Posts Tagged with ‘New-York-Times’

Yesterday evening New York Times launched a social network of its own on the newspaper’s website - TimesPeople. The social network is intended for you to recommend articles to your friends, share reviews for shows or movies and track comments left by your friend on various articles of the online version of the newspaper.
In general, I like the execution of the social network - it performs exactly as a newspaper’s network should perform - strictly to the point of consuming [...]

Approximately 34 thousand of students in the southwest Florida school district have been affected by a security hole and had their private information leaked online. All the students used Princeton Review program to study for annual assessment test.
After the test preparation company switched to a new hosting provider all the information students provided the program with leaked online, including their birthdays, ethnicity, gender, state ID (which in Florida is very similar to social security number) and scores in the tests [...]

New York Magazine featured an op-ed piece today in their News and Features section that just had me cringing. Basically, it invited all of America to add to the pointless noise level of the internet and social media. The whole article is a classic case of missing the point.
The first thing that struck me was that the author, Rex Sorgatz, was patting himself on the back for not continuing his search for what he called "microfame" online, after his brief [...]

I knew the second that the New York Times article from Matt Richtel went across my feeds it was going to be the water cooler discussion du jour over the weekend. I'm sure it will have the entire blogosphere lit up like a Christmas tree by the time I log in tomorrow and check my feeds again. And I'm sure some of the article has merit.
Under the headline In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop, Richtel [...]

Everyone is all excited about the new Yahoo offering called Yahoo Buzz. ReadWriteWeb has talked about how they love it not once, but twice. TechCrunch seems pretty happy as well, and Duncan Riley spent most of the weekend Tweeting about the number of comments he was receiving on his article that made the site.
ReadWriteWeb had statistics from Yahoo on the wonders they've done in feeding pageviews to the featured sites, with success stories listed as Salon.com, The Smoking Gun, [...]

It seems like every other week there's a new headline: Digg Killer, Google Killer, Facebook Killer. This time, however, it's an old dog learning a new trick, with Slashdot adding a sideshow to throw its hat into the ring with Digg, Fark, and the rest with their launch of Idle, a non-tech version of the popular site aimed at the people who don't want to endlessly discuss the idiosyncrasies of the tech industry.
I never thought I'd see the day when [...]

Every news feed that I read this week has been filled with stories about the latest Digg revolt. But it was the New York Times' coverage that first grabbed my attention with their opening line "The volatile users at social news ranking site Digg.com Thursday launched a new revolt against the site."
I rarely use Digg. I'll often lend support to an article that I think deserves the attention, but as far as reading news? I don't even bother. And the [...]

By now, I'm sure everyone has heard of Gizmodo's prank at CES, using a TV-B-Gone device to turn off displays at booths and during presentations. The actual offender has been banned from future CES attendance, with other ramifications possible.
The story has gotten considerable coverage, including the mainstream press, including the New York Times. Virtually every forum that the story has appeared in has seen people coming down on one side or the other, some thinking the prank was funny, while [...]

Yesterday, Amazon’s main man, Jeff Bezos, took the press for a ride to a predicted future where trees grow as they please, no longer threatened by pulp-hungry paper mills, and where the invention known as the e-book finally gets the acclaim it’s been due.
That is, if such critical celebration is even warranted. Which is somewhat difficult to say definitively at the moment. Difficult for me to say, anyway.
Why? It all has to do with the medium – meaning [...]