Interesting stuff I saw online, Dec. 9 to Dec. 14
Here’s some of the stuff I thought was interesting while stomping through the Internet from Dec. 9 through Dec. 14:
- Majel Barrett-Roddenberry To Play Computer Voice In New Star Trek Movie | TrekMovie.com – Majel Barrett Roddenberry has been part of Star Trek since the first pilot (“The Cage”) where she played ‘Number One.’ Although that role was not carried over to the main series, she did get a recurring role on the show as Nurse Chapel and also played Deanna Troi’s mother Lwaxana Troi on The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine.
- Michael Skoler on newsroom culture » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism – Among his comments: “When people say news is a conversation, they don’t mean you have to have comments…You do, but that not what they’re talking about. Journalism’s a conversation because people expect there is a conversation…Knowledge is no longer viewed as congregated and only accessible to an elite.”
- So How Much Time Do You Waste On Twitter? – I’ve wasted 47,010 Seconds or 784 Minutes or 13.06 Hours or 0.54 Days with 1,567 Tweets on Twitter!
- Advertisers Face Hurdles on Social Networking Sites – NYTimes.com – “IDC, the technology research firm, published a study last month that reported that just 3 percent of Internet users in the United States would willingly let publishers use their friends for advertising. The report described social advertising as ‘stillborn.’”
- Maryland High Court Hears Argument on Internet Anonymity | Citizen Media Law Project – “Once a court orders a blog-hosting service, website operator, or ISP to reveal the identity of an anonymous Internet speaker, that speaker irretrievably loses his/her First Amendment right to speak anonymously (in that particular context). There is no dearth of Supreme Court cases suggesting that this right is nothing to be sniffed at.”
- Corporate Blogging: You’re Doing It Wrong >> SitePoint – A blog can be a successful and useful part of the web strategy for your company. In July, we made corporate blogging our number one tip for how to speak directly to your customers — which is something you should be striving to do.
- Florida Student Sues Principal Over Suspension for Facebook Postings | Citizen Media Law Project – “Based on the relatively banal statements Evans posted (and quickly took down), I think she has a pretty good argument that the suspension violated her First Amendment rights.”
- TimeSpace: World – TimeSpace is an interactive map that allows you to navigate articles, photos, video and commentary from around the globe. Discover news hot-spots where coverage is clustered. Use the timeline to illustrate peaks in coverage, and customize your news searches to a particular day or specific hour.

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