Questionable bus routes, gardenias and bad news bears...

So, after a month of Mondays (or more like half a Friday) off, here I am with my little links and useful urls. As you can probably tell from the alliteration, I'm glad to be back. I'm in a fantastic mood, mostly because one of my coworkers left a fresh gardenia on my desk this morning. Viva la Friday!

• Smart phone users have been all over the search engine made especially for mobile devices, Taptu. ReadWriteWeb breaks it down and lets us know if it's any good. [RWW]
• BAD NEWS BEARS: All you pirates (of the musical persuasion), the MPAA has now trained dogs to sniff out "fresh from falling off of the truck" CDs by identifying chemicals "integral to the bootlegging process." [Switched]
• Headline of the week: "Back Up The Porn Bus." Got your attention? The newest wunderkid of the Google-killer kind, Microsoft's search engine Bing has been in some pretty hot water over one little fluke: its easy access to porn. [DownloadSquad]
• In the past few months at Luckie, some of my favorite moments have been spent with our digital communications planner, Keith Browder. I'm surprisingly interested in metrics, purchasing and parking domain names. Here's a primer for everyone who is wondering about the Do's and Don'ts of company URLs. [ReadWriteWeb]
• The professional golfers of the LPGA have refused to tweet while competing, citing the opinion that it shouldn't happen in ANY sport. What do YOU think? [Mashable]

Whitney Sides Mitchell is an intern social media planner for Luckie & Company, founder of the local-music blog BHAM.FM and a music blogger for AL.com. Her Social Pathology Report appears here each Friday.

This week's photo credit: futurowoman/Flickr

Comments

[logosmith]

How are bootleg CDs chemically different from the ones I might have made of my own musical performance, or something from church? Or will our musical overlords sort that out for me while I'm enroute to detention?