Twitties To Honour Terrific Twitter Tweets

Given the massive growth of microblogging and, specifically, Twitter, it was only a matter of time before someone decided to take stock of the site's most impressive 140 character combinations and honour the art...

Nearly two million subscribers online in NZ

The latest figures from Statistics New Zealand show 1.5 million subscribers are now hooked up to the internet and most have broadband. " Broadband subscriptions have increased 10.7 per cent in the six months to March 2008, to reach 891,000. Subscribers with analog...

Interaction index being developed by 20 something journalist

Following up on a Bivings Report from 2006, Joanna Geary moves toward a way of quantifying or at least visually comparing the interactivity of news sites. Very interesting."The study is based on the 2006 study of American newspapers by the Bivings Report. Most of the...

Supermarket trials carbon labels

Consumers concerned with the health of the environment may begin to turn to a special label on various food and home items to tell them critical information on the item's carbon footprint."Supermaket chain...

US mortgage crisis may cost $945 billion worldwide: IMF

It looks like Nouriel Roubindi was right about 1 billion being the new size 6."WASHINGTON (AFP) - The International Monetary Fund said Tuesday the worldwide losses stemming from the US subprime mortgage crisis...

Report: CNN citizen journalism site close to launch

"CNN is close to expanding its "iReport" user-generated reporting initiative into a separate Web site, MediaWeek wrote Monday. The new site, to be hosted at iReport.com, will be a repository for user-submitted news content--video, audio, and photos. Visitors can navigate...

No Country for Old Men wins four Oscars

The Coen brothers completed their journey from the fringes to Hollywood's mainstream, their crime saga No Country for Old Men winning four Academy Awards, including bestNo Country for Old Men wins four Oscars

Costa Book Award List Announced

The category winners for the prestigious Costa Book Awards have been announced. The top five shortlisted authors will now compete for the 2007 Costa Book of the Year  award which will be announced on January...

What are people looking for?

"Hitwise monitors how more than 25 million Internet users interact with over 500,000 Web sites across 160 industry categories. It collects Internet usage information through a combination of ISP data partnerships and opt-in panels. Data are collected in accordance with local...

Derbyshire Police Excellent Report.

"Derbyshire police is performing well, according to an independent report. An audit on police forces in England and Wales looked at how constabularies operated, as well as how they compiled crime data during 2006-7. Forces were given one of four ratings in different...

NY Times, Moveon do Dems Dirty Work

"By writing off more than half of its normal price, it encouraged the publication of a nasty hit piece on the honor of a serving commander in a theater of war. The Paper of Record helped call Petraeus a...

Biggest Cry Baby in Hip Hop

 "LAS VEGAS - Sour grapes from Kanye West — again. Shut out at the Video Music Awards, Kanye West threw a tantrum Sunday night in front of media and crew backstage as the MTV show was ending. West, waiting...

Snoop Dogg to host MTV Europe awards

London (ANTARA News) - American rapper Snoop Dogg is to host this year's MTV Europe Music Awards, one of the biggest nights in the pop calendar, the broadcaster said on Thursday. U.S. rock group Foo Fighters and...

Cubas Apartheid: The Cuban Afro Slavery

The Miami Herald withheld the name of the correspondent who wrote this dispatch, and the last name of most of the people interviewed. The jails are full of Afro-Cubans for speaking out so names must be...

New EU/US security deal for air passengers

US authorities now gather 19 categories of information on every EU passenger travelling to US. Some of these are passenger address, telephone numbers, credit card numbers,... They can keep these information for 15...

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