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When Michael Jackson died, I wondered how quickly the conversation about him would fade online and how long it would persist on TV “news.” Well, it didn’t take long to see the divergence: TV thinks we’re still buzzing about MJ. But online, we’re not.
Here’s Blogpulse on mentions of Michael Jackson:
Chris Anderson is editor-in-chief of Wired, and Malcolm Gladwell is a top brand name at The New Yorker, and as corporate cousins, clearly Condé Nast’s publicity machine must have engineered this beef, trying to boost sales of both their titles through a completely manufactured rivalry.
Their past…
Google, AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft, along with a host of other advertising, agency and marketer associations, took another step in pressing their case that the government doesn’t need to regulate the collecting of data for ad-targeting purposes by search engines, websites, advertisers and ad networks. They’ve crafted their own set of rules in the hope of heading off potential regulation in Congress.
UPDATE: Good news, tennis fans. No thanks to NBC, you can watch the semifinal live here, on ustream (ESPN Spain). And here’s another, better one, in English.
UPDATE 2: It’s noon ET, and NBC has finally started broadcasting. As expected, however, the network idiots have decided to show the match on a 2-hour tape delay (online, too!), so it’s not worth watching. Click the link above to see it live.
NBC refuses to show the Andy Murray-Andy Roddick semifinal live. Fortunately, there’s the Spanish ESPN feed on ustream below. And there’s this nice English stream on justin.tv:
UPDATE: The match is over. It was excellent (live). We won’t wreck the outcome for you. But in case you don’t want to waste the rest of your afternooon watching the tape-delay on NBC TV, just search for the results anywhere online, turn on the radio, visit a newspaper web site, visit NBC Sports.com (where their headline blares out the winner while the video only shows the same tape delay), or watch any news channel on TV.
EARLIER: Roddick and Murray are in the middle of the…
Tournay joins Dailymotion from Doctissimo, one of Europe’s largest health and medical websites.
Brotherston will continue with the company as of EVP International Strategy.
Teenage hacker Geroge Hotz, who was first unlocked the iPhone, released Purplera1n yesterday in a blog post titled “I make it ra1n.”
Technicallly, this is bad news for AT&T and Apple — for AT&T (T), since people can use their jailbroken on any phone service, and for Apple (AAPL) because users won’t have to go to the app store to buy add new ones to their jailbroken phones.
