USA Today pretties up the news on the iPhone
USA Today, the national newspaper, has a long history of prettying-up the news with the use of color. Full color images, graphics and even sections have long been a staple of the paper, even when most of its peers were still in black and white. Now USA Today has brought that same flare to the iPhone with its new, free application.
While there are a few other very good news-based applications out there for the iPhone,… Continue Reading
How not to write about cancer diagnostics
Last week, a Johns Hopkins research team reported positive results from an experimental diagnostic for prostate cancer, leading to a fair bit of excitement and media attention. The first story I noticed was an effusive report in the Washington Post, although the test results — published in the journal Urology (no link available, although the abstract is here) — also led to stories in the LA Times, the CBS Web site and USA Today.
The gist was… Continue Reading
Roundup: USA Today stiffs Google, and Google gossip, Reuters, Geni, Rockyou…
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USA Today launches new social networking features, but stiffs Google — The newspaper has offered an array of new features, letting registered readers have their own profile pages, where they can recommend articles, solicit comments — and there’s more. Alas, the new content of all these users won’t be tracked by Google or found in Google’s search results, because USA today has used Javascript technology to defy it. That hurts USA Today’s traffic…. Continue Reading