Social Media Data on Human Behavior May Not Be Accurate: Experts : PERSONAL TECH : Tech Times

This strikes me as a really important reminder. The next time some talking head on television says that something has "gone viral", best to remember what that may mean and likely does not.

28 November 2014

Riche comme un pigiste

Fascinating from several angles.

26 November 2014

Aereo Concedes Defeat and Files for Bankruptcy - NYTimes.com

Lots of reflection opportunities by newspapers.

25 November 2014

UNHATE. NEWS

Quite unusual.

24 November 2014

11 November 2014

Webinterpret | Boost your international sales on Amazon and Ebay

Any newspapers involved? The company is based in Sophia Antipolis near Nice.

Télématin - 11/11/2014 - News et vidéos en replay - Télématin - France 2

Mention here of a site - Missoin 14-18 but not sure which one - doing a great job of posting excerpts of French letters from the front during the Grande Guerre 1914-18. Good model for similar uses in covering other history.

Facebook Makes Its News Feed a Little Less Frustrating - NYTimes.com

News continues to perplex in this context.

07 November 2014

Meager Returns for the Democrats’ Biggest Donor - NYTimes.com

What an amazing waste. Why are we so bad at this?

Facebook will be mostly video in 5 years, Zuckerberg says | PCWorld

I understand the value of video in many situations; what I don't get is why so many people prefer it to the exclusion of all other content. It just seems really weird and even in this world, extraordinarily counter intuitive.

Amazon Is Testing Taxis for Deliveries - WSJ - WSJ

Newspapers long ago should have cornered all of this.

04 November 2014

LinkedIn: Workers of the world, log in | The Economist

Newspapers ought to be able to make so much more of this.

03 November 2014

Journalism, Independent and Not - NYTimes.com

Worthy of a lot of thought.