Badda Bing – Surprising amounts of traffic
Posted by Simon Crisp | Filed under Interwebs
I have been pleasantly surprised by the new Microsoft search engine Bing – not that I have used it much myself – but it has been bringing me more traffic than I expected.
It is now two weeks since the site was launched and one of my sites (newslite.tv) is now getting almost as much traffic from Bing is the big G.
Obviously this doesn’t mean Bing has surprised everyone and displaced Google as the king of search, but that NewsLite is just performing particularly well, especially on the news side of the search.
That said it will be interesting to see how Bing does in the future, especially if it keeps bringing me traffic.
By me: @ The Printed Blog
Posted by Simon Crisp | Filed under Journalism
Printed Blog – Le Whiff: Inhale a chocolate bar
Printed Blog – Swimming trunks to give men a beach boost
Printed Blog – Walk-in cocktail opens in London
A few of my articles for NewsLite.tv have been used in the latest issue of The Printed Blog. If you don’t know what TPB is I will let them describe it for you.
“The Printed Blog is an independent media outlet that aggregates user-generated content from the Internet and publishes it once a week via print.
“The result is a revolutionary newspaper that reads and functions like a web feed – yet can still be unfolded on the train or spread across the breakfast table, for an uninterrupted, pleasurably tactile read.”
TPB is currently distributed in Chicago, New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
By me: Man writes resignation on cake
Posted by Simon Crisp | Filed under Journalism
Mirror – Man writes resignation with cake icing
When Neil Berrett handed in his resignation he knew it wouldn’t leave a bitter taste in the mouth of his employer … because he did it with cake.
The radiological data analyst had decided to write his resignation letter in icing on a giant one metre by 60cm cake.
Blue icing spelt out his intentions to leave Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, but added that he had enjoyed working there for the past three years.
By me: Lost finger replaced with USB stick
Posted by Simon Crisp | Filed under Journalism
The Times – Any computer at his fingertip
Daily Telegraph – Lost finger replaced with USB drive
The Sun – Fings ain’t what they used to be
Daily Mail – Computer programmer who lost finger in motorcycle crash replaces it with… a USB drive
Mirror – IT expert is first bionic finger man
A computer programmer who lost his ring finger in a motorcycle accident has had it replaced … with a USB drive.
Jerry Jalava has built a special prosthetic finger which contains computer storage for photos, movies and other useful files.
While the prosthetic looks like a normal finger Jerry can peel it back from the ‘nail’ and plug it into the USB slot on his computer.
iPhone News App – USA Today
Posted by Simon Crisp | Filed under iPhone News Apps
I can’t stand the USA Today website, greeted by the full page adverts is there anyone out there who sits and waits for the five seconds to pass without clicking Continue Reading?
Thankfully they have a good selection of RSS feeds and with their iPhone app I have got one more way to read their content without ever having to visit the site.
The USA Today iPhone app is a classic example of how to transport content to the Jesus-phone. All of your news sections are there Latest / Money / Sports / Life / Tech / Travel on a slider bar under the logo and a local weather forecast, with the location taken from your phone.
On each article images can be enlarged and there is a handy ‘Share Article’ button which lets you email, text or twitter it to contacts in your phone directory. But there is no integration with the likes of Digg, Yahoo! Buzz or Reddit, all of which are available on the main site.
Buttons in the dock take you to sports results (Not real sports like football and rugby but their us alternatives, so NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL are all their) Weather, Pictures and Snapshots.
Pictures gives a nice tabbed selection of the days Sport, Celeb, Science and Travel images. Photographs appear in a grid and enlarge to fill the screen on a single tap, a further touch bring up a couple of paragraph caption.
Snapshots is a online voting tool of daily polls, results can be seen instantly and filtered by location but they are also turned into funky graphics at the end of the day.
USA Today App – iTunes Link
