Sho Tyz Inc.

"...a new study that actually looked an exposure to differing points of view in various forms of media, and in real-world encounters. It turns out that the web, at least according to this study, actually reduces the echo-chamber effect, compared to real-world civic space. People who spend a lot of time on political sites are far more likely to encounter diverse perspectives than people who hang out with their friends and colleagues at the bar or the watercooler. As Brooks described it, "This study suggests that Internet users are a bunch of ideological Jack Kerouacs. They're not burrowing down into comforting nests. They're cruising far and wide looking for adventure, information, combat and arousal." "

This is such an interesting concept. I wonder if it could be applied to encourage people to get their news from a variety of sources rather than relying on only a small number of sources.

At last the world is ready for news on...wait for it...TV!

"We've written extensively about "hot news" in the past. The doctrine has never gone away, though it has always been quite limited (New York state is one of the few places it is regularly recognized by the courts). It sounds like something archaic, but think for a moment how it might apply to bloggers, aggregators, Facebook posters, and even Twitter users today. If you think this stuff doesn't matter to the news business, then you haven't been paying attention. This isn't about copyright; it's about control of the facts."

"Barry Diller of IAC said, of content available on the web, "It is not free, and is not going to be," Steve Brill of Journalism Online said that users "just need to get back into the habit of doing so [paying for content] online", and Rupert Murdoch of News Corp said "Web users will have to pay for what they watch and use." Diller, Brill, and Murdoch seem be stating a simple fact-we will have to pay them-but this fact is not in fact a fact. Instead, it is a choice, one its proponents often decline to spell out in full, because, spelled out in full, it would read something like this: "Web users will have to pay for what they watch and use, or else we will have to stop making content in the costly and complex way we have grown accustomed to making it. And we don't know how to do that.""

"Wireless data revenues, which represent what consumers spend on non-voice services, were more than 28% of all wireless service revenues. In addition, there are now more than 257 million data-capable devices in consumers' hands, up from 228 million at the end of 2008. 50 million of these devices are smart phones or wireless-enabled PDAs and nearly 12 million are wireless-enabled laptops, notebooks or aircards. According to the survey, text messaging continues to be enormously popular, with more than 822 billion text messages sent and received on carriers' networks during the last half of 2009-amounting to almost 5 billion messages per day at the end of the year. During the 2009 calendar year, there were more than 1.5 trillion text messages reported on carriers' networks. Wireless subscribers are also sending more pictures and other multimedia messages with their mobile devices-more than 24.2 billion MMS messages were reported for the last half of 2009. That's more than double the number from the previous year, when only 9.3 billion were reported for the last half of 2008. "

"The study, published in the journal Psychological Science, involved 79 college students - 32 men and 47 women - who agreed to wear an electronically activated recorder with a microphone on their lapel that recorded 30-second snippets of conversation every 12.5 minutes for four days, creating what Dr. Mehl called "an acoustic diary of their day.""

Brilliant way to gather data without news journals!

Object oriented tagging capability