4 posts and columns on steroids

Con Artist Starred in Sting That Cost Google Millions

in News on January 25 at 4:30 am PT

Wearing leg irons and guarded by federal agents, David Whitaker posed as an agent for online drug dealers in dozens of recorded phone calls and email exchanges with Google sales executives, spending $200,000 in government money for ads selling narcotics, steroids and other controlled substances.

Huffington Post and Facebook Go "Social News," With Connect on Steroids

in News on August 16, 2009 at 11:00 pm PT

In an unusually robust collaboration using Facebook Connect, the Huffington Post is launching a feature on Monday called “HuffPost Social News,” which lets readers create a personalized social networking-like news page on the Huffington Post itself. While the Huffington Post had already been using Facebook Connect since January–which allows readers of the site to log in using their Facebook identity to interact, which is mostly used to leave comments–this essentially takes Facebook Connect and puts it on steroids. While the use of “social news” will be seen by some as simply a clever PR term, it is an interesting development for both the popular online news site and for the social networking giant.
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How Sports Illustrated Nailed A-Rod, and Why It May Not Happen Again

in Media on February 11, 2009 at 12:23 pm PT

Some Web optimists dream of a day when citizen journalists armed with cellphones, blogs and Twitter accounts will step in for Big Media. But who’s going to spend many months and lot of money tracking down a single story about a doped-up baseball player–let alone stuff that really matters?