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Doc charged in Jackson\’s death
By CNN on February 8, 2010
Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Dr. Conrad Murray, personal physician to Michael Jackson, was charged Monday with involuntary manslaughter in connection with the pop stars death last summer.
A criminal complaint filed earlier in the day alleged that Murray "did unlawfully, and without malice, kill Michael Joseph Jackson."
Murray turned himself in shortly before 4 p.m. at a branch courthouse near Los Angeles International Airport. He pleaded not guilty during a brief hearing before Judge Keith L. Schwartz.
The judge set bail at $75,000, despite arguments from prosecutor David Walgren that Murray is a flight risk.
The judge refused to suspend Murrays medical license as a term of his bond, but he did order him not to use any anesthesia on patients.
"I dont want you sedating people," Schwartz told Murray.
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World »
Netanyahu, Clinton talk after settlement crisis
March 18, 2010
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proposed “confidence-building steps” with Palestinians in a telephone call with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, after a dispute over settlements.
Politics »
US rep: Accused ‘Jihad Jane’ has been cooperating
March 18, 2010
A Pennsylvania congressman says the U.S. terrorism suspect known as “Jihad Jane” has been cooperating in an international probe of radical Muslims.
Business »
Report: Linux Gains Ground, Windows Stumbles
January 26, 2010
Linux inched ahead in the operating-system arena during the final month of 2009, even as Windows and Mac gave up some ground. That’s according to research firm Net Applications, which recently released its Market Share report covering operating systems in December. Linux accounted for 1.02 percent of the market in December, up from an even 1 percent the month before.
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Is Digg the future of social news?
March 18, 2010
London, England (CNN) — Social voting site Digg this week unveiled plans to become a hub for sharing links on the Web. If your friends are sharing media on Facebook, Twitter and other sites, Digg wants to provide a personalized home page that filters the Web based on your friends activities. These new features will be previewed in the coming weeks.
Could it work? Might Digg help define the future of news?
Facebook, Twitter … Digg?
If youre sharing links on the Web today, chances are youre doing it on one of two sites: Facebook or Twitter. Thats a problem for Digg, which allows users to vote on news stories, pictures and videos. Digg pioneered social sharing, but these activities have moved to other venues in recent years.
But the Twitter and Facebook trend also provides an opportunity for Digg: While Twitter and Facebook are utilized to share links, ranking news stories is the core focus of neither. The sites new plan is to analyze the news stories, videos and images shared by your friends on these sites and rank them by relevance.
One-hit wonders
Getting "Dugg" was once the dream of Web publishers. When a news article gained enough votes to hit the Digg home page, tens of thousands of visitors could bombard your Web site in a matter of hours.
Publishers, however, realized this system was a lottery of sorts: Littering your Web site with "Digg this!" buttons in the faint hope of hitting Diggs home page proved far less effective than encouraging readers to share links with small groups of friends on Twitter and Facebook.
On Digg, submitted stories are either hit or miss. On social networks, however, every share drives more interest. Digg hopes to rectify the situation by offering personalized home pages for every user, making the site more relevant to individuals and referring more reliable streams of traffic to publishers.
The rise of the curation economy
"Content curation" is a major Web trend for 2010. People are creating stories, photos and other "content" at a rate that is outpacing our ability to consume it. Information overload has become an increasingly common complaint, I wrote in December 2009.
The problem is growing. In May 2009, YouTube announced that 20 hours of video content was being uploaded every minute. This week, the video sharing giant revised that statistic to 24 hours per minute. Last month, Twitter announced that users are producing 50 million Tweets per day, up from 35 million per day in 2009. Facebook, meanwhile, reports that users are posting 60 million status updates per day — in October 2009, that number stood at 45 million per day.
With this content tsunami growing faster than our ability to consume it, Digg seems perfectly positioned to solve the content consumption crisis.
Diggs vision: curated consumption
Once the clear leader in curation, Digg has become a niche community of technology enthusiasts. By aggregating activity on other social sites, it hopes once again to become the leader in social news. With content overload reaching new heights, its timing could be fortuitous.
Diggs challenge: Prove that it can cut through the content mountain, rather than contribute to it.
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Health »
Health vote likely Sunday, Obama delays trip
March 18, 2010
Democrats plowed fresh billions into insurance subsidies for consumers on Thursday and added a $250 rebate for seniors facing high prescription drugs, last-minute sweeteners to sweeping $940 billion legislation headed for a climactic weekend vote.
Sports »
Butler does it in second half against UTEP
March 18, 2010
Butler overcame a six-point halftime deficit and surged into the second round of the NCAA tournament with a 77-59 blowout victory over No. 5 UTEP in a West Regional game Thursday.
