December 2010
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Memo Pad: iPad Magazine Sales Drop (via WWD.com)
It is early days in ipad magazine sales but the short term trend is not encouraging.
Remember when Wired’s debut issue for the iPad sold more than 100,000 times in June? It looks like it will be a while before that type of performance is seen again. Digital sales dropped toward the end of 2010 for all the magazines that make those figures available to the Audit Bureau of Circulations.
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Glenn Greenwald on Wikileaks
Glenn Greenwald decimates a former Bush aid in a debate about Wikileaks. CNN hosted the debate and moderated it with new depths of journalistic depravity.
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Fire in Vancouver's West End
From News1130’s twitter feed:
Getting word of an apartment fire on Comox at Gilford in Vancouvers West End
via Twitter / @News1130: Getting word of an apartme ….
And this photo on Facebook from Rory Richards.
And this is on twitpic:
And on Yfrog:
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Game On
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Norwegian Paper gets all 250,000 wikileaks cables....
The leaker has become the leaky:
An Oslo-based newspaper reportedly has become the only medium in the world that’s secured unlimited access to more than 250,000 documents initially leaked to the non-profit organization WikiLeaks. Newspaper Aftenposten’s access seems to have spoiled WikiLeaks’ strategy to retain control over the vast array of classified material mostly originating from US...
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Irony overload: Wikileaks founder, angry at...
Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange is angry at his former allies at The Guardian for publishing leaked documents relating to allegations of sexual misconduct.
Assange took particular umbrage with senior reporter Nick Davies, a former friend, despite the fact that the paper gave Assange several days to respond and left some graphic details out of its story. According to Assange, the Guardian...
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Flipboard's Mike McCue: Web format has...
The LA Times recently published an interview with newly annointed Twitter board member and founder of flipboard, Mike McCue. McCue eloquently describes a view I’ve had for some time. He says:
The problem with journalism on the Web today is that it’s being contaminated by the Web form factor. What I mean is, journalists are being pushed to do things like slide shows — stuff...
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Demonstrators march to support WikiLeaks in...
Chanting “information should be free” and “down with censorship,” demonstrators marched through Montreal’s downtown on Saturday in support of online whistleblower WikiLeaks.
About 100 people weaved their way to the U.S. consulate to protest the shutdown of the website and attempts to cut off its funding.
via Demonstrators march to support WikiLeaks in Montreal - The Globe and Mail.
“WikiLeaks Publishes Santa’s Naughty List”
– Laughing Squid
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Ask, Tell
Don’t Ask Don’t Tell | Revel & Riot.
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Study: Watching FOX News correlates with...
In a recent study that looked at whether people were misinformed about US politics it was shown that watching certain channels can actually increase your chance of getting it wrong. The University of Maryland study says:
Furthermore, those who had greater exposure to news sources were generally better informed. In the great majority of cases, those with higher levels of exposure to news...