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Current News for August 11, 2008

Dear Old Media: You Can't Delay The News; Nor Should You Want To

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:39:11 PDT
Dear Old Media: You Can't Delay The News; Nor Should You Want To from the just-a-suggestion dept David Carr, over at the NY Times, has a good column pointing out not just how silly NBC's efforts to block all websites from showing the Olympics opening ceremony before it broadcast the (long delayed) ceremonies itself was, but also how it didn't make much sense. Comparing it to the story last week concerning the Philadelphia Inquirer's braindead policy to delay stories until the print paper comes

Google Trends - use it to bring traffic to your blog

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:08:28 PDT
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Most Popular Articles

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:12:20 PDT
Our top five articles from Aug 3 - Aug 10, 2008. Results are based on Google Analytics and in order of overall page views: 14 Ways Starbucks Has Tried to Revitalize Its Brand - Piers Fawkes (Contributed by Diana Wolf) Where to Watch the Olympics Online - Jeff Squires Pattern Recognition: Trends July 08 - Piers Fawkes Is Hipster Homogeneity Killing Culture? - Dan Gould Cuprocking Art on the Fence - Dave Pinter

Couples Said To Get Little Benefit From Fertility Treatments

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:07:58 PDT
Couples Said To Get Little Benefit From Fertility Treatments Acccording to Scottish researchers, it has been stated that the infertility drug clomifene citrate and artificial insemination do little to help certain couples who can't have children naturally. The Associated Press reported that their study included 580 couples who had no obvious reasons for their inability to conceive. Background investigations into this report goes on to note that the couples were divided into three groups and rece

Vivid Heart Attack Simulations - British Health Foundation’s Violent Warning

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:25:38 PDT
Tim Russert, George Carlin, now Isaac Hayes: old guys dying of heart attacks. BUT, heart attacks kill people of all ages. (Heath Ledger?) So you think you can just tough it out? You know all the symptoms,…

The Death of Trends: Part II

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:31:20 PDT
Last week, we introduced the first in a series of articles about the changing face of fashion trends. Rather than having the clear focus and boldface movements we used to see on the runways, the past few seasons have given us a deluge of eclectic "micro-trends"...

Averatec to inevitably pump out a netbook

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:18:00 PDT
Filed under: Laptops Averatec reliably cranks out stylish-but-generic takes on most new hardware trends, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that the company is prepping a netbook. Although nothing's been locked in, it sounds like we should expect an Eee 1000-class machine, with a 10.2-inch screen and an Atom processor -- but it'll also have a "real" Shift key, a 120GB drive, and a $399 - $499 price tag. We should fine out more by Christmas, when this thing hits stores -- but will anyone care b

Form Mark-Up: Are Lists Appropriate? - Visual28

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:43:29 PDT
"One of the trends that I see more frequently, is to place all your content in a list. Ordered Lists, Unordered Lists, and Definition Lists. It doesn't seem to matter anymore. This "all inclusive tag" is being packaged and sold as semantic markup. Frankly I feel it's just bad marketing..."


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