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The two-decade erosion in newspaper circulation is looking more like an avalanche, with figures released Monday showing weekday sales down more than 10 percent since last year, depressed by rising Internet readership, price increases, the recession and papers intentionally shedding unprofitable circulation. In the six months ended Sept. 30, sales fell by 10.6 percent on weekdays and 7.5 percent on Sundays, from the period a year earlier, for several hundred papers reporting to the Audit Bureau of Circulations . That means that the industry sold about 44 million copies a day — fewer than at any time since the 1940s. The figures join a list of indicators of the industry’s health — like advertising and newsroom headcounts — that, after years of slipping, have accelerated sharply downward, as newspapers face the greatest threats since the Depression. Through the 1990s and into this decade, newspaper circulation was sliding, but by less than 1 percent a year. Then the rate of decline ...

In a recent CNN interview with Twitter CEO Evan Williams, he said that if he were to be given a choice, he would rather have adults on the micro-blogging platform than teenagers. He added on by saying that Twitter is not a social networking website, and the main focus of the San Francisco-based company is real-time information of the things you care about — work, industry, company, news. Recently, statistics have shown that teens don’t use Twitter and the Twitterverse is dominated by young adults between the age of 18-34. Teens Have One Focus In Mind – Friends and Not Political News There’s no doubt that today’s generation of teenagers are tech-savvy. It’s a common sight to see teens spending a huge portion of their time on Facebook, blogging and Instant Messengers. These share a common denominator – friends. By using these social networking platforms, teens are able to interact and connect with our friends online after school. For example, they can share their views, thoughts a...

FACEBOOK on Friday modified its news feed feature to let members of the world's leading social-networking service catch up on tidbits they may have missed while away from the website. Facebook now lets members switch between getting real time streams of news or activities taking place, and highlights of what friends have shared online in the preceding 24 hours, according to Raylene Yung at the California firm. 'You will be able to catch up on what you may have missed while you were away from Facebook and then easily switch to the real-time stream when you want to see posts as soon as they're shared,' the engineer said in a blog post. News Feed picks re-cap stories based on factors including how many friends have liked and commented on them. The Live Feed option funnels updates and news about online friends' activities to Facebook home pages as the information surfaces. 'Some of you may ask why we are changing the home page again,' Ms Yung said. 'We...

A while ago, Facebook introduced a section of Highlights in its right sidebar which shows the most commented photos, coming events, notes and what others are doing. Highlights section got a neutral response from everyone. Some liked it, but others found it as an addition to the ever growing clutter on the Facebook homepage. If you don’t like that highlight section, you can use a userscript to delete that part out of the Facebook homepage. Unfortunately, Facebook being so much customizable, doesn’t allow to enable or disable Highlights, Suggestions or any other section of the homepage. To remove Highlights, simply download the Hide Facebook Highlights greasemonkey script and install it in your browser (see below for your browser). It will remove highlights from your Facebook homepage.

Portable applications in general are software and programs you can run independently from a removable drives (like flash/pen drive) without going through the hassle of installing them. They are widely used and have been a favorite approach for professionals of different various industries. With portable applications, you can leave your laptop behind; plug in the thumb drive in any client machine, run the application without worrying about leaving anything behind. In this post, we attempt to show a collection of useful and free applications you can run independently from thumb drives , sorting by profession by general. You’ll be surprise how many applications you can actually run without installation. Full list after jump. Portable Apps For Bloggers Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox, portable version allows you leave no personal information behind on the machine you run it on, so you can take your favorite browser along with all your favorite bookmarks and extensions with you where...