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June 30, 2008 Breaking News

Old Media News In The Tank

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:46:57 PDT
The old broadcast and print media outlets have abandoned any pretense of objectivity and impartiality in this year's general election, further eroding their credibility. It makes one wonder. Is the future of news already here, or are we transitioning toward something still over the horizon?

AllHeadlineNews.com Debuts New“Happy and Upbeat News” Category

Mon, 16 Jan 2006 00:00:01 PST
WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (PRWEB) January 16, 2006 -- All Headline News Corp., a leading news and content syndicator, today announced the launch of its“Upbeat and Happy” News content and...

Watch South African TV

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:51:31 PDT
Watch South African TV, series, movies, news, sports and more on the Internet from South Africa

Vision Thing

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:57:46 PDT
“A political view encompassing the longer term as distinct from short-term campaign objectives. The expression comes from the response of the American Republican statesman George Bush (1924- ), who in 1987 responded to the suggestion that he turn his attention from short-term campaign objectives and look to the longer term by saying, `Oh, the vision thing'”. (Defined by AskOxford.com) What a great definition! So now that we are in a campaign year, or century, or eternity, we ought to be hear

Is Facebook Apps A Fair Platform?

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:06:34 PDT
Take a look at this stats deck from O’Reilly’s Graphing Social Patterns conference: http://en.oreilly.com/gspeast2008/public/asset/attachment/2950 Fairly in-depth and recent 6/01/2008] analysis of the application usage in Facebook and MySpace. As expected, lots of power law behavior. I found the slides describing churn to be pretty interesting. Since October 2007, nine of the top fifteen most popular applications are new. However, only three of those new applications debuted after March 2

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Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:02:06 PDT
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Want Some Splendid Reading? Start Here!

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:30:37 PDT
The weeks Splendid best! From the Splendicity community, comes this week’s best in Beauty, Fashion and Shopping. BEAUTY The Fragrance Fanatic tells you some great ways to Wear Your Fragrance. Aging Fabulous introduces us to Boots No7 Protect & Perfect Body Serum. Beauty Banter asks celebrity makeup artists how to do a white eyelid right… must-have application tips and products for a fierce, summer white eye! A Touch of Blusher looks at Dior’s fall 2008 makeup collection. The Scented

Gay social networking site launched in Jamaica

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:42:33 PDT
Gay discrimination law passes Lithuanian parliament Discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation has been included in a new Law on Equal Treatment passed by the Lithuanian parliament. Californian voters split over gay marriage With the arrival of legal gay and lesbian marriages in California, same-sex marriage opponents are working feverishly to render those same marriages illegal. Carly Simon comments on lesbian rumours She’s back with a brand new album—the highest deb

Child Pornography: The Abduction of Innocence

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:06:51 PDT
The technology that created the internet may be the most significant contribution to communications science since the invention of the telephone. It allows us to reach out and touch the rest of the world in the blink of an eye, communicate with strangers half a world away, access news and information as it happens, and explore cultures and societie

News Mix: No Recognition for Female Musical Geniuses

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:10:14 PDT
News clips on what cool women are doing in the month of June.

Liveblogging my attempt to watch the Bernier hearings - Globe and Mail


Liveblogging my attempt to watch the Bernier hearings
Globe and Mail, Canada - Jun 10, 2008
Over to Newsworld, then, and... Oh, wait. Newsworld is busy talking about Ron Wilson's chances of turning around the Leafs. Suhana Marchand doubts Wilson's ...



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June 29, 2008 News and Trends

Update on Google Trends

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 05:25:28 PDT
My last post talked about the Google Trends data for Myspace and Facebook, and why it’s not reliable - including the fact that sites have to opt in to letting Google access their Analytics data for even close to accurate traffic estimates (not only do you have to opt in, but obviously, you also have to be using Analytics to begin with).So I logged into Analytics today (which I use for backup stats only, as they tend to be less accurate than other stats systems), and had the option pop up about t

Emo Hair Trends

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:25:36 PDT
Today one of the trendiest hairstyles is Emo. The Emo hair trends are the quick path of popularity in the younger crowd.

Deal still possible for Hockey Night theme song (CBC Edmonton)

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:38:38 PDT
Scott Moore, the executive director of CBC Sports, is playing down earlier published reports Thursday that hockey fans have heard the Hockey Night in Canada theme song for a final time.

Pentagon: Taliban resurgent while we're tied down in Iraq

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 07:41:34 PDT
On Friday the Defense Department released two reports to Congress about Afghanistan (as required by law). One is the first biennial report on security in the country, the other a plan for sustaining the Afghan National Security Forces (both PDFs). The news is grim. But just as with the Iraq quarterly reports, the DoD tries to put a positive spin on

Examine the Latest Global Trends in Fibre Production, Consumption and Prices as Man Made Fibre Production Increases (Centre Daily Times)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:25:15 PDT
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/0521b6/global_trends_in_f) has announced the addition of the "Global Trends in Fibre Production, Consumption and Prices, June 2008 edition" report to their offering.

Fast Food Goes Organic

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 07:14:36 PDT
Organic to Go, a Seattle organic fast food company founded in 2004, has purchased cafes and catering operations. The company plans to create lunch places serving organic meals. People who eat meals out increasingly want more nutritious food. More than 76 percent of the people in a recent poll said they are trying to eat out more healthfully than they were two years ago. Another showed that, after bite-sized desserts, the hottest trends in food were locally grown and organic produce. Organi


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