The Real News Project
Cui bono? is a valid question when listening or watching or reading the news. Liberal bias, conservative influence on news outlets, the blurry borders of advertising and information, called infomercial, the publication about studies which favor one product over another, supposedly easily detectable by following the money trail... Sometimes one wonders, what about the ethical standards of a whole industry....
Help is on the way, or so they say: Independent World Television, the brain child of Canadian TV producer Paul Jay. The editorial board reads like a who as who of American journalism and the hope remains that it stays around.
Nicholas Negroponte plans to have 10 million PCs in the hands of children: the $100 Laptop.
The development is about a decade old at MIT and the laptops are planned to go on sale in Spring 2007.
If you'd like to follow the developers' path of discovery and solutions, follow their progress at the 