Bob Collins
Police in the UK are using social networking to fight the rioters.
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David CazaresCheck out these recent-ish headlines from the Intarwebz: “Email is dead: Check out these 8 innovating alternatives instead” (Business Insider) “Nine reasons e-mail is dead” (PCMag.com) “Is e-mail dead?” (Discovery News) “The end of the e-mail era” (Wall Street Journal) I’ve never bought the premise that email is on the way out. New research from Read more →
A perilous world for a retweeting journalist
Hart Van Denburg
A digital music service for which Europeans have gone nutso launches in the U.S. today, after a couple of years of promises and waiting. “If Apple’s iTunes ushered in digital music’s first phase as a large-scale business, then Spotify and other services like it could be its future,” writes Ben Sisario on the New York Read more →
A Blaine man who hijacked his neighbor’s Wi-fi and then made threats to Joe Biden and distributed child pornography using his victim’s identity has been sentenced to 18 years in prison. It’s just one more nasty incident — albeit a very small one — in the long war between forces of good and evil online. Read more →
There was a close call aboard the International Space Station today when a piece of space junk came within 800 feet of the ISS. The astronauts were told to scramble into the Soyuz capsule and prepare to return to earth if the junk hit and crippled the space station.
The amount of attention the media has given the release of Sarah Palin’s emails by far outweighs the significance of the emails themselves. But the ability to display copious amounts of information in elegant ways continues to show promise for the future of journalism.
“I’m not interested in what you had for lunch.”
That’s the kind of complaint I hear often from Twitter skeptics. They’re partially right — there’s a lot garbage on Twitter.
But Twitter can also act as a vital news service, of course.
The expression of the gentleman on the far right makes me want to have a caption contest, but instead I’ll simply tell you that the submarine Minnesota is coming along after almost three years of construction.
Facebook and public relations firm Burson-Marsteller are parting ways after reporter Dan Lyons (the artist formerly known as “Fake Steve Jobs”) exposed Facebook’s smear campaign against Google. For the past few days, a mystery has been unfolding in Silicon Valley. Somebody, it seems, hired Burson-Marsteller, a top public-relations firm, to pitch anti-Google stories to newspapers, Read more →
There was a big spike in Internet traffic for last night’s Bin Laden announcement, but nothing compared to a soccer game and tennis match.