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Book publishing industry newsletter and website Publishers Lunch is previewing hot fall titles in a free e-book, “BEA Buzz Books,” ahead of major publishing fair BookExpo America in June in New York. The e-book contains excerpts from over 30 fall titles across publishers and genres — including “This Is How You Lose Her” by Junot Diaz, “Live by Night” by Dennis Lehane, “Waging Heavy Peace” by Neil Young and “Flight Behavior” by Barbara Kingsolver. The e-book is “our answer to the BEA discovery p...  show all text

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Glenn Britt, the chief executive of Time Warner Cable, said he opposed services like Auto Hop, introduced by the Dish Network, as a danger to the system that produces television programming and distribution.

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Share your Search. Rediscover search through your friends and community on the all new social search experiment from Microsoft Research FUSE Labs.

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Society harbors a strange obsession with seeing celebrities disheveled, out of makeup, and out of shape. The video featured here takes that fascination and turns it totally inside out, by using normal photographs of good-looking celebrities to illustrate what's known as the "Flashed Face Distortion Effect" — an optical illusion first described last year by University of Queensland researchers Jason Tangen, Sean Murphy and Matthew Thompson:

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The International Press Institute (IPI) has condemned the murder of kidnapped Mexican journalist Marco Antonio Ávila García, whose tortured body was found last Friday (18 May). His body was found, wrapped in a black plastic bag, beside a highway in the northern state of Sonora near the port city of Guaymas. That is about 100km from Ciudad Obregón, from where he was abducted the day before. A note signed by a drug cartel was found at the site. Though Ávila wrote about police and organised crime ...  show all text

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We believe in the power of the Internet to foster innovation, research, and education. Requiring the published results of taxpayer-funded research to be posted on the Internet in human and machine readable form would provide access to patients and caregi

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A new social network has an interesting premise: connecting people around the world based on what they want to do before they die. Called My Last Wish, the app encourages users to post wishes on a ‘Wish Wall’ and then befriend others who might share their dreams. “I believed in the possibility that there can be two persons in this world with same hopes, dreams and wishes,” Kirtan Thaker, co-founder of the White Lotus Corporation, the group behind the app, told Mashable. “I was confident that if...  show all text

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Facebook unveiled its new app on Monday that lets you manage your branded Facebook page from your iPhone. Using the Facebook Pages Manager app you can respond, post and comment on your page, plus post updates and photos. Just install the free app, then login to your Facebook account. Last week, the app rolled out to markets around the globe for beta testing, reported Mobile Burn, and now all U.S. users can download it from the App Store. The new app requires iOS 4.2 or later. Facebook is a fan ...  show all text

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  We've seen our fair share of QR codes in every possible configuration, but this has got to be the coolest I've seen in a while.  

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Google+ may or may not be a viable contender in the social networking space, but Google sure is committed to it.

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Interactive posters to help prevent domestic violence move Rich Leigh this week, and he's visibly impressed by an ad from Lynx, but thinks Diageo needs to give credit where it's due

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NPR has hired Brian Boyer, head of the Chicago Tribune’s news apps team, to lead a new, similar team of data grinders and designers focused full-time on interactive storytelling. That makes NPR the latest major outlet — like The New York Times and The Boston Globe — to devote newsroom resources to news apps. “Apps,” in this context, means interactive, data-driven visualizations of the news on any platform. The network was already creating these — Poisoned Places, The Fracking Boom — but with ...  show all text

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The Atavist, which helps produce multimedia storytelling for digital devices, has a content management system that has turned into a business opportunity.

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We’re always told that women get given a hard time by the media – Bidisha has called the lack of women on our screens and in our newspapers ‘cultural femicide,’ and BECTU has conducted extensive research into how women are being pushed out of the media. Being three journalism students, the team behind What Glass Ceiling wanted to see this for ourselves. So, on Friday 20th April 2012, we bought a copy of every national newspaper (and a couple of local ones) and trawled through every single one to  show all text

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A series of emails between Arianna Huffington, her partners and the late conservative journalist Andrew Breitbart shed new light on the early days of The Huffington Post. The story of the site’s founding is the subject of a bitter lawsuit filed by two Democratic political advisers who claim Huffington blatantly stole their idea for a leftwing alternative to the conservative Drudge Report. In October, a New York judge dismissed a number of claims but allowed Peter Daou and James Boyce, both form...  show all text

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(Reuters) - In the run-up to Facebook's $16 billion IPO, Morgan Stanley, the lead underwriter on the deal, unexpectedly delivered some negative news to major clients: The bank's consumer Internet analyst,

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UK bookstore chain Waterstones announced today that it’s partnering with Amazon to sell the Kindle in its 294 stores starting this fall. The deal is bad news for Barnes & Noble, which was rumored to be working with Waterstones on a deal of its own. But it may not be so great for Waterstones, either. Here’s why: It’s not clear how Waterstones makes money off the deal. Terms weren’t disclosed and there may have been a large upfront payment. Waterstones presumably gets a cut of each Kindle sold in...  show all text

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When reporters use social media for crowdsourcing, they’re often just cold calling in the form of a passing tweet — Did you lose your house to foreclosure? Were you the victim of discrimination in the workplace? Have you ever donated your eggs? Contact me for a story I’m working on! ProPublica takes a warmer approach with its recently formed Patient Harm Community Facebook group. Here’s the question that ProPublica poses to the group: “Were you or a loved one harmed in a hospital? Have you seen  show all text

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In this episode of the Internet Marketing Podcast, Kelvin and Andy are discussing a number of insights you can learn from Google Analytics and how to action them. Among others, they’re discussing questions you should ask yourself, like “What pages do I need to improve and why?”; “Which mobile devices is my site broken on?”; “What blog post should I write next?”; “Should I build an Apple or Android App?”; and “Which cities should I target?”. Google Analytics Post from Apple Pie & Custard blog...  show all text

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With the release of Google+ in September 2011, businesses have been looking to see how the platform can assist in their digital marketing efforts.

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An emerging best practice with certain types of content — especially infographics — is to make that content ...

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• Johnson: Met was 'lethargic' in its response to hacking claims • Defends decision not to intervene on hacking in July 2009 • Watson: ex-NoW reporter commissioned PI to trail me • Martin Salter MP suffered 'egregious' invasion of privacy • 'Craven understanding' between News Corp and governments • ICO should play role in new statutory-based press regulator • NI: no evidence other MPs except Watson were trailed 1.08pm: Here is a short lunchtime summary of evidence heard by the Leveson inquiry t...  show all text

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The topic of PR and SEO is one which continues to fascinate me. Why is it that so many PR agencies have been slow to exploit this field, estimated to be worth £500m per year? Read more »

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With all the social media and influence measurement tools available today, the communications sector should be understanding more about what makes us happy and productive, and what motivates us to participate in social conversations. Read more »

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Can you go from stacking shelves to heading up a major corporation in Britain? The data suggests it's unlikely. See what it says

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