Ehsanul Haque

LinkMeIn – my new class released

Today my new class LinkMeIn was released on PHPClasses.org. I have developed this class about couple of months back but did not have enough time to sit and arrange the files to upload on PHPClasses.org. After Grab Yahoo and MySpace Profile Updater classes this is my third class for same type. This class allows any registered LinkedIn.com user to enter their login information and get the contact list. The list is returned as an array or RSS 2.0 format.

I will update LinkMeIn class in future to add more functionalities to it. For the time being if you want to test it, please visit the LinkMeIn Demo location. To report any bug please use PHPClasses.org Support Forum and if you want to contact me directly please go to the Contact section.

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What is our news reporters’ standard?

Today I was reading news on The Daily Ittefaq site and when I scrolled down to IT Corner section the first article caught my eyes. It was titled “Hariye gelo cyber jouno oporadhider tothho” (Cyber sex offenders’ data was lost). I was on Google News this morning and I could not recall reading such news there.

After I read the article I searched for a long time on Google, BBC News and everywhere I could but could not find such news! In short TDI reported that out of 29,000 sex offenders found on MySpace.com profile data of 700 offenders were lost. It also reports that it was published more than four times in past two months on the company’s website.

From what I have found so far is some relevance with the numbers mentioned in the article. From BBC, Google, MSN and few other places I have found that MySpace.com has barred 29,000 sex offenders found on their social networking site. This number is four times higher than it was reported about couple of months earlier. Previously in May the site found 7,000 offenders.

I did not try to match every bits and pieces of the report made by TDI but so far only only number of offenders matches against the report made by worldwide media. It is really sad to see such bad reporting. Even though I could not find anything relevant that TDI reports, I will be happy to see anything that proves their report is correct. I do not know the editorial process of our newspaper and who approves all these news without making sure it is correct but it is really bad for people in our country! They are given wrong information and that is just not because someone found it wrong. But the person failed to translate or understand what was being reported on millions of news sites and newspapers.

All these raises a question “What is our news reporters’ standard?” I am not being rude to anyone and I know there are many excellent news reporters in our country who are giving their 100% effort in finding the correct news for Bangladeshi people. But these kind of weired and wrong news really puts a bad impression.

Please improve the quality of news published and let people know the right thing. Do not just publish for the sake of running your business!