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NYT Book Reviewer Deconstructs Tsarnaev Brothers’ Social Media Narrative
Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times’ intrepid book reviewer, had a front-page piece in Wednesday’s edition detailing the digital doings of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Unraveling Boston Suspects’ Online Lives, Link by Link It is America’s first fully interactive national … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Boston Marathon, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Twitter, VKontakte, YouTube
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Whitey Wars In Local Dailies
From our Dueling Excerpts desk For the past three days, the Boston Herald has been excerpting columnist Howie Carr’s new book Rifleman: The Untold Story of Stevie Flemmi, Whitey Bulger’s Partner. (The hardreading staff suspects that lots of the book is … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Howie Carr, It's Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town, Kevin Cullen, Rifleman: The Untold Story of Stevie Flemmi, Shelly Murphy, Whitey Bulger, Whitey Bulger's Partner, Whitey Bulger: America’s Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice
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For All You Know, Facebook Owns Your First-Born Child
The New York Times reports that “despite how much we say we value our privacy — and we do, again and again — we tend to act inconsistently,” which is the Times-nice way of saying stupidly. To half-wit: Letting Down Our Guard … Continue reading
Fashion Designers Beware! Amazon Goes Glamazon!
Fashion houses across America are quaking in their Do-Me boots over this two-page ad in Sunday’s New York Times: Apparently it’s not enough that Amazon rules the book, CD, and appliance worlds. Now they want to Occupy Seventh Avenue. … Continue reading
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Tagged 7th Ave., Amazon, Damnazon, Do-Me boots, Glamazon, New York Times, Seventh Avenue
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Data-Mining Kids: Internet Players Are Agile, Mobile, And Hostile
That’s what legendary Texas Longhorns coach Darrell Royal said he wanted hisplayers to be – except he pronounced it a-gile, mo-bile, and hos-tile. But that’s what the Federal Trade Commission does not want current kids’ app developers to be in tracking them on tablets and … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Apple, FTC, Google, lobby, mobile apps, PBS NewsHour, Sneak ADtack, tracking, Waldorf-Astoria, Wall Street Journal
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The New York Times, Kindle, And ‘The Paris Wife’
Monday’s New York Times featured this ad for Amazon’s Kindle Paperwhite: Which got the headscratching staff to wondering: What book is that a Prologue to? Answer (via Books Distilled): The Paris Wife. Currently #865 in Amazon Best Sellers. With a … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Best Sellers, Books Distilled, Kindle, Kindle Paperwhite, New York Times, The Paris Wife
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Thumbs Down On E-Reviews?
One of the big benefits of the Internet is its super-sized word of mouth, that vast array of picks ‘n’ pans that cover everything from cars to cardiac surgeons. Word of mouth, testimonials, personal influence – whatever you want to … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, e-reviews, Kindle Fire, New York Times, Trip Advisor, VIP Deals, Yelp
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Memes Go Better With Coca-Cola?
Campaign Outsider Headscratcher o’ the Day (pat. pending) Via Art Knowledge News (about a 125th anniversary Coca-Cola book): New Illustrated Book Celebrates the World’s Most Iconic Coca Cola NEW YORK, NY- This illustrated book celebrates the world’s most iconic beverage with the … Continue reading
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Tagged 125 anniversary, Amazon, Andy Warhol, Art Knowledge News, Assouline, bum on the corner, Coca-Cola, Liz Taylor
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Tying Your Credit Card And Web Activity Together? Priceless.
Forget the merger of Amazon and Google into Googlezon. Here’s a combo that has more immediate potential for harm. From the Wall Street Journal: Using Credit Cards to Target Web Ads The two largest credit-card networks, Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc., are pushing into a new … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Google, Googlezon, Jay Rockefeller, MasterCard, MediaPost, VISA, Wall Street Journal
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