Here’s the latest 4MR audio report from MediaShift. In this week’s edition I focus on the brouhaha surrounding Gizmodo obtaining a next-generation prototype of the Apple iPhone. The tech blog paid $5,000 for the prototype, took it apart, and then returned it to Apple. But police raided Gizmodo editor Jason Chen’s house and took away computers, hard drives and cameras, a move that Gawker Media says was not legal. The case brings up questions of journalistic integrity and might affect how the shield law for bloggers progresses in Congress, according to MediaShift legal correspondent Jeffrey Neuburger.
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Background music is “What the World Needs” by the The Ukelele Hipster Kings via PodSafe Music Network.
Here are some links to related sites and stories mentioned in the podcast:
This Is Apple’s Next iPhone at Gizmodo
The Tale of Apple’s Next iPhone at Gizmodo
The iPhone Leak Gets Ugly – Police Raid Gizmodo Editor’s House, Confiscate Computers at TechCrunch
The Gizmodo Warrant – Searching Journalists in the Terabyte Age at Freedom to Tinker blog
OverREACTing – Dissecting the Gizmodo Warrant at EFF
Don’t Prosecute Gizmodo for the iPhone That Walked Into a Bar at Slate
Police poised to expand iPhone prototype probe at CNET
Journalist shield law may not halt iPhone probe at CNET
Also, be sure to vote in our poll about what you think about the Gizmodo iPhone story:
Mark Glaser is executive editor of MediaShift and Idea Lab. He also writes the bi-weekly OPA Intelligence Report email newsletter for the Online Publishers Association. He lives in San Francisco with his son Julian. You can follow him on Twitter @mediatwit.
The Gizmodo story caused a blaze in the media when news of a possible iPhone prototype spread like wild fire. Anytime news can excite that’s a good thing because it gets people talking and gets them involved. Really like the way your twitter page is organized. The power of HTNL wow
The technology development nowadays is brilliant. Once a new things/stuff is introduce, there will a newest stuff afterward, and much problem (perhaps) come to in using the stuff..
I do have the Iphone several months ago but it starting to broke just after I use it in 2 MONTHS only. I got fedup and get tired with new stuff until now. Just use my ordinary cell phone only.