Fark Fends Off a Patent Troll
Good news for people who hate stupid lawsuits, and for those who like entertaining and sorta-NSFW headlines.
National Post rolls out digital “welcome mats”
On Monday, Canada's National Post published an article about a local school instituting a ban on gay-straight alliance groups. It's a good local story with broad cultural relevance, and, not surprisingly, it got linked on the web-curiosities aggregator Fark. Which led to a sudden surge in traffic to the story on the Post's site. The...
Media Frets About Its Own Future at SXSWi 2010
Ink-stained wretches, it's not just you! The social media and Twitter elite fret about the future of journalism too — and wonder how it will survive the digital revolution. At SXSWi, there was no shortage of panels obsessively deconstructing this topic (and tweeting about it, natch).
Great Moments In Journalism: Burglar Tells Children “Obama Let Him In”
How do you turn a routine home burglary in Florida -- in which nothing seems to have been stolen, even -- into a story of national import? Easy: weave Barack Obama into it. Even if it involves quoting a burglar who is clearly mentally disturbed. Hey, it worked for Angelina Jolie:
Fark Teams Up With USA Today — More Partnerships In The Future? (Update)
Fark, one of the oldest and strangest news aggregators on the Internet, is teaming up with USA Today. But this could just be the beginning. The founder of Fark tells Mediaite that more partnerships with major media outlets are in the works:
The transparent news tip
Nieman Lab reports that Gawker has created a tip line that can be viewed by all. In a sense, this is a mashup of traditional and social news, with the crowd submitting the content while a array of Gawker editors are able to wade in and pluck the juiciest tidbits to promote to the front...
Anti-Beck Backlash Hits Nauseating Extreme with “Murder and Rape” Meme (UPDATED THRICE)
The viral posters that compared Obama to the Joker and to Hitler feel tame compared to the latest nasty meme to hit the Internet: insinuations that Glenn Beck "raped and killed a young girl in 1990."
Update #3, 4:30pm: "Glenn Beck murder" and "Glenn Beck rapist" are now top suggestions when you do a Google...
Update #3, 4:30pm: "Glenn Beck murder" and "Glenn Beck rapist" are now top suggestions when you do a Google...
