- Dangerous Minds | ‘The Conservative Teen’ magazine: No, this is not a joke
"Oh is this good. Click here to read the “free” first issue of The Conservative Teen, the new magazine for a virtually non-existent audience of conservative teenagers. Judging from the number of advertisements, it looks like this is an untapped audience best left untapped…" (politics launch magazine conservatives )
- Google to Launch Third-Party Commenting Platform
"Google is about to launch a new commenting system that will tie into the search giant’s Google+ platform, web services and web search, a source close to the product’s development confirmed with The Next Web" (rumours dopost commenting google )
- Startups at SXSW: Lots of buzz, little substance | Bootstrap – CNET News
"One of the most basic tenets of starting a business is to identify a problem and then attempt to solve it. Nevertheless, developers are continuously answering questions asked by none. This might be a product of the hack, hack, hack mentality that pervades the tech industry. It might stem from a genuine desire to innovate. Whatever the case, it's not producing viable businesses." (dopost sxsw )
- Editor of Daily Mail’s website defends attribution practices in face of growing criticism | Poynter.
"The two recent examples of work taken from Newsweek are just the latest in a long line of Mail Online stories that liberally cut and paste copy from other websites. Recently, Mail Online has stolen stories and text from The Independent, The Scotsman and Wikipedia, Bikya Masr, and the BBC, among others." (journalism plagiarism daily_mail )
- I Quit Path
"For which "that" is Path the app? Is it the app for being all of those apps at once, but prettier? Is that a problem we have? Do we need an app to solve it? When Path pivoted into version 2.0, it called itself a "smart journal." That sounds like a nice thing. But after a good run, it doesn't seem so smart anymore." (sharing privacy dopost jobs path )
- BBC News – News Corporation firm NDS accused of ITV Digital hack
"A News Corporation subsidiary company used a computer hacker to sabotage Sky TV's biggest rival, BBC Panorama has reported." (itv_digital hacking dopost piracy news_corp )
- BBC News – Friends Reunited relaunches site with ‘nostalgia’ focus
"Early social networking pioneer Friends Reunited has been relaunched. The UK-based network, which began in 2000, now invites users to sign up for its new "memories"-based service." (launch dopost nostalgia friends_reunited )
- Voxio’s Chat Feature Is Aimed At Killing SMS, But In A Smart Way | TechCrunch
"First up vox.io has come up with a great new way to chat. It puts the links and content people talk about in line in a two-column interface. I’m slightly amazed other clients – and perhaps Twitter? – haven’t come up with this simple strategy but it certainly makes chat a lot more intuitive since it means not having to leave the conversation." (dopost startup sms voxio )
- Racist Hunger Games Fans Are Very Disappointed
Ignorant young Americans shocked and disappointed that characters described as black in the books are portrayed in the film as… black. (tweets film racism hunger_games )
- What’s in a Name? | The Intercom Blog
Quite a lot of names of (HTC?) Android phones turn out also to be names of condoms. (names dopost branding android humour )
- The Difference Between Kanban and Scrum In One Word | Value, Flow, Quality
"The other day, inspired by the conversation Marcin Floryan started on twitter and carried on in a subsequent blog, I tweeted a follow-up question: Describe the difference between Kanban & Scrum in one word." (flow dopost scrum kanban )
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