You're a brand new anchor. You've seen Anchorman; you know how badly things can go. So, what do you do on your evening news debut? Swear at the camera of course. Genius. Read More >>
West Yorkshire police are reporting no injuries from an incident early yesterday, involving at least one out-of-control breakdancer in a Wakefield car showroom. The impassioned breakdancer, described as a 31-year old female from the Agbrigg area, had been throwing shapes in the forecourt of the dealership with such vigor that it caused disturbances to both staff and customers. Read More >>
Flipboard takes the news you want to read and organises it into a wonderfully designed magazine format. And now, with an update to its iOS apps, it lets you create your own magazines for specific themes, topics, events, and so on. Read More >>
My job, believe it or not, is to watch TV (albeit news channels); read the papers and generally be a bit of a media junkie. I’m a huge media nerd; can quote back the names of major correspondents, editors, and tell you which Government ministers are less inclined to dodge questions in front of a camera. This is just one of the many pointless skills developed through watching 40 hours of news a week; but the main thing it has taught me, besides a healthy dose of cynicism, is just how to deal with the gout of the internet age -- media overload. Read More >>
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"I read all the articles because I use the 'Next' bookmark. The first alternative to implement this will win the war." More »
Seen it in the news? Now play it: a mobile-game programming system allows 3D depictions of news events to be introduced into the action. It's been developed by MultiPlay.io, a British start-up that says the technology could make gameplay more current and provide new ways for designers and coders to make cash - perhaps selling "news injection" rights to news agencies, TV stations or newspapers. Read More >>
The all-new BBC Sport app, which has been an iOS exclusive for quite some time, has finally popped up on Android. Just in time for the big [insert topical sport reference here]. Read More >>
I was the 19th employee hired by The Daily. My first day was November 1, 2010, and the plan was to launch the next month. Needless to say, I was scared shitless. Read More >>
Google's pushed out a redesign today, doing away with the sidebar in search results for a cleaner page that will look better on all devices. More space for your "who got voted off X-Factor" search results. Read More >>
More and more, major news outlets are turning to subscriptions and paywalls to entice readers to pay a premium for content. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but almost always, there's somewhere get the same information—or at least the basic gist of it. But there might be favourite publications or writers which warrant the release of a few pounds from your wallet. Is it worth it for you? Read More >>
Featured comment by emsee:
"I used to have a subscription, but they never actually improved the app which is broken for things like inline links and images.
I think a paywall ..." More »
Loyal viewers of Fox 5 news will be pretty disappointed come September 21, when they discover their shiny new iPhone 5s have exactly none of the sweet features the NYC Fox affiliate has reported the phone to have. Read More >>
Increasingly, as we turn more to our computers and tablets to watch TV episodes, we tune out other important programming: namely, the news. And, if you're like me and get your news from your Twitter feed, a moment (or an hour, or a few) away from the internet can mean missing out on a entire breaking news story. Read More >>
Featured comment by Sabashe_to_the_MAX:
"Uh Giz UK, Kotaku and io9 are the three main sites I'd visit. Occasionally hit up the BBC news website too. My lack of interest in news outside of the..." More »
The Internet is both a blessing and a curse. Awesome, because it's a digital treasure trove of information. But it's horrible because without a little help, you might drown in the tidal wave of stories. That's what makes NextDraft, a guided tour through the best stories of the day, so useful. Read More >>
Ten bells, and not seven trumpets, announced the apocalypse on February 20, 1971. It was 10:33AM, and teletypes in every single radio and TV station across the US rang those bells to announce an incoming message that nobody had received before. Read More >>
Featured comment by caniffis:
"I used to work in the public sector in emergency planning, now do similar work for the private sector. no matter how big or how small something like t..." More »
Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung has gone digital, launching an entirely online edition, which probably isn't that big a deal for most of you. What is nice is the way it marketed the change, by creating an all-binary front page for its print version. Read More >>
Featured comment by Glenbot3000:
"I think it's testimony to the growing irrelevance of binary beyond the fundamentals. So long as a programmer understands that binary represents the pu..." More »
Looks like someone at the BBC was being extremely lazy. Last Thursday, during a lunchtime news piece about the conflict in Syria, the BBC used the logo from Halo's fictional United Nations Space Command (UNSC) instead of the real United Nations logo -- Google image search perhaps? Read More >>
Featured comment by rustybullet:
"It is possible that the BBC do have a bunch of stock images - although, they do seem to use getty a lot - and the keywords matched...but the logo wasn..." More »
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