Saturday, June 6, 2009
Online
Whoops: Microsoft Touts Search Accuracy Using Mistake
10:29AM Foster Kamer | How does Microsoft argue its search results are more correct than, say, Google’s? With a commercial in which it accidentally claims the Breakfast Club was released a year later than it was. The company has already promised to get the answer right next time. Attaboy!
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In Which MC Hammer, Perez And Kirstie Alley Get A Little Sloppy
9:32AM Ryan Tate | MC Hammer sent an undercover tweet; Perez Hilton sent a breakup/makeup tweet and Ryan Seacrest broke down. The Twitterati let it hang loose. More »
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Post-Journalism Career #627: Subway Musician
7:04AM Hamilton Nolan | What are laid-off journalists doing these days, besides growing ever angrier? One of them is going to play his guitar in the subway! Which we guarantee is a more fun job: More »
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When Google Maps Searches Go Bad
7:03AM Richard Lawson | High-end US celebrity weekly In Touch ran a feature this week showing where various celebs live in the tony Brentwood section of LA. They even have a handy map. Only problem? The map is of a different Brentwood, more than 500kms away. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
There Are Pennies To Be Made In Media!
4:03AM Hamilton Nolan | In your Friday Manhattan media column: Hachette figures out how to get money, ABC figures out how to save money, the NYT Co. vows not to lose money, and a website that will not make money: More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
Don’t You Know Black Guys Control All The Banks And Media?
2:49AM John Cook | Rush Limbaugh unleashed an exquisite blast of paranoia on Fox News show last night, predicting that newspapers, television networks, and radio networks will all go bankrupt (true), at which point Obama will personally take them over (crazy). More »
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Quentin Tarantino Isn’t Doing David Carradine Any Favours
2:20AM John Cook | Quentin Tarantino, Michael Madsen, and Rob Schneider went on Larry King last night to remember their friend David Carradine. They said he would never commit suicide. So, Larry asked, what’s the deal with the rope? Awkward silence. More »
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Fired AOL Ad Man Was Paid $US60k Per Day
2:13AM Ryan Tate | Gregory Coleman was hired in February to run AOL advertising network Platform A. Two weeks later, the CEO who hired him was out; two months after that, Coleman’s own departure was announced. But at least AOL made it worth his while. More »
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Blind Items: Which Actor Convinced Girls To Strip Naked At A Club?
12:23AM Foster Kamer | Today we have an actor who likes to f- with ladies before he f-s them, and an actress who really, really, like, really, wants a part that she’ll never get. More »
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