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Reflecting technology that changes business and changes society - with the occasional off-topic ramble thrown in...
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Apollo to take off
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Social site tool
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Emap reorganises
Emap will announce job losses as part of a £40m two year cost saving initiative which will also equip production teams to work across media, reports the Guardian.
An Emap consumer magazines spokeswoman said: "As part of the consultation process, we are proposing to bring production people together in Peterborough into market-specific 'publishing hubs' and invest in them to deliver static and moving content on web, mobile and magazines."
Tags: newspapers web
FT.com stays paid-for
Marjorie Scardino has backed off making ft.com open access, reports PaidContent.org. Apparently, she has had a change of heart after considering the role of the FT in "mediation" in a sea of competing voices. Paying subs were 7% up last year at 90,000.
Tags: newspapers web paidcontent
Newspapers of tomorrow
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Monday, February 26, 2007
Has the English blogosphere peaked?
Sunday, February 25, 2007
More video tools
Techtarget IPO lower than expected
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Whose top in online news?
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The 25 startups to watch in 2007
Trust and Web 2.0
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Yahoo! Answers sponsored questions
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A new paradigm for news?
In the rearchitecture of news, what needs to happen is that people are driven to the best coverage, not the 87th version of the same coverage. This will work for publications and news organizations. It will also work for individuals; this is how a lone reporter's work (and reputation) can surface.
Defusing Google Bombs
Friday, February 23, 2007
Yahoo!'s differentiation strategy?
I recently sat down with Gord Hotchkiss over at Search Engine Land for his column titled, "Just Behave" and talked about the power of the Yahoo! Search experience, as I see it. We honed in on social search because, quite frankly, it's quickly becoming a key factor in the overall success of a search experience.In particular he cites the way in which Yahoo! Answers are featured alongside search results now.
Search has increasingly become better at refining raw information into ever more useful materials. The powerful blend of Social Search with traditional search puts this material into the hands of real people and also creates something that no machine could really ever reproduce: A connection to the world's knowledge.Reading between the lines, I wonder if this is really saying "we've lost the technology battle with Google who are just better at the horsepower than we are, so we are going to concentrate on making the social space work." They have the assets: Answers, del.icio.us, Flickr and even, maybe, MyBlogLog. Making them all work together would create a platform very different from the machine-generated Google Operating System.
Technorati Tags: GYM, search, social media
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Wikipedia and Google - what does the future hold?
The percentage of Google's downstream traffic going to Wikipedia increased by 166% year over year (week ending 2/10/07 vs. week ending 2/11/06). Last week Wikipedia was the #3 website in Google's downstream, after Google Image Search and MySpace.He argues that with that much traffic going one way, something will have to give, maybe Google Adwords on the famously non-commercial site?
Guide to video blogging
Chelsea signs deal with YouTube
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Mirror relaunches
The Daily Mirror has relaunched as a Web 2.0 site with blogs, video and more.
Tags: newspapers web
Google Apps reaction
Forrester analyst Josh Bernoff has an interesting post reacting to today's announcement that Google has launched Google Apps, a package of "office" tools designed to compete with Microsoft solutions in smaller companies. The bottom line: the suite won't be a real threat until they work offline. But it won't be beyond the wit of Google engineers to solve that problem. The Innovator's Dilemma springs to mind....again.
Social Media
There is a bit of a debate in the blogsphere about what exactly "social media" is. Robert Scoble pointed out this really comprehensive post from Marianne Richmond of Resonance Partnership, a marketing and branding consultancy, which explores the phenomenon in some depth. Worth a read if you have some time.
Tags: social media blogging
Bumper year for b2b media M&A
Folio Magazine has a cover feature on b2b media's year of mergers and acquisitions.
Each media banker has a different spin on how many deals occurred in 2006 and how much was spent overall. But all agree that the market was booming. DeSilva + Phillips reports 151 transactions and a dollar volume of $20.5 billion in media transactions, making it the strongest year since 2000 (and close to that year's total volume).
The following chart illustrates the significance of the activity very well:
Folio looked at 10 of the top deals in more detail:
• CMP Technology/United Business Media
• 1105 Media
• VNU (Renamed Nielsen)
• Penton (Prism)
• Reader's Digest Association
• Primedia
• The Wicks Group
• Metal Bulletin
• Summit Business Media
• CondeNet
The prospects for more activity, fuelled by easy access to debt, look just as strong, says the magazine.
Web 2.0 explained
If you are one of the 1,343,151 people who have already seen this video, don't bother clicking the link. If not, and you want a whistle-stop tour of the evolution of the web right up to Web 2.0, click on...
Update: John Battelle interviews the man behind the video
People like you...
Steve Rubel on why is makes absolute sense to invest in "people like you..." technologies such as those pioneered by Amazon.
Video to save papers?
Interesting post from The Editors Weblog on the power of video to change the fortunes of embattled newspapers - a point which has been well-made in the past by, among others, Carolyn McCall, ceo of Guardian Media Group.
Tags: media newspapers video
Daily Mail goes digital
PaidContent points out that the Daily Mail has launched its first "e-paper edition" this week.
The Mail eReader, a fully downloadable version of the UK tabloid with the same graphics and design as the print edition, allows readers the flexibility to either click through content as they would on the web, or flip through page by page as they would with the actual paper.
Tags: media newspapers
New blogging tool from Google
Steve Rubel point out that Google has just launched another tool for bloggers - the Goodle Newsbar Widget. This allows you to monitor topics you are interested in and have news stories which match your criteria constantly presented to you.
Licence tag idea
The copyright status of pictures is one of the most intractible problems on the web and this post from Wired offers what could be a sensible solution: add a tag in (X)HTML:
Currently there are eleven attributes for the img tag, two required and nine optional. Frankly the tag is already bloated enough that I don't think one more attribute is going to matter. Something as simple as
lic="license-abbr"would do wonders for image rights on the web.
Amazon saves money
Amazon's online pay-as-you-go storage solution S3 has saved photosharing site Smugmug $500k in one year and this post shows you how the maths works out. Amazing.
Tags: tools
Blogging tips
Some tips from Glenn Wolsey on how to get a good blog going.
Tags: blogging
Web vs. Magazines
Josh Norem, a former editor with Maximum PC magazine, offers his take on the relative strengths of magazines and the web - and, he say, the web wins hands-down. Nothing particularly new in the arguments, but they obvious have some resonance as it was on the front page of Digg.
I wasn't able to be there, but....
Even though I wasn't able to be at the second day of Future of Web Apps (see previous posts for an account of day one), through the magic of blogs, I am able to provide an account of what went on.
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007
JetBlue ceo talks directly with YouTube
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Startup blog for startups
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007
That's it...
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Kevin Rose on Digg
There are some issues we have been having. We have 900,000 users and they don't always get along. How can you create tools to allow the community to moderate itself? We need tools which reward good behaviour at the topic level. We need a system to dispute and review inaccurate information. We want to allow the community to attach other things to a story, links, pictures, videos and so on. We want to add location-based services to add a geographic dimension.
We have spent a lot of time looking at what people are Digging? You don't realise how many people you are agreeing with on a regular basis. There is a difference between true friends and people who you tailgate - people whose opinions you value. There can also be value in what people bury and other people bury. We want to show people upcoming stories which aren't yet popular but which you might be interested in based on what you have done in the past.
We have dedicated resources to working on spotting spammer and gamers and we constantly work to detect and eliminate them.
We will be launching a Flash toolkit which plugs into our API which will allow visualisations of user behaviour - where are people changing their interests.
We will provide a tool which allows you to export your attention data, to export friends data. We will be supporting OpenID in the next few weeks (there we are - the announcement. This was very well received by the audience)
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Solving contact problems
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Quotes for all
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BT Contact out of private beta
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Yahoo! on social interaction
He gave some examples of where Yahoo! was adding features which encourage people to interact with content:
"Interestingness" is a feature which has been added to Flickr since Yahoo! acquired it. Up to then the pictures were ordered by date. What makes a photo interesting? "We could have used voting, but we chose to look at things like how much it has been looked at, saved as a favourite, blogged about - implicit behaviour. This means it's less susceptible to gaming, it was able to be used retrospectively on everything in the library "
Turning users into taggers. "Tagging is magic" - it's not a new concept but what's cool is that it is so easy. I can invent words. ZoneTag is a project where information from camera phones (location, time, identity) is used to auto tag. TagMaps is a research project which crosses a tag cloud with a map. This has been further filtered by time to show night views, for example.
Clustering using co-existence of tags in the system.
Pipes: He gave an example of wanting to find an apartment near to a day care centre. Currently this is difficult but with Pipes you can extract data from Craig's List and Yahoo! Local and create a service to answer the question. "Pipes is moving you from a world where people sample to one where they synthesise".
Q&A: he's asked if there will be an API for Groups. Eventually, he says, but he says another big Yahoo! service will have an API released very soon. He wouldn't say which .... even when pressed....
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Yahoo! on social interaction
He gave some examples of where Yahoo! was adding features which encourage people to interact with content:
"Interestingness" is a feature which has been added to Flickr since Yahoo! acquired it. Up to then the pictures were ordered by date. What makes a photo interesting? "We could have used voting, but we chose to look at things like how much it has been looked at, saved as a favourite, blogged about - implicit behaviour. This means it's less susceptible to gaming, it was able to be used retrospectively on everything in the library "
Turning users into taggers. "Tagging is magic" - it's not a new concept but what's cool is that it is so easy. I can invent words. ZoneTag is a project where information from camera phones (location, time, identity) is used to auto tag. TagMaps is a research project which crosses a tag cloud with a map. This has been further filtered by time to show night views, for example.
Clustering using co-existence of tags in the system.
Pipes: He gave an example of wanting to find an apartment near to a day care centre. Currently this is difficult but with Pipes you can extract data from Craig's List and Yahoo! Local and create a service to answer the question. "Pipes is moving you from a world where people sample to one where they synthesise".
Q&A: he's asked if there will be an API for Groups. Eventually, he says, but he says another big Yahoo! service will have an API released very soon. He wouldn't say which .... even when pressed....
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FOWA 07 mentioned sites - day one
Helio - social networking enabled phones
Twitter - A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing? Answer on your phone, IM, or right here on the web!
Threadless - t-shirt designs submitted by users, rated by users, bought from the site
BarCamp - ad-hoc, self organising conference
programmable web - resource site for web based APIs
Getting Real - an online book from 37 Signals
Powerset - natural language search which runs on Amazon services
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Q&A with Werner Vogels of Amazon
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Google APIs
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ThinkFree - online document management
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Last FM - the challenge of growth
The service works like this: user listens to track, metadata sent to server, other tracks with similar metadata recommended to user, user listens.... The more you listen the better it gets, they say.
The early growth lessons: don't overextend, make sure revenue scales with usage, involve users in the web application's story. They recommend putting the blog at the forefront so that there is an open conversation. People prefer to be told the bad news than no news at all. People will be more likely to tolerate your problems.
Anil takes up the story of growing up. "People trump process", he says. Have simple process and good people. Take simple tools and customise them. Radiate information across different channels in the company. "We use IRC to communicate across our office which we customised."
He recommends opening up the product as a platform so that users and companies can extend the power of the product. This is a key way to harness critical mas".
"Openness is the key to web apps."
Matt is back on stage. He talks about Scrobbling data - it's "attention data" . The server knows when you listen, when you stop. It's a kind of "spyware" he says, but people will accept that if there is a real benefit to it. Then it's called "myware" - spying on yourself.
The social web - attention aggregators - is where the action is.
Some examples of what they do with attention data - a custom "Time Out" for your tastes and your area; blog recommendations based on your taste.
Anil back on. Monitising attention: microchunkit , free it, syndicate it, monetise it. In Last FM's case they sell labels the chance to pay to have music played to a very targeted audience, and they provide really detailed feedback of what listeners liked, and what they didn't.
He spoke about tag cloud moderation. The principle is censorship is not acceptable. But by weighting tags by attention then those people who listen to a particular artist count more than those that done.
Matt is back. The future for Last FM?
growth, streamable music, ambient findability, personalisation (things you can do with your data)
interfaces (rationalise and streamline), barriers to entry (collaborative filters have a cold start).
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The venture capitalist's view
In Index's case the mechanics are as follows: about half of all investments lose money, a third break even and a sixth make (lots) of money.
What a good VC will add: advice and strategy, hiring, partnerships, profile and PR, internationalisation, trusted service provider relationships and exit optimisation.
He outlined the basic deal terms, which he admits many entrepreneurs find offensive:
- target 20-35% ownership (enough to make a difference)
- board representation
- liquidation preference (to make sure the exit is big enough)
- participation rights (want to be able to maintain stake)
- element of reverse vesting (owners lose equity if they bale out early)
- certain control and veto right (to stop a low-value exit)
- option pool
- period of exclusivity to close legals
The pitch to the VC, he says, should ideally be a 20 page Powerpoint presentation covering:
- product
- market
- business model
- team
- competition
- product roadmap
- technology overview
- business development
- financial status
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Software, and hardware, as a service
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Fostering Online Communities
Three levels of communities: 1. lightweight social processes (low-barrier social involvement like voting and the recording of personal participation);
2. Collaborative information structures (enhanced by social participation); 3. High end end collaboration (groups using systems to make sense and share complex materials)
Common themes:
- sense of fun and play (the founders very publicly have fun, playful messaging and images on the side)
- keeping the dialogue going ("eating their own dogfood" - "it's amazing how many people don't use their own product", answering your own customer support emails, greeting new customers and introducing them to others - "being the host of a party"
- wouldn't it be awesome if.... (taking an experimental approach to development, throw away the business plan and embrace the chaos, )
- the power of the word of mouth (built-in a variety of ways ot share early on [rss, copy and paste urls etc], adding more on-ramps (email, SMS etc)
- involve community in decisions (listen to your users and be flexible, let the community create the content and make the decisions)
- simple platform to build on (building blocks - tools built be experts but used by non-experts eg. Wordpress [users add extensions] Flickr api, focus on one function well
- Compelling stories
- rewarding of community members (feature super users, more privileges)
Feelings of membership (creation of community boundaries, perception of emotional safety) Personal profile pages, allowing for lots of personal and group expression.
Feelings of influence (being able to influence the group, feedback responsiveness, rule enforcement) Include forums, chat, comments etc
Integration and fulfillment of needs (feeling of being supported by others, reward of being and member, such as status, shared values, feeling of competence) Karma points etc
Shared emotional connection (personal investment of time and resources, high quality, frequent interaction) Add face-to-face opportunities
The bottom line: building communities is hard work and can take a long time to build.
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Apollo - the next big thing?
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The next big thing in music?
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Mike Arrington - Techcrunch
Now to the tips:
1. Have a good idea!
Either invent a market, destroy a market or remove friction
2. Have a business plan - though, not essential (see Digg)
3. Have a revenue model
4. Build it cheap, test the waters (Digg spent $2,000 building the site)
5. Avoid a high burn rate
However, YouTube didn't do any of these things! But...they removed friction by providing a much needed service (IPTV not user generated video) and they were first to market. That was enough to compensate.
So what are the shared attributes of winners? passion, doing something extraordinary and he obvious. More importantly, what are the shared attributed of losers?
- Poor founder team/ choices
- Lifestyle/ego entrepreneurs
- raised too much money
- spending too much money
- over business planned
- forget about scaling
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The day at FOWA
A few things I like about the event: there's a system of stickers, for people with money and people who need money; and for people with jobs and people looking for jobs; all the seats are within range of power; there is wifi - but sadly not free. (15.30: UPDATE: it appears the organisers did spend the money on a really whizzy wireless network, but the telco cocked up and hence the fallback - BT OpenZone, which simply can't cope with the volume! They promise to try to get it working by tomorrow).
A few things I don't like: the (standard Kensington Town Hall) coffee costs £1.50 (when there's a Cafe Nero just down the road; there's not much imaginative use of web technology - questions could be gathered from the floor during the session online (especially as every third person has a laptop.
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Thursday, February 15, 2007
No-Follow doesn't work
Yahoo! Pipes up close
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Salon price rises
The poster child of paid content on the web, Salon, now in its second decade, has announced price rises to $45 and $29 for the ad-free and ad-supported versions respectively, reports PaidContent.org. The online magazine subscriber numbers peaked in December 2004 at 89,100 and have been declining ever since. According to PaidContent there were 54,600 subscribers in September last year and the renewal rate was 59%.
Google responds to Belgian Court Decision
Rachel Whetstone, European Director of Communications and Public Affairs, has posted a response to the Belgian Court's decision upholding a complaint by Copiepresse, the newspaper group. She points out:
We believe search engines are of real benefit to publishers because they drive valuable traffic to their websites. If publishers do not want their websites to appear in search results, technical standards like robots.txt and metatags enable them automatically to prevent the indexation of their content. These Internet standards are nearly universally accepted and are honored by all reputable search engines. In addition, Google has a clear policy of respecting the wishes of content owners. If a newspaper does not want to be part of Google News, we remove their content from our index—all the newspaper has to do is ask. There is no need for legal action and all the associated costs.
Sounds reasonable to me….
More on the future of magazines
My colleague Chris Flook pointed me to this piece on the "B or not 2B" business-to-business blog in defence of the magazine. The piece is responding to the commentary around IDG's statement that it was now reorienting around online. The piece argues that "magazines" will live on, even if print on paper isn't the medium of choice.
RBI digital strategy featured
There's a great piece on Guardian Unlimited on RBI's digital activities which puts all the work on blogs, forums and experimentation of all kinds in a very favourable light…
How bloggers make the world better
Bloggers compete for home page positions
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Widget developments
Friday, February 09, 2007
Top search engines
Thursday, February 08, 2007
Web Famous
Ways to track trends
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
CNet to mandate replies to posts
Internet video reaches mainstream
"Programmers have the opportunity to create new revenue models to benefit content owners and their affiliated stations," said Larry Gerbrandt, general manager and senior vice president of Nielsen Analytics. "Such ad-supported models are uniquely adaptable to the broadband environment and are potentially superior to existing models because they can take full advantage of the digital environment. With broadband streams, for example, fast forwarding through commercials can be disabled making it more likely the consumers will watch the spots and possibly interact with them."
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MyBlogLog developments
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Tuesday, February 06, 2007
Magazines vs. the web
Josh Norem, an former editor for Maximum PC magazine, lists his take on the relative strengths of magazines and the web – and the web wins. Nothing very new in the arguments, but obviously it struck a cord as it's on the front page of Digg.
Monday, February 05, 2007
Online content set for boost
The study anticipates revenue growth related to online content will amount to $10.7 billion (8.3 billion Euros). This estimate represents a 400 percent leap from where the continent stands today.The PDF of the study is here.
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Prioritising features in the next release
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Google and Time photo deal
The beginning of a trend?
Entertainment giant NBC Universal, a unit of General Electric, will announce this week it is bringing in a new, younger chief executive to better compete in the digital age, the Los Angeles Times newspaper reported on Feb. 4.It's enough to get you worried. But the piece goes on to say that Jeff Zucker, an NBC executive, is 41 - so hardly a "digital native". Still...
Sunday, February 04, 2007
Google Office one small step closer...
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Tagging for America
ZoHo Notebook
The return of the enterprise portal?
However, legacy got the better of everyone and the dream didn't come to pass.
In recent months, though, I sense the idea coming back and this time I think it may in fact make it. The Maxthon browser, written on top of IE 7, aims to bring a wide range of tools into one interface, using, of course, RSS and the Atom publishing protocol.
And at this year at Demo 07 there were a few RSS enabled apps, the most significant, perhaps, WorkLight. This is an app which allows corporates to create secure RSS feeds from enterprise systems. From these, microformats and widgets, maybe the future workplace will be built.
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Souped up image search
Public Sector Publishing - Reith for the 21st century or a dead duck
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Is TV 2.0 about to become a reality?
A report by Informa Telecoms and Media predicts that global revenue for online TV and video services will increase ten-fold to £3.2 billion in 2012.We've already seen the deals done between the studios and YouTube, and this week's bust up with Viacom.
Second only to the US, the UK recorded revenues of almost £22 million last year which are set to soar to £708 million by 2012. According to the report the US will be the global leader in online TV and video, expecting revenues of up to $3.94 billion by 2012.
The Informa research points to the increasing popularity of watching online TV and video and states that is wider cultural changes that are creating a new breed of consumer who "find it difficult to align themselves with the passive model of traditional linear TV".
And there are rumours that the studios are considering building their own site to rival YouTube
But things are heating up. Wired this month has a feature about Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström the geeks behind the P2P network Kazaa who went on to build Skype before selling it to eBay for $2.6bn. It seems they are building their own internet TV model which combines P2P technology, industrial strength DRM and a solid ad model.
Does this point to TV 2.0? Maybe. But there will be a lot more fall out before the dust settles...
Penguin launches the wiki novel
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Digg to slip up?
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Viacom squares up to YouTube
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Yahoo! suffering the big media malaise?
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Is the iPhone the first converged device?
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The Zenger Trial
Partisanship, not freedom of expression, framed the case.
David Copeland
In the 265-plus years since the verdict, the Zenger trial has assumed a place of importance in understanding the development of freedom of the press in America, in the demand by Americans for the First Amendment to the Constitution and in the courage of printers to fight evil and corrupt government. That is how the writers of America's first media histories wrote of the event and that is how it is remembered by many—even though recent scholarship has complicated the story by properly placing the trial in the context of its times.
The trial of John Peter Zenger had little to do with freedom of the press in colonial America. It had much to do with political control and partisanship in New York. In 1735, freedom of the press served as the means to an end. When political controversies arose and were discussed in newspapers, printers often surrounded potentially volatile articles with essays on the liberty of the press. Printers felt the articles protected them by pointing out the importance of free expression in a free society.
Zenger's trial lawyer, Philadelphia attorney Andrew Hamilton, however, based his defense of the German immigrant printer on the idea that truth negated a charge of libel—even though British law stated that truth made no difference and, indeed, made the libel worse because it could not be refuted. People have a right, Hamilton argued, to criticize their government. The significance of the Zenger trial, then, lies in its proposal in court that truth should be given voice and not punished, an idea that had been debated in America and England since the 17th century, and in the proposal that juries, not judges, should decide whether libels occurred. Even though Hamilton's defense did not change the law, it did become, according to one colonist writing in the Pennsylvania Gazette three years later, "better than the law, it ought to be law, and will always be law wherever justice prevails," because the jury recognized its own power and the power of the truth.
In 1733, zenger was a struggling printer in New York. Like many others in colonial America who had come before him and would come after, he learned his profession as an apprentice. As a "printer's devil" for New York printer William Bradford, Zenger set type and printed on a press that was nearly identical to the one invented by Johannes Gutenberg in 1455. The workday ran according to the sunlight. Lead type was set into frames, locked into the press, inked and pressed onto paper made of cloth. Print shops aimed at producing 250 pressings per hour, and, usually, if this goal could not be met, no one was paid. When Zenger opened his print shop in 1726, he was no rival to his former master, Bradford, the colony's official printer. Bradford received all of the colonial government's printing business, and he published New York's only newspaper, the Gazette. Zenger, meanwhile, struggled to make a living by publishing stationery and a variety of pamphlets and books.
The roots of the controversy that sent Zenger to jail for libel were buried deep in the partisan politics of New York, which gained new intensity when Gov. John Montgomerie died in 1731. Naming a new governor was the crown's responsibility, and it often took more than a year for news of a governor's death to reach England and for a new governor to be named and assume office. In the interim, the senior member of the colony's provincial council served as governor; in New York, that was Rip Van Dam, a 72-year-old Anglo-Dutch merchant. Van Dam had been a member of the council for nearly 30 years. Interim governors received governor's pay until the governor arrived from England. Often, the interim set aside half the pay to give to the newly appointed governor, but in Van Dam's case, the council decided that the whole salary should be Van Dam's, probably out of deference to his age, council seniority and service to the colony.
When William Cosby arrived in New York and assumed the governorship, he demanded a pay raise and half of Van Dam's salary. The colony gave the new governor the pay increase, but contrary to custom Van Dam did not surrender half of the pay he had earned as interim governor, a decision initially backed by the council. Gov. Cosby brought suit and arranged for the colony's Supreme Court to sit in judgment of the case.
The move pitted the colony's two political factions against each other. On one side was Gov. Cosby and those who supported him—the Cosby party. On the other side was Chief Justice Lewis Morris and a number of influential people, including lawyers James Alexander and William Smith, who opposed the governor—the Morris party. The two lawyers argued that the court should not hear Cosby's petition. Justice Morris, Cosby's political opponent, naturally, agreed. As a result, Cosby removed Justice Morris from the court, which elevated the controversy to a new level.
The Morris party looked for a way to sway public opinion against Gov. Cosby. Pamphlets and broadsides were possibilities, but letters and essays in a regularly published newspaper, they knew, would be better. Bradford would never print criticism of Cosby in his Gazette because it would endanger his status as the colony's official printer, which amounted to a government subsidy. The Morris party thus needed a new newspaper.
When the Morris party contacted Zenger and offered to finance a newspaper for him, he agreed. Zenger (who never truly mastered English and whose spelling of the day of his paper's publication as "Munday" for its entire run stands out even in the idiosyncratic orthography of the 18th century) became the mechanic—the person responsible for overseeing the setting of type and the printing of the New-York Weekly Journal. Alexander and Smith served as the editors and chief opinion writers. In the second and third Weekly Journals, they inserted an essay on the significance of freedom of the press signed by "Cato," which recalled for New Yorkers the 1720s' English libertarians John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon, who wrote on the rights of Englishmen. Americans often borrowed the name Cato when they wrote on issues that focused on basic rights. From the beginning, then, it appeared that the Weekly Journal was about freedom of the press. But espousing press freedom was one way printers in the 18th century protected themselves when political controversy was about to become the central focus of newspaper articles. Many printers espoused impartiality in printing, believing that both sides of issues should be given voice. For some, the rationale for an open press may have been financial; controversy produces increased readership and paper sales. But there was also a growing belief in 18th-century America that all ideas needed to be heard. If printers could be jailed every time a political leader or influential individual believed himself to be slandered in print, printers would lose their livelihood, and Americans would not have an open avenue for discussion. Calls for liberty of the press, therefore, were generally designed to protect printers when their subject matter might be considered controversial, not to champion a concept of freedom of expression that was slowly evolving and would continue to evolve for the next two centuries.
During the next year, the Weekly Journal repeatedly attacked Gov. Cosby. It called the governor a French sympathizer for allowing a ship, Le Cćsar, into New York harbor. Britain and France, old enemies, had already fought two wars in North America. The Weekly Journal charged that Cosby assisted the French in gaining military information about the city by allowing the ship into the harbor under the pretense of obtaining provisions for starving settlers on Cape Breton. The charge was tantamount to calling the governor a traitor.
A series of unsigned letters in the Weekly Journal—a standard 18th-century practice to protect the writers, along with the use of pseudonyms—attacked abuses of power by Gov. Cosby's administration. When the Cosby party complained, Alexander and Smith inserted more of Cato's letters on the value of freedom of the press in the Weekly Journal. "Whoever would overthrow the Liberty of the Nation," the paper declared, "must begin by subduing the Freeness of Speech; A Thing terrible to publick Traytors."
By November 1734, Gov. Cosby had had enough of the attacks in the Weekly Journal. He ordered four particularly offensive issues of the paper confiscated and burned in public. The next week, the Weekly Journal boldly proclaimed, "Only the wicked Governours of Men dread what is said of them."
Gov. Cosby immediately signed orders for Zenger's arrest for seditious libel, which meant he printed material that undermined the authority of government. The paper missed its next publication because Zenger was in jail. At his hearing, the court set Zenger's bail at Ł400. Zenger could not afford the excessive bail, but the wealthy Morris party could. They chose, however, to leave Zenger behind bars: he was worth more as a martyr to the harsh practices of a tyrannical governor than as a printer. Zenger remained in jail until his August trial, but the paper continued to publish with Zenger's wife, Anna, and apprentices doing the work.
Although the Morris party would not bail Zenger out of jail, it did intend to provide him with counsel in court. Alexander and Smith planned to represent the printer; they began Zenger's defense by questioning the impartiality of two judges sitting on the court to hear the case because both were staunch supporters of Cosby. As a result of their petition to have the two recused from the case, Alexander and Smith were disbarred. The court appointed another lawyer, John Chambers, who held a government job thanks to an appointment from Cosby, to defend Zenger.
To Chamber's credit, he fought a plan to have the jury in the case chosen from a list of Cosby party members. Instead, Chambers successfully insisted that the jury be chosen from all eligible New York landowners. Chambers' persistence for a nonpartial jury probably made as much difference as the defense presented by Hamilton. At trial, all the prosecution needed to do was prove that Zenger published the material considered libelous. If the jury affirmed that fact, Zenger would then be judged guilty.
When it came time for Zenger's defense, it was not Chambers who rose in the courtroom but Andrew Hamilton. Hamilton was considered by most to be the best trial lawyer in the colonies. When Alexander and Smith were disbarred, they contacted Hamilton about assuming the role of counsel for Zenger when the printer went to court. The 59-year-old Hamilton admitted that Zenger printed the tracts in question, but he did not stop there. He said that lack of governmental approval did not necessarily make a publication libelous and then added two significant points. First, Hamilton said a jury and not a judge should decide the libelous nature of material. Second, and contrary to the chief justice's instructions, he insinuated that truth negated libel. "They are notoriously known to be true," Hamilton said of the facts surrounding the Weekly Journal's accusations to the jury. "Therefore in your justice lies our safety."
The jury ensured Zenger his safety and found him not guilty after deliberating for only a short time. Zenger was freed and went back to publishing the Weekly Journal. Two years later, the Morris party gained control of the New York political machinery with a convincing victory at the polls. Zenger's effort in helping Morris, Alexander, Smith, Van Dam and others in their fight against Gov. Cosby's administration was not forgotten. Zenger became the colony's official printer, with all the access to government printing jobs that the position entailed.
Future generations would find the story of the Zenger case a significant chapter in the story of freedom. While the Zenger trial may have reflected growing American thought on the role of the press and on libel, it did not spark an immediate reaction in the colonial press. Only a few brief statements may be found in papers other than those of New York concerning the controversy. Alexander's and Smith's disbarment, for example, found its way into two newspapers, but Zenger's name was never mentioned. The trial's results appeared only in Zenger's newspaper and in a pamphlet that he himself published. Discussion of the trial in the press did not occur until 1737 and 1738 when the decision was attacked by a writer in a Barbados paper and the Pennsylvania Gazette printed responses.
And what happened in Zenger's court case did not immediately change the law concerning libel. Even though the case became a major topic of discussion in England in the years after the trial, British law did not give juries the power to decide libel cases until 1792 and did not recognize truth as a libel defense until 1843. New York law did not validate truth as a libel defense until 1821.
The verdict in the Zenger trial did, however, echo growing sentiment in America that people had the right to criticize their government and that using courts to punish printers or anyone else who did so was improper. Few printers from 1735 on in colonial America faced seditious libel charges. In revolutionary-minded Boston from 1765 on, crown-appointed leaders were continually vilified in print, but no charges of seditious libel could ever be obtained. As legal historian Leonard Levy pointed out, "The law of seditious libel simply had no meaning any longer."
The trial of John Peter Zenger has been proclaimed as an example of courage in which a single printer faced the powerful political machinery of the time and remained in jail for the honor of freedom of the press. Zenger, of course, did not want to stay imprisoned; he simply had no choice. This does not mean that courage was not a part of the story. Gov. Cosby knew that Alexander and Smith were writing the inflammatory letters about him, but the governor could not prove it since nothing in the Weekly Journal was signed. Only Zenger's name appeared on the newspaper. And Zenger had to know that arrest for printing the letters that attacked the governor was possible; his mentor, the printer Bradford who ultimately sided with the Court party, had once been jailed in Pennsylvania for printing views contrary to the government's. Bradford surely told Zenger this story as the young immigrant worked as Bradford's apprentice.
Zenger's paper offended not just the governor but his supporters. One of Cosby's staunchest devotees on the provincial council, Francis Harison, threatened to beat Zenger if he caught him on the streets. Zenger took the threat seriously and began to wear a sword in public. Alexander and Smith also lived under a threat they presumed to be from Harison, who was assigned by the governor to write pro-Cosby articles for the Gazette. In an unsigned note left on Alexander's door in February 1734 were the words, "I swear by God to poison all your tribe so surely, that you shan't know the perpetrator of the tragedy." Alexander and Smith believed Harison wrote the warning, even though the council said that Harison was incapable of such deeds.
The Zenger trial was but one of the many political power struggles that took place in colonial America. Those in power generally supported stricter press control; that is why Cosby clamped down on the Weekly Journal and that is why, during the 1770s patriots used boycotts, intimidation and outright violence to silence Tory printers, even as both groups of printers championed freedom of the press from the pages of their newspapers. A fear of power in a national government led to the Bill of Rights. Even though Zenger's trial was never mentioned during the debates surrounding the Constitution or the First Amendment, perhaps the trial—or what the trial said about truth, libel and printing—had somehow become a part of America's consciousness. Surely newspapers had become a part of the fabric of American life. Perhaps, too, episodes such as that of the trial of John Peter Zenger unwittingly paved the way for freedom of the press and even pluralism because they helped acclimate people to a society where political dispute and criticism became commonplace.
David Copeland is an associate professor of mass communication at Emory & Henry College and author of Colonial American Newspapers: Character and Content and Debating the Issues in Colonial Newspapers (September 2000).


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New Middlesbrough MP to be voted in on Thursday
The by-election for the Middlesbrough Constituency will take place this Thursday on November 29th.
Here is a list of the candidates:
- Richard Peter Elvin - United Kingdom Independence Party
- Peter Foreman - British National Party
- Mark Heslehurst - Independent
- Ben Houchen - The Conservative Party
- Imdad Hussain - The Peace Party
- John Malcolm - Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
- Andy McDonald - The Labour Party
- George Selmer - Liberal Democrats
The by-election is due to take place after the death of Sir Stuart Bell last month.
Sir Stuart had been the town's MP since 1983 and died following a short illness at the aged of 74.


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Just before mailing out the May Giveaway Day bag, I realized I was all out of bubble mailers large enough. Normally I buy them on eBay but there was no way I could get them in time. And I hated the idea of spending a lot for ones you can buy in Staples or even the grocery store. So, with a little inspiration from Crafting a Green World's Eco Packaging Handmade for You series, a couple brown paper bags and a little time, I made my own. Granted they aren't *bubble* mailers anymore—but this is a great thing because the *bubble* aspect of the bubble mailers is what makes them hard to recycle–kind of like juice boxes.
I've wanted to change my packaging for quite a while now but couldn't find or think of anything that would work as well as the mailers I got for cheap on eBay. There are eco-friendly bubble mailers out there and that's a great option, but a bit too harsh on the bank for me and my customers. I thought of switching over to using only Priority Mail supplies because they are free and either a cardboard or Tyvek and therefore both recyclable, but again that would be a huge spike in shipping costs for such lightweight items.
So once my bubble mailers are officially gone they are gone and I'll switch over to handmade kraft paper envelopes from then on—nicer on the earth and easily recyclable with mixed papers.
I was very impressed with the envelope. Looks great AND is good for the environment.
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Folding them up into envelopes works quite well and I've found them quite strong too. I hadn't thought of sewing them up though – that looks really nice!
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As I marched determinedly through Walmart many months ago, an intriguing book title caught my eye. "Eat, Pray, Love" was its command. Thinking it was another of the many spiritual books on dieting and knowing I'd not follow through, I continued my trek through the store. Groceries purchased and placed in my various tote bags, I drove home. But the book title sang in my head, a mantra that impelled a future trip to the library so I could peruse the writing at my leisure.
Now is a great time to launch a new shape-up program with the Brunswick County Parks and Recreation Department's 2009 spring fitness schedule.
A variety of classes are slated throughout the county, kicking off this month and continuing in coming weeks. They range from Zumba fitness and Aido Shokai JuJutsu martial arts to cardio and strength training and dance classes.
For more information or to register, call 253-2670.
The schedule and fees are as follows:
John and Tracy Hobgood of Ocean Isle Beach are the parents of a daughter, Noelle Ann Hobgood, born at 3:45 p.m., Dec. 12.
She weighed 8 pounds, 4 ounces and measured 21–1/2 inches long.
She joins a brother, Nathan, 23 months.
Maternal grandparents are Cliff and Lynn Errickson of Sunset Beach.
Paternal grandparents are Bob and Nancy Hobgood of Greenville.
Great-grandparents are Sam and Dottie Panettiori of Sunset Beach and Doris Hobgood of Jacksonville, Fla.
Have you ever tried to eat 12 grapes in 12 seconds? It is a Cuban New Year's tradition to eat 12 grapes at the stroke of midnight, signifying the last 12 months of the year.
As New Year's Day approaches, people around the world will plan for the coming year, eager to get off to the best possible start. Many people will "eat for luck" by planning to eat special foods that, by tradition, are supposed to bring them good luck.
Last year about this time, we looked at some attainable resolutions for gardeners, including enjoying the garden more and obsessing less, using soil and water samples and not trying to grow turfgrasses in the shade. Here are a few suggestions for garden resolutions for 2009:
If having a great looking lawn is high on your priority list, resolve to figure out what should be done and do it in a timely manner. The warm-season grasses we grow are different from cool-season grasses like tall fescue and Kentucky bluegrass that are commonly grown in colder climates.
Camellias may be propagated from seed (5-6 years), by cuttings (3 years), by grafting (2-3 years), or by air layering (1 year).
Camellia blooms will last four to five days when floated in water in a shallow bowl. Most of the shown blooms are treated with gibberellic acid, which forces the flower to be larger and bloom earlier.
Some recommended varieties for beginning growers are:
1) Debutante: Light pink, medium bloom in a full peony form.
2) Alba Plena: White, medium bloom, formal double bloom.
We are already seeing the effects of early cold temperatures. Daffodils are blooming at the Brunswick Botanical Gardens and in my yard as well.
Plants become confused when temperatures fluctuate between warm and cold, especially at this time of year. It is nice to see the color but did you really want the bulbs to bloom this early? If you want to delay the flower set for bulbs, you may have to plant them in cooler spots in the landscape or perhaps plant them a little deeper next time.
Ignorance is bliss. I have heard that aphorism ever since I was a child. It provided a safe haven, an excuse, a reason to avoid risk-taking and profound thinking. Other maxims followed in its wake.
"What you don't know won't hurt you." "Don't ask...don't tell." "If you keep silent, no one will know that you don't know. If you speak, all doubt will be removed."
Comedian Jon Reep will be the featured headliner in the first "Stand Up For Charity," a fundraiser sponsored by the Shallotte Junior Women's Club set for this Saturday, Jan. 3, at Odell Williamson Auditorium at Brunswick Community College.
Doors open at 7 p.m., and the show starts at 7:30 p.m.
Reep, originally from Hickory, is the 2007 winner of NBC's "Last Comic Standing" and is also known as "the Hemi guy" in the Dodge commercials.
The show will also feature two opening acts—Brad Reeder and Brooklin Green.
For the 12th year, Brunswick Nuclear Plant employees have come together to give back to the community for the holidays through bicycle donations.
Since its inception, the program has provided more than 1,200 children with bicycles and helmets. The annual bike drive gives employees at the nuclear plant the opportunity to make a difference in the life of a child through donating money and time, and this year's participation rate has been record-breaking.
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African Queen-----(P.O.N) | Reviewer: Anonymous | 7/24/07
Yo, dis my songcuz sonetime s*** dont go ur way and its hard to relate with the person u love xuz they dont understand your feelin or what u want from them. Its really hard to let someone u love go becuz u kno it anit workin but you still wanna hold on and its hard to say goodbye but YOU GOTTA DO WAT U GOTTA DO. I kno i love him and kno kno how i feel about him but he doesn't want to commite to me yet and i can't stand his games.
And for that reason
I gotta say goodbye!!!!
=] | Reviewer: Shirleyy | 7/12/07
Yo this song is making me cry big time foreals..-_-. But people gotta know without hurt it aint love you feel me?
I was the one | Reviewer: Jeremy | 6/30/07
i'm actually the one who broke up with my girl. i put it on myspace the way someone else posted their boyfriend did so that my girl would know that while i may appear fine, i'm breakin down.
i think the lyrics say at the end "you're the best i had"... not "i'm doin the best i can".
Jagged Edge song | Reviewer: Antwon | 6/27/07
I like this song alot it makes me think of someone i once was wit it took me two years to get over it is so hard to say goodbye it really is specially when you care so much for a person that is why i love this song cause it speaks the truth
Understood~ | Reviewer: Amber | 6/25/07
This song is a wonderful song as a whole...This song depicts a situation where you know You love a person with all your heart. But, you know things between you are'nt what they use to be, and the best thing to do is just to break up even though you know it will hurt the both of you. This song perfectly describes my situation with my on again off again boyfreind.
Understood | Reviewer: Amber | 6/25/07
This is just a wonderful song anyways.. It depicts a situation in which a person is so in love with this person..but they know that that things are'nt working out and the best thing to do is to break up even if it hurts them both....This is a reacurring situation in my life with my on again off again boyfreind.
buff song | Reviewer: Anonymous | 6/24/07
i song love this song it brings out so much imotions inside of me every time i hear it love it so much
my thoughts | Reviewer: SoMeBoDy SpEcIaL2hEr | 6/19/07
I aint gonna front but the reason why I got something to say about this track iz becuz it hurtz to believe something that was almost perfect far so special and felt just right and forever had an ending instead of happy one... :o(
Damn I Love her with every second of my life knowin we won't share our planets together again so all that I can do now is remember the joy and smilez that she brought into my world and treasure her within me and maybe learn to love someone carefully then gettin deephurt, again in the end becuz believe me itz not like u see yourself ever brakein apart when the feelin before u go to bed and when u wake up in the mornin is still there but then suprizeingly later one day you will not wake up with it no longer because of sayin goodbye...
This song is amazing. | Reviewer: Brittanyy | 6/12/07
I really love this song. It is perfect for how I feel. I love you DeAnthony but I feel I gotta get over you. But you will always be in my heart no matter what happens boo. I wish you could have given me the chance. Too late.
AAAAHHHH | Reviewer: Delylia | 6/12/07
this is helpin me to undersatnd y me n my ex cant be together its not cuz he doesnt love me weve just grwon apart n into different people n we just arent meant to be together
Damnnnn | Reviewer: Brittany | 5/23/07
This iz mi stuff mi mama dont like the boy i go with soo its going to be hard for me to say bye bye bye bye bye bye (i love you Garrick)
So Tru | Reviewer: Nat | 5/16/07
this is wut im going thru myself. you can love someone with all your heart, but sumtyms its just not meant to be. and the hardest thing in life is to learn how to let go of the things that mean the most to you.
gdbye | Reviewer: Anonymous | 5/15/07
this song is nice b cause i kno itll help a lot of people wit dey relationships b cause it helped me wit mine
Its true | Reviewer: Sad | 4/27/07
My bf put this song on his myspace profile cuz we just broke up. And it made me cry cuz i love him too, but its so true...we needed to break up even tho we both still love each other. i know he wanted me to hear that song cuz he still loves me but he cant make everything alright and see me cry. i miss him...
Realife | Reviewer: G.M.P | 3/14/07
This song is hot cause its true. Sometimes even though you love someone more then life itself you gotta let em go cause deep down you know your only bringin em down.
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I'm going to be honest and divulge a little something about myself which is sad and ridiculous; I am terrified of frogs. The fear is so intense that I have an aversion to even cartoon frogs or things named after them. I apologize if you are a champion for these creatures' cause, but I really can't help my physical and emotional repulsion to amphibians.
It's actually not a laughing matter, and I don't usually like telling people. (They typically think I'm kidding and try to see how I'll respond to a live frog.) Growing up in Houston, frogs and toads were everywhere. I have very early memories of crying and begging my parents to carry me into the house, so I wouldn't risk stepping on the ones that camped out on our front porch. I think I suffered PTSD from my 7th grade science lab dissection, and the problem only got worse. Now I'm an adult with a completely irrational fear who's blogging about it on a post that has nothing to do with the issue.
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Illegal resident held in Swindon wedding scam fear
Updated 9:33am Wednesday 22nd January 2014 in News By Beren Cross, @BerenCross
A MAN who had been living in the country illegally was been arrested in Swindon just moments before he was due to tie the knot in a wedding ceremony at the town's Register Office.
The 22-year-old Indian national, who had been living in Slough, became an illegal resident in the UK when his student visa expired, a date which has not been disclosed by the Home Office.
Home Office Immigration Enforcement officers went to Swindon Register Office on Monday after receiving information an immigration offender from India was planning to get married there and that the relationship might not have been genuine.
Arriving before the wedding, officers stopped the ceremony from going ahead and arrested the groom.
It is believed an eagle-eyed member of staff at Swindon Register Office tipped off immigration officials about the proposed marriage.
The man, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was taken to Swindon's Gablecross police station for further questioning. He is due to be transferred to immigration detention pending his removal from the UK.
The man has 72 hours from arrest to make any representations before he is flown back to India.
Kenny Chapman, of Home Office Immigration Enforcement, said: "We carry out frequent operations in Wiltshire and arrest offenders at businesses, home addresses and even when they are attempting to get married – as this case shows.
"When we receive information about people who are in the country illegally we act on it.
"We are sending a simple, clear message to anyone attempting to undermine the UK's immigration laws – we will catch you and look to remove you from the country."
The man's planned bride – a 24-year-old Polish national from London – was questioned and later released.
A sham marriage or civil partnership typically occurs when a non-European national marries someone from the European Economic Area as a means of attempting to gain long-term residency and the right to work and claim benefits in the UK.
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Serena and Venus Williams forfeit Wimbledon doubles
Serena Williams was forced to pull out of her doubles match with sister Venus at Wimbledon after she became unwell on court.
In scenes which were often uncomfortable to watch, the American appeared dizzy on court and was unable to hit or bounce the ball.
After she served four consecutive double faults, umpire Kader Nouni came down to speak to the sisters as the worrying situation continued.
The sisters eventually forfeited the match against German Kristina Barrois and Swiss Stefanie Voegele after going 3-0 down in the first set.
The commentator said Williams, who has won five Wimbledon singles titles, was a "shadow of herself" and appeared to be "sleepwalking" through the match.


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Many homeowners know the importance of having at least one fire extinguisher in their home, condo or apartment, but if there was a fire, would you know how to use the device?
The moment someone sees flames, call 911 to get firefighters en route because every second counts.
Then, reach for your fire extinguisher to do what you can to suppress the fire before firefighters arrive. In order to do this, your fire extinguisher needs to be within reach!
Nellie Babour has two fire extinguishers and she keeps them on the floor beside her china cabinet which is centrally located between her kitchen and laundry room.
"If the dryer catches a fire I'm there to get it, and if it's in the kitchen, I have it," she said.
The U.S. Fire Administration says cooking is the leading cause of all residential building fires.
These fires cause over $300 million in property loss annually, and in a recent two-year period, more than 3,500 injuries.
Jo Provost is a fire prevention specialist with the Charlotte Fire Department. She says most house fires are caused by carelessness.
"If you are multitasking, going to the other room to do the laundry, going to help the children on their homework, and you're not focusing on your kitchen and your cooking, you could easily have it [fire] get of hand," Provost said.
There are five classes of fires and each requires different kinds of fire extinguishers. There's only one kind of extinguisher most homeowners need.
"Purchase a multipurpose dry chemical fire extinguisher. It's called an ABC dry chemical. It will put out the main three classes of fires you are going to find in your home," Provost said.
Those three classes of fires she is referring to include wood and paper, flammable liquids like grease, and electrical equipment.
Make sure your fire extinguisher is in an accessible location. "Many people put it right next to the stove, in a drawer, or underneath the stove, or the cabinet underneath the sink," Provost said. "Most fires happen in the kitchen stove area, so you want it away from the stove, several feet away, maybe at the back door or even the next room because you don't want to go close to the fire to retrieve the fire extinguisher."
Whether you purchase a fire extinguisher or receive one as a gift, make sure you read the instructions which is one thing many homeowners neglect to do.
"Have about 8-10 feet between you and the fire, aim it at the base of the fire, and have your back to a door so you can back out of the situation if it gets out of hand. You never want to turn your back on a fire," Provost warned.A dry chemical fire extinguisher has a white, powdery substance that eventually settles and becomes packed inside the tank over time.
That's why it is important for you to pick up your fire extinguisher each month and shake it back and forth to ensure it isn't clogged up.
While you're doing this, don't forget to look at the gauge to make sure it is still under pressure and in the "full" position.
You may be surprised to know that in some cases you would be better off not using a fire extinguisher at all!
"If it's a large fire or anything much larger than a trash can, get out," Provost warned.
Once a fire ignites, every 30 seconds that passes by, the fire can double in size.
Remember, even if you are able to extinguish the fire yourself, you still want to have firefighters come to your home to check nearby walls to ensure the fire is completely out.
If you are a parent, you may be wondering -- when is it appropriate to teach a child how to use a fire extinguisher? Fire prevention experts say if a child is old enough to cook on their own and you feel safe they can cook, you should also teach them how to use a fire extinguisher.
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Types of Fire Extinguishers
Class A extinguishers put out fires in ordinary combustible materials such as cloth, wood, rubber, paper, and many plastics.
Class B extinguishers are used on fires involving flammable liquids, such as grease, gasoline, oil, and oil-based paints.
Class C extinguishers are suitable for use on fires involving appliances, tools, or other equipment that is electrically energized or plugged in.
Class D extinguishers are designed for use on flammable metals and are often specific for the type of metal in question. These are typically found only in factories working with these metals.
Class K fire extinguishers are intended for use on fires that involve vegetable oils, animal oils, or fats in cooking appliances. These extinguishers are generally found in commercial kitchens, such as those found in restaurants, cafeterias, and caterers. Class K extinguishers are now finding their way into the residential market for use in kitchens.


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Bainbridge bag ban takes effect Thursday
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND - Paper or plastic? Not anymore.
Starting Thursday, Bainbridge Island retailers will no longer be allowed to provide thin plastic bags to customers and will charge 5 cents for large paper bags, as a citywide ban on plastic shopping bags takes effect.
Town & Country Market in Winslow made the switch a day early, removing plastic bag racks from checkout counters Tuesday night. Shoppers who didn't bring their own reusable bags heard a new question at the grocery store Wednesday morning.
"They were asking, 'Paper or paper?'" said Tony D'Onofrio, sustainability director for the supermarket chain, who added customers were taking the change in stride. "The response I got was it's going very well, people are kind of excited about it."
Island shoppers have had a few months to prepare for the change. The City Council unanimously approved the bag ban in April as a way of reducing litter and the environmental impact of single-use plastic bags. Bainbridge is the fifth Washington city to pass a bag ban and the first in Kitsap County.
Seattle banned plastic shopping bags in July; Bainbridge's ordinance is nearly identical to Seattle's.
The ban prohibits stores from offering thin plastic shopping bags. It also requires the 5-cent fee on paper bags, though low-income shoppers are exempt. Exceptions to the ban allow plastic bags for meat, produce, takeout food, some paper products, small hardware supplies and dry cleaning. Food banks can keep using plastic bags.
City Code Enforcement Officer Meghan McKnight said the city worked extensively with stores to make sure they were prepared. She expects about 100 retailers to be directly affected.
The city also posted information on the ban to its website and sponsored a "Bainbridge Bag" design contest to raise awareness of the rule change. It ordered 500 cloth Bainbridge Bags to give away to shoppers.
McKnight said at this point the ban shouldn't catch anyone by surprise.
"Everyone knows about the ordinance and it seems like we'll have a smooth transition," she said.
D'Onofrio said Town & Country provided training to employees and hung up signs and information placards for customers as the rule change neared. The store is selling reusable cloth bags, which range in price from $2 to $9.
D'Onofrio estimates Town & Country passed out 1.2 million bags a year when it was offering both paper and plastic. The bag ban could cut that amount by 50 percent, he said.
"It's a really significant number," he said.
Safeway spokeswoman Sara Osborne said the Winslow Safeway took many of the same steps as Town & Country to prepare for the ban, training employees on the new rules and posting signs to alert customers. Safeway also sells reusable bags.
Osborne said Safeway supports the plastic bag bans in Seattle and on Bainbridge, as well as the paper bag fee. She said the fee provides impetus for customers to switch to reusable bags.
"In areas where they have bans that don't include the fee, people tend to just switch to paper," Osborne said.
Some island retailers grudgingly prepared for the ban this week. Walt Hannon of Walt's Lynwood Market was the only store owner to speak out against the ban this spring and said his feelings haven't changed. The public should be educated on the benefits of recycling and reusing bags, but the "paper or plastic" choice should be left to the customer, Hannon said.
"It's not the city's responsibility," he said.
Shoppers at Town & Country seemed ready for the switch. There were about as many customers checking out with reusable bags on a rainy afternoon Tuesday.
Shealeen Stabelfeldt said she'll miss being able to reuse the plastic bags to pick up after her dog, but supports the ban overall.
"I think it's good," she said.
Islander Rebecca Robins brought her reusable bags to the store Tuesday. She said the plastic bag ban is the right thing to do.
"I think it absolutely makes sense," she said.
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Monday means a new Justin Bieber track for the Beliebers. His latest Music Mondays release is "Hold Tight," which fans have already made trending on Twitter and No. 1 on iTunes in several countries.
"Don't let this go to your head/But you're the best I've ever had," he sings on the track. Listen below.
In a series of Tweets, Bieber teased the track with lyrics from the song.
you ladies gonna take it to #1? #HoldTight ...dont let this go to your head, but your the best Ive ever had. :) smarturl.it/ijbholdtight—
Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) October 21, 2013
i love having #musicmondays with you all. #HoldTight smarturl.it/ijbholdtight—
Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) October 21, 2013
A part of his weekly Music Mondays releases (a 10-week series of new tracks), Bieber promises two songs this week. His first being the sultry R&B jam that is "Hold Tight," which brings to mind early Justin Timberlake; the second, "Wait for a Minute" featuring Tyga, will premiere on Tuesday.
In more pop star hashtag news, Bieber started #FilmFridays to preview his next film, Believe, which hits theaters on Christmas Day. In his latest clip, he discusses why he tries his best to always keep a smile on his face, despite what may be going on in his personal life at the time.
"You have to hide your emotions sometimes, especially for me going onstage… sometimes you just have to suck it up," he says. "That's just one of the things you have to deal with being in this position, in this world, in this industry."