- Speech is a messy business, as Johann Hari, um, knows | Mark Lawson | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Mark Lawson says Joann Hari's (mis)quoting style is not easy to criticise: "Even beyond deliberate invention or distortion, my guess is that the quotations in most print interviews would struggle to survive comparison with an exact transcript of the reporter's tape recording. [...] hesitations and stumbles and false starts are routinely excised, unless they reveal psychologically significant uncertainty on a particular subject. [...] So almost all print interviews involve some degree of cleaning-up. Hari, admittedly, opted for a sort of industrial deep-cleaning and even getting the builders in, but his actions would only become unsurvivable if he had not actually met his subjects or had blurred their responses with his own words." (journalism plagiarism writing )
- The One Google Plus Feature Facebook Should Fear
"Facebook users are known for staying on the site for over half an hour a day, something no other site could compete with… until now. To be honest, my gut reaction after using Google Plus was initially, “Why on earth would anybody switch to this from Facebook?” However, when I loaded up Google Finance as I do every morning, I suddenly realized that I was asking the wrong question. The reality is that users won’t have the option of not using Google Plus." (google_plus facebook user_engagement )
- GoDaddy Sold for $2.25 Billion
"As a report predicted a week ago, private equity firms KKR & Co., Silver Lake Partners and Technology Crossover Ventures sealed the deal, where they agreed to take on GoDaddy’s debt (update: which the Wall Street Journal says amounts to roughly half the value of the deal). That earlier report indicated the company would be sold for between $2 billion and $2.5 billion." (acquisition godaddy dns )
- Google Inc. in preliminary talks to buy Hulu – latimes.com
"Google Inc. is in preliminary talks to buy online video pioneer Hulu, people familiar with the situation said. Hulu has begun meeting with potential buyers including Google, Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. to drum up interest in a sale, said these people, who requested anonymity because the discussions are confidential." (google hulu acquisition yahoo microsoft )
- Flipboard wants to be the newsstand of the future — Tech News and Analysis
"Flipboard, one of the first iPad applications to really take advantage of the new device’s touch interface to create a kind of digital magazine, released a series of updates and new features Thursday that turn the app into even more of a tablet newsstand. As newspapers and magazines continue to try to capture readers with their own site-specific apps, Flipboard is making it easier for users to create their own constantly changing iPad magazine — one that pulls from hundreds of sources, and has social feeds and signals built in. As we’ve argued before, this looks a lot like the future (or one version of the future) of digital publishing." (flipboard publishing personalisation )
- Jon Rubinstein sends message to HP staff; Addresses TouchPad reviews | The #1 HP / Palm webOS Community | PreCentral.net
"If you’ve seen the recent TouchPad reviews you know that the industry understands HP’s vision and sees the same potential in webOS as we do. David Pogue from the New York Times says “there are signs of greatness here.” (I’ve included links to David’s review and others below.) You’ve also seen that reviewers rightly note things we need to improve about the webOS experience…" (email hp webos launch reviews )
- Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names | Kalzumeus Software
"I have lived in Japan for several years, programming in a professional capacity, and I have broken many systems by the simple expedient of being introduced into them. (Most people call me Patrick McKenzie, but I’ll acknowledge as correct any of six different “full” names, any many systems I deal with will accept precisely none of them.) Similarly, I’ve worked with Big Freaking Enterprises which, by dint of doing business globally, have theoretically designed their systems to allow all names to work in them. I have never seen a computer system which handles names properly and doubt one exists, anywhere. So, as a public service, I’m going to list assumptions your systems probably make about names. All of these assumptions are wrong. Try to make less of them next time you write a system which touches names…" (names culture identity )
- Developing a paid iPad app – the Telegraph approach | News On Digital Media & The AOP | AOP
Some lessons from the Telegraph's iPad app development: "Readers are definitely prepared to pay via iTunes. Building the app is trivial, content production is a headache. Running costs are 6 times that of building the app itself…" (ipad apps telegraph )
- The Eternal Shame of Your First Online Handle – Technology – GOOD
"I am not the only person on the Internet who thought it was a good idea to intimately identify her middle school self with kitties and/or The Downward Spiral! Below, a dozen first cracks at online self-identification…" (names identity )
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