FIR Cuts
Monday, November 22, 2010
FIR Cut: Are video games the future of journalism?
- Cut from episode 574: New Scientist article proposes the story-telling mechanism of video games could be a means of presenting journalism.
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Monday, August 02, 2010
FIR Cut: Facetime opens door to iPhone porn
- NYDailyNews.com: iPhone 4’s ‘Facetime’ video chat leads to porn-anigans: adult industry sneaks sex talk past Apple
- Wired.com: Porn Industry Aroused by iPhone FaceTime
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Monday, July 19, 2010
FIR Cut: BBC tests tracking real-time Twitter trends with Zeitgeist tool
- Journalism.co.uk: BBC tests tracking real-time Twitter trends with Zeitgeist tool
- BBC R&D Blog: Zeitgeist - the most shared BBC links on Twitter
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FIR Cut: Vaseline skin lightening cream meets social networking
- Salon.com: Skin-lightening meets social networking
- NDTV Profit: Vaseline’s skin-lightening Facebook app stirs debate
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Monday, January 25, 2010
FIR Cut: We can’t handle more than 150 friends
- Sunday Times: OMG: brains can’t handle all our Facebook friends
- IT Pro: Brain Can’t Handle More Than 150 Facebook Friends Finds Oxford Boffin
- Daily Telegraph: Facebook friends are virtual, finds Oxford University study
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Monday, December 21, 2009
FIR Cut: Snow, customer service and crisis communication make Eurostar’s perfect storm
- Google News: Eurostar.
- TechCrunch Europe: As hundreds of Eurostar passengers languish, Eurostar ignores Twitter.
- We Are Social: A note about today’s Eurostar crisis.
- Little break, big difference: Our apologies.
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Thursday, November 05, 2009
FIR Cut: What options for CIPR facing financial crisis?
- PR Week: CIPR Seeks To Calm Concerns Over Looming Financial Loss. (Referenced: IABC wipes out deficit by Allan Jenkins, Feb 2006.)
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