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CYBERSPACE NEWS
Last Update on 07-02-2009 at 06:19:08from Eyewitness News Online Twitter Upping Ante On News Gathering NEW YORK Thanks to Twitter, lots of people were able to get fast, accurate information about Michael Jackson's hospitalization and eventual death last week. But the same microblogging site was also the home of false rumors about celebrity deaths around the same time. The contrast points out what is developing into a love-hate relationship between mainstream journalists and the site. Many celebrities, athletes and politicians are using the site to bypass the media and get news and views directly to fans. But some people, while relying for Twitter for breaking news, still wait for traditional news providers to confirm such information before putting full belief in it.
NEW YORK People who use Facebook but don't want every single person they know online to know every single detail about their life will be getting some new tools soon. The social networking site is making a major shift in its privacy controls to give users more ability to control who sees what they share. For example, instead of six privacy pages featuring more than two dozen settings, all the controls will be on a single privacy page. The new controls will let users assign privacy settings to each piece of information they make available on Facebook, including photos, contact information and status updates. On The Web: Google Drops Commentary Feature CYBERSPACE The change isn't getting as much fanfare as it was when it was introduced. But Google is doing away with a feature that lets people mentioned in news stories comment on the articles. The company says it ended the experiment in May, as part of a redesign of the news section of the Web site. The commentary option was introduced in August, 2007. But it wasn't getting enough use to justify keeping it around. For one thing, Google said it was spending too much time and money verifying the identity of the commentators. In Stores: Intellitouch PT-10 Digital Tuner CARROLLTON, Texas Anyone who plays a stringed instrument knows what a chore it can be to tune a guitar, bass, banjo or mandolin properly. But here's a little device that can provide a big assist in that job. The Intellitouch PT10 Mini tuner by On Board Research lets you do the deed without having to change or unplug the instrument to a tuner input. Instead, it clips onto the headstock and uses a chromatic reader to determine the pitch. And in case you're in a place where it's noisy, the device's backlight glows red when the instrument is out of tune and green when it's good to go. It also has a needle display for those who like to have a more traditional way of checking whether a plucked instrument is in tune. And the Intellitouch PT10 tuner retails for under $40 bucks _ which has to be sweet to any musician's ears. |
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