In addition to here and the IT Watch Blog, I’m now blogging at MuckRock, a site dedicated to web-enabled citizen journalism tools. I’ll be writing about, er, citizen journalism, freedom of information laws, and any other little thing that strikes my fancy.
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First they came for the bikinis ...
Or rather, the lack thereof. A major German publisher, presumably in Apple’s ranks of the exempted (a “well-known company with previously published material available broadly in a well-accepted format,” as they put it to the Times), is pushing back on Apple’s suggestion that they tone down their racy content.
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False Idols
Danc over at Lost Garden recently wrote a great essay about “manufactured” gaming heroes, the public faces marketing teams come up with and trot out to promote a new product.
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Recipe: Black and Blue Pizza
There was an app for that
From the New York Times: A screenshot from one of On the Go Girls banned applications.Fred Clarke, co-president of a small software company called On the Go Girls, which made Sexy Scratch Off, said that as of Monday all 50 of his company’s applications were no longer available. They included...
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