Allentown Morning Call: Inside Amazon.com warehouse workers complain of brutal conditions
Thursday, 29 September 2011, 10:05
“Heat prompted complaints about working conditions at Amazon to federal regulators who monitor workplace safety. The Morning Call obtained documents regarding the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s inspection through the Freedom of Informa…
The Washington Post: Amazon story lands big for small paper
Thursday, 29 September 2011, 09:52
Erik Wemple: “There’s a good lesson for newspapers in [Pennsylvania newspaper the Morning Call's] detailed and compelling investigation [into conditions at Amazon.com’s Lehigh Valley warehouse facilities]: If t…
Retail Week: Drapers editor joins Amazon UK to ramp up fashion offer
Sunday, 29 May 2011, 19:57
"Etail giant Amazon UK has appointed fashion trade magazine Drapers executive editor Jessica Brown as head of fashion for its fledgling clothing business. … Brown, who has worked at Drapers … for over 10 years …will report into Amazon direct…
Salon.com: More Joe Lieberman-caused Internet censorship
Friday, 3 December 2010, 10:13
Glenn Greenwald: "If people — especially journalists — can't be riled when Joe Lieberman is unilaterally causing the suppression of political content from the Internet, when will they be? After all, as Jeffrey Goldberg pointed out in condemning this, the same rationale Lieberman is using to demand that Amazon and all other companies cease any contact with WikiLeaks would justify similar attacks on The New York Times, since they've published the same exact diplomatic cables on its site as WikiLeaks has on its [site]."
TPMMuckraker: How Lieberman Got Amazon To Drop Wikileaks
Thursday, 2 December 2010, 23:14
After Sen. Lieberman's staff phoned their press office, "Amazon said the [Wikileaks] site had violated unspecified terms of use."
Gawker: Amazon.com Evicts Wikileaks. Who’s Next?
Thursday, 2 December 2010, 23:11
"Under pressure from Sen. Joe Lieberman, Amazon.com kicked WikiLeaks.org off its servers. But why stop there? There's all kinds of controversial customers the cowardly but remarkably convenient e-tailer can flee from. … "
ProPublica: Reporting Recipe: Using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk for Data Projects
Thursday, 28 October 2010, 17:14
Amanda Michel: "we began experimenting with mTurk last spring to clean, de-duplicate and reformat data. We’ve since used the tool to collect or proof more than 28,000 data points, from the names of companies that received stimulus money [6] to the categorization of answers to our home loan modification questionnaire [7]. We’re impressed with the speed and accuracy of its results. For example, a project we estimated would take a full-time staffer almost three days to finish was completed on mTurk overnight for $37, with 99 percent accuracy."
Mediaweek: Newsweek.com Explores Amazon Cloud Computing
Wednesday, 28 April 2010, 09:40
"Newsweek … is outsourcing its Web site hosting duties to Amazon, joining a small but growing number of companies experimenting with cloud computing."
The Bookseller: Kindle prepared for pre-Frankfurt UK launch
Saturday, 3 October 2009, 08:22
"The Bookseller has heard from authoritative sources that Amazon.com will finally announce the arrival of its e-book device the Kindle in the UK next week."
Daily Finance: Murdoch’s ultimatum to Amazon: Give us Kindle subscriber names or else
Thursday, 6 August 2009, 19:10
"[Rupert Murdoch] suggested that The Wall Street Journal will cease to be available on the Kindle e-reader unless Amazon starts offering a more generous revenue split and more publisher-friendly policies."
theBookseller.com: Sony plans to launch wifi Reader ahead of Kindle
Thursday, 30 July 2009, 09:54
"Sony is believed to be readying for launch a new version of its ebook Reader, which will include wifi access. According to industry sources in the UK the new device is being prepared for September sale in order to pre-empt the arrival in the UK of Amazon.com's Kindle device."
Hitwise Intelligence UK: Facebook the most searched for brand in the UK
Thursday, 5 March 2009, 11:18
Robin Goad: "Facebook’s UK Internet traffic has more than doubled over the last year and it is now the second most visited website in the UK after google.co.uk. The social network accounted for 1 in every 24 UK Internet visits during the month of February and traffic to the site has already increased by 18.6% during 2009. … The remaining four brands are all online retailers: eBay, Amazon, Argos and Tesco. eBay and Amazon remain the most popular online retail brands, but the more traditional high street players are gaining on them all the time. "
paidContent:UK: Daily Mail Keen On Kindle, In Both US And UK
Wednesday, 25 February 2009, 15:56
"Does the Daily Mail know something we don’t? Mail Online MD James Bromley tells NMA he’s talking with Amazon to launch the British paper on to the US-only device “and the UK version” “in the near future”. What “UK version”? Despite Kindle 2.0 having been unveiled in America, there’s still no public commitment from Amazon to launching either version in Europe"
Waxy.org: Cheap, Easy Audio Transcription with Mechanical Turk
Tuesday, 23 September 2008, 21:06
"After recording last week's interview, I was left with a 36-minute MP3 … Bracing for a good four or five hours of rewinding and writing and rewinding, I remembered that this is The Future! So, instead, I tossed the job over to the global anonymous workforce at Amazon Mechanical Turk instead."
