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AP’s Betting The Farm Microsoft Will Crush Google
5:48AM Ryan Tate | The Associated Press, self-declared enemy of internet evildoers, says it has seen some awesome new Microsoft search technology—top secret stuff—that will return its content to a position of total world domination. Google is so history. More »
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AP’s Notes On Roman Polanski’s Arrest Leak Onto News Wires
4:30AM Foster Kamer | Will Roman Polanski be extradited? Is he a misunderstood artist, or a rapist who should rot? Questions! But none as interesting as how the AP’s notes for the story landed on the pages of Forbes and the New York Times. More »
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If AP Can’t Beat The Google Spammers, It Will Join Them
3:29AM Ryan Tate | Ever clicked on some high-ranked Google result, only to land on a useless page of links, obviously created by spam software? Infuriating. Well, prepare to be maddened further; the Associated Press, avowed hater of the internet, will spam Google too. More »
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The Associated Press Wants Your Plane Crash Porn
7:40AM Foster Kamer | Ardent defender of their words and content, the Associated Press is now taking their talk to the streets! Where are their photo editors trolling for pictures of today’s crash these days? More »
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Reuters Implores AP To ‘Stop Whining’
11:34AM Ryan Tate | Huzzah: The president of newswire operator Thomson Reuters says traditional journalism is not actually being strangled by Google, blogs and the rest of the internet. And that anyone who thinks so — *cough* AP *cough* — should get a grip. More »
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AP Vs. British Bureaucrats: Who’s More Uptight About Twitter?
6:51AM Ryan Tate | A British bureaucrat has published a guide to Twitter etiquette and strategy, intended for use throughout the government. The stiff, formal document about a casual microblogging service is generating worldwide headlines, but it’s hardly the first of its kind. More »
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Online News Theft A Truly Teeny-Tiny Problem
4:51AM Ryan Tate | The Wall Street Journal is up in arms about it; the Associated Press is building a robot army to fight it. But it turns out online news piracy is at most a $US250 million-per-year problem. Just how small is that? More »
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AP To Finally Invent Indexing Of Text On Internet
6:16AM Ryan Tate | This is great: The Associated Press is going to set up a “news registry,” so it can finally tell where its text content is, on the internet. What a fresh concept! But the revolution doesn’t end there. More »
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AP Tells Reporters To Muzzle Facebook Friends
7:34AM Ryan Tate | Someone sent us the Associated Press’ guidelines for staff social networking and, in keeping with company tradition, they’re on the paranoid side. You should probably read them, since basically everyone in the world must now follow them. More »
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