interesting things
Ending your relationship with a social networking site isn’t easy; more users make the site look better to advertisers.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/18/breaking-up-is-hard-when-the-web-site-isnt-ready-to-quit/
The delay is expected to give the newly branded cable channel time to line up more original series.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/16/business/media/esquire-network-debut-is-postponed.html
For the Facebook generation, it’s second nature to share accounts.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/10/times-writer-tangles-with-the-ethics-of-password-sharing/
Though Google is the undisputed king of search, alternative services are chipping into its share of the market, Claire Cain Miller reports in The New York Times.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/04/daily-report-googles-eroding-lead-in-web-search/
Chief executives can now feel free to post, blog or tweet — as long as they inform investors about their social media strategy first, Michael J. de la Merced writes in The New York Times.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/03/s-e-c-sets-rules-for-disclosures-using-social-media/
Jay Leno and Jimmy Fallon made light of their situations as media reports suggested that Mr. Fallon may be taking over the “Tonight†show on NBC.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/02/leno-and-fallon-poke-fun-at-their-uncertain-fates/
A Yale senior takes a stab at defining her generation, one emerging into adulthood on the heels of the 2000s.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/29/opinion/brooks-the-empirical-kids.html
Readers react to a front-page article about angry outbursts by the City Council speaker, who is running for mayor of New York.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/29/opinion/deconstructing-the-wrath-of-christine-quinn.html
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia, Brown and Penn were more selective when admitting the freshman class of 2013. If Dartmouth follows suit, all eight Ivy League institutions will have reported lower acceptance rates this year.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/28/7-of-8-ivy-league-schools-report-lower-acceptance-rates/
Sue Gardner, who oversaw a period of rapid growth and evolution of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, said on Wednesday that she would step down as executive director of the nonprofit foundation that runs it.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/28/leader-of-foundation-behind-wikipedia-resigns/