Media
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Researchers have created the first plastic computer processor. US intelligence agencies are using Google as a tool more and more . . . And Google Search now supports Cherokee. The majority of Americans are now on facebook. This is how…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
New photo-sharing-location-based-social-media-venture-funded-start-up Color is making waves. While the idea is pretty cool, the $41 million thrown behind it raises more tech bubble questions. And of course, there are the inevitable parodies… It looks like the FCC will be paying special attention…
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Online Marginalia
Reyhan Harmanci at The Bay Citizen discovers New Yorker cartoon marginalia in the magazine’s digital archives.
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
The NY Times’ online subscription price is way more than other online subscription services, so why would people pay for it? Facebook removes around 20,0009 underage people from the site per day. Apple pulled the “gay cure” app after an…
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Libya, Today
Conditions are deteriorating in Misrata. The NY Times is also updating regularly via The Lede. So is The Guardian. I suspect this is the way future newspaper reporting will be done–quick updates akin to the television news tradition of Breaking…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
First Amazon took on Netflix with streaming movies, and now it’s going after the Android store with its new Appstore. Oh, and Apple is suing over the name. There are more questions than answers when it comes to the newly…
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A Very Good Point
Sam Biddle argues that “Facebook is AOLifying the Internet,” and explains why “that sucks.”
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Newspaper Guild Calls for HuffPo Strike
Last week, the Newspaper Guild, a 26,000-member-strong national union of media workers, called on all unpaid Huffington Post bloggers “to withhold their work.” The strike asks specifically for an immediate pay schedule for all contributors. Read their official press release. As you…
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Al Jazeera English
Will the recent visibility of Al Jazeera English in the wake of the Egyptian revolution translate into more American viewers? Two communication researchers at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, William Youmans and Katie Brown, tested how receptive Americans might…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Apple’s newest tool for convincing people to buy an iPhone? Shame. Helping blind people navigate their environment is the newest awesome Kinect hack. The porn industry might soon have its own ICANN-approved domain. The New York Times officially announced its…
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The Times’ Paywall
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., publisher of The New York Times, has announced the paper’s new, somewhat convoluted, digital subscriptions plan. Not surprisingly a workaround to the paywall has already been created.
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Google seems to be inching closer to testing a new smartphone payment system. Goodbye, paper money? Another likely impact of the Japanese earthquake seems to be rising prices for computer components. The Obama administration is rolling out an extensive wishlist of…