Morning Xtra: Web Words in Websters, Queen Elizabeth Tweets
by Leila Brillson on July 10, 2009 at 11:50 AM
Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines....
- Asking your frenemies to join you in a flash mob? Confused about what that might mean? Tech-based, social networking-inspired words made it into Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary today. You might see "webisodes" and "vlogs" popping up at your local spelling bee. [From: Associated Press]
- Fancy what goes on inside Buckingham Palace? We don't, but if we did, we could find out what the Queen and her cohorts are up to via their new Twitter account, using the handle 'EnglishMonarchy.' [From: BBC.co.uk]
- Speaking of anglophilia, Liverpool, UK is planning on £5 million, or $8.13 million, on an educational gaming facility, teaching wannabe developers how to create, code, and produce tomorrows game titles. The city leads the UK in gaming talent. [From: LiverpoolDailyPost.co.uk via Joystiq]
- In news of the obvious, 20-percent of online video fans watch less actual TV. Call it the recession, but having a computer, a fast connection, and a Netflix account is a decent TV substitute, in our opinion. [From: ArsTechnica]
- The New York Philharmonic, an austere cultural institution concerned with supporting the arts, is turning to text messaging for donations. Textually reports that $5 SMS member donations; the fee will show up on the monthly billing cycle. [From: PCMag.com via Textually]
- In a survey sent to subscribers yesterday, the New York Times asked whether or not faithful readers would be willing to pay $5 a month for access to their site, which is currently free. Print subscribers, it said in the survey, would be offered the discounted rate of $2.50 to help subsidize the struggling paper. [From: Bloomberg.com]
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