FIR Cuts
Monday, February 28, 2011
FIR Cut - Childish PR practices; the end of email
- Cut from episode 588: A PR rep unfollows a journalist because of critical stories.
- European company will ban internal use of email by 2014 (free FT registration required)
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Monday, January 03, 2011
FIR Cut - Travel and Twitter
- Cut from episode 580: Airlines and politicians make good use of Twitter during the holiday travel nightmare affecting the U.S. East Coast.
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Monday, November 29, 2010
FIR Cut: Smartphones to ring up 28% of holiday shopping
- Cut from episode 575: Information Week articleexplores the role smartphones will play in 2010 holiday shopping
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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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