Daily Mail on Google and Adele | Daily Mail Watch"There’s another option to consider here though. For a couple of years now Google have been providing customised search results. Whenever you search on Google, they take into account the links that you have clicked on from previous search results. I’m not surprised that I get [...]
The Heart of Content Management — silencematters — Jeremy Zilar"As soon as the tools we use to publish our sites start to equal the class, skill and nuance we the writers are expected to put into “the content” on our sites, then we can start to truly consider ourselves publishers in the digital age. Until [...]
Five myths about the future of journalism – The Washington Post"There are few things journalists like to discuss more than, well, themselves and the long-term prospects for their industry. How long will print newspapers survive? Are news aggregation sites the future? Or are online paywalls — such as the one the New York Times just [...]
Mental Hopscotch: #Eigenharp, My Ignorance and @david_harveySome excellent lessons in music theory: "So I had, what I thought, was a simple question: [...] If the note is a 'black' note do you care if it shows sharp or flat? Aren't they the same? Isn't it just musician prissiness? Half an hour later (that's how much [...]
Condition ONE App: A New Way to Photograph War? – LightBox"Danfung Dennis has been documenting war for years, first with still photographs, then in motion, culminating with the award-winning documentary Hell and Back Again. [...] Condition ONE, under development for the Apple iPad and other tablets, uses a custom camera system developed by Dennis that [...]
Martin Rees and the Templeton prize: why are the atheists so cross?| Michael White | Politics | guardian.co.uk"It should be a happy story: top boffin gives correct answer to no-brainer question – "Would you like £1m, no strings attached?" – without having to phone a friend. Instead, a meteor shower of abuse descends upon his [...]
Twitter Announces Fire Hose Marketplace: Up to 10k Keyword Filters for 30 Cents!"Like a prism to a ray of sunlight, stream-hacking startup Mediasift CEO Nick Halstead took the stage today with Twitter's Ryan Sarver at the Data 2.0 conference to announce Twitter's second data resales channel partnership. Halstead's service will allow customers to parse the [...]
Horse & Hound: Hotter than The Sun – Online, Media – The Independent"Horse & Hound boasts more than 81,000 likes on Facebook, outranking such media brands as The Sun, The Guardian and heat magazine. The site's users are heavily engaged, cooing over "Magic of McGuigan", a 15 hands hedge-jumping bay, and reminiscing over the achievement [...]
Jobcentres ‘tricking’ people out of benefits to cut costs, says whistleblower | Politics | The GuardianShocking and depressing story: "Soaring number of sanctions against unemployed amid claims that DWP staff are being told to trip people up with paperwork" (politics uk employment society ) Android Is Destroying Everyone, Especially RIM — iPhone Dead In Water"Google's [...]
UX Evolutions: News on iPad"This is the second post in a new RWW series looking at how the user experience of consuming media has changed with the increasing popularity of devices other than the PC. Yesterday we explored the thriving world of music on smartphones. Today we look at news apps on the iPad." (flipboard [...]
