Adam DuVander:
Twitter and Facebook are often lauded as shining examples of what a platform does for your business. And for good reason. They have very successful developer programs. But they are also extremely popular services on their own. A developer may not build where there is not the foundation of a loyal user base. But even that has exceptions.
The profile of the @ceoSteveJobs account in question even states:
Of course this is a parody account.
Truly awful "journalism", even by the Mail's "standards".
Roy Greenslade on The Sunday Times' retraction of article critical of climate research:
I think that sets the gold standard in "corrections". Its publication was brokered by the Press Complaints Commission, and I understand from the PCC that there were good reasons for the four-and-a-half-month gap between the article apparing and the settlement.
But why did it take so long for the paper to admit it had got the whole thing wrong. And why didn't its headline simply say: "Sorry, our reporter screwed up and we got it wrong"? Readers would like that candour and regard it as more credible because it had the guts to own up to its mistake.
Danny Sullivan:
On Friday, I broke a tasty story about a woman suing Google, claiming bad directions caused her to get hit by a vehicle. Today, I discover our story is everywhere, often with no attribution. Come along and watch how the mainstream media, which often claims bloggers rip it off, does a little stealing of its own.
BBC News examines propaganda from both sides in recent Korean conflict.
Excellent, must-read from Robert Fisk:
This isn't just about clichés – this is preposterous journalism. There is no battle between power and the media. Through language, we have become them.
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this vocabulary is not adopted through political connivance. It is an infection that we all suffer from – I've used 'peace process' a few times myself, though with quotation marks which you can't use on television – but yes, it's a contagion.
And when we use these words, we become one with the power and the elites which rule our world without fear of challenge from the media.
Michael Brunton-Spall:
The Guardian ran a 'Developer Challenge' as part of the Open Platform launch last week. The idea was to emulate the Hack Day formula but with an interesting twist: our media partners gave us briefs to answer.
We asked all the media partners invited to attend the launch event to stay and brainstorm concepts with us that would demonstrate the power of the Open Platform. For example, they could ask us to create an engaging user experience around gardening DIY, eco friendly travel, social search, mapping, etc.
Colin Heilbut:
“The Inquirer’s move follows a recent global trend in experimenting with 3-D daily papers. Belgian newspaper La Dernière Heure was the first European paper to use 3D technology in a publication, and their efforts resulted in an increase in circulation from 85,000 to 115,000 copies. The Sun, a British tabloid owned by News International, will be releasing their own 3-D World Cup edition on June 5th. Despite the increased sales and higher premium publishers can charge for 3-D advertisements, the technology remains cost prohibitive to use on a regular basis. It also remains to be seen if this sort of gimmick can help make a substantial impact on a publication with as much red ink as the Inquirer.”
Cost-prohibitive? Right. What I don’t get is why there doesn’t seem to be an outcry against the environmental impact of such experimentation… environmentally-prohibitive?
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The Twitter entries under the name derekamicus, on a page with photograph of Mr Simpson, included, "Arguments over the 8 sacked workers," and then, "Fear of more sackings to come."
Unite insisted "references to Tweeting are peripheral to the real concerns to passengers" and that it was "ready to resume talks with BA at any time"."
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As he points out, cudos to Nick Sweeney who originally spotted this, "I just like creating pretty diffs 
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