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Version Location Description Submitted By Date submitted Date corrected
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Page 9
second paragraph

"Posse Commitatus" > "Posse Comitatus" is more common spelling.

Anonymous   
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Page 11
bottom paragraph

Berners-Lee created hypertext technology in 1990, not 1991.

Anonymous   
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Page 13
3rd paragraph

McLuhan title should be "The Medium is the Massage"

Anonymous   
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Page 25
3rd paragraph

Iraq War was 2003

Anonymous   
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Page 38
3rd paragraph

"grassroots journalism talking hold" should be "grassroots journalism taking hold"

Anonymous   
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Page 60
3rd paragraph

Poindexter scandal was in the 1980s, not the 1990s.

Anonymous   
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Page 121
3rd paragraph

Remove endnote 170 (that page has changed on teh BBC site)

Anonymous   
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Page 134

special-election congressinal campaign in Tennessee.
should be:
special-election congressinal compaign in Kentucky

Anonymous   
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Page 154
5th paragraph

special election was in Kentucky, not Tennessee

Anonymous   
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Page 184
2rd paragraph

"Newmakers and their PR..." should be "Newsmakers and their PR..."

Anonymous   
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Page 201
2nd and bottom paragraphs

Wendy Selzer
should read:
Wendy Seltzer

Anonymous   
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Page 214
second paragraph

copyright term for individual authors is life of author plus 70 years, not 75 years

Anonymous   
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Page 216
4th paragraph

Russian programmer was indicted in 2001, not 2002

Anonymous   
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Page 217
2nd paragraph

"citizen's fair use rights rights (such as..." should be "citizens' fair use rights (such as..."

Anonymous   
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Page 239
6th paragraph

copyright term for individuals is life of author plus 70 years, not 75

Anonymous   
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Page 249
long list of people

Wendy Seltzer, not Selzer.

Anonymous   
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Page 251-7
Various

Changes in Web Site Directory:

--Allconsuming: http://www.allconsuming.com/ should be http://www.allconsuming.net/

--BitTorrent: http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/ should be
http://www.bittorrent.com/

--Columbia Journalism ReviewAfs AgCampaign DeskAh(http://www.campaigndesk.org/)
should be
CJRDAILY (http://www.cjrdaily.org/)

--Dan Gillmor's blog (http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/)
should be
http://dangillmor.typepad.com/

--MyYahoo RSS (http://add.my.yahoo.com/rss/) should be
http://my.yahoo.com/s/about/rss/index.html

--Remove Alan Reiter's wireless blog (http://reiter.weblogger.com/)

--Washington Post Live Online (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/liveonline/)
has been changed to http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/liveonline/

--World Intellectual Property Organization http://www.wipo.org/
should be http://www.wipo.int/

Anonymous   
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Page 260
"Weblog" entry

change URL to http://dangillmor.typepad.com

Anonymous   
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Page 261-79
Various

Endnote changes:

--1.changed on Edventure site
old http://www.edventure.com/conversation/article.cfm?Counter=8648145
new http://www.edventure.com/freshproduce/article.cfm?SerialNum=FRP200204030000

--6.article is available online
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030721&s=navasky

--32. has been removed from Web

--58.change(redirect)
old http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/
new http://bittorrent.com/

--87.change
old
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/25/magazine25STOCKTRADER.html?ei=5070&en=84cb0288bed4667a&ex=1083211200&pagewanted=print
new http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/25/magazine/25STOCK-
TRADER.html?ex=1105506000&en=5eddcb345466527c&ei=5070&pagewanted=all

--93.removed from Web but still exists in internet archive
http://web.archive.org/web/20021017111910/http://www.darpa.mil/iao/

--98.change
old http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/articles/A28729-2004Apr20.html
new http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A28729-2004Apr20

--116. has been removed from Web

-- 134. change: sentence with ""special-election congressional campaign in
Tennessee" -- state should be changed to Kentucky.

--147.change
old http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/liveonline/
new http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/liveonline/

--238.typo(.com > .net)
http://www.allconsuming.net

--241.ap(h)orism

--245."filled with hope mud joy" > "filled with hope and joy"

--265.change
old http://cyberwerks.com:70/1/cyberwire/
new http://cyberwerks.com/cyberwire/cwd/

--277.typo(.org > .int)
http://www.wipo.int

--292.maybe typo
old http://www.eff.org/Legal/Cases/sony_v_universal_decision.php
new http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/sony_v_universal_decision.php

--296.typo
old http://news.com.com/2100-1023-978176.html
new http://news.com.com/2100-1023-979791.html

--300.typo(https)
https://www.law.berkeley.edu/institutes/bclt/drm/papers/cohen-drmandprivacy-
btlj2003.html

--319. removed from Web

Anonymous