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The Pentagon agreed to avoid distributing altered images to the news media on Friday, prompting the Associated Press to lift its suspension on photos provided by the US military.

The Guardian has just moved from partial to full-text RSS feeds.  According to the Google Blog, they are they first major newspaper in the world to do so.  Publishing 2.0 believes that the Guardian is the "first media company to actually take RSS seriously" by making it something people want to use.

The feeds will include the full content from each article with embedded related links.  However, there will be no images or cartoons.  Advertising will be placed within each full-content feed.  

Other mainstream media companies publish their RSS feeds as a brief title or caption from the article, which forces readers to go to the site to read the rest.

Sources: Guardian, Publishing 2.0, Google Blog

As we reported yesterday, FT.com has launched the Long Room page on the Alphaville blog. In an interview today, Managing Editor Robert Grimshaw reported that the website will not be participating in monthly traffic measures by the UK's Audit Bureau of Circulations Electronic (ABCes), because its focus is on "quality not quantity."

A Russian Minister of Mass Communications concluded that even though the media is expanding in the country, it is getting harder to find useful information. Alexander Jarov suggested that media outlets in the country may not know how to deal with news content, although they may be living in the information age.

It is necessary to properly regulate the flow of content and to control false information, including extremism and pornography, said Jarov.

The government intends to establish legislative measures to deal with the matter.

Source: gipp.ru