Interesting links for 2009-06-30

'The Pirate Bay has been (effectively) acquired by a gaming company called Global Gaming Factory X, who is plunking down nearly $8 million for the privilege. Their grand, surprising plan for the Pirate Bay is to pay content providers. Seriously.'

'A study making the rounds suggests that Wikipedians may feel at home online, in part because they're grumpy introverts.'

'In radio, television and newspapers, jobs are being slashed, budgets cut, and all forms of serious investigation by the media are under threat. The trend is global: in the last year, thousands of jobs of in the media industry have been lost.'

'For this article, we surveyed some 50 specialty search services and picked out our favorites. What follows is not a systematic ranking or review, but a general guide to a very vibrant world that few have bothered to explore in depth.'

'YouTube wants to use the Reporters' Center to develop collaboration between citizen reporters and large news organizations — to "more effectively report on news and have that content amplified on a bigger platform," said Steve Grove, the site's head of politics and news.'

'Following the frighteningly dangerous thinking of Judge Richard Posner – proposing rewriting copyright law to outlaw linking to and summarizing (aka talking about) news stories – now we have two more lemming lawyers following him off the cliff …'