Lady Gaga’s New Social Network Resembles Pinterest, Reddit
Pop megastar Lady Gaga has pierced her powerful, digitally-willing paws deeper into the online world with the closed beta launch of her new social network.
iPad 3′s Retina display will bring news reading closer to print experience The new iPad could finally elevate the text reading experience on a tablet to something much more akin to reading a printed newspaper, magazine or book, says Poynter’s Patrick Thornton. “The blurry, pixelated text from the relatively low-resolution iPad 1 and 2 always stood out. iPad news apps may have great looking photos, videos and interactive graphics, but text — often the core of what a news organization produces — doesn’t look that good, especially in comparison to what humans have been able to enjoy for hundreds of years… The new iPad will allow news apps to look much closer to the printed text found in a glossy news magazine, but apps will need to be rewritten to look proper on this new display, and all art assets will have to be redone as well.”
Vatican officials says tweets are ‘like the gospel’ Pope Benedict XVI will soon be opening his own Twitter account, a Vatican official announced, saying that tweets were in some ways similar to “the gospel.” “The tweet can be reformulated, redistributed, relaunched and disseminated,” said Father Claudio Maria Celli, the head of the Vatican’s pontifical council for social communications, as he announced the initiative. “In this sense it is like the gospel, a small mustard seed that once scattered grows into bushes where birds can rest.” It does not have quite the same ring as a papal bull, but Catholics looking to stay in touch with the Holy Father are about to get acquainted with the papal tweet. Fourteen centuries after popes started using papal bull missives to communicate with the flock, Benedict XVI is due to open a Twitter account, a Vatican official has announced. "The tweet can be reformulated, redistributed, relaunched and disseminated," said Fat...
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