Media
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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, bubble, toil and trouble: Rovio, the company behind Angry Birds,…
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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.
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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 possible withdrawal was just as decisive in the opposite direction.…
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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 have been important to the historic upheaval in the Middle…
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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 their many and varied issues. The latest people to face…
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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 & white monolith . . . and that’s a bummer.…
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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 and Netflix. A mini app roundup: Bizzy’s “check out” system…
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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 tech.
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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 for iPad 2 data use. For those recent iPad purchasers…
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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 joins in on the “death of console video games” rhetoric.…
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More on the HuffPo Strike
“Bill Lasarow, the publisher and editor of the two websites, said in an interview that the move is ‘not a hostile act in any sense whatsoever,’ but added that the writers felt ‘like they were being taken advantage of by…
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HuffPo Strike Declared
ArtScene and Visual Art Source, “an umbrella art publishing company” who, up until yesterday, reposted content at The Huffington Post, have announced they they are going on strike. And they are calling on other content providers to do the same.