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- Future of news: Insider Dave Morgan touts new media Saturday, August 28, 2010 @ 11:00PMThis is a question-and-answer interview with Dave Morgan, who contends there has never been a better time to practice great journalism.
- B.C. teacher linked to global child-porn network Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 4:29PMOne of the men arrested in Canada in relation to an international online child-exploitation network that used Facebook is a former Vancouver private school teacher.
- Charges against B.C. teacher linked to global child-porn network Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 2:30PMOne of the men arrested in Canada in relation to an international online child-exploitation network that used Facebook is a former Vancouver private school teacher, police say.
- Multitasking websites oust traditional portals Thursday, August 19, 2010 @ 7:10PMA report by Nielsen Online, "What Americans Do Online," describes changing Internet use during a period of intensifying competition.
- Facebook, Farmville soaking up more time: study Tuesday, August 3, 2010 @ 12:41PMAlmost a third of the time Americans are online is spent at social media sites like Facebook and playing online games, a new study shows. read more
- Multi-tasking sites boom at expense of stand-alone networks Tuesday, August 3, 2010 @ 12:07AM"Time suck" is a phrase often used to describe online social networks like Facebook and online games like "FarmVille" — that is ...
- Multi-tasking sites like Facebook boom at expense of stand-alone networks Tuesday, August 3, 2010 @ 12:07AM"Time suck" is a phrase often used to describe online social networks like Facebook and online games like "FarmVille" — that is ...
- Internet Users Spend More Time on Facebook, Less on E-mail Monday, August 2, 2010 @ 4:08PMRISMEDIA, August 3, 2010—(MCT)—”Time suck” is a phrase often used to describe online social networks like Facebook and online games like Farmville. Now new research quantifies the phenomenon, showing that nearly one-third of the time Americans spend online is…
- Users spending more time on Facebook, less on e-mail Monday, August 2, 2010 @ 11:37AMSAN JOSE, Calif. (MCT) — “Time suck” is a phrase often used to describe online social networks like Facebook and online games like FarmVille. Now new research quantifies the phenomenon, showing that nearly one-third of the time Americans spend online is devoted to such activities, while time spent on conventional e-mail and portals such as Yahoo has declined.
- Americans spending more time on social networks than e-mails, portals Monday, August 2, 2010 @ 9:34AMNielsen report shows that the growth of Facebook, which incorporates e-mail, IM and games, has come at the expense of standalone communications platforms.
- Locavore365.org Challenges the World to Eat Locally Tuesday, July 20, 2010 @ 7:10AMCHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand , July 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Local, healthful food is now for sale, swap or giveaway worldwide - yet in too many cases, the larger community is unaware of this desirable commodity. Locavore365.org, an organization dedicated to helping people almost anywhere in the world advertise and find locally grown food, fruits and vegetables, offers a solution with the launch of http ...
- Furnished Housing by Owner (www.FHBO.com) launches Web portal for furnished vacation rental ... Tuesday, June 29, 2010 @ 10:25AMThere may be no place like home, but that doesn’t mean you should settle for sterile hotel accommodations when you’re on vacation or away for extended periods on business.
- Second Porch pairs vacationers with roosts through the Web's power of social networking Sunday, June 27, 2010 @ 1:24PMVacation home? That's what (Facebook) friends are for.
- comScore Media Metrix Ranks Top 50 U.S. Web Properties for May 2010 Tuesday, June 15, 2010 @ 11:07PMRESTON, Va., June 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly analysis of U.S. Web activity at the top online properties for May 2010 based on data from the comScore Media Metrix service.
- comScore Media Metrix Ranks Top 50 U.S. Web Properties for May 2010 Tuesday, June 15, 2010 @ 5:03PMMother's Day and Graduations Send Americans Shopping at Flowers/Gifts/Greetings Sites read more
- 5 Tips To Transition From A Free To A Paid Service Sunday, June 13, 2010 @ 6:50PMEditor's Note: This post is written by Dave Schappell , Founder and CEO of TeachStreet . In it, he talks about his company's transition from a free to a paid service, and shares five tips that may help other startups make the leap as well. Over the course of the last two-plus years, I've worked with a team that has lived the web service transition from free to paid, as TeachStreet has evolved ...
- Looking for work has become the new work Thursday, June 10, 2010 @ 12:44PMOff the plane in San Diego, and it’s warm and sunny. Who knew? After two and a half years in Boston, I’ve quit my jobs and moved down here. I did this for a lot of reasons, the main one being that there are things I want to do with my life, experiences I want to experience, and now’s the time.
- FTC/media subsidies: Monday, June 7, 2010 @ 2:24PMIt’s almost as dodgy a notion as nuking BP’s gusher. The US Federal Trade Commission is mulling ways to subsidize the flailing news industry. Paying for it could involve head-scratchers like taxing iPad sales. What the media industry needs is innovation not intervention.
- Disturbing Job Ads: 'The Unemployed Will Not Be Considered' Friday, June 4, 2010 @ 11:15AMWhat's Your Reaction? Still waiting for a response to the 300 resumés you sent out last month? Bad news: Some companies are ignoring all unemployed applicants.
- 5 Innovative Websites That Could Reshape the News Tuesday, May 18, 2010 @ 12:01PMThis series is supported by The Poynter Institute’s Mobile Media blog – your guide to the intersection of mobile and media. Sign up to receive the blog in newsletter format and be entered into a drawing to win an iPad at Poynter.org/ipadgiveaway . Few industries are experiencing greater upheaval at the hands of technological progress than the news media. New ideas are popping up every day, so we ...
- comScore Releases April 2010 U.S. Search Engine Rankings Tuesday, May 11, 2010 @ 5:11PMRESTON, Va., May 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace.
- comScore Releases April 2010 U.S. Search Engine Rankings Tuesday, May 11, 2010 @ 3:01PMcomScore, Inc. , a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. In April 2010, Americans conducted 15.5 billion core searches, with Google Sites leading the market with 64.4 percent share of core searches conducted.
- Wardens' battle over illegal wildlife trade goes online Saturday, May 1, 2010 @ 6:06PMWardens' battle over illegal wildlife trade goes online
- New Revolutionary Online Marketplace Promises Best Deal in Pre-Owned Products Thursday, April 29, 2010 @ 2:01AMNo Longer Need it was launched in April 2010 with the objective of becoming a premium online market place for pre-owned goods. It is a Trading classified website focused on trading of pre-owned merchandise. What sets this apart from other classified or trading websites is the search function within the site which allows a trader to see what other traders are willing to trade with them.
- Coast Guard pilot's plea to a burglar is personal, emotional, patriotic Saturday, April 17, 2010 @ 3:32AMTIERRA VERDEIt has not seen war. It is not an antique. It is a standard American flag patch, drab green, cotton, available for a few dollars on the Internet. But for Brian Boland, it represented a bond rooted in shared sacrifice, military history and love of country.
- [cover] Sweet Home California : Greening a Seaside foreclosure brings joy and pain. - Monterey County Weekly Thursday, April 15, 2010 @ 2:12AMIn the dead of the night, in a tiny Monterey apartment, my toenail became the first casualty of my future home’s eco-retrofit. A few curses later, I managed to fire a grumpy question at my snoozing partner, “Why is that in the middle of the floor?” “It’s old barn wood,” she replied. “It could be shelves in our house one day.” “Could” was the operative word in this half-conscious sentence. Like a ...
- comScore Releases March 2010 U.S. Search Engine Rankings Monday, April 12, 2010 @ 3:00PMcomScore, Inc. , a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. In March 2010, Americans conducted 15.4 billion core searches, with Google Sites accounting for 65.1 percent search market share.
- Shocking recipe for making killer electrons (w/ Video) Thursday, March 11, 2010 @ 10:10AMTake a bunch of fast-moving electrons, place them in orbit and then hit them with the shock waves from a solar storm. What do you get? Killer electrons. That's the shocking recipe revealed by ESA's Cluster mission.
- comScore Releases February 2010 U.S. Search Engine Rankings Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 3:21PMcomScore, Inc. , a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. In February 2010, Americans conducted 14.5 billion core searches, with Google Sites accounting for 65.5 percent search market share.
- O Brave New Journalism Sunday, March 7, 2010 @ 1:01PMI have the pleasure of teaching at the Center for Global Affairs at NYU, in both the graduate and Continuing Education programs. Every month, the MS in Global Affairs folks have a discussion (followed by a lunch) and this past Friday the topic was “New Directions in News Reporting.” Veteran reporter and professor of journalism, [...]
- Study shows woody plant encroachment has increased stream flow in the Edwards Plateau Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 10:24AMA new study by Texas AgriLife Research scientists finds that contrary to widespread perceptions, springs in the Edwards Plateau, which provide much of the stream flows, have not been declining as a result of increased encroachment of woody plants. In fact, spring flows are twice as high as they were prior to 1950.
- Phobos flyby success Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 10:24AMMars Express encountered Phobos last night, smoothly skimming past at just 67 km, the closest any manmade object has ever approached Mars' enigmatic moon. The data collected could help unlock the origin of not just Phobos but other 'second generation' moons.
- Bully galaxy rules the neighborhood (w/ Video) Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 10:10AM(PhysOrg.com) -- In general, galaxies can be thought of as "social" - hanging out in groups and frequently interacting. However, this recent NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image highlights how some galaxies appear to be hungry loners. These cosmic oddities have set astronomers on the "case of the missing neighbour galaxies".
- American pika are thriving in the Sierra Nevada and southwestern Great Basin Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 9:09AMNew research addressing climate change questions, a priority focus of the USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station, documents that American pika in the Sierra Nevada and southwestern Great Basin are thriving and persist in a wider range of temperatures than previously discovered. Results were recently published in a paper titled "Distribution and Climatic Relationships of the ...
- Assessing antibiotic breakdown in manure Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 8:39AMAgricultural Research Service (ARS) scientist Scott Yates is studying how oxytetracycline (OTC), an antibiotic that is administered to animals, breaks down in cattle manure.
- Cyber warriors gather as online battles rage Sunday, February 28, 2010 @ 5:35PMGlobal cyberattacks hit firms, governments: NetWitness San Francisco (AFP) Feb 18, 2010 - Hackers have created a "dangerous new" network of virus-infected computers in 2,500 businesses and government agencies around the world, a US Internet security firm warned Thursday.
- Cyber warriors gather as online battles rage Sunday, February 28, 2010 @ 4:40AMSan Francisco (AFP) Feb 28, 2010 - US national security leaders and top cyber warriors from around the world are gathering here to plot defenses against criminals and spies that increasingly plague the Internet.
- Something’s broken in digital Fleet Street; video ads look part of the answer Tuesday, February 23, 2010 @ 9:55AMIn this extended interview, former Telegraph Group Managing Director Hugo Drayton talks with Danny Meadows-Klue about the changing business models of online publishers, the weaknesses of the paywall model, his move into the video ad industry a year ago, and why video could be a critical revenue stream for web publishers…
- Something’s broken in digital Fleet Street; video ads look part of the answer Tuesday, February 23, 2010 @ 9:55AMIn this extended interview, former Telegraph Group Managing Director Hugo Drayton talks with Danny Meadows-Klue about the changing business models of online publishers, the weaknesses of the paywall model, his move into the video ad industry a year ago, and why video could be a critical revenue stream for web publishers…
- CSA elections begin Sunday: President, VP and Treasurer each have two candidates in race Friday, February 19, 2010 @ 11:46AMCSA elections begin Sunday, Feb. 21 at noon and end on Wednesday, Feb. 24 at 11:59 p.m. Positions to be determined in this election are President, Vice President, Treasurer and two Representatives from each the junior, sophomore and freshman class.
- New Spybot.AKB Worm Spreads Across Peer-to-Peer Networks and Email, According to PandaLabs Thursday, February 18, 2010 @ 2:18PMORLANDO, Fla., Feb.
- New Spybot.AKB Worm Spreads Across Peer-to-Peer Networks and Email, According to PandaLabs Thursday, February 18, 2010 @ 10:06AMPandaLabs, the anti-malware laboratory of Panda Security, the Cloud Security Company, has detected a new worm, Spybot.AKB. It spreads using Peer-to-Peer programs by copying itself to the usual shared folders with different names, and also via email.
- comScore Releases January 2010 U.S. Search Engine Rankings Thursday, February 11, 2010 @ 3:02PMcomScore, Inc. , a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. In January 2010, Americans conducted 15.2 billion core searches, with Google Sites accounting for 65.4 percent search market share.
- Facebook and Microsoft Cancel Display Ad Relationship Friday, February 5, 2010 @ 1:29PMFour-year agreement is kaput in possible blow to Microsoft's ad representation ambitions.
- Yahoo Ditches HotJobs Wednesday, February 3, 2010 @ 7:13PMHouse-cleaning continues at Yahoo as rival Monster lands HotJobs in $225 million deal.
- The Phone Book's Days Appear Numbered Monday, January 18, 2010 @ 7:04AMAt the end of every year, a new telephone book, usually weighing a few pounds, lands with a thud on doorsteps across the country. The directory is estimated to consume millions of trees a year to produce. But with most Americans now carrying mobile phones, do we still need phone directories made out of paper?
- Ventura company serves as national clearinghouse for parts, information Saturday, January 9, 2010 @ 7:13PMBusiness is heating up for Jack Santoro, owner of JES Enterprises, a Ventura company specializing in antique stoves.With the economy teetering toward a recovery, many consumers are more likely to salvage their old stoves and other appliances rather than shop for replacements.Others just treasure their old stoves, touting the superior quality to modern ovens. They’re “built like a tank” and ...
- It's hip to be Square; Twitter inventor has new venture Thursday, December 31, 2009 @ 6:18PMMobile payment system could revolutionize industry Twitter inventor Jack Dorsey has a new idea -- a mobile payment system that can be accessed by cell phone.
- Twitter 2.0: API Rate Change Could Lead to a World of New Apps & Features Tuesday, December 29, 2009 @ 5:54PMOne of the best things about Twitter is its wildly creative ecosystem of applications built by people outside the company. Those apps have been constrained, though, by technical limits imposed on retrieving data from Twitter. Those limits are just about to be raised much higher and developers tell us that a whole new world of applications and features may become possible. Twitter's Director of ...
- It's hip to be Square; Twitter inventor has new venture Saturday, December 26, 2009 @ 10:12PMDEC. 21, 2009 -- Jim McKelvey, co-founder and instructor for Third Degree Glass Factory, presents the Square, a new electronic payment system developed by Twitter founder and St. Louis native Jack Dorsey. McKelvey and Dorsey are partners on the development of Square.