Lifehacker:
Editing your images on a desktop image editor might be ideal, but sometimes you're away from our home workstation and need to do some impromptu editing. Check out these five options favored by Lifehacker readers. Photo by karlfrankowski. Earlier this week we asked you to share your favorite tools for editing images online, (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
It's happening to more and more of the blogs I read: the personality, quirkiness and unique voice that once made them so appealing to me are fading. In their place, an SEO-driven uniformity that puts keyword placement ahead of pretty much everything.That approach has been afflicting newspapers for some time, as clever headl (Read More)
TechCrunch:
The new browser wars on on. More than a decade after Microsoft killed off Netscape with Internet Explorer, competition in the browser market has never been stronger. Just last week, Mozilla released Firefox 3.5, which has now been downloaded nearly 14 million times. Earlier in June, Apple released Safari 4. In March, Mic (Read More)
Mashable!:
There were unknown lifeforms, #moonfruit, Firefox 3.5, and the sale of The Pirate Bay making social media news this week. From the shocking $78 million sale of the web’s pirating hub to the release of Firefox 3.5 and its killer features, social media events kept rolling in.There were also some insightful and useful resourc (Read More)
Mashable!:
There are red faces in the UK today after it emerged that private details about the incoming head of MI6 were posted to Facebook by his wife. The details included information about John Sawers’ family, residence, vacations…and a photo of Sawers in a Speedo. Specific details revealed, according to the BBC, included the loc (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
Four-year £16m inquiry into carmaker's demise will not be seen until Serious Fraud Squad has investigated 'Phoenix Four'The Serious Fraud Office has been called in to investigate the £1.4bn demise of MG Rover, the Birmingham-based car maker that collapsed in April 2005 with the loss of an estimated 15,000 British jobs.In a (Read More)
The Guardian:
Daily Express owner Richard Desmond suing investigative biographer Tom Bower over claims about editorial interferenceA window could be opened tomorrow on the operation of one of Britain's most controversial media tycoons as Richard Desmond starts a high court libel battle against investigative biographer Tom Bower.The owner (Read More)
The Guardian:
• 'It's not a state secret that he wears Speedo trunks'• Lib Dems seek inquiry over Sir John Sawers exposureThe foreign secretary, David Miliband, today attempted to play down the significance of internet photographs showing Britain's new spy boss holidaying with his children and other relatives and friends.The family photo (Read More)
New York Times:
Mr. Klein was a a music executive who managed the business affairs of Sam Cooke, the Rolling Stones and, for a short time, the Beatles.
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The Guardian:
• Body of a 20-year-old woman found alongside McNair's• Three-time Pro Bowler had been shot in the headFormer NFL quarterback Steve McNair, a three-time Pro Bowler who led the Tennessee Titans to the Super Bowl in 2000, has been found dead in a condominium in Nashville, Tennesse, with multiple gunshot wounds, including one (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
• Lions doctor James Robson says players have become too bulky• 'Players have got too big for their skill levels'The Lions team doctor James Robson believes the shape of rugby players will have to start changing after the most physical Test series he has ever experienced.Robson has been the Lions doctor on five tours but sa (Read More)
New York Times:
Employing social networking as the theme for an art show, a curator found that some some artists actually used the new medium, while others were just commenting on it.
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ReadWriteWeb:
We were very excited earlier this year when RWW made its way onto the latest edition of the Web Trend Map. For those of you unfamiliar with this map, it "plots the Internet's leading names and domains onto the Tokyo Metro map. Domains and personalities are carefully selected through dialogue with map enthusiasts, and every (Read More)