Death By Blogging, NYT Style
I’m not sure the last time I saw a New York Times piece that failed to convince, well, anybody. It may be because Matt Richtel made the classic mistake of developing a thesis and sticking to it until he found some evidence. (Academic tip: A good thesis comes after research.)
Microsoft Clears Up Vista SP1 Issue
Installation processes for a Vista Service Pack 1 prerequisite caused some people to experience endless rebooting.
Deep Linking Issues Return As Music Lawsuit Hits Baidu, Sohu
Chinese search engines Baidu and Sohu face millions in penalties as Sony BMG, Warner Music Group, and Universal Music demand satisfaction over links to songs controlled by the labels.
Pirating Kelly Clarkson
American Idol fave Clarkson wasn’t especially pleased about four songs in the works hitting the Internet; we grabbed them during a stroll for bagels.
European Parents Spending More Time Online
The European Interactive Advertising Association says that adults who live with children are more engaged online that those who don’t, according to its new "Digital Families Report."The report found that 73 percent of people living with children are going online each week, compared to 52 percent who don’t. They are also engaging in broader range of digital activities than those without children.
Blogging 24/7 Not Required For Success
You can’t blame the NYT for its weekend piece entitled "In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop." The article isolates a couple of unfortunate deaths in the blogging community, then selects a handful of juiced-up bloggers to prove it’s theory that blogging can lead to bad health, or even death.
“Boring” Lawsuit Confronts Google Street View
It was only a matter of time before Google got sued over Street View; the real question was which privacy group (or sympathetic person representing a privacy group) would be first to file. And now a couple with the last name "Boring" has beaten them all to it.
Hitwise Weighs In On AdWords UK Change
The spread of a particular policy towards trademarks has some AdWords users in the UK worried. And if new data from Hitwise is accurate, they should be.
TwitterLocal Launches
Twitter tools and services are hitting the market faster than they can be acquired, but that’s just a given for one of the hottest social tools to hit the Web.
Google Earth Adds New York Times Layer
Google has partnered with The New York Times to allow users to track the news geographically in a layer on Google Earth.Users can follow the news by location (city, state, country, neighborhood) and by section (U.S., Foreign, Sports, Travel). Items on the layer are mapped based on place names given to each article when it is uploaded to NYTimes.com. The items include headlines and the first paragraph with links back to the full story or that particular section.