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Best Western Hotels Cyberhacked: 8 million victims
Now this is a scoop – and well done to Iain S Bruce for getting the tale: today’s Sunday Herald reveals theft of data from every guest in 1300 Best Western Hotels in the past 12 months, which was gathered by an Indian hacker and sold on to a Russian group Not only is it
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Twitter SMS Users Outrage, Twitter Using Drug Dealer Economic Model?
That slightly popular communication service Twitter has announced changes to their SMS policy. The main one is that Twitter is no longer delivering outbound SMS over their UK number of +44 762 480 1423. You can still update via the number but updates won’t be sent on via SMS. Now the reason for this given
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Oh yes, still got it. Tom Baker in Doctor Who.
You may scoff, but I – and Rich Johnston (to give him his place) have it on rather good authority that Tom Baker will be in Doctor Who in 2010. I’m so confident about this, I did a piece for The Sun (see the PDF below). And you may scoff, but may I remind you
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Nokia N95 as a reporting/PR tool at T in the Park
3G, Amy Winehouse, Flickr, iPhone, N95, Nokia, Primal Scream, T in the Park, Tweet, Twitter, YouTubeI was up at T in the Park last month, helping out the Scottish Sun lads cover a few of the acts and I thought that it might give me a chance to properly evaluate Nokia’s N95 (the original, not the 8GB) as a tool for covering events. I know Reuters had a fantastic kit
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And the Scottish Press Shows Why It’s Probably Fecked
Brian McNair, a professor of Journalism and Communication at the University of Strathclyde, has crafted a decent piece over at AllMediaScotland where he points out a few of the problems facing the future of Scottish press. But this Sunday Herald article showed another one – some journalists aren’t taking it seriously. (As a two-par aside,
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Were Newspaper Columnists the Original Trolls?
No, I don’t mean they look like trolls – though one or two certainly fit the bill – but I was considering the article in the Sunday Herald about columnists and online responses and it reminded me of something I had considered a while ago: is there much difference between trolls and a columnist? Trolls