Laptops, the Coast Guard, YouTube oh my!

There is an interesting piece on BusinessWeek.com (via Slashdot ) that talks about the Dell Battery Recall program and how the blogosphere “kept the heat on the manufacturers to do something about it and helped the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) conduct an investigation into the burning batteries.”

As mentioned in the BusinessWeek.com article,...

Newspaper Study Translated into Japanese

Our recent report evaluating the use of the Internet by the top 20 Japanese newspapers has been translated into Japanese.

To quickly summarize, the report looks at the differences between the American and Japanese newspaper industries, and how the structure of the two markets have affected the way newspapers utilize the Internet....

9 Ways for Newspapers to Improve Their Websites

We took a long look at the features U.S. newspapers include on their websites a few weeks back. In doing the research, we spent more time than is healthy looking at these things. So we figured we’d use this new found expertise for good and offer the newspaper industry some unsolicited advice on how to improve their websites....

Baby Name Voyager: Nifty Graphing App

If you have a thing for cool graphs and trivial information, you might want to check out IVillage's Baby Name Voyager.  This Java-enhanced graph displays alphabetically the 1,000 most popular names for Americans since the 1880s.  Any name that ever made into the top 1,000 is on this list, and you can see in what year the name was most popular,...

Apple’s (Virtually) Painless Recall

When I first read that Apple was recalling batteries on certain laptops, I didn't think for a minute that the iBook G4 I own had anything to do with it. Sure, the battery did get extremely hot at times, but if anything, it was comforting, not unlike a sleeping cat. I certainly didn't (want to) think that my innocent little iBook would ever explode....