Interesting article yesterday from the NY times that outlines some of the research findings on Facebook users (spotted via Bokardo). Some interesting quotes from the article: Researchers learned that while people perceive someone who has a high number of friends as popular, attractive and self-confident, people who accumulate “too many” friends (about 800 or more) are seen as insecure… Eszter Hargittai, a professor at Northwestern, found in a study that Hispanic students were significantly less likely to use Faceboo... lire la suite
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Interesting article yesterday from the NY times that outlines some of the research findings on Facebook users (spotted via Bokardo). Some interesting quotes from the article: Researchers learned that while people perceive someone who has a high number of friends as popular, attractive and self-confident, people who accumulate “too many” friends (about 800 or more) are seen as insecure…
Howard Rosenberg, writing in the L. A. Times: Later, after Palin claimed that advocating energy independence somehow gave her national security chops, Gibson asked, “What insights into Russian actions, particularly in the last couple of weeks” — he meant the Russia/Georgia fracas — “does the proximity of the state give you?
Daniel Carroll submits: It's official. The Wall Street Journal reported this that "most economists say recession has arrived as outlook darkens.
Disclaimer: Spoilers related to the Philip Roth novel Indignation ahead. Oct. Philip Roth will jump readers to the end of his new novel Indignation. On WNYC, the writer will explain how, if you read to the end of his book, you find that the narrator Marcus Messner is not, in fact, dead, but merely in the midst of a morphine hallucination of his own death.
The number of homeowners losing their house to foreclosure shot to a new record of 31,676 in the last quarter of 2007, Los Angeles Times reports. Research firm DataQuick says that 41% of homeowners. This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!
Guest post by DRJ] In an article dated December 26, 2007 (but available online at 3: PM EST Christmas Day), The New York Times reports “bleak” holiday sales based on disappointing MasterCard charges: American consumers, uneasy about the economy and unimpressed by the merchandise in stores, delivered the bleak holiday shopping season retailers had expected, if not feared, according to one early but influential projection.
The New York Times standards editor Craig Whitney recently saw something strange and terrible while out "on the road," as they say: bumper stickers. These are like tiny billboards, affixed to automobiles, that feature sayings, jokes, or even brief political arguments. They're on display for everyone to see!
Does the New York Times let bias creep into its post-Christmas reports on the shopping season just completed? Smart-aleck answer: Is Maureen Dowd obsessed with Dick Cheney? His name appears in 295 of her columns, all but four appearing during the last 7-plus years. That would be almost 40 Cheney inclusions per year, probably close to half the number of columns she has written during that time.
As Pakistanis buried Benazir Bhutto, the assassinated opposition leader, on Friday, the presidential candidates faced what The Times’s Patrick Healy calls a “ghoulish sort of test. While there were some stabs at substance — Mrs. Clinton called for an independent investigation into Ms.
TMZ seemed to be straining to find material" when it posted video of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg last week, the New York Times reports today. A week later. Then reporter Maria Aspan cites a. This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!
Top corporate executives often make large gifts of their company's stock to their family foundations shortly before the stock price drops sharply, according to a new study by a New York University professor. As a result, the executives are able to claim the maximum possible tax deduction and escape capital gains taxes.
Barack Obama hasn’t requested any federal earmarks for 2009. John McCain, in fact, hopes to banish all earmarks forever. Hillary Rodham Clinton? She’s asked for nearly $2. billion in funding for pet projects in 2009, most of that going to her home state of New York, The Hill reports.
ConnectU founders Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss and Divya Narendra have hired new lawyers to argue their suddenly renewed case that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea for his site. The parties agreed to a settlement in February, but last week ConnectU cited new evidence and asked a judge to let it out of the deal.
Both Senator John McCain and Barack Obama plan to open a week of discussions with voters across the country on economic issues today. Mr. McCain will make his case for a “Jobs First” plan at a town hall meeting in Denver where he will also pledge to “balance the federal budget by the end of his first term by curbing wasteful spending and overhauling entitlement programs, including Social Security,” the Politico's Mike Allen reports.
Change” is out, and “comeback” has taken its place as the hot political buzzword, at least as far as New Hampshire voters would have you know. The Democratic primary results out of the Granite State surprised many observers last night, as Hillary Rodham Clinton eked out an unexpected victory over Barack Obama, who had a solid lead in the latest surveys before the polls opened.
All of the Republican candidates, save for Fred D. Thompson, will campaign heavily today in Michigan, which holds its primary tomorrow. Mitt Romney is still hinging his campaign on a win there, although John McCain and Mike Huckabee have made it a very tight race. In a dispatch from the state, The Times’s John Broder examines the ways in which Mr.
As the presidential candidates march toward Super Tuesday (two weeks from today! they are drawing sharp differences against their opponents. And last night in Myrtle Beach, S. C. the Democrats traded barbs in ways we hadn’t seen before. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, the poll leaders, were most abrasive toward one another.
With the G. O. P. candidates gathering in Boca Raton, Fla. tonight for a debate (9 p. m. E. T. MSNBC), you can expect a lot of talk about taxes and real estate. Even Rudolph W. Giuliani, who for months has been pushing his homeland security prowess, has shifted his campaign message ever so slightly to the economy.
Guest post by Jack Dunphy] The L. A. Times reports today on a California Supreme Court Decision upholding an employer's right to dismiss an employee for physician-recommended marijuana use, even if his job performance has not been affected. The story runs to more than 1,000 words, all but two paragraphs of which amount to little more than an editorial slamming the Court's decision, with numerous quotes from the plaintiff, his attorney, and other proponents of medical marijuana use.
South Carolinians find themselves once again enmeshed in debates about race and politics; at least that’s the case if you read some of the blogs rippling across the state. Still, when The State newspaper in Columbia endorsed Senator Barack Obama in the Democratic primary, the paper's editors weren't expecting the venom that Brad Warthen, the paper's editorial page editor, heard: