A Better Response
The New York Times public editor critiques the paper’s coverage of the gang rape story. Click here to read more on the Times‘ “response” to the justified public outrage around…
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NY Times “Responds” to Backlash
What Rhoades Ha and the New York Times fail to understand is that the backlash is not about readers misinterpreting these quotes as belonging to the reporter, James C. McKinley Jr. It is about everything else.
Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
AOL is planning big layoffs in the wake of their acquisition of the Huffington Post. Here’s an interesting take on Hollywood’s attachment to old-school artificial scarcity of popular movies. Bubble,…
The Careless Language of Sexual Violence
There are crimes and then there are crimes and then there are atrocities. These are, I suppose, matters of scale.
Lasarow to HuffPo: “Brava, Madame Capitalist”
“We went to our writers before beginning to post last year and the response was overwhelming. Go ahead and post. Yet, less than one year later, the reaction to our…
Hacking the Middle East
Simplistic pronouncements about the role of social media in stirring uprisings and toppling dictators have by now, thankfully, seemed to die down. That Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other digital tools…
The NPR Uncontroversial Controversy
For a group of people who likes to claim that liberals are constantly playing the victim, the Tea Party sure screams like a little baby when anyone dares point out…
Erin Rose’s Tech Links
The end of cookies? The EU’s new law says websites must now explicitly ask for info from visitors. Facebook is AOL-ifying the net, aggregating a multitude of functions into one blue…
Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Take a deep breath, Steve Jobs: Adobe releases a Flash-to-HTML5 conversion tool. Movie rentals are coming soon to Facebook, putting it in competition with big video content providers like Hulu…
Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Sweden is replacing stamps with text messages. Too much tech use is ruining your sleep. Google controls 97% of mobile search. An amazing and terrifying tour of cutting-edge augmented reality…
iPad 2 Roundup
A skinny but charismatic Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad 2 on Wednesday. You can get your new device basically everywhere starting next Friday. AT&T is offering new non-contract, “postpaid” billing…
Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Now that the iPad 2 has been released, bloggers are wondering about what wasn’t included in the update. Twitter is staying away from the IPO gravy train… for now. Nintendo…