Links 3-4-11: Time unemployed climbs, Who scans QR codes?, Ramen protest, Foursquare upgrades

March 04 Comments Off on Links 3-4-11: Time unemployed climbs, Who scans QR codes?, Ramen protest, Foursquare upgrades Category: Actual, Links

The latest statistics report that the average amount of time people are spending unemployed has climed to 37.1 weeks.

Links 3-3-11: Facebook still owns you, iPad 2, Bing beats Yahoo, Twitter hacking at TED

March 03 Comments Off on Links 3-3-11: Facebook still owns you, iPad 2, Bing beats Yahoo, Twitter hacking at TED Category: Actual, Links

Here’s your stupid iPad 2 news. I’m done with you.

Links 2-23-11: TBD staff dumped, Easier bibliographies, Compelled consent, A world without oil

February 23 Comments Off on Links 2-23-11: TBD staff dumped, Easier bibliographies, Compelled consent, A world without oil Category: Actual, Links

TBD was the great social experiment in DC; a group of media outlets turned into one community-powered converged news source. At least it was before Allbritton systematically removed its limbs.

Links 2-22-11: Blockbuster for sale, Why save PBS?, Nearer my PS3 to thee, Yahoo the startup killer

February 22 1 Comment Category: Actual, Links

Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy a while back and has now put itself up for sale. This isn’t really top of the internet as much as it is ‘everyone on the internet saw this coming in 1999.’ The slow-to-awaken video rental chain, which is now $1 billion in debt, is fielding an offer for $290 million.