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The Copyright Office has extended the time period for comments in a rulemaking about Internet radio royalty fees after a federal appeals court ruling backed Cablevision's right to deploy a network-based digital video recording system.

Today's technologically advanced Alaska is a far cry from Jack London's frontier in The Call of the Wild. Yet while dog-sledding remains a common form of transportation, the image of the disconnected wilderness man is today more myth than reality.

Driven by economic changes like the rising cost of gas, social trends like work-life balance, and the proliferation of collaboration technologies, consumers are changing the way that they work. Rather than commuting to a central office every day, 9% of consumers telecommute from home for an external employer, and 22.8 million run a business out of their home.

Economists Craig Garthwaite and Timothy Moore of the University of Maryland, College Park have found a correlation between subscriptions to O: The Oprah Magazine, sales figures for books that were included in Oprah Winfrey's book club and votes for Sen Barack Obama (D-IL).

Editors often tell young journalists "We decide what the news is." That truism still attains; it's just the meaning of the pronoun has changed.

The flight of advertising dollars to the Internet is one explanation for the pain felt by traditional media. Another culprit that is increasingly to blame is Detroit.

San Francisco is being forced to overhaul security measures on the computer network that controls data for its police, courts, jails, payroll and health services, as well as other crucial information, after the technology administrator entrusted with the system blocked access for everyone but himself last month and for days refused to reveal the password, even from jail.

For almost 10 months, the story of John Edwards's affair remained the nearly exclusive province of the National Enquirer — through reports, denials, news of a pregnancy, questions about paternity and, finally, a slapstick chase through a hotel in Beverly Hills.

The Religion News Service's Rao writes that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi policy that required broadcasters who sent out specific messages to set aside time for opposing views. Such a move would "really make it impossible to preach the whole counsel of God."