carolinebeavon
Caroline Beavon
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Perez Hilton: Mannequin Gets A Remake
Gladden Entertainment execs are said to be in the "early development" stage of the remake, but they are envisioning a plot of the man crushing on a "laser display hologram" as opposed to a mannequin.Clips from Brittany Murphy's career (footage courtesy Paramount Pictures)
BBC News - US actress Brittany Murphy dies aged 32
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The current single by Indie outfit Delphic has been named one of the singles of the week by Metro .
Delphic make Metro's Singles of the Week
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Members of Cobra Starship have joined other musicians to encourage Generation Y to help beat cancer.
Cobra Starship members join cancer campaign
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Sad news overnight, as 2 more well loved performers have died. R'n'B musician Teddy Pendergrass, who was 59, had been suffering from colon cancer but died from complications during his recovery from surgery. Described as one of the pioneers of black music, he performer the track "If You Don't Know Me My Now" (later covered by Simply Red) and during his career picked up 5 Grammy nominations
Music loses Pendergras and Reatard
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Companies like Microsoft and Samsung rushed to register their .me name.
BBC News - Montenegro's .me domain name gain
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Wikibumps Boing Boing
The elegant and useful Wikipedia article traffic statistics utility is a great poor man's Q score , but it has a lot of delightfully useless uses as well. One of my favorites is monitoring "wikibumps," the jump in traffic that happens when an article is in the news. It turns out that wikibumps usually peak in the first 24 hours, then taper off in about a week, giving further evidence for the hypothesis that the public's memory generally extends back to the last issue of People magazine.
ITV made a pre-tax loss of £105m in the first half of 2009 TV, newspaper and radio companies are to team up for the right to produce regional news bulletins on ITV, which cannot afford to make them itself. To help the company survive, the Department of Culture, Media & Sport invited bids from independently-funded news consortia to produce regional news in three ITV1 areas.
BBC News - Media companies bid to produce local ITV news bulleti
"The decision was taken by Teletext UK who run the licence for the whole of the UK to withdraw the service at the end of this year," said Karen.
BBC - Teletext to close mid-December
Rupert Murdoch visit leaves newsagent nonplussed | Media | guard
Daxa and Amraish Solanki in their newsagent in Turnham Green, London. Photograph: Martin Argles Imagine the scene: a busy newsagent's shop in west London one morning.According to the latest figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations Electronic published today, the Guardian News & Media website, which includes content from the Observer and MediaGuardian.co.uk, attracted 35,792,874 unique users , up 13% on October and 37% year on year. This is the highest number of unique users in one month for any UK newspaper website, beating the previous record of nearly 33 million unique users set by guardian.co.uk in September. "We are thrilled with the November figures.
ABCes: guardian.co.uk nears 36m users | Media | guardian.co.uk
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Hey Ped: thanks for the comment! I like to hashtag otherwise I end up with a host of links in my dropzone, which I never end up sorting out! :-). by carolinebeavon Jan 14
Hi! I just read your post on Pearltrees on your blog, thx! About the Twitter Sync feature, whenever you post a link, it can be automatically pearled: if you activate the autopearl, you don't have to add a hastag to pearl from Twitter :) ll your links will be in your drop zone. # only use to put your pearls directly into one of your pearltrees :) by PED Jan 14
Hey - I am using the plug-in, through the Flock browser. I've just tried it again and, i only adds them once I log out and log in again! by carolinebeavon Jan 6
Thx :) Just to be sure this is not a bug, which tool did you use to add pearls? The Firefox plugin or the bookmarklets? Thx for sharing!! by PED Jan 6
Ah I had tried that, it didn't add them. I'll check my settings and try again. Thanks and, again, what a great product! by carolinebeavon Jan 6
Hello! For now, you have to refresh the page to see the pearls you just added. But in a few weeks, all the contents you pearl from other tabs will appear in real time!!! by PED Jan 6