Bit.ly looks at Twitter-based news service A Wired article about Bit.ly’s plans for growth includes a couple of lines about the url shortening service looking at generating a news service based on tweets. ‘When the world’s 20 million or so Twitter users click links in their feeds, most of the time, they’re routed through bit.ly’s [...]
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
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Register of Pecuniary Interests The Register of Pecuniary Interests of Members of Parliament is quite an interesting read. It does what it says on the tin – lists MPs’ properties, assets, business interests, involvement in community groups seeking Government funding and more. It gets updated annually and published on parliament.govt.nz. This one is dated 31 [...]
Monday, June 22, 2009
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How to publish Reuters stories on your blog (legally) Follow this link for Silicon Alley Insider’s step-by-step pictorial tutorial on adding Reuters stories to your blog. They come free with ads, or paid without ads. (I haven’t tried it.) Silicon Alley Insider
Monday, June 22, 2009
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Google News has added bylines to stories If Google News revolutionized search results on the Internet for journalism, it left one vital fact out of the story, organization and abstract of the search — who wrote it. Now it has added reporter bylines to stories in the search result. The addition means it’s now possible [...]
Friday, April 24, 2009
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The United Arab Emirates passed a controversial law yesterday that includes hefty fines for journalists, the official news agency reported.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Total value of the current global slave trade (think women and girls enslaved into prostitution in a city/country near you) = US$31 billion. Source: Lapham’s Quarterly Volume II, Number 2
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Another reality check for the "real time search" idea. At the South By Southwest geekfest this week, CNET's Dan Terdiman reports that trying to find anything useful out of Twitter search with the standard #sxsw hash tag has been almost impossible.
Monday, March 16, 2009
Where's eBay's growth going to come from in the next few years? PayPal, its online payment system, executives said today at eBay's analyst day in San Jose. (via Silicon Alley Insider)
Monday, March 16, 2009
If you want to know who's who in news on Twitter, check out http://wefollow.com/tag/news. It lists the news feeds and news commentators with the most followers on Twitter. They may not be all to your taste but you'll almost certainly find a few news feeds and news voices in there you hadn't come across before.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Twitter trends From Silicon Alley Insider: One of the top “trending” topics on Twitter is Maggiano’s, an Italian restaurant chain owned by Dallas-based Brinker International (EAT). Why? Because Maggiano’s is encouraging Twitter users to promote the chain to their friends — by telling them to start following @maggianos. The prize? $100 in gift certificates. “Just [...]
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