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Internet Filtering in the United Arab Emirates- What you see if you hit a forbidden site

Danny — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:00:52 +0000

The full list of prohibited content is here. Removal requests for the UAE firewall can be submitted here.

Technorati Tags: censorship, Internet, Media, uae

Daily Star bombs The Sun newspaper (but is an in-joke really a good campaign strategy?)

Danny — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:45:54 +0000

With bingo bringing in high revenue streams for online newspaper editions, it is little wonder that the Daily Star chose to hit The Sun where it hurts with its bingo advertising campaign – but bombing The Sun’s Wapping HQ with Bingo balls?

I’m sure the Sun’s staff in Wapping will see the hilarity. After [...]

SEO and Journalism: “Online POKER marketing could spell the NAKED end of VIAGRA journalism as we LOHAN know it”

Danny — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:14:22 +0000

I wanted to highlight an excellent article by Charlie Brooker about the impact of SEO requirements and the pressures of web-traffic-oriented journalism on the quality of news.

The article sets out to demonstrate its premise with the first paragraph and then explains it:

“Miley Cyrus, Angelina, Israel vs Palestine, iPhone, 9/11 conspiracy, Facebook, MySpace, and [...]

Pregnant Man Thomas Beatie Gives Birth to New Lengths of Ratings Spin

Danny — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:30:08 +0000

Here’s a story you would only dwell on briefly if it were on Jerry Springer: a woman who wanted to become a man had her breasts removed and took hormones to make her look more masculine, but still kept all the original plumbing. Then she gets pregnant – not all that surprising, as she’s still [...]

New York, Exploding? (Wall Street Journal, 28 May 2008)

Danny — Fri, 30 May 2008 16:51:25 +0000

It might just be linguistic sensitivity, or the difference between American and UK English (?), but the following struck me as an odd way to word a real estate ad, and specifically in a post 9/11 New York:

[The Wall Street Journal, Wednesday, May 28, 2008, page 29]

Exploding area? In New York?

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