Congress Votes database , here is a list of citizen journalism databases that can come handy.

In a world where large volumes of information can be produced in the blink of an eye, citizen journalists need tools to access and cross-reference [...]

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I came across this video yesterday.

I would suggest it is a must watch for all those, who want to know what open source is all about and how sharing of information can help both the parties involved, tremendously.

Out of many solutions that you might be using everyday as a result of Open Source revolution [...]

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In October, Mashable.com did a survey on average age of YouTube user to be 27. I assume the average age of prosumer was similar, isn’t it? Wrong!!

Ralph Braseth showed me one of the videos his 13 year old son, Bailey made , casting members of his skateboard club.

I found it much more professionally shot and [...]

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What a horrible news!

Another school massacre! Out of 31 notable school massacres listed in Wikipedia, 23 occoured in United States and Canada. Its a hard fact [...]

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I received this email response from Stephen Goforth on my post on Joost.

Stephen Goforth is joining University of Mississippi as a broadcast manager/assistant professor of journalism, and is presently working with CNN.

After reading your post on OurNewsNetwork about Joost, I’m curious your take on the new, as-of-yet unnamed video network (below).. given that Joost’s main [...]

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