Asso­ci­ated Press via Yahoo!: News­pa­pers should “inno­vate in big, rev­o­lu­tion­ary ways” if they want to cap­ture younger and light read­ers, says John Lavine of North­west­ern University.

Thanks to IWant­Media for the pointer.

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Microsoft Chair­man Bill Gates gave the keynote at the News­pa­per Asso­ci­a­tion of America’s annual pub­lish­ers con­fer­ence yes­ter­day in Seat­tle. You can find excerpts of his speech on CyberJournalist.net. Indus­try vet­eran Vin Cros­bie summed up the presentation:

Gates didn’t say much that was new. Mir­ror­ing the gen­eral ‘post-bubble’ con­sen­sus among experts, he sees the pub­lish­ing indus­try as now between the Web wave and the Wire­less wave and antic­i­pates a fusion of print and online for­mats. He also, not sur­pris­ingly, touted Tablet PCs as the lat­est elec­tronic deliv­ery plat­form for periodicals.

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In his lat­est E&P col­umn, Steve Out­ing writes: Nearly a decade into the online-news boom, media com­pa­nies can be proud of their growth and reach­ing a cer­tain level of matu­rity. For those news orga­ni­za­tions that take the Inter­net seri­ously (and that’s def­i­nitely not every­one, yet), news sites are a real busi­ness, bring­ing in sub­stan­tial revenues.

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Cory wrote a short sci­ence fic­tion story for Busi­ness 2.0, the first ever pub­lished by the publication.

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San Jose Merc: Music labels launch anti-piracy salvo. Lead:

The music indus­try started send­ing the first of a mil­lion instant mes­sages Tues­day to com­puter users it sus­pects of trad­ing pirated music.

The auto­mated mes­sages warn indi­vid­u­als that what they’re doing is ille­gal and could get them sued.

The Record­ing Indus­try Asso­ci­a­tion of Amer­ica joined three other groups rep­re­sent­ing song­writ­ers, music pub­lish­ers and artists in what it described as an edu­ca­tional cam­paign directed at mil­lions of Kazaa and Grokster users. The first 200,000 mes­sages went out Tues­day. It expects to send a mil­lion in the first week.

Here’s an excerpt from the industry’s warning:

COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT WARNING

It appears that you are offer­ing copy­righted music to oth­ers from your com­puter. Dis­trib­ut­ing or down­load­ing copy­righted music on the Inter­net with­out per­mis­sion from the copy­right owner is ILLEGAL. It hurts song­writ­ers who cre­ate and musi­cians who per­form the music you love, and all the other peo­ple who bring you music.

When you break the law, you risk legal penal­ties. There is a sim­ple way to avoid that risk: DON’T STEAL MUSIC, either by offer­ing it to oth­ers to copy or down­load­ing it on a “file-sharing” sys­tem like this.

When you offer music on these sys­tems, you are not anony­mous and you can eas­ily be iden­ti­fied. You also may have unlocked and exposed your com­puter and your pri­vate files to any­one on the Inter­net. Don’t take these chances. Dis­able the share fea­ture or unin­stall your “file-sharing” soft­ware. For more infor­ma­tion on how, go to http://www.musicunited.net/5_takeoff.html

Here’s Amy Harmon’s story in the NY Times on the same subject.

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NY Times: In the tough­est move to date against unso­licited com­mer­cial e-mail, Vir­ginia enacted a law impos­ing harsh new felony penal­ties, includ­ing prison time.

Now we’re talking.

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Howie Kurtz at the Wash­ing­ton Post won­ders if blog­gers will pick the next president.

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Since almost every com­puter ques­tion I toss out here on New Media Mus­ings seems to get answered by the eru­dite blog­ging read­er­ship, here’s another:

Isn’t there a way to speed up the cur­sor in Microsoft Word? I don’t mean the mouse cur­sor — I mean mov­ing the cur­sor in a Word doc to the right, left, up or down with the arrow keys on your keyboard.

I’ve searched the Microsoft Knowl­edge Base, the (typ­i­cally use­less) Help files in Word, the byzan­tine Options menu in Word, even Google. Hun­dreds of post­ings on how to speed up or slow down the mouse speed on your screen, but not a word on how to speed up the key­board arrow keys in a Word doc, which seem painstak­ingly slow to me.

Any­one?

Five min­utes later: Holy good night, I’ve already got­ten an answer. Mike Thomp­son writes to tell me to go to Con­trol Panel | Key­board. (I’m run­ning Win­dows XP on a Dell PC, but should work for other Win­dows oper­at­ing sys­tems.) There, I changed the “Repeat Rate” from mod­er­ately slow to fast. Because it’s accom­pa­nied by an AA graphic, I assumed it applied only to text, but it works for the arrow key as well.

Adds Mike: “This will increase the speed of repeat for all char­ac­ters in all pro­grams (which may not be a bad thing), but it is the only solu­tion I’ve ever seen. The only pos­si­ble down­fall I see is your backspace/delete keys will go faster too.” That’s true — the delete key is too fast now, but I’ll learn to live with it.

Thanks, owe you one. Mean­time, any­one at Microsoft lis­ten­ing? This is an obvi­ous UI issue that needs addressing.

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Dow Jones Busi­ness News:

NBC News and the Wash­ing­ton Post Co. renewed an agree­ment to share edi­to­r­ial, tech­no­log­i­cal and pro­mo­tional resources but announced that Newsweek magazine’s Inter­net site will revert to the name it had before the part­ner­ship began in 1999.

Thanks to IWant­Media for the pointer.

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Jon Udell of the recently down­sized InfoWorld on the mis­sion of blogs and the ben­e­fits to the enterprise.

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