I don’t have many links for you this week since I have actually been doing things that generate income (shocking!):
#1: An article about how US newspapers are laying off their best specialized reporters, in this case science reporters, in the name of budget cuts. The unerring capacity for the media (and not just the US media) to get science news stories wrong drives me crazy, so this article caught my eye.
#2: You can’t trust those iTunes App Store reviews. What a shocker (not really). The short version: PR firm offers iPhone app developers excellent reviews on iTunes store … for a fee. Ethics? What are those?
#3: Speaking of ethics and the like: You may be familiar (or not) with a Friday night ritual on Twitter called #romfail in which a romance reviewer mocks a book of the week line-by-line. Well, it seems some people have had enough of this practice. There’s also a roundup of other posts on the topic.
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Thanks for the link. I really enjoyed the first article. It is so so sad but I’m glad you posted it because I would otherwise have no idea what’s going on under the disguise of ‘cutting the budget’.
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