This Article Is Miley Cyrus Link Bait
Actually, this article is more of a commentary on collective mental illness, exploitation and mountains made of molehills—no, that’s not a boob joke. It’s also about invented controversy for the sake of ogling eyeballs and links at the expense of a teenage girl who will be lucky if she’s not in rehab on her 18th birthday.
Fire Eagle Makes Friends During Developer Evening
Any event that involves free pizza and beer can’t be bad, but a recent Yahoo-sponsored get-together seemed especially successful, and this could bode well for the company’s location-based Fire Eagle service.
Your Keyboard’s Crappy, Literally
Ready, set, get out the disinfectant. When researchers tested keyboards in a "typical" London office, one of them was removed and quarantined because it was five times as filthy as the office toilet. Bet that guy’s popular now.
Teacher’s Social Profiles; Should They Matter?
The Washington Post pokes around a few MySpace and Facebook profiles of young school teachers and shares the apparently disturbing results.
Display Ads Working Well For L.A. Paper’s Site
The death of print used to be a hot topic, and after the first signs of a recession appeared, predicting print’s downfall became absolutely fashionable. But an examination of the Los Angeles Times’s display ad revenue reveals that it’s doing a good job of adapting.
Tech Founders Not All In Their 20s
The common belief that all entrepreneurs who start tech companies are in their 20s or teens is being challenged by a lengthy study that started in 1995 thru 2005 which found that only 1 percent of American founders were teenagers.The study by Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and researchers at Duke and Harvard found that most U.S. born technology and engineering company founders are middle-aged, with the average and median age of 39.
Metallica Changes Download Tune
The old joke is that Metallica sold out in 45 minutes—not a concert, just sold out. The wicked bass and drums didn’t score any points with purists when the band did a 180 and decided MTV was good for their career after all, nor were any points scored when they went after Napster. Those who know exactly what I’m talking about will also double-take when I tell you the band is cool with online music these days.That may be because Trent Reznor and Radiohead were able to prove the concept that downloads are good for business.
Google Provides Help For the Help-Seekers
Isn’t it always fun stumbling across some new feature to enhance your overall Google Experience? Just the little things that can add so much convenience to your daily web use like the definition or movies web search features.
Local Bank: Tribune Papers Strive For Ad Bucks
The Los Angeles Times and The Seattle Times buffed up their websites to make them more local-friendly.
It’s Criminal: Old Bailey Trials Online
Trial documents dating back as far as 1674 recorded for cases heard at London’s Old Bailey arrived online thanks to the work of a group of universities.