- Introducing Twitter Web Analytics | Twitter Developers
"Today we’re announcing Twitter Web Analytics, a tool that helps website owners understand how much traffic they receive from Twitter and the effectiveness of Twitter integrations on their sites. Twitter Web Analytics was driven by the acquisition of BackType, which we announced in July." (twitter statistics metrics web_analytics launch )
- Water district taps Google for good coverage – latimes.com
"Central Basin pays for positive stories by a firm that Google considers a news site. Officials call it innovation, but open government advocates fear it blurs the line between news and publicity." (google_news public_relations usa )
- Google Flight Search
Google slowly trashing more businesses… (travel google search )
- IKEA’s Billy Bookcase: The Real Story
"Perhaps the most alarming part of this story — aside from the silly idea that a Swedish furniture chain could unilaterally put a stop to the many woodworkers and designers who are still building robust bookcases despite this flimsy hysteria — is how quick so many alleged professionals jumped on the Economist‘s lead without bothering to check it out with IKEA. Indeed, cultural journalism has become so lazy in recent years that The Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Wall Street Journal, The Week, Time, The Daily Mail, and The Consumerist all ran stories repeating this misinformation without bothering to investigate. Not less than a decade ago, such unpardonable amateurism would have earned at the very least a knuckle rap from the ombudsman." (ikea mistake journalism economist )
- Some real Shock and Awe: Racially profiled and cuffed in Detroit | Stories from the Heartland
A horrifying story of an American woman subjected to so-called security: "I thought flying on 9/11 would be easy. I figured most people would choose not to fly that day so lines would be short, planes would be lightly filled and though security might be ratcheted up, we’d all feel safer knowing we had come a long way since that dreadful Tuesday morning 10 years ago. But then armed officers stormed my plane, threw me in handcuffs and locked me up." (usa security race terrorism )
- Private Eye is 50? – surely shome mistake | Media | The Guardian
"Originally six pages printed on yellow paper, Private Eye is still put together by the editor shuffling copy printouts around a proof page. These scrapbook pages are now electronically subbed using modern software but up to 2000 the Eye used the old-fashioned system of printing out copy, pasting it onto boards and then photographing them." (private_eye history media )
- PM – Editor helped chancellor manipulate news 12/09/2011
"Tonight Natalie Rowe, the woman at the heart of drugs and prostitution claims against the chancellor, has spoken to PM in her first broadcast interview. [...] NATALIE ROWE: I mean it's been said in the newspapers that he was at university. He wasn't. At the time he was working for William Hague. I remember that vividly because he called William Hague insipid and I didn't know what the word meant. I do now. So he definitely was in government by then but I think he was getting more and more of a high profile. So there was definitely, there was cocaine on that night on the table. George Osborne did take cocaine on that night. And not just on that night. He took it on a regular basis with me, with his friends." (politics george_osborne interview )
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