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Wolfram Alpha opens API to developers

What a lot of guffThis guff gets a news story all on its own, yet you cant even manage a follow up story about Microsoft recovering the Sidekick Data.What has happened to ZDNET? Is it stuck in recession mode with a team of highly untrained monkeys writing low rate news...

Tags: news story, Wolfram Alpha, API

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

AFL Footy News 1.8 (Mobile)

With AFL Footy News keep up to date with all the footy news you could want. This news is compiled from several different sources, and includes pictures. News stories are updated every 12 hours or instantly with the new check news button, and are saved on the iPod, for you...

Tags: Team, Mobile, Phlogistic Apps, News Story, Team Management, Management

Software downloads 2009-09-18

Journalism ... and other inappropriate relationships

If you end up being bitten by journalism it is similar to being smitten. It's like falling in love with someone -- but in this case, you know it's the wrong person. - You know that there is no way the relationship can work out (because currently...

Tags: Journalism, Story, News Story, Keyboards, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Hardware, Peripherals, Human Resources, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-06-24

Adtribution links could keep news free

Rupert Murdoch and the Associated Press have been stepping up their rhetoric over shutting out the news aggregators and other "parasites" from copying their content for free. News might be free today, but it won't be free for ever because it's not free to produce. That is...

Tags: Adtribution, News Aggregator, News Story, Blogging, Internet, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-04-07

How Acquia makes Drupal more valuable

It is possible for a commercial operator to ruin a project, through greed, stupidity or incompetence. But the best open source projects in the future will all have scaled, competent commercial arms. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Drupal, Acquia, News Story, Wiki, Open Source, Online Communications, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-03-02

Are you ready to pay for news stories?

Are you ready to pay for news stories?Beware the dreaded bandersnatchYes, but not as much as you are expecting - limited budget here and information is far more readily available than you discussed.I read EB and AKH's stuff when I want to play with my Windows PC. If it wasn't...

Tags: Strategy, news story, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-02-11

Cybercriminals syndicating Google Trends keywords to serve malware

In an underground ecosystem that is anything but old fashioned when it comes to abusing legitimate web services, cybecriminals have started exploiting the traffic momentum, and by monitoring the peak traffic for popular search queries using Google's Trends, are syndicating the keywords in order to acquire the traffic and direct...

Tags: Google Inc., Blog, Malware, News Story, Blogging, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-10-02

Is it a news story or is it a press release?

Is it a news story or is it a press release?Perhaps all that is required......is a greater level of transparency regarding the source of the article.If the aggregators attribute the source and author well and make it easy to link through to relevant affiliations and disclosure then the public can...

Tags: news story, IS IT

Discussion threads 2007-10-23

Is it a news story or is it a press release?

Google news, Yahoo news, and other news aggregators, sometimes pick up press releases and distribute them alongside news stories produced by journalists. Some PR people have noticed this flaw in the news aggregators and are quite happy to exploit it. They brag that their press releases can...

Tags: Press Release, News Story, Public Relations, Business Ethics, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Leadership, Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2007-10-23

A proposal for a new kind of "fair use"

News aggregators and bloggers that carry third party content should carry at least one advertising link associated with that content. It would be the fair thing to do and a large aggregator such as Google News could help establish this practice. Google News publishes the headline and the first...

Tags: Blogging, Google Inc., news story, advertisement, Google News, ADLINK

Blog posts 2007-03-25

Thirty-second kids for a one-minute culture

Thirty-second kids for a one-minute cultureLess is more...That's what I've found about online journalism. When I was at the Financial Times we wrote to fill space. We had 200 and 450 word news stories, 650 word news analysis, 1200 word features, etc. We filled "holes" in the page. If a...

Tags: Thirty-second, news story

Discussion threads 2007-03-17

Behind Wal-Mart's support of Microsoft-Novell's deal

Behind Wal-Mart's support of Microsoft-Novell's dealStop trying to steal other bloggers thunder.It looks sad and pathetic...Interesting detailsSo this IS an "inside deal".So Turner was Wal-Mart's CIO before he went to work for MS. WOW! What coincidence....Sounds like manufactured support for an otherwise bad, unethical deal.Good to see that Wal-Mart will...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Operating systems, UNIX, news story, U.S. Congress, Lexmark International Inc., Microsoft Corp., Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Red Hat Inc., Novell Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-01-23

The urgent need for verifying sources and creating a "trust trackback"

The LonelyGirl15 story was fascinating because it is a glimpse into our future: a world where we aren't sure of the source of the information, or it's truth.LonelyGirl15 was found out to be a fake video blogger--scripted by a Hollywood production team--because many millions had watched it, and many thousands...

Tags: INTERNET, Phishing, news story, Google News

Blog posts 2006-09-17

Google cherry picks the best

Google News is cherry picking, it picks the best stories, and it picks the very best, and most valuable part of a news story: the headline, the first paragraph, and often, an accompanying photograph. As journalists we are taught to write an inverted triangle. We write news stories assuming that...

Tags: news site, Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-05-17

Can blogging replace journalism?

I used to work as a software engineer 25 years ago so I have some idea of what that job is like. But I sometimes wonder if bloggers, many of whom are software engineers, know much about how journalists do their jobs.Let me tell you a bit about my job...

Tags: news story, IBM Corp.

Blog posts 2006-02-07

Kama Sutra worm set to bite next week

Kama Sutra worm set to bite next weeki'm scaredAll the dopes who use their computer just to trade stupid joke emails and chain letters half of which are AOL users will get this virus. They will deal with it, not the people who read zdnet news.You know you have...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Cyberthreats, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, Microsoft Outlook, News Story, computer, Kama Sutra worm

Discussion threads 2006-01-27

What Vonage customers care about

Independently offered but promoted by Vonage as an online help resource and user community, The Vonage Forum has just passed three million page views.I wanted to see what current, prospective and ex-Vonage users were talking about. So, I registered with this forum.Once you're in, you get access to a Top...

Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp.

Blog posts 2004-12-08

Additional Resources

Conference energy levels

Coming to Dreamforce has been a revelation. The news was dominated by Chatter but that only tells a fraction of the real story. As I sat in the media room chatting sic to an old buddy it occurred to me this was a conference that annoyed for all...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Event, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Sales Force Management, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-20

FAA hit with network glitch; Flight plans go manual

Another glitch with a linux network? Its hard to believe people still use it for anything critical like the FAA and flight tracking. Its a toy OS and should not be used when the lives of people are dependent upon it.Cisco supplies the network backboneIt will be interesting to see...

Tags: Operating systems, Sun Solaris, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, network, FAA, operating system, Flight Plan, network glitch, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Salesforce Chatter: Social operating systems emerge on the IT stage

The next big shift: Intranets, portals, and software suites that are the integrating force of the social fabric for our organizations. This morning's announcement here at Dreamforce today from Salesforce of Chatter, an enterprise-class realization of Facebook and Twitter, is further evidence of the industry's push for social Web capabilities...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Information Technology, Operating System, Environment, Social Computing, Chatter, Status Update, Groups, Sales Force Management, Social Networking, Sales, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2009-11-18