Jim Romenesko, Media Ne...

Jim Romenesko, who has run the Poynter Institute’s media aggregation blog for 12 years, resigned Thursday after a spat with Poynter about attribution on the blog. Fittingly, Romenesko was brought down by another journalist. Erika Fry, an assistant editor at the Columbia Journalism...
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How Hashtagging the Web...

Laura Larsell is the information ontologist at Trapit , a content discovery, personalization and curation platform currently in beta. Laura holds an M.A. in library sciences from the University of Texas at Austin. I rolled my eyes when the Library of Congress announced in the spring of...
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Hulu Plus and ESPN Scor...

The Amazon Kindle Fire app partnerships just keep coming. Amazon announced Friday that Hulu Plus and ESPN ScoreCenter are coming to the Kindle Fire next week. Earlier this week, Amazon announced that official apps from Facebook , Netflix , Rhapsody and Zynga will be ready to download and...
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World’s Fastest-Growi...

I became forever terrified upon discovering “ Take This Lollipop ,” an interactive video that launched two weeks before Halloween, yet still continues to haunt millions on the Internet. After giving the application permission to access my information (something my generation...
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Veterans Day 2011: Goog...

Google is remembering troops this Veterans Day by flying a yellow ribbon on its homepage. Its latest Google Doodle, a watercolor-style pastoral scene, swaps the “l” in the Google logo for a tree with a yellow ribbon tied to it. Displaying yellow ribbons is a tradition that...
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Adobe Updates Flash Pla...

The Flash Player for mobile devices may be dead, but it’s not going to disappear just yet. Adobe has released Flash Player 11.1 for Android, bringing several security updates and fixes. The new version fixes many critical memory corruption, stack overflow and buffer overflow...
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Walmart Offers Major Ga...

Some Black Friday deals can be underwhelming (how many $5 USB drives do we need?), but the sale Walmart just revealed for games and gaming equipment may just be enough to lure us out on Thanksgiving night. From 10 p.m. on Thursday night through all day Friday, Nov. 25, Walmart stores are...
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Tidal, the Startup That...

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark . If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here . Name: Tidal Quick Pitch: Tidal puts content from independent blogs onto large...
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How Citizen Journalism ...

Layla Revis is vice president of digital influence at Ogilvy PR Worldwide . Her specialties include international affairs, tourism and multicultural marketing. “So long as the dominant culture’s images of the world continue to be sold to others as the image of the world, image makers...
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Twitter Rules the Photo...

New stats show that Twitter has taken over the picture-sharing market from third-party apps such as TwitPic and Yfrog. Third-party apps used to be the only way users could share images through the social network, however, Twitter jumped into the arena late this summer with its own...
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