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Full story: Precision in search is the key
If you’ve ever wondered how searching for information on the web works, and why Google seems to produce accurate results search after search – thankfully, it seems to me, in spite of what you type in that search box at times – a feature story in Wired magazine‘s March edition will give you some powerful insight. In How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web, Wired’s senior writer Stephen Levy takes us on a journey that describes with the right level of…
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Full story: The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #528: February 22, 2010
Content summary: Shel’s in Atlanta for the Ragan conference; a different procedure for recording today’s show; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore on authoritarian capitalism; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: journalists conducting research via social media, Apple’s Wikipedia page most effective of Fortune Global 500, did Twitter topple Toyota?, bloggers to be given privileged access to UK parliament; listeners’ comments; Neville’s in Belgium on Thursday, guest host Mark Story will join Shel; music from Lily Sparks; and…
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Full story: Tiger Woods: an apology for the YouTube era
Just like many other people, I watched Tiger Woods on live TV on Friday as he made his public apology for the revelations that emerged about his sex addiction following the car crash he was involved in outside his house last November. I didn’t see all of the eight minutes or so that he spent speaking in front of a controlled audience and the hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of people tuned in to live TV broadcasts around the…
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Full story: The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #527: February 18, 2010
Content summary: Three Canadian PR grads launch the Coming Up PR podcast; FIR Interview with Marc Wright is coming; Dan York reports on Facebook, and more; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Eric Schwartzman reports from Los Angeles on social media and the US military; News That Fits: Kevin Smith’s Twitter kerfuffle with Southwest Airlines moves up a level, ‘Please Rob Me’ and location-based networks; Marko Minka reports from London on Jupik, a virtual world that eliminates barriers between kids…











