Author: Biz India

Book Review: Moving Data: The iPhone and the Future of Media

Editors:  Pelle Snickars and Patrick Vonderau Publisher: Columbia University Press Book Review by: Venkat Subramaniam One of the people whose comments are on the back cover of this book describes the iPhone as no less than “the first landmark twenty-first century invention.” That person is Thomas Elsaesser, author of the book The Persistence of Hollywood. The iPhone is no doubt ubiquitous these days, and as I write this today, the latest version of the product – iPhone 5s – just sold more than five million units this past weekend, reaching a milestone in technological and business history. This invention...

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Viral Video Touting ‘ Free Obama Phone’

By Joshua Rhett Miller – Fox News A viral video of an Obama supporter touting her “Obama phone” has put the spotlight on an obscure federal program that provides discounted phone service to qualifying low-income Americans. “Keep Obama as president,” the animated woman says on the video. “He gave us a phone.” The video is drawing attention to the government program — Lifeline — as a national debate unfolds on entitlements and the growing percentage of Americans who pay no income taxes and get a long menu of government benefits. But even though some beneficiaries may credit President Obama...

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Alligator weighing almost 700 lbs. caught in Mississippi

By: Pete Thomas – GrindTV.com After the massive alligator had been hooked, hunter Tom Grant said, “It was an hour and a half of pure tug-of-war and chaos before we finally had him restrained.” That four-man effort, on Friday at a private hunting ranch in Mississippi, resulted in the capture of a gator weighing 697.5 pounds, the heaviest-ever in the state and among the heaviest ever harvested. The lower Mississippi River Delta region consists largely of hunting clubs, timber land, plantations and wildlife management areas. Grant said his group set their hooks into the prehistoric-looking beast during the legal hunting...

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‘Unskewed’ polls show nearly 8-point Romney lead

By Jerome Corsi – WND NEW YORK – Arguing that most of the major polls reported by establishment media are “skewed” in favor of the Democratic Party and incumbent Barack Obama, a website contends that a true gauge of the presidential race, based on more realistic models, shows Republican challenger Mitt Romney leading by an average of nearly eight points. In its daily readjustment of the polling data, UnskewedPoll.com also produces a table showing the spread in President Obama’s approval/disapproval ratio is an average of 8.8 percent more disapproval, as of Monday. Not a single major poll or approval/disapproval index favors Obama when Unskewed.com’s analysis is applied. The website says there is Democratic bias in polling because of over-sampling Democrats based on voter exit polls in the 2008 presidential election, when enthusiasm for a then relatively unknown but charismatic presidential candidate boosted Democratic Party voter registration and turnout to historic levels. Republicans have complained that the establishment media’s voter-turnout models can serve a partisan purpose by presenting margins that keep discouraged Republican voters at home thinking the election is already lost. Signs Obama losing Despite the establishment media narrative that the Romney campaign is behind and in disarray, there are abundant signs the Obama campaign is behind and scrambling not to lose further ground: On Saturday, Obama campaign manager Jim Messina insisted to reporters that despite national polls showing Romney...

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Book Review: The Art of Making Magazines: On Being an Editor and Other Views from the Industry

Book Review: The Art of Making Magazines: On Being an Editor and Other Views from the Industry Editors: Victor S. Navasky and Evan Cornog Publisher: Columbia University Press Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar This book is a collection of articles on the how-to of different types of work that is done in magazines. The material in it has been written by publishers, magazine journalism teachers, managing editors, writers for magazines and other content providers, fact checkers, copy editors, art directors and others involved in magazine layout, design and production. It is different from typical books on how magazines are...

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