Somebody at the Associated Press’s Boston bureau is having a pretty weird Monday. A little before lunchtime their very real Twitter account announced this highly incomprehensible scoop. The tweet has since been deleted, but we’re waiting on an official retraction.
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You love your Roku but you hate your smart TV? All your dreams might soon come true, because Roku is putting its technology inside of an actual television set, available this fall.
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Usually one learns of a new innovation, invention, social media breakthroughs from techie news sites like Spot, AllThingsDigital. Mashable, and
others. Word traveling fast in real-time is then amplified by all the
major social networks (Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, for starters) and
if it’s really ‘disruptive’ it will begin to blanket our zeitgeist.
This is then followed by the business trades and legacy publishers
elaborating on the shiny new thing’s various iterations over time.
While the blogosphere spawned thousands upon thousands of writers who in
many instances lacked the opportunity to write for legacy publishers,
ironically the major criticism levied against them came from those
traditionalists. Traditionalists who critiqued bloggers as less worthy
of acclaim because they were not vetted by the established press.
Traditionalists, the likes of noted playwright Aaron Sorkin who agreed
with Sarah Palin when their combined condescension labeled them, "pajama people."
One of the most surprising gifts I received this Christmas was a subscription to National Geographic. I didn’t expect to get signed up for a printed publication, but I did … Continue reading
Android is a fine OS, but the lure of a new iPhone may be too much to resist. If you’re going to make the switch, you won’t want to leave any scrap of your precious mobile identity in Android’s cold robotic embrace. Here’s how to pack up everything you’ll need to bring to your new life in Apple’s walled garden.
Two major sources for technology that organizes and mades sense of your media have, this week, combined into a single entity. What’s happening here is a transaction between Tribune Company … Continue reading
When the rock group, The Eagles first penned their iconic top-forty hit, "New Kid in Town,"
with lyrics that spoke to: "talk on the street. . . everybody’s
watching you," the year was 1976, predating the Internet by almost two
decades. While spot-on prescient as to what was to come, surely Don
Henley, Glenn Frey or Joe Walsh couldn’t have known the level of
surveillance that’s blanketed the world we NOW live in…
Looks like Jeff Bezos’s new toy, The Washington Post, is the latest victim in the hacker war on newspapers
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It appears when Ben Mezrich penned his tell-all book about the
early beginnings of Facebook and included the bon mots "money" and
"betrayal" in its title, he had paved a path for another to follow.
After all if one social network could be launched on greed and
deception, couldn’t others? Good ole Machiavellian ethics may be as old
as time, but it appears to be the common denominator for both…
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