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NYT Wordnixes WSJ
Sunday’s New York Times Business section featured a piece about “Wordnik, the vast online dictionary.” The lexisite works not like a modern-day Samuel Johnson or Noah Webster, the Times piece says, but like this: [A]utomatic programs search the Internet, combing the … Continue reading
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Tagged Erin McKean, lexisite, New York Times, Timesniks, Wall Street Journal, Wordnik
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Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (Huntsman’s Destiny Edition)
Headline on this week’s Peggy Noonan Wall Street Journal column: Gingrich Is Making Romney Better Next week’s headline: Huntsman Is Making Romney Battered That will largely be thanks to Our Destiny, a Super PAC backing GOP presidential afterthought Jon Huntsman … Continue reading
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Tagged Jon Huntsman, Mitt Romney, New York Times, Newt Gingrich, Our Destiny PAC, Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
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Stop The Presses: WSJ And NYT Disagree On Mitt Romney’s ‘Vision’
This past weekend featured a most instructive compare-and-contrast about Mitt Romney in the national newspaper Big Dogs. From the Weekend Interview in the Wall Street Journal: On Taxes, ‘Modeling,’ and the Vision Thing Does Mitt Romney have a governing vision, … Continue reading
E-Bilk Readers
From Thursday’s Wall Street Journal front page: E-Book Readers Face Sticker Shock Cheap new e-readers are expected to be one of the hottest gifts this holiday season. But new owners of Kindles and Nooks may be in for sticker shock … Continue reading
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Tagged e-bait-and-switch, e-book, e-readers, Kindle, Nook, Wall Street Journal
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Open Softwar Over Anti-Piracy Legislation On Capitol Hill
Wednesday’s New York Times and Wall Street Journal featured this full-page ad opposing the PROTECT IP Act and Stop Online Piracy Act currently being considered by Congress. And it’s not just those Internet bigwigs who are protesting the proposed legislation. … Continue reading
Why The Wall Street Journal Is Still A Great Newspaper (Buddy Holly’s Glasses Edition)
Rupert Murdoch, Rupert Shmurdoch. Despite all the handwringing when the Prints of Darkness added the Wall Street Journal to his newspaper empire four years ago, the paper has not gone to hell in a handbasket. Some even say it’s better. … Continue reading
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Tagged A-Hed, Buddy Holly, J. Davis Armistead, Lubbock, Prints of Darkness, Rupert Murdoch, Sgt. Bilko, Wall Street Journal
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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Nation (Newt Gingrich Bookselling Edition)
Newt Gingrich is the accidental candidate: He went on a book tour and a presidential campaign broke out. The truth is, Gingrich’s entire career – political and otherwise – has been a comercial enterprise, currently managed by wife #3 Callista, … Continue reading
Valentine’s Gay
Redoubtable Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Gay has this to say about the Red Sox installation of new manager Bobby Valentine: The Boston Red Sox installed Bobby Valentine as their new manager early Thursday evening. But you already know this. … Continue reading
Private Oy: Facebook And The Super Snoopers (Part Two)
Last week the Sneak ADtackniks posted a trifecta of online-privacy cautionary tales, including concerns about thenym wars – the argument over pseudonyms on the Internet – and a panel discussion conducted by the Wall Street Journal. In the course of the latter, Public Parts author Jeff (I … Continue reading
Private Oy: Facebook And The Super Snoopers (Part One)
An online privacy trifecta from the hardworking staff at Sneak ADtack!: • USA Today report (with helpful graphic): Facebook tracking is under scrutiny In recent weeks, Facebook has been wrangling with the Federal Trade Commission over whether the social media website is violating users’ … Continue reading
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