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New York Times Gets Social, Wants You To Share

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Now you know that social bookmarking services have stepped into the living room of old media indeed. The New York Times have added social bookmarking options to select pages on their website, not including subscription based ones of course.

They look like this (see for yourself):

New York Times wants you to share

A link, which opens a menu to submit to social bookmarking sites Digg, Facebook and Newsvine, as well as a permalink so that you easily can add the story to your service of choice.

TechCrunch has a more in-depth analysis of this move.

Originally posted on December 11, 2006 @ 6:11 am

The cynical take on the death of James Kim

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Cnet’s senior editor James Kim was found dead in the wilderness in southern Oregon, after his family’s car had broken down. Cnet has an In Memoriam on Kim if you haven’t read about it yet – it’s all over the blogosphere. Our condolences to the family, of course, it’s a tragedy indeed.

Duncan Riley picks up on a SMH report that states that the Kim family took a route that should be left alone in the winter, but is still recommended on numerous map services online. Such as Google Maps…

Certainly if proven true, this could be a world first: Google kills CNet journalist.

How’s that for the sensational tabloid take on the tragedy? Hold on, it gets worse…

I suppose on a positive note, atleast for the Kim family, Google isn’t short on cash for a settlement.

Really Duncan, that’s morbid and cynical if anything… Now, I don’t want the 901am readers to take this the wrong way, I’m sure that Duncan doesn’t mean anything bad with the post, but I can certainly see people reacting to it.

Be sure to check out his 9 tips for surviving the road as well. They feel slightly more suitable for this tragedy, actually.

Originally posted on December 9, 2006 @ 3:54 am