| What?s on Tonight (New York Times) 10 P.M. (MTV) CELEBRITY RAP SUPERSTAR Eight celebrities go mouth to mouth under the tutelage of some of the hip-hop world?s best-known rappers. Big Boi, DMC and Da Brat will judge the contestants each week, after which viewers will provide feedback; both count toward the overall score. The aspiring rappers are the blogger Perez Hilton; the aging rocker Sebastian Bach; Hugh Hefner?s playmate ... us.rd.yahoo.com |
Blogs draw prospects' eyes (Dallas Morning News) A few months after launching a blog early last year, Get It in Writing Inc. started seeing traffic to its Web site soar. us.rd.yahoo.com |
'L.A. Times' Handles Some of the Breaking Fire News in Blog Fashion (Editor & Publisher) NEW YORK As many papers have done in the past two years, the Los Angeles Times delivered breaking, and diverse, news about a major local story -- in this case, the California wildfires -- to millions of online readers in blog-like fashion, with brief dispatches from correspondents, added at the top. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Closures in Compiled JavaFX Script (SYS-CON Media) One of the very useful (and cool) features of compiled JavaFX Script will be closures. In a nutshell, JavaFX Script closures provide the ability to define a function within another function with the inner function having access to the local variables of the outer function. This feature is enabled by the fact that in compiled JavaFX Script, functions are first-class objects, which provides the ... us.rd.yahoo.com |
South Africa: Avusa Fires Journalist for Blogging (AllAfrica.com) The firing of Sowetan sub-editor Llewellyn Kriel yesterday, Thursday, 29 November 2007, by Avusa (formerly Johncom) is a huge talking point in the media community and has been picked up by Arthur Goldstuck's Amablogoblogo, where he has highlighted how the case illustrates the conflict of new and old media. us.rd.yahoo.com |