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Gmaps blog: "Our mobile users also got special treatment. With the launch of Google Maps for Mobile 3.2, the transit layer is available on Symbian S60, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, and the new Motorola DROID, and transit directions were added to the Palm Pre. This means now transit directions are available in Google Maps on all major smartphone platforms"
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Interesting graphic from the NYT. Graphs usually bore me, but this is engaging and relevant. Nice, subtle use of animation and background to add context.
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A social network for zombies! I am SO THERE!!!!
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"I’m not saying to give up. I’m not saying to purposefully fail. I am saying try that fucking impossible thing that you’ve wanted to try, but haven’t, because you’re afraid of failure. If you succeed, rock on. But if you fail, then that’s better. Because you will have learned something. Yeah, someone else succeeded, got to the top of the mountain before you, but maybe you stumbled into the cave full of gold beneath the mountain.
"Or maybe you stumbled into the cave full of monsters. Shit! What now? Don’t worry; they’re made of delicious monster meat, so go to town on them. Slay the monsters. Corner the market on monster meat, and then laugh at the people at the top of the mountain saying, “What? Monster meat? That’s the new thing? What are you talking about?”
"Failure. It makes monster meat.
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"In the past few years, as newspapers’ economic fortunes have steadily declined, they have been more and more likely to emphasize their special role in America’s democratic system. (For the moment, I’m not making any argument about whether or not these claims are true. They may very well be. I’m just pointing them out.) The origins of this increasing tendency to emphasize the special democratic function of newspapers might be seen in these early debates about the federal shield law."
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"Thanks to the American Society of News Editors, we can now read the compromise shield law hashed out last week by the White House, news-industry lobbyists, and the Senate Judiciary Committee. There are plenty of moving parts here, but I’ve been focused on the law’s definition of a journalist, as have others. The compromise takes an expansive view, covering amateur bloggers and student journalists as much as professional reporters."
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OTM segment in which Nieman Lab blogger CW Anderson mentions that current shield law draft does *not* specifically cover reporters notes, only info that makes it into the story. I've asked for clarification of this. If true, then that seems to be a big gaping hole that anyone who publishes news/info should be concerned about. Most information gathered in course of reporting never gets published.
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"Oct. 31 TechCrunch broke a big story called "Scamville: The Social Gaming Ecosystem of Hell" about how Zynga was making money by selling scam ads.
"Arrington packaged his story with a video of himself taking on Anu Shukla, CEO of one of the scam-ad distributors. He also ran an "insider's confession" piece by a former scammer. He followed with a story on how Zynga CEO Mark Pincus acknowledged the problem & said Zynga would stop running those ads, & another story about how Anu Shukla was pushed out of her company, and another story about Shukla's replacement admitting that the company had, indeed, been running scammy ads. On Friday Arrington posted a video clip where Pincus, the CEO of Zynga, told a laughing audience of scumbag developers about all his scumbaggy things.
"A Sat piece on Zynga (and other FB game companies) with the headline, "Virtual Goods Start Bringing Real Paydays." The two reporters interviewed & quoted Pincus, but included not a single word about the scammy ads."
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