3 September 2010, 3:38 pm
The Associated Press didn't need any help from a bunch of unshowered bloggers pecking away at their keyboards from the basement offices in which they play "reporter," thank you very much. Now it knows better. At the AP's 2009 annual meeting, Chairman Dean Singleton reminded his audience ( read the s... Read More »
3 September 2010, 12:31 pm
Editor’s note: Local Tech Wire asked Peter Wylie for his reaction to Facebook’s changes in privacy policy this week. Wylie is a researcher at Three Ships Media , a social media marketing company in Raleigh, N.C. He was previously an editor for an online business journalism company in Washington,... Read More »
3 September 2010, 10:04 am
A Cornell University PhD candidate named Daniel Romero used an HP Labs’ Social Computing Lab study measuring influence on Twitter to come up with a list of the “100 most influential news media accounts.”... Read More »
3 September 2010, 9:33 am
Lately, American politics is neither blue nor red, but yellow. Like the "yellow journalism" that plagued the turn of the last century, this new era...... Read More »
3 September 2010, 8:39 am
HOLCIM Philippines has constantly looked for ways to be a responsible manufacturer of cement -- the key ingredient of concrete which is the second most used material in the world. read more... Read More »
3 September 2010, 4:16 am
August 27, 12:34 a.m. A man in the Lommasson parking lot was caught smoking marijuana. He claimed to have a medical marijuana card and produced documents that indicated he did. Officers warned the man about smoking on campus.... Read More »
2 September 2010, 4:06 pm
Brands need to be beware of “bullshit” from agencies that claim to be able to lead social media efforts without having the rights skills, the Mumbrella Question Time audience was warned. After a question from PHD boss Mark Holden about where social media should sit, Stuart Gregor, owner of speci... Read More »
2 September 2010, 11:33 am
The number of U.S. workers filing for unemployment benefits fell only slightly last week and productivity at businesses dropped for the first time in eight quarters, according to government statistics released Thursday, reflecting an economic recovery that continues to stall. Economic - Social Scien... Read More »
1 September 2010, 12:17 pm
Ping, a social network described as Facebook and Twitter meeting iTunes, was launched today. But will people really go to iTunes to be social?... Read More »
31 August 2010, 10:33 pm
Alan Simpson violated a taboo last week when he likened Social Security to “a milk cow with 310 million tits.” But contrary to the dictionary-deprived critics who accused him of sexist vulgarity, the former Wyoming senator’s transgression had nothing to do with his use of a perfectly acceptabl... Read More »