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Will Sullivan's Journerdism is a news and commentary website for journalists and nerds to kick it and discuss the craft journalism, multimedia storytelling, web 2.0 development, web and print design, social content and all things nerdy online.

Photos: LG Watch Phone Is for Real [del.icio.us]Today

"James Bond and Dick Tracy fans are likely to queue up for this soon. The new watch phone from LG is one of the coolest gadgets at the CES 2009 show. At a press event today, LG USA President Michael Ahn showed a working demo of the device. It's a surprisingly slim watch that has a touchscreen phone, 3G and Bluetooth capabilities. It also has a camera that can take photos and small videos. Worn on the wrist, the phone looks like any ordinary watch displaying the time but when a call comes in, the screen changes. Just raise your hand a little closer to your mouth, press a button and you can talk into the watch through the speakerphone capability."

Google's Street View Takes A Byte Out Of Crime [del.icio.us]Yesterday

"In the case, which involved a woman who allegedly kidnapped her granddaughter, Athol Police Officer Todd Neale managed to track down the missing girl by obtaining coordinates of her cell phone from the phone’s carrier. Neale contacted Deputy Fire Chief Thomas V. Lozier who worked with him in trying to figure out exactly where the missing girl was being held."

Did Google Just Expose Semantic Data in Search Results? [del.icio.us]January 7

"As we've said about the semantic web before: Once our software is capable of deriving meaning from web pages it looks at for us, there's a whole lot of work that will already be done, allowing our human, creative minds to reach new heights. Structured data is a layer of standardized abstraction upon which new innovation can be created. That's why we're interested to see what Google is doing. The answers aren't always accurate - try searching the birth date of Jesus Christ, for example. Yahoo! has far more clearly articulated what they intend to do with semantic data. None the less, Google now appears to be doing something that no one else is doing. Maybe readers here search for "Britney Spears' mother" all the time, though, and have already seen this. It's new to us, though."

iTunes Music Store Finally Ditches DRM, Adds New Prices | Epicenter from Wired.com [del.icio.us]January 7

"The agreement represents a way for Apple to extricate itself from an expensive cat-and-mouse game with DRM crackers that placed a heavier burden on paying customers than is borne by those who download free music without copyright protection or payment. For Sony Music, Warner Music Group and Universal Music Group, winning this long-fought battle to price music at different points in iTunes meant caving on the notion that digital music must be "protected" -- a quixotic proposition in the age of torrents, P2P and sneakernet file sharing -- and comes after the RIAA sheathed its litigation sword against individuals. In return, the labels get access to a massive and hungry consumer base for their catalogs (Apple and the fourth major label, EMI, came to terms earlier). In addition, a DRM-free iTunes means the labels get to test their theory that some people will buy more music at 69 cents and pay $1.29 for some tunes."

The 6 Dangerous Fallacies of Social Media [del.icio.us]January 7

"You may have heard of social media. There’s been a bit of news about it recently. However, a lot of people making that news have created expectations and beliefs about social media that aren’t true." (Via Chrys Wu)