links for 2007-07-15
Sunday, 15 July 2007, 13:24
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“This Firefox extension is a handy menu tool for investigators, reporters … online researchers and anyone interested in doing their own basic people searches and public record lookups as well as background research.”
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“ROO has discontinued its association with the FT. Could it have anything to do with ROO being part-owned by Rupert Murdoch, who has set his chops on acquiring the paper’s global rival, The Wall Street Journal?”
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“[T]he CPM cost for businesses on Second Life is insane: simply even for the very best, the figures don’t add up.”
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“[I]t turns out that plugging products is as problematic in the virtual world as it is anywhere else. … [T]he sites of many of the companies remaining in Second Life are empty.”
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Figures released under FOI show that “an elite group of independent schools” are “sending more pupils to a narrowing range of “ivy league” universities such as Oxford, Cambridge and Bristol.”
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“Sky TV’s [carbon offsetting] claims for a renewable energy plant in Bulgaria may prove illusory,” Channel 4’s Dispatches programme into carbon offsetting will suggest tomrrow.
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Channel 4 News Science Correspondent Tom Clarke dissects the many ’solutions’ to global warming being marketed to consumers, from tree planting and carbon offsetting to green energy tariffs.
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“Gill Hudson has admitted that black and Asian people seldom feature on [Radio Times]’s front cover but insists her hands are tied by commercial considerations.”
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“Far more than in the 1960s, the modern American media landscape is divided into warring tribes who seem to spend at least as much time attacking each other as attacking the administration of the day.”
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