October 3, 2012 • 2:55 am 0
When Christian Oesch was a boy on his family’s hog farm, cellphones were a thing of the future. Now, Mr. Oesch tends a herd of dairy cattle and …
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March 21, 2012 • 5:13 am 0
A mounting body of evidence finds that the spread of mobile technology is adding to news consumption, strengthening the appeal of traditional news brands and even boosting reading of long-form journalism. But the evidence also shows that technology companies are strengthening their grip on who profits, according to the 2012 State of the News Media report by Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.
The annual State of the News Media report is a comprehensive analysis of the health of journalism in America, which includes detailed analysis of eight different media sectors as well as an overview that identifies key trends and key findings of the essential statistics about news in the last year.
via State of the News Media 2012 – Pew Research Center.
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March 8, 2012 • 5:50 pm 0
The Kindle Single is not a promising name. It sounds like a new kind of prefabricated fire log, or a type of person you might meet on the dating service eHarmony — perhaps a lonely independent …
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February 17, 2012 • 6:08 am 0
Chief Executive Tim Cook wants to make its Mac more like an …
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January 24, 2012 • 6:37 pm 0
File-sharing site The Pirate Bay is apparently expanding its reach into letting users pass one another physical objects to …
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January 19, 2012 • 8:01 am 0
RAVENS have a bad reputation. Medieval monks, who liked to give names to everything (even things that did not need them), came up with “an unkindness” as the collective noun for these corvids. Blake Hannaford and his colleagues at the University of Washington, in Seattle, however, hope to change the impression engendered by the word. They are about to release a flock of medical robots with wing-like arms, called Ravens, in the hope of stimulating …
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January 11, 2012 • 4:52 am 0
TOGETHER Microsoft, the maker of the Windows operating system, and Intel, the world’s biggest maker of semiconductors, used to rule the world of personal computing. Now that new computers are as likely to sit in people’s hands as on their desks or laps, life for the Wintel couple is less comfy. On September 13th, at their annual conferences for software developers, both claimed to have found …
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December 28, 2011 • 5:41 am 0
So, you got a new iPad for Christmas? Congratulations! You’ve totally been wanting one of those. But you also may be feeling overwhelmed. Your new iPad can be a digital recording studio, an alarm clock, and it can help you study for the …
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December 8, 2011 • 6:22 am 0
IT WAS late summer 1937, and the recovery from the Depression had stalled. American government officials had stimulus money to spend but, with winter looming, there were few construction projects to fund. So the officials created office posts instead. One project was assigned to a floor of a dusty old New York industrial building, not far from …
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November 20, 2011 • 7:44 am 0
Mainstream news organizations have made the social media tool Twitter a daily part of how they communicate with audiences. But how do those organizations actually use the technology: How often do they tweet? What kind of news do they distribute? To what extent is Twitter used as a new reporting tool or as a mechanism for gathering insights from followers?
To answer some of these questions, the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism and George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs collaborated on a study of Twitter feeds from 13 major news organizations representing a cross section of the news landscape.
The research, which examined more than 3,600 tweets over the course of a week, reveals that these news organizations use Twitter in limited ways-primarily as an added means to disseminate their own …
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February 17, 2013 • 5:03 pm 0
6 Apps You Don’t Want To Miss
The Policy ThinkShop searches all media to keep up with and promote the latest on social and gadget media. Checkout the following article on Apps that can help you manage information and have fun …
“It can be tough to keep up with all the new apps released every week. But you’re in luck — we take care of that for you, creating a roundup each weekend of our favorite new and updated apps.”
via 6 Apps You Don’t Want To Miss.
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