- BBC sends more staff to Olympics than Team GB has athletes. As ever.
A sharp summary from Martin: "It is a classic example of one of those non-stories that really irritate me in journalism. Effectively it says “the BBC has decided to send an arbitrary number of apples to an event, whilst an entirely separate organisation has sent an equally arbitrary but smaller number of pears to the same thing in order to perform a completely different function.”" (journalism olympics )
- Twitter / @jmacdonald: Holy cow…how google driv …
Google seem to claim ownership of your content via Google Drive. Dropbox and Microsoft (via SkyDrive) don't. (dopost dropbox microsoft micro google_drive terms_and_conditions )
- The night I saw Jeremy Hunt hide behind a tree before dinner with James Murdoch – Telegraph Blogs
"It was then, as I stood on the steps with my Blackberry, that I spotted the then new Secretary of State for Culture Jeremy Hunt in the middle distance, [...] I don't know whether he saw me, or if something else diverted him, but he suddenly changed direction and darted to the side of the square and over towards a large tree." (james_murdoch leveson_inquiry news_corp politics jeremy_hunt )
- Exclusive: Bebo founders, shareholders sue owner for ‘destroying’ site — paidContent
When exciting companies go bad… "Bebo, which has hit one rocky patch after another the past few years, now has new troubles. The social network’s founders and some other shareholders are suing its current owner, alleging fraud." (dopost legal bebo )
- This is the web right now – The Oatmeal
It is. It really is. (humour dopost internet )
- Graphic News: the secret weapon of newsroom infographics | News | guardian.co.uk
"A small agency produces infographics used in newspapers and on websites around the world. But you may not have heard of them. Welcome to Graphic News" (dopost journalism news infographics )
- Eric Schmidt at Google-Oracle trial: open sourcing Android was legal | Technology | guardian.co.uk
"My understanding was what we were doing was permissible, [...] From the sum of my experiences and interactions, I was very sure what we were doing was legally correct." (java oracle legal android dopost eric_schmidt google )
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