Category Archives: Entertainment

What Twitter did for crisis journalism today

For a long time, peo­ple have been talk­ing about the poten­tial of Twitter as a news source. Today, Twitter earned its stripes. At 8:12 a.m. MDT, an explo­sion rat­tled down­town Bozeman, Mont., destroy­ing three whole build­ings and at least five busi­nesses. Shortly after the explo­sion, few peo­ple out­side of the imme­di­ate down­town area knew any­thing [...]
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Improvements to Harper’s Index Web site: Many

So in antic­i­pa­tion of the 25th anniver­sary of Harper’s Index, the mag­a­zine has spiffed up the Index’s Web site. The entire run of the Index is now search­able, and you can get perma­links to each fac­toid and even post them directly to Twitter. There’s also an option for e-mailing a page to your friends. Credit [...]
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“Coraline” review dust-up

The “Sunday Paper,” a weekly paper based in Atlanta, Ga., likely didn’t expect the Web traf­fic that its site has received this week­end. It’s all thanks to a movie review by Editor-in-Chief Kevin Moreau, in which Moreau draws a few too many con­nec­tions between the movie “Coraline” and direc­tor Tim Burton. The prob­lem is this: [...]
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Good link: Overheard in the Newsroom

I’ll take a moment out of the reg­u­lar pro­gram­ming sched­ule to rec­om­mend a Web site that has enter­tained the hell out of me for the past few weeks, Overheard in the Newsroom. Check it out and see if you can start pick­ing up some good out of con­text quotes.
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Apple may release jumbo iPod Touch this fall

TechCrunch has it from sev­eral sources inside Apple that the com­pany is plan­ning on launch­ing an iPod Touch-like device this fall that has a 7– or 9-inch screen. I want one already.
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