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Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuters
When an Uber driver gets accused of behaving badly, the story inevitably ends up making national news. But no matter what the alleged offense, Uber has repeatedly used the same statement to assure the public it's trying to improve.
Uber requires background checks for all of its drivers, but the ridesharing company has been accused in many of the places it operates of not being thorough enough.
"Safety is our #1 priority," or some version of that, has made its way into numerous reports about drivers doing everything from sexually assaulting passengers to attacking them with hammers.
Uber said: "Rider safety is Uber's No. 1 priority. We take reports like this seriously and are treating the matter with utmost urgency and care."
Uber said: "Safety is Uber's #1 priority. We take reports like this seriously and are treating the matter with the utmost urgency and care."
Well, not on social media anyway. The Hong Kong Occupy Central protest has triggered mainland China’s biggest ever crackdown on Weibo, the country’s version of Twitter.
Well, not on social media anyway. The Hong Kong Occupy Central protest has triggered mainland China’s biggest ever crackdown on Weibo, the country’s version of Twitter.
The folk over at Nike's Running department have been issuing “Shield Packs” over the last few years, special capsule collections based around surviving the Autumn/Winter elements... you know, kind of water proof. Last years "Flash Pack" utilised 3M technology for the first time and made running gear that was ultra reflective so you show up in the dark better. A light bulb must have gone off in...
Manhattan Days is a film composed by Pontus Alv celebrating the Converse Cons Polar Skate Co. CTAS Pro and featuring Cons and Polar riders Aaron Herrington, Kevin Rodrigues, David Stenström, Jerome Campbell, Dane Brady and Pontus himself.
Spoiler alert! Those of you not caught up with Scandal might want to skim this one. -Ed.
This week, searchers learned how to get away with murder—and how not to get away with public criticism of prominent figures with important business relationships with your employer. Shonda, Shonda, Shonda TV fans, rejoice! This week brought premiere episodes for old favorite shows as well as hotly anticipated...
Spoiler alert! Those of you not caught up with Scandal might want to skim this one. -Ed.
This week, searchers learned how to get away with murder—and how not to get away with public criticism of prominent figures with important business relationships with your employer. Shonda, Shonda, Shonda TV fans, rejoice! This week brought premiere episodes for old favorite shows as well as hotly anticipated...
A week ago, New York Times chief television critic Alessandra Stanley landed in hot water after a much-maligned profile of the television producer Shonda Rhimes. In a statement, Stanley deflected criticism of the piece, alluding to the reactionary tendencies of the internet — specifically Twitter. Here's the TimesPublic Editor Margaret Sullivan:
I have asked Ms. Stanley for further comment (she has said that her intentions were misunderstood, and seemed to blame the Twitter culture for that, with a reference to 140 characters)
Stanley's woes are part of a difficult history between the paper of record and the 140-character platform. While many Times reporters were early and influential adopters of the social network, the company has struggled getting all of its staffers on board with "new media," as the company's much-discussed innovation report revealed. The report noted numerous discrepancies with regard to the paper's social strategies:
Readers are finding and engaging with our journalism in vastly different ways. More readers expect us to find them on Twitter and Facebook, and through email and phone alerts. But the newsroom pays less attention to these platforms, even though they offer our main, and sometimes only, channels to tens of millions of readers. Here, too, we are lagging our competitors.
That language is from May — but what does the Times' Twitter footprint look like today? To check, I conducted a very unscientific exploration into the editorial staff Twitter accounts. While the Times employs well over 1,000 editorial staffers, the company keeps an official Twitter list of "NYT Journalists," comprised of the 690 current (and some former) staffers who have Twitter accounts.
There are dozens of heavily followed, high-volume NYT staffers with excellent Twitter accounts. There are also plenty of ghost towns, monuments to the best intentions of the papers' less tech-savvy staffers. And there are eggs. Oh, the eggs! A graveyard of egg profiles.
In rounding up this tour of the Times' Twitter Graveyard I had a few, very fast and very loose rules for consideration. You are eligible for the graveyard if:
- You haven't tweeted in a little over two months.
- You have fewer than 20 total tweets.
- You have an egg as your profile picture. No egg was spared.
