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What I'm Reading
- Apple to Unveil its Next Move in Music?CBS News | Aug 30, 2010Apple has scheduled a big event for Wednesday. CBS News speculates on the company's coming announcements.
- Can Preschoolers Be Depressed?New York Times | Aug 25, 2010Some psychologists believe preschoolers can experience bouts of depression, this New York Times report says.
- Electronic Arts stands by Medal of Honor Taliban featureCNET | Aug 25, 2010EA defends the ability to play as Taliban soldiers in the upcoming "Medal of Honor" game.
- Twitter’s not stupid – you just have boring friendswww.andrewdubber.com | Aug 16, 2010A nice look at how to get the most out of Twitter and refutation of some common Twitter complaints.
- Is 3-D dead in the water? A box-office analysisSlate | Aug 24, 2010Slate magazine looks at whether people are happy with just two dimensions in their movies, thank you very much.
- Apple to Unveil its Next Move in Music?
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My Clips- Cause of plane crash west of Bozeman under investigation, pilot pronounced dead at scene August 31, 2010
- The man who wanted train horns August 16, 2010
- Money well spent? August 15, 2010
- Local telecom company gets $64 million to bring high-speed Internet to rural Gallatin County August 5, 2010
- Montana Opticom receives $64 million in stimulus money for rural broadband August 4, 2010
- AT&T to replace Alltel in Montana within a year June 25, 2010
- Bozeman twin looks to scale namesake peak: K2 June 21, 2010
- High water claims Amsterdam Road bridge June 12, 2010
- Trio of veteran Belgrade teachers retiring June 7, 2010
- MSU robot digger wins NASA competition May 29, 2010
Tag Archives: New York Times
Why Twitter Will Endure
At first, Twitter can be overwhelming, but think of it as a river of data rushing past that I dip a cup into every once in a while. via nytimes.com David Carr writes that Twitter is more like Internet “plumbing” than a fad, a service with something for everybody that only gets better the more people [...]
Word of Mouth
From Brad Stone’s article in the New York Times, looking at how marketers are trying to overcome ad saturation and inject messages into the conversations people are having on their social networks: “We don’t want to create an army of spammers, and we are not trying to turn Facebook and Twitter into one giant spam [...]
Posted in Ethics, Social Networking Also tagged advertising, Brad Stone, marketing, Social Networking, trust, twitter Comments closed
Post-Bowden Post-journalism
A short and admittedly narrow glimpse into the history of the term "post-journalism," inspired by Mark Bowden's article in the Atlantic in October 2009.
Posted in Ethics, New Media Also tagged Mark Bowden, National Review, New York Observer, post-journalism, The Atlantic Comments closed
Jarvis criticizes NYT’s Cohen for his dismissal of Twitter
Jeff Jarvis has a post worth reading over at BuzzMachine. In it, he compares columns about Twitter from two very different journalists: Mike DeArmond, a sports writer from Kansas City, and Roger Cohen, from the New York Times. I’ll leave DeArmond aside, since he was clearly going for humor in his column. Cohen takes a more [...]
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