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Video games are not making us more violent, study shows

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/10/video-games-violent-study-finds

This article was is about Long-term research into homicide rates and depictions of violence in video games, movies and how they have no relationships with each other.

• The research mainly targeted 12-17 year olds.
• The research tool 20 years long
• The study concluded that playing video games coincided with a fall in violent crime perpetrated by those in the 12-17 age group.
• The research paper also questions the validity of previous studies into links between real-life and screened violence, which have largely relied on laboratory testing.

I think that article makes a lot of sense and this supports new technology which is quite rare in situation like this. 

Index

1. 16/09/2014 :Steve Jobs' office 
2.  23/09/2014: FIfa 15 review - not Flawless, but still the best football game.
3. 30/09/2017: Microsoft unveils Windows 10 not Windows 9
4. 21/10/2014: Taylor Swift Single out everywhere except UK
5. 4/11/2014: Oculus warns Sony to solve motion sickness before launch
6. 4/11/2014: Taylor Swift removes songs from Spotify
7. 11/11/2014: Video games are not making us more violent, study shows
8. 11/11/2014: Spotify CEO speaks out on Taylor Swift albums removal: "I'm really frustrated"
9. 18/11/2014: Uber executive apologises after suggesting the firm dig dirt on hostile journalists
10. 18/11/2014: Spotify and Uber team up for in-car streaming music

    
    

    
    

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Taylor Swift v Spotify: back catalogue removed from streaming services

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/03/taylor-swift-spotify-artists-discography-streaming-services

This article was about how Taylor Swift withheld her new album 1989 from music streaming services, and has now removed all her albums from Spotify.

• Swift and her label Big Machine Music have yet to comment
• Spotify broke the news in a blog post
•  Red’s tracks had been played more than 260m times on the service since the album was made available to stream in May 2013, eight months after it first went on sale
• Spotify have made it cleared that they want her back.

I think that this is very big news to anyone because she is so big in the music industry and nobody still knows why she took away her songs off Spotify, but this is all in the air right now because we haven't heard from Taylor Swift or her Label about this. 

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Oculus warns Sony to solve motion sickness before launching a VR headset

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/04/oculus-sony-motion-sickness-virtual-reality

This article was about the Facebook-owned Oculus Rift won't launch until it has solved motion-sickness problem and it warns Sony to solve it before the main headset it released.

• The chief executive of Facebook-owned virtual reality firm Oculus VR has warned rival Sony not to launch a VR headset until it has solved problems of motion sickness
• Oculus has grown from 50 people at the start of 2014 to more than 200 
• Iribe described VR as a “brand new industry… we’re just at the beginning
• Oculus boss said that since being bought for $2bn by Facebook earlier in the year, his company has focused on recruitment

I think that motion sickness is a problem that should be held before the headset is released to everyone. I think Sony have the money and resources to fix this problem as quick as possible because people have already seen popular gamers use it on YouTube.

News Values

Immediacy: has it happened recently?
With social networking sites you can now find out the news instantly. So Twitter for e.g. lets you find out news straight away as a tweet gets sent in seconds.

Familiarity: is it culturally close to us in Britain?
Because we are researching local newspapers the majority of the news will be about the borough we live in unless there is breaking national news or even sometimes world wide news.

Amplitude Is it a big event? Does it involve many people?

If it is a big event it will most likely be seen and tweeted by people on twitter. There could be a popular hashtag going around which could be on the top 10 trends. Even now on snapchat with snapchat live it allows people to see the big events happening in the world such a big worldwide concerts for e.g.

Frequency: did the event happen fairly quickly?

if it happened on the day. It would be on online and on twitter straight but newspapers would post about it the next day. 

Unambiguity: is it clear and definite?

Newspapers have the tendency to not reveal certain stories if they think that they are too difficult to explain, local newspapers may also adopt this same principle.

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Taylor Swift tells fans she's 'watching closely' after UK iTunes unrest

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/15/taylor-swift-uk-itunes-out-of-the-woods

The Article talks about how the UK public have reacted and how Taylor Swift has took on the fact that her new single is out everywhere except the UK .

• In a Tumblr post, Swift confirmed that this was no accident: in fact, it’s a deliberate marketing strategy by her record label.
• Out of the Woods is likely to be available for at least some of Swift’s fans in the UK soon
• It is relatively rare to see songs made available to buy on iTunes in some countries but not other major music markets like the UK

My Opinion is that this shouldn't happen and it is bad for Taylor Swift because the UK has one of the biggest music markets in the world and for the single not to be out in the UK is very unprofessional for her and her label.

Build the wall analysis

Section 1:
This section discusses the Washington Post and the New York Times and whether they are doing good with their audience facing paywall.

Section 2: 

This section discusses the likelihood of the times moving to a paywall thats actually working. 

Section 3:

This section talks about the drop in the industry and it's reasons.

Section 4:

The effects if The Times and The Post were to move to an online basis.

The main point of this article is the issues of newspapers and how they may be more successful if they were to add an online paywall to their websites as this may be the only way how journalists get paid.The article also outlines the likelihood of a paywall actually working if the quality of newspaper is increased.

Commenting On Comments 

"The Morton Plan would have kicked in on July 4 but newspapers across the country couldn't get it together by then. Why do newspapers drag their feet? They have seen the future and still they hesitate. "

I agree with as newspapers need to realise that they will not survive by not doing anything and take action straight away.

"I will never pay for news again. Most news is not truly news - it is sensationalism, hype and deception. Most news is not balanced - every editor is biased. And it is not just that - I truly can not afford to pay for news."

Newspapers need to ensure they are not charging more than they should for their content. 

"The proof is that while online aggregation and free newspaper Web sites have combined to batter paid print circulation figures, more people are reading the product of America’s newspapers than ever before."

I can infer that this person feels that there is still demand for physical newspapers.

I believe that for journalists they all need to use a pay wall online because only some are getting paid but the firms should find a way to get them all paid.