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10 super gadgets for high-tech homes
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E.U. Fines Drug Companies for Delaying Generics
NYT > Home Page19 Jun 2013 | 4:49 amAntitrust regulators levied a total of $195.5 million in penalties for what they said were companies’ attempts to block a less expensive generic version of a popular antidepressant. -
How to hide your data from Internet snoops
CNN.com - Technology18 Jun 2013 | 2:17 pmLet's face it: Most of us don't e-mail, tweet, text or post anything worthy of clandestine scrutiny. -
City Room: Metropolitan Diary: Goodbye Across the Subway Tracks
NYT > N.Y. / Region19 Jun 2013 | 5:00 amMetropolitan Diary: After a couple decided to break up, they looked for the last time at each other from opposing subway platforms. -
Singer criticizes Jolie's choice
CNN.com - Health19 Jun 2013 | 4:10 amSinger Melissa Etheridge reportedly criticizes Angelina Jolie for her decision to undergo a double mastectomy.
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CNN.com - Top Stories
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10 super gadgets for high-tech homes
19 Jun 2013 | 5:01 amThere's a reason we flip through Skymall every time we board a flight, dog-earing catalogue pages with giant floating trampolines and vibrating bath mats. -
Spectacular infrastructure projects
19 Jun 2013 | 5:01 amAusterity, spending cuts and deficit reduction. -
Underwater art: Sailors, sweethearts
19 Jun 2013 | 5:00 amA sunken World War II ship is now underwater gallery, featuring 12 photographs of retro sailors and their sweethearts. -
Photos you wish you had taken
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Get a sneak peek at 'Anchorman 2'
19 Jun 2013 | 4:46 amRon Burgandy and the gang take on the 1980s, New York City and the world of 24-hour news in this sequel.
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NYT > Home Page
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E.U. Fines Drug Companies for Delaying Generics
19 Jun 2013 | 4:49 amAntitrust regulators levied a total of $195.5 million in penalties for what they said were companies’ attempts to block a less expensive generic version of a popular antidepressant. -
Taliban Attack and Afghan Move Cast Pall on Peace Talks
19 Jun 2013 | 2:04 amAfter opening its Qatar office, the Taliban ambushed an American convoy in Afghanistan, and separately, Afghan officials broke off military talks with the United States. -
The Price of Loyalty in Syria
19 Jun 2013 | 2:00 amThe Alawites are caught between support for their own increasingly brutal leaders and a rebellion that may want to wipe them off the map. -
Dissent Festers in States That Obama Forgot
19 Jun 2013 | 2:00 amIn a country splintered by partisanship and race, President Obama’s near-complete absence from more than 25 percent of states may have consequences. -
Game 6: Heat 103, Spurs 100 (OT): Heart-Stopping Survival as Heat Force Game 7
19 Jun 2013 | 12:08 amLeBron James, his much-debated legacy still intact, posted a triple-double and led a late charge, propelling the Heat to an overtime victory against the San Antonio Spurs.
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CNN.com - Technology
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How to hide your data from Internet snoops
18 Jun 2013 | 2:17 pmLet's face it: Most of us don't e-mail, tweet, text or post anything worthy of clandestine scrutiny. -
Tech companies jockey to be most transparent
18 Jun 2013 | 2:16 pmTrust us, we're from Silicon Valley. -
The top games of E3 2013
18 Jun 2013 | 8:25 amThe annual Electronics Entertainment Expo, which wrapped up here Thursday, is all about next-generation gaming. -
10 gadgets for a high-tech home
17 Jun 2013 | 3:35 pmThere's a reason we flip through Skymall every time we board a flight, dog-earing catalogue pages with giant floating trampolines and vibrating bath mats — we love novelty, and now we expect it from our gadgets, too. -
Google to launch Wi-Fi balloon experiment
17 Jun 2013 | 4:56 amGoogle is preparing to conquer a new dimension: the stratosphere. The Internet giant is releasing 30 high-tech balloons in a trial of technology designed to bring the Internet to places where people are not yet connected.
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NYT > N.Y. / Region
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City Room: Metropolitan Diary: Goodbye Across the Subway Tracks
19 Jun 2013 | 5:00 amMetropolitan Diary: After a couple decided to break up, they looked for the last time at each other from opposing subway platforms. -
DealBook: Regulators Are Divided Regarding Consultants
19 Jun 2013 | 3:56 amDeloitte has agreed to a $10 million fine and a one-year ban from advising banks chartered in New York as part of a settlement with state officials. -
Sherwood Ross, President of Ross Bicycles, Dies at 92
18 Jun 2013 | 8:34 pmMr. Ross became president of the company his father founded and turned it into the third-largest American bicycle maker. -
Younger Espada, Like His Father, Is Sentenced for Theft From Bronx Center
18 Jun 2013 | 8:05 pmA judge said that while Pedro Gautier Espada was “somewhat under his father’s thumb,” that did not excuse his stealing federal money from a Bronx health center. -
Small Businesses, With Group, Seek Greater Say in New York City’s Policies
18 Jun 2013 | 8:03 pmThe coalition, to be called GoBizNYC, will push for the formation of a small-business caucus in the City Council.
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CNN.com - Health
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Singer criticizes Jolie's choice
19 Jun 2013 | 4:10 amSinger Melissa Etheridge reportedly criticizes Angelina Jolie for her decision to undergo a double mastectomy. -
#AskSanjay your brain Qs
19 Jun 2013 | 4:09 amThe lifestyle choices you make today directly impact your brain health as you age. Join us for a LIVE chat with Dr. Sanjay Gupta on Twitter. -
Sight changed by 3-D movie?
19 Jun 2013 | 4:08 amBruce Bridgeman had poor depth perception and could never see in stereo, with both eyes. After watching the 3-D movie, he says, things began to "jump out at me." -
#AskSanjay brain health questions
19 Jun 2013 | 4:07 amThe lifestyle choices you make today directly impact your brain health as you age. Join us for a LIVE chat with Dr. Sanjay Gupta on Twitter. -
Alternative healing or quackery?
19 Jun 2013 | 4:06 amAlthough non-traditional therapies can be valuable, sometimes a line is crossed. So how can you tell if your alternative healer is a quack?
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Mashable
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8 Places to Score Free Fonts Online
19 Jun 2013 | 5:23 amChoosing the right font for your Powerpoint presentation or design project is serious business — you want to be careful not to send the wrong message Luckily, there are thousands of fonts online you can download for free. Take a look at our favorite resources below SEE ALSO: 24 Famous Fonts You Can Download for Free Do you have any favorite websites for fonts? Share them with us in the comments (Comic Sans is not an acceptable answer) 1Dafont Image by Mashable Dafont has one of the most diverse font collections on the web. Its library includes more than 20,000 options to browse, and the… -
8 Unbelievable Technologies That Replace Super Powers
19 Jun 2013 | 4:31 amSuper heroes are the very definition of cool. The secret identities, the triumphant rescues, the skin-tight Lyrca outfits that show off every defined muscle and curve Yes, super heroism is a lifestyle we could all get used to Luckily for you, the following eight super powers don't even require mutated genetics or a Kryptonian birth certificate, thanks to modern technology 1. Invisibility Until recently, only boy wizards enjoyed the power of invisibility. Those “cloaks” that did exist were either too bulky or too small to fit over anything larger than a petri dish. But no more SEE… -
4 Reasons to Offer Employees Flexible Schedules
19 Jun 2013 | 3:07 amThis post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. There’s been a lot of talk around Yahoo and Best Buy making unpopular decisions about employees who work from home. While we all have our opinions on the subject, it’s important to realize these decisions impact the companies that made them and no one else As a result of the bad press telecommuting has received, the flexible work benefit has been getting a bad rap. It’s unfortunate because flexible… -
Award-Winning Journalist Michael Hastings Dies at 33
19 Jun 2013 | 2:33 amBuzzFeed reporter and a Rolling Stone contributor Michael Hastings has died in a car crash Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 33 BuzzFeed's editor in chief Ben Smith posted a statement about Hastings' death on its site "We are shocked and devastated by the news that Michael Hastings is gone. Michael was a great, fearless journalist with an incredible instinct for the story, and a gift for finding ways to make his readers care about anything he covered from wars to politicians," he wrote. Rolling Stone also posted about Hastings, praising his profile of General Stanley McChrystal, his piece on… -
The News Team Gets a Taste of the '80s in 'Anchorman 2' Trailer
19 Jun 2013 | 1:25 amWill Ferrell fans, take notice: the first full-length trailer for Anchorman: The Legend Continues is out In the trailer, Ron, Brick, Champ and Brian (played by Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, David Koechner and Paul Rudd, respectively), are back, but the setting has changed The '80s have replaced the '70s, and the team has moved from San Diego to the Big Apple. Their mission, to quote Ron Burgundy, is to have "salon-quality hair and read the news." SEE ALSO: 'Anchorman 2' Announcement Takes the Internet to Pleasure Town [VIDEO] The movie, directed by Adam McKay, has a huge list of star cameos,…
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WebMD Health
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Blood Test Might Predict Type 1 Diabetes in Children, Study Finds
18 Jun 2013 | 3:34 pmEvidence of two autoantibodies signaled a 70 percent risk, researchers say -
Fewer Young Americans Lack Health Care Coverage
18 Jun 2013 | 3:29 pmBut 45 million Americans overall still don't have health insurance -
Polluted Air Linked to Autism Risk
18 Jun 2013 | 12:25 pmPregnant women who live with smog at higher risk, but experts caution the finding is not definitive -
Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA): Best and Worst Supplements and Herbs
18 Jun 2013 | 11:47 amSome supplements are good for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Some are dangerous. WebMD explains which supplements and herbs may help relieve rheumatoid arthritis symptoms and which ones you should never take. -
Rheumatoid Arthritis, Smoking, and Drinking Alcohol
18 Jun 2013 | 11:00 amWebMD talks to experts about how smoking and drinking affect rheuamtoid arthritis.
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TechCrunch
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BT Appoints Insider Gavin Patterson As CEO; Ian Livingston To Become UK Trade Minister
19 Jun 2013 | 4:35 amA changing of the guard at UK carrier BT: the company has announced that it will be appointing Gavin Patterson as its new CEO effective September, to replace Ian Livingston, who is taking up a role in the UK government as the Minister of State for Trade and Investment. Like Livingston, this is an internal appointment, and like Livingston, Patterson is being picked from the company’s consumer-facing division, BT Retail — which is also its biggest and most visible operation, alongside a wholesale fixed-line service, business services and its Openreach broadband network. Patterson… -
ThousandEyes Raises $5.5M From Sequoia, Launches With Service That Pinpoints Problems For How Apps Are Delivered
19 Jun 2013 | 4:30 amThousandEyes has raised $5..5 million from Sequoia Capital and angel investors for a service that pinpoints application issues between the enterprise and cloud services. The service provides a view for how apps are delivered. It determines if the problem is the SaaS provider, the enterprise environment or the Internet. It can look across the network and determine where there may be packets dropping, high latency, bandwidth issues or other problems. This removes the guesswork that comes when cloud or enterprise parties are trying to determine how to respond to problems. A dashboard environment… -
Tred Launches Its On-Demand Test Drive Service In Seattle
19 Jun 2013 | 4:30 amTred, which hopes to provide a service that’s like “Uber for car test drives,” is finally launching its service to the public. The company, which hopes to streamline the process of buying a car by bringing on-demand test drives to your home or office, will first become available in Seattle. The service allows prospective car buyers to order a test drive for a flat fee, with the automobile of their choice being delivered to the location of their choice. Cars are brought to customers by Tred Auto Experts, who are trained to answer any questions about the car in question, and… -
ScribbleLive Raises $8M To Continue Its Real-Time Media Content Push
19 Jun 2013 | 4:00 amScribbleLive, from Toronto-based Scribble Media, was once nearly synonymous with the term “live blogging,” but you’d be hard-pressed to find reference to that term on its site now. The company has matured and expanded considerably in the five years since its original founding, and with a new $8 million raise, it hopes to continue that maturation, to become the engine powering real-time content at media sites and other web-based properties in various industries. Scribble’s round comes from Georgian Partners, and includes Export Development Canada (EDC), Summerhill… -
TripAdvisor Continues Acquisition Spree, Buys GateGuru Mobile App For Real-Time Travel Info
19 Jun 2013 | 3:19 amTravel portal TripAdvisor continues to push ahead with its mobile and social acquisitions: today the company announced that it has acquired GateGuru, a mobile app that provides real-time information on airports, weather, and flights. Much of that is picked up from crowdsourcing, not unlike Waze — acquired by Google last week — does with road travel. Terms of the deal between GateGuru and TripAdvisor have not been disclosed but we are trying to find out. This is not an acqui-hire but a direct expansion of TripAdvisor’s services to its users. As more people take to mobile and…
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Not Getting My Podcast?
13 Jun 2013 | 6:35 amWhat? You’re not getting my podcast? Get it HERE. You can: Subscribe via Stitcher Radio (my favorite!) Subscribe via iTunes Subscribe on the Blackberry Network and you can subscribe to me via the Zune part of the XBOX Live store, but there are no direct links (sorry about that)! Want a simple RSS link? I have that too. Also, if you’re not yet subscribed to my free newsletter, it’s highly recommended. : ) Want the most recent episode? Make Your Own Damned Show I’d LOVE to see you there. Already Subscribed? May I BEG you for an iTunes Review? That link goes to the SIMPLE… -
Marketing Vs Owning Relationships
12 Jun 2013 | 4:28 amThe reason most companies and people have a challenge with their marketing efforts is that they’re trying to market and not own a relationship. I found myself wandering through Boston’s Faneuil Hall the other day and happened upon the band, the Ballroom Thieves playing for a crowd. I love watching musicians in street situations, because I learn a lot about pure business from them. They need to get someone’s attention, wow them enough to motivate that person to put a hand into their pocket, and earn some money. It’s pure marketing and pure sales at its best. And when… -
Ownership Starts From Within
7 Jun 2013 | 1:30 amI wanted to share a thought with you about ownership. Ownership starts from within. You start by realizing one day that you can own your choices. It grows. You accept that you can choose your goals. Then, you realize you can create a kingdom or a world or whatever you want to call it (your domain). And from there, your ownership becomes an obsession. Ownership Starts from Within People always seem to ask about a specific moment where everything changed. I don’t believe in them. I believe there are dozens of moments, hundreds. We think there’s only one shot, like that Eminem song. -
Shift Your Social Media Usage to Fabric Mode
4 Jun 2013 | 4:18 amWhen social media came out and for the next many years, people have treated it like a main course. Ultimately, it’s more like a condiment, or a texture. It’s time to move it to the “fabric” mindset. I was talking with Jacq about our upcoming talk at State of Now about how one starts a health reboot. In brainstorming, we both realized that we use social media and social networking tools to help with various aspects of our fitness and health. But we don’t make a “thing” out of it. We just do it. The tools just get us to the information and the people. -
Sponsored Post – Two Weeks of Office365 and Windows
31 May 2013 | 4:44 amI decided to challenge myself and really put Office365 to the test. The following is sponsored by Cloud Powered Work, which is a project with IDG, LinkedIn, and Microsoft’s Office365. Everything in this post is mine, and my opinions are my own. I’ve been dabbling with and enjoying the experience of working with my Dell XPS10 tablet for a month or two now, and I really dig the new Office365 experience. The thing is, my entire business runs on a totally different operating system and using a completely different suite of cloud tools. So I’ve really only been dabbling all this…
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ReadWrite
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An Honest, Law-Abiding Patent Troll?
19 Jun 2013 | 5:04 amGiven the inanity that is our current patent system, it's not surprising that innocent patent holders can look like trolls. Such might well be the case with SightSound Technologies, a subsidiary of General Electric, which has spent years in patent lawsuits with Apple, CDNow, Bertelsmann, Napster and others. As SightSound's CEO Scott Sander argues in a letter to The Wall Street Journal editor, "true innovators [can be] so burdened by the cost of the very patents meant to protect them that they themselves must become an 'assertion' entity." Or, in other words, a patent troll. But when is a… -
A Handy Guide To Google's Project Loon
19 Jun 2013 | 4:00 amNo one can accuse Google of not thinking big. Project Loon, Google's audacious "moonshot" vision to bring mobile Internet connectivity to the billions without - via balloons - is one of the company's biggest ideas ever. It's madness, but it just might work. Considering the uniqueness of the idea, its use of old technology, and the potential impact it will have should Google succeed, you no doubt have questions. Here is a handy Q&A guide to help you understand Project Loon. Balloons? Really? Yes, really. The balloons are made of polyethylene plastic. They are… -
Google Cites First Amendment In Challenge To FISA Secrecy Order
18 Jun 2013 | 2:44 pmGoogle, eager to salvage its security-related reputation in the wake of disclosures about the NSA's PRISM surveillance program, has asked a secretive intelligence court to let it disclose more details regarding government requests for information about its users, reports the Washington Post. In a legal filing Tuesday, Google cited a First Amendment right to speak about the information it must legally provide to the government. The company is seeking to have the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court lift a gag order that prevents companies from discussing or describing… -
Google's Next Nexus Is Nowhere In Sight
18 Jun 2013 | 9:39 amIf you are waiting to get your hands on the latest and greatest of Google’s Nexus Android smartphones and tablets, the last month or so has been both exciting and disappointing. Google's Hugo Barra announces Google Edition Samsung Galaxy S4 Google announces new Nexus smartphones and tablets when it ships new versions of Android. With every sugary dessert iteration, avid Android fans get flagship devices running unadulterated Android (free of the skins and bloatware from manufacturers and carriers) to satiate their geeky desires. The only problem? Google hasn’t announced a… -
Pinterest Developers, After Years Of Waiting, Can Take Hope
18 Jun 2013 | 9:10 amThe developer community has a message for Pinterest: what’s taking so long? Ever since March 2012, the image-sharing network has promised developers an API. And it's in demand - according to ProgrammableWeb, the Pinterest API profile is the most frequently viewed page on the site, revealing the community’s anticipation for the feature. Whatever the reason, the lack of API access from Pinterest is not sitting well with the developer community. Promises But Little Progress An API, or application programming interface, is a group of requirements that permit one device to talk to…
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@ProBlogger
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Content Creation vs Content Promotion: Where is the Balance?
18 Jun 2013 | 9:08 amA few days ago we published a post on ProBlogger titled ‘Forget about Marketing: Concentrate on Blogging‘, which led to some interesting discussion on Twitter and in the comments. I love the points author Nicholas Whitmore made in the post but I wanted to give a few thoughts, based on my own experience, on developing great content and promoting your blog. Nicholas wrote some great arguments for focusing your energy on writing great content as the central way of growing your blog. He writes: “When you write and publish awesome content on your blog, good things will come your… -
Don’t Be Lazy: 9 Ways to Blog Smarter and Harder
17 Jun 2013 | 8:37 amThis is a guest contribution from Eric Cummings who writes about art and philosophy for On Violence. I’ve been writing this post for three years. What can I say? I’m lazy. Or I should say, I used to be lazy. That’s not the case anymore. Four years ago, my brother and I started taking our writing career seriously. I now write. A lot. On my days off from work, I regularly put in over ten hour days, just writing, editing and re-writing. I’ve learned how to work, both smarter and harder. You can too. (Finally, an admission: though I wrote down an outline for this post three years… -
Forget about Marketing: Concentrate on Blogging
14 Jun 2013 | 8:24 amThis is a guest contribution by Nicholas Whitmore. The title: What on earth does it mean? Well, recently it seems like a lot of bloggers fancy themselves as marketers. You can’t read a post on a blog without seeing a load of other bloggers commenting at the bottom, with a link back to their own site. Of course other bloggers use black hat SEO tricks and other shady tactics in order to drive traffic to their blog. Each to their own you might say, but at the end of the day life can be much, much easier. If you publish blog content that’s truly awesome, everyone else will market your blog… -
Why Your Blog Posts Are Falling Short of Greatness and What To Do About It
13 Jun 2013 | 9:15 amThis is a guest contribution by Belinda Weaver, marketing copywriter behind The Copy Detective. You’ve finished your latest blog post and it’s pretty good isn’t it, isn’t it? Are you sure? Some bloggers think that coming up with ideas is the hardest part of blogging. Maybe you agree. Personally, I think it’s harder to turn an idea into blogging GOLD. I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Writing a really great blog post isn’t simply down to your writing. Sure, you need to use language that will appeal to your reader, and all your verbs need to be the right way up… -
How to Make Your Blogging Dreams Come True
12 Jun 2013 | 8:42 am“ONE DAY I’ll be a full time blogger!” ‘V’ – my wife – must have heard that statement 100 or more times in 2003-2004. Me posing for my first ever press photo in 2003. Out of shot all my neighbours were watching on and wondering why I was videoing a guy taking a photo of me while sitting in my front yard. It would usually be accompanied by a spread sheet and/or chart in which I showed her how the earnings from my blog had grown from $9 per month to $11 per month and me excitedly talking about how if things kept growing like that I’d be full…
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Wired Top Stories
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The Company Website Is Making a Comeback
19 Jun 2013 | 3:30 amCompanies are pulling more and more content off of outside social streams like Twitter and Facebook and onto websites they own and control. -
Your Door Is About to Get Clever: 5 Smart Locks Compared
19 Jun 2013 | 3:30 amI hope you've always wanted a smartphone-controlled door lock because the tech world is here to shove them in your face. Or hand, rather. -
Conquer the Hills: 11 Mountain Biking Essentials
19 Jun 2013 | 3:30 amOur warm-weather adventures continue as we saddle up on mountain bikes to go test some of the latest off-road cycling gear, including bikes, helmets, shoes and outerwear. -
Why Male Dark Fishing Spiders Spontaneously Die After Sex
19 Jun 2013 | 3:30 amIt's a unusually cruel fate even in the twisted world of spider sex: When male dark fishing spiders copulate, they die -- death is the?unavoidable consequence of the mechanism by which males transfer sperm to females. -
Sony Won E3 (But That Doesn't Matter)
19 Jun 2013 | 3:30 amTo sit back, cross one's arms, and declare the console war over would be ludicrous at this point.
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ABC News: Top Stories
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Should Lil' Poopy, 10, Be in Da Club?
19 Jun 2013 | 5:40 amHe's a grade school rapper with the swagger of an original gangster, a 10-year-old kid who is killing it live and savoring the spoils. -
Car Jumps Curb in NYC, 8 Hurt
19 Jun 2013 | 5:37 am8 hurt, some seriously, when vehicle jumps curb in Manhattan -
Photos: Demi Moore's Daisy Dukes
19 Jun 2013 | 5:31 amThis Week's Star Spotting - Week of June 17, 2013 -
Olympian Lolo Jones' Paycheck Flap
19 Jun 2013 | 5:13 amAmerican Olympic hurdler Lolo Jones said she wanted to show how hard bobsled athletes work when she posted a six-second clip about her paycheck on social video sharing site Vine. In the video, Jones, 30, shows her paycheck of $741.84 from her season with the USA... -
Watch: Investigators Claim TWA 800 Crash Not An Accident
19 Jun 2013 | 5:07 amIn a new documentary on the 17-year-old crash, six investigators say there was a cover up.
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Daily News - News
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Brooklyn cop allegedly injures wife in fight over broken TV remote
19 Jun 2013 | 5:53 amAn off-duty Brooklyn cop was arrested for injuring his wife during a violent tirade, police said Tuesday. -
Crook gunned down in Brooklyn by cop: police
19 Jun 2013 | 5:51 amA Brooklyn cop shot and killed a robber who opened fired at officers early Wednesday, police sources said. The incident unfolded about 1:08 a.m. in East New York when 75th Precinct cops driving down Hinsdale St. were flagged down by a livery cab driver and told about a robbery in progress further down the street. -
NUT JOB! WABC weatherman Bill Evans claims wife beat him with wooden hanger, violently clawed at his CROTCH in vicious attack that left him BLEEDING
19 Jun 2013 | 5:49 amIt was a dark and stormy fight — over a set of car keys. WABC-TV weatherman Bill Evans claims he was left with a bruised backside and a clawed crotch after a nasty scuffle with his wife as hard feelings escalated in their ugly divorce battle. -
NSA snooping programs have thwarted 50 terror plots, including scheme to bomb New York Stock Exchange: feds
19 Jun 2013 | 5:44 amGovernment phone and Internet snooping programs helped thwart a Yemen-linked terror plot targeting the New York Stock Exchange, officials claimed Tuesday. -
New film feeds conspiracy theories about crash of TWA Flight 800
19 Jun 2013 | 5:40 amA new documentary about ill-fated TWA Flight 800, which crashed off the coast of Long Island in 1996, claims the official explanation for the disaster was false and calls for a new probe into the case.
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POLITICO - TOP Stories
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Allen West open to Rubio challenge
19 Jun 2013 | 4:35 am"We'll see what happens down the pike," says the Florida Republican. -
Obama: 'Lives have been saved' by surveillance
19 Jun 2013 | 4:24 amObama says he will try "to find way to declassify" more information about the programs. -
Greenwald: NSA chief 'misleading'
19 Jun 2013 | 4:24 amSays there's no evidence the country is more safe. -
Fla. poll: Clinton beats Bush, Rubio
19 Jun 2013 | 3:44 amThe former secretary of state would best both if the election were today, Quinnipiac finds. -
Rove to Obama: Cheney had guts
19 Jun 2013 | 3:24 amRepublican strategist Karl Rove says President Barack Obama is right about one thing: He's not Dick Cheney.
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Michael Hastings Dead: Reporter, Author Dies In Car Crash At Age 33
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41 Child Sex Crime Suspects Arrested By Polk County Sheriff's Office
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Brazilian Military Police Officer Pepper-Sprays Woman During Rio De Janeiro Protests (PHOTO)
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Amy Adams' Bikini Body Isn't What You'd Expect, Actress Says (PHOTOS)
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Jared Marcum Charge: 14-Year-Old Who Wore NRA Shirt To School Faces Year In Jail
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Law Blog
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Study: Patent Litigation Shows No Sign of Slowing
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Clarence Thomas, Stereotype Buster
18 Jun 2013 | 1:07 pmAs his 22nd year on the Supreme Court nears an end, Justice Clarence Thomas is upending some of the familiar nostrums about his work. -
Europeans Warn of ‘Unchecked’ Access to Cloud Data
18 Jun 2013 | 11:54 amFor people outside the United States -- including citizens of our most friendly allies -- the scope of surveillance allowed under American law may not seem so modest. -
The AM Roundup: Setback for Pacts That Delay Sale of Generics
18 Jun 2013 | 5:28 amLaw Blog rounds up the morning's news. -
Former FTC Chairman Joins Davis Polk
17 Jun 2013 | 7:05 pmBloomberg NewsJon Leibowitz departed the FTC in February. Recent Federal Trade Commission chairman Jon Leibowitz is moving from Official Washington to the world of Big Law, joining law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP. The firm said Mr. Leibowitz, who left the agency in February, would join its antitrust team as well as provide counseling on privacy law, an area where the FTC broke new ground under his leadership. President Barack Obama picked Mr. Leibowitz to lead the five-member FTC in 2009, amid expectations that the administration’s antitrust nominees at the commission and the Justice…
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Advice to Writers
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Get To Work
18 Jun 2013 | 9:04 pmSit in sun. Sun goes behind cloud. Look at watch. Notice that second-hand does not always point directly at little marks on dial. Sometimes it does, though. Then sometimes it doesn't. Why? Feel panic at how quickly life slips by. Get to work. NICHOLSON BAKER -
Respect Your Genre
17 Jun 2013 | 10:05 pmRespect the genre you’re writing in. In an effort to put your own stamp on it, don’t ignore the established conventions of that genre—or you’ll alienate your core audience of loyal buyers. KATHLEEN KRULL -
Read Bad Stuff
16 Jun 2013 | 9:01 pmIf you are going to learn from other writers don’t only read the great ones, because if you do that you’ll get so filled with despair and the fear that you’ll never be able to do anywhere near as well as they did that you’ll stop writing. I recommend that you read a lot of bad stuff, too. It’s very encouraging. “Hey, I can do so much better than this.” Read the greatest stuff but read the stuff that isn’t so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. EDWARD ALBEE -
Don't Think Too Much About the Publishing World
15 Jun 2013 | 9:03 pmI don't think it's a good idea for writers to think too much about the publishing world. I sense in a good many books, even in books by the best writers, an anxiety about how it will do in the marketplace. You can feel it on the page, a sort of sweat of calculation. ELIZABETH HARDWICK -
Try To Make Editors Tell You What They Want
14 Jun 2013 | 9:03 pmTry to make them tell you what they really want. Most often they recognize what theydon’t want, but have a much harder time explaining what it is you’re supposed to give them. Make them tell! MAUREEN ORTH
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Writing Forward
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Sneak Peek at “10 Core Practices for Better Writing” – More Reading for Better Writing
19 Jun 2013 | 1:00 amReading to improve your writing. Today I’d like to share a sneak peek at my forthcoming book, 10 Core Practices for Better Writing, which will be available in early July. The book explores 10 essential habits that every writer can adopt to become a master of the craft of writing. Today’s post features several excerpts from the first chapter, which covers the first and most important practice: reading. “If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” – Stephen King To write well, there are only two things you… -
The Sweet Highs And Sugar Crashes of Writing with a Bestseller
17 Jun 2013 | 1:00 amWriting with a Bestseller: available January 2014. Please welcome guest author Tony Vanderwarker, who has generously shared his experience studying writing under his mentor, best-selling author John Grisham. A while ago, having been asked to introduce friend and neighbor John Grisham at a writers’ retreat, I took the opportunity to give the audience a peek into John’s incredible plot development machine. As I pulled back the curtain to reveal what I’d learned when he’d mentored me in writing a novel, I found myself on a different footing with the famous author. Not that I had… -
The Only Two Writing Tips You’ll Ever Need
14 Jun 2013 | 1:00 amYou only need two writing tips: read and write. I love collecting writing tips. You never know when you’re going to stumble across a golden nugget of wisdom that will make your writing richer and more vibrant. One of the reasons I started this website was so that I could share the many valuable tips that I’ve acquired over the years. I figure that if some bit of advice helped my writing, it’ll probably help other people’s as well. But writing tips are funny things. What works for me might not work for you. Maybe you are naturally inclined to show rather than tell… -
Writing Prompts for the Young at Heart
12 Jun 2013 | 1:00 amWriting prompts that ignite your youthful imagination. Stories and poems for children are among the most magical and delightful written works in the literary canon. Children’s literature has a universal appeal; the phenomenal international popularity of the Harry Potter books and movies is a testament to the power of children’s stories. But there plenty of other works that affirm the longevity of children’s literature: nursery rhymes, fairy tales, and classics such as Where the Wild Things Are, Goodnight Moon, and everything Dr. Seuss ever wrote. Most of us writers first… -
Quotes on Writing: Ernest Hemingway “Learn to Write”
10 Jun 2013 | 1:00 am“It’s none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.” – Ernest Hemingway Learning to Write Nobody’s born knowing how to write; we all have to learn how to do it. Yet the myth persists that people who write well (or do anything well) are endowed with special talent. They are the chosen ones. This idea that ability or success relies entirely on talent is silly. Talent is helpful, sure. But the best and most successful authors study, practice, and learn. They develop good habits and commit to the craft. They work hard.
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‘Free My Internet’: Hundreds march in Singapore against website licensing regime
8 Jun 2013 | 9:11 pmVia RT News: ‘Free My Internet’: Hundreds march in Singapore against website licensing regime. Excerpt: In Singapore, up to 2,000 activists led by local bloggers staged a rally against recently introduced licensing rules for news websites, including breaches of “racial or religious harmony”, which protesters see as an attack on freedom of expression. A crowd with posters denouncing “internet censorship” gathered on Saturday in Speakers’ Corner at Hong Lim Park to demand the withdrawal of the policy. The peaceful demonstration in the Southeast Asian city-state was… -
Breaking the rules of online publishing
7 Jun 2013 | 11:51 amVia J-source.ca: Live blog of MagNet2013 Conference: Breaking The Rules Of Online Publishing—Tyee Style. Excerpt: Let a West Coast media rebel teach you the dos and don’ts for online editing and presence—and show you how throwing those ideas out the window can sometimes be the best way to go. David Beers from The Tyee will go through his rules to live by in the online publishing world, and reveal case by case how his online news magazine has found success by breaking them. Learn what makes The Tyee’s practices unique among online publications, and how those differences have made… -
Composition 101: A. Lincoln, Instructor
22 Feb 2013 | 11:44 amVia The Columbia Journalism Review: Composition 101: A. Lincoln, Instructor. After using the impending Oscars as a news peg, Kevin Coyne writes: Writing is thinking, and if you don’t think clearly about what you want to say, what story you want to tell, you will never write clearly about it. Clarity - of thought, of purpose, of expression - is the cardinal virtue of good writing, and it shines abundantly through everything Lincoln says and does in the movie. Writing is not just what happens at a desk. It happens everywhere and always, whenever your mind encounters a thought it wants… -
What Twitter really looks like
28 Jan 2013 | 10:09 amVia The Atlantic.com, Megan Garber shows us What Twitter Really Looks Like. Excerpt: I just watched the West Coast wake up. On Twitter. I did it by watching the lights come on on Tweetping, which visualizes Twitter activity in real time, on a global scale. When I looked at the site earlier this morning, the left half of North America was largely dark. I returned a little later, though, and watched -- in real time -- the lights slowly turn on, burst after burst after burst, as West Coasters started their Mondays. And, more specifically, as they started tweeting… -
How to verify information from tweets: Check it out
22 Jan 2013 | 8:24 amVia The Buttry Diary, Steve Buttry tells us How to verify information from tweets: Check it out. This is a very helpful guide for anyone doing journalism or advocacy online. Excerpt: Journalists should treat information we gather on social media the same way we treat information gathered any other way, or an assurance from Mom that she loves you: Check it out. My #twutorial series hasn’t been updated since late October, but I always planned to do a post on verifying information gathered in social media. Given the errors some journalists made in reporting on the Sandy Hook…
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Crook gunned down in Brooklyn by cop: police
19 Jun 2013 | 5:50 amA Brooklyn cop shot and killed a robber who opened fired at officers early Wednesday, police sources said. The incident unfolded about 1:08 a.m. in East New York when 75th Precinct cops driving down Hinsdale St. were flagged down by a livery cab driver and told about a robbery in progress further down the street. -
NSA: 50 plots thwarted by surveillance
19 Jun 2013 | 5:44 amWASHINGTON — Government phone and Internet snooping programs helped thwart a Yemen-linked terror plot targeting the New York Stock Exchange, officials claimed Tuesday. -
New film feeds conspiracy theories about crash of TWA Flight 800
19 Jun 2013 | 5:40 amA new documentary about ill-fated TWA Flight 800, which crashed off the coast of Long Island in 1996, claims the official explanation for the disaster was false and calls for a new probe into the case. -
Florida man indicted for strangling ex-wife and tossing her off cruise ship
19 Jun 2013 | 5:34 amA California grand jury has indicted a Florida man on charges he strangled his ex-wife and tossed her off a cruise ship in Italy. -
Journalist Michael Hastings killed in car crash
19 Jun 2013 | 5:33 amAward-winning journalist and war correspondent Michael Hastings died early Tuesday in a single car crash in Los Angeles, his employer and family said. Hastings' ground breaking reporting on Gen. Stanley McChrystal's candid criticism of the Obama administration is credited with ending McChrystal's military career and earned him a 2010 George Polk Award.
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Arizona ACLU Releases Abuse Reporting Phone App
19 Jun 2013 | 5:32 amThe American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona has released a bilingual phone app that allows people to quickly and easily report racial profiling stemming from S.B. 1070, the state’s controversial immigration law. Despite the fact that the US Supreme Court struck down multiple provisions of the law back in 2012, Arizona police are still allowed to enforce the “show me your papers” provision. The app, “ACLU-AZ Stop SB1070,” helps users to report law enforcement abuse of the immigration law, including the name of the agency, the date, location and description… -
New High School Computer Science Course Shows Promise
18 Jun 2013 | 8:58 amInformation technology drives our global economy, underlies recent advances in science and engineering, and promises innovative approaches to our world’s many challenges. Yet, collectively, a smaller percentage of American high school students take computer science courses today than they did 20 years ago. And the percentage of Latino students in these programs remains distressingly low. To get more high school students interested in computer science, the National Science Foundation (NSF) is making a four-year, $5.2 million grant to the College Board’s Advanced Placement Program (AP) to… -
Wake-up call: Starbucks to post calorie counts
18 Jun 2013 | 7:37 amStarbucks is now posting calorie counts on their drinks, but will this stop people from buying Starbucks coffee or will this simply be ignored. Why is this chain company posting their calories on the menus? The move by Starbucks comes as the Food and Drug Administration irons out the details of a regulation that would require companies with more than 20 locations to post calorie information on their menus. Other chains including McDonald’s Corp. have also moved ahead with posting the information, saying they’re providing it to be more transparent rather than because… -
Study Gauges Value of Technology in Schools
18 Jun 2013 | 7:00 amThe rapid use of Technology in schools seems to be attracting lots of attention and officials are wondering if this is a smart investment. The National Assessment of Educational Progress, found that middle school math students more commonly used computers for basic drills and practice than to develop sophisticated skills. If tax payers and school districts are rushing to buy computers, tablets,digital white boards and other technology, these devices should be put to good use. The analysis of the N.A.E.P. data found that 34 percent of eighth graders who took the math exams in 2011 used… -
AT&T to Introduce Solar-Powered Charging Stations
18 Jun 2013 | 6:33 amAT&T is making efforts in using solar powered charging stations in the New York City area . Starting Tuesday, 25 solar-powered charging stations will sprout in parks, beaches and other outdoor spaces in the five boroughs, part of a pilot project from the wireless provider in partnership with the city. The stations will have 12.5-foot steel poles with three petal-shaped solar panels fanning out on top . These stations can accommodate up to 6 devices at a time regardless of the wireless carrier. Eddie Hold, vice president of the Connected Intelligence unit at NPD Group, says “To…
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Crowdismo Unveils Pioneering Platform Aimed at Launching Innovative Ideas Throughout the Latino Community
18 Jun 2013 | 1:35 pmCrowdismo Powering Latino Genius Everywhere via Crowdfunding Crowdismo Launches Pioneering Platform Aimed at Launching Innovative Ideas Throughout the Latino CommunityThe Heartful Giving Project, Crowdismo's first crowdfunding campaign. SANTA BARBARA, CA - June 18, 2013 - Crowdismo, an online crowdfunding platform, today announced the launch of a new online website aimed at helping the Latino community activate creative and innovative ideas. Maintaining an overall positive outlook on the economy and future of America, Latinos are champions of possibility and agents of change placing… -
Upscale Hispanics Immune to Total Market Strategies - Reach Hispanic
12 Jun 2013 | 9:30 amAn article featured in the Wall Street Journal highlights findings from a recent AHAA report, which positions upscale Latinos as an economic force to be reckoned with. WSJ goes as far as calling upscale Hispanics the most “influential segment since the Baby Boomers.” While these findings come as no surprise to economists and ethnographers (and is still music to Hispanic marketers’ ears) upscale Hispanic media consumption could represent a challenge for marketers looking to target this group by way of a “total market approach”.A total market approach to media buying means that by… -
How to Make It In the EdTech Startup Sector
3 Jun 2013 | 11:04 am"Don't pitch anything related to Education."It wasn't that long ago when I read an article about the art of startup pitching and exploding sectors. That was exactly the advice. Don't pitch anything related to education. Really? Anybody that's ever worked in the field of Academics understands that there is definitely room for innovation and fresh ideas. EdTech is an arena where individuals have an opportunity to address some real pain points across classroom delivery, access to academic resources, learning management, global collaboration, and administrative procedures. For example,… -
URBAN TxT’s Secret Sauce Turns Teens Into Tech Entrepreneurs
18 May 2013 | 9:41 pm“I guess we’re used to a teacher coming in and telling us what to do. When it was just us, nobody really knew what to do.” This answer resonated with everyone of the 31 teens accepted into URBAN Teens eXploring Technology (URBAN TxT) summer program, also known as the Summer Hackaneer Academy. The new participant was explaining why some teens stepped up to the plate and others did not during a teambuilding activity that happened earlier in the day.URBAN TxT students during first program activity.Creating an environment that allows young adults to explore their talents, insecurities,… -
Meet Cíbola: South Side Chicago's Innovation Center Fueling Diversity in Tech Innovation
29 Apr 2013 | 11:51 pmFresh off 54 hours of startup ideation via Startup Weekend Santa Maria, the excitement and energy still remains. Questions arise as to how we can keep the momentum going in the area of moving viable ideas forward. Enter Cíbola, a prime example of a focused collective effort aimed at helping drive the number of everyday innovators. The Rainforest by Victor W. Hwang and Greg Horowitt identifies several important aspects of the 'Innovation Funnel' including:IdeasPeopleEntrepreneursOrganizationsCoordinating InfrastructureCíbola, founded by Mahrinah von Schlegel and Emile Cambry, Jr.,…
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New York Mom Accused of Running $3 Million Marijuana Operation Indicted - ABC News
19 Jun 2013 | 3:40 amABC NewsNew York Mom Accused of Running $3 Million Marijuana Operation IndictedABC NewsA suburban mother of two accused of running a sophisticated $3 million marijuana enterprise out of a New York warehouse was slapped with a federal indictment today by prosecutors who said her operation was no different than that of Colombian druglords.Mother in upscale New York suburb indicted as marijuana dealerReutersSuburban New York woman indicted on pot-growing chargesOakland Pressall 28 news articles » -
Venice: A Hiphop Dystopia Comes to New York - TIME
19 Jun 2013 | 2:46 amVenice: A Hiphop Dystopia Comes to New YorkTIMENew York is a tough town for outsiders. The Broadway community loves to reward its own — witness the Tony award sweep for Kinky Boots (a product of old Broadway hands like Harvey Fierstein and director Jerry Mitchell) over the much better Matilda, -
Lady Gaga's dad rips Mayor Bloomberg on Twitter - New York Daily News
19 Jun 2013 | 2:29 amLady Gaga's dad rips Mayor Bloomberg on TwitterNew York Daily NewsLady Gaga's dad turned into a little monster on Twitter after health inspectors fined and downgraded his Manhattan restaurant. Joe Germanotta, who owns Joanne Trattoria, took to the social media site last week to vent his frustration with the Bloomberg and more » -
Rick Perry takes aim at New York - Politico
19 Jun 2013 | 2:10 amPoliticoRick Perry takes aim at New YorkPoliticoRick Perry stars in an ad out Wednesday that coincides with his swing across the Northeast to lure jobs to Texas. The one-minute, campaign-style video — shared first with POLITICO — attacks New York, where the governor is spending the day, as a high Texas Gov. Rick Perry touring New York, Connecticut to convince employers to New York Daily NewsGov. Rick Perry looking to lure New York companies back to TexasLubbockOnline.comWhen it comes to sloganeering, Rick Perry one-ups New York Gov. CuomoHouston Chronicleall 161 news articles » -
Latest New York sports - Newsday
19 Jun 2013 | 12:40 amBleacher ReportLatest New York sportsNewsdayIt was a long day that gave New York's long-suffering NL fans hope for a brighter future, led by two of baseball's most dynamic young pitchers. In Game 1 of the doubleheader, 24-year-old Matt Harvey (6-1) struck out a career-high 13 to lead the Mets Wheeler, Harvey lead Mets' sweep of BravesSI.comNew York Mets vs. Atlanta Braves Live Blog: Instant Reactions and AnalysisBleacher ReportMorning Briefing: Wheel deals in debutESPN (blog)SILive.com -FanSided -Minor League Ball (blog)all 445 news articles »
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Supreme Court Ruling To Have Significant Impact On Genetic Testing
18 Jun 2013 | 9:07 pmA major ruling by the Supreme Court Friday will have a major impact on scientific research and genetic testing. NY1 health reporter Erin Billups recently visited a genetics lab in the Bronx to take a closer look at what this means for New Yorkers. -
Sound Advice: Rod Argent Talks Zombies' "Odyssey And Oracle"
18 Jun 2013 | 8:48 pmIn his latest "Sound Advice" report, WFUV DJ Eric Holland spoke with Rod Argent of the Zombies, who explained one of rock's enduring classics, "Odyssey and Oracle." -
Construction Worker Pulled From Trench At Queens Site With Stop-Work Order
18 Jun 2013 | 8:34 pmCrews have rescued a construction worker who fell 25 feet into a trench at a property in the Kew Gardens section of Queens where there was a stop-work order in effect.
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1 in 9 U.S. bridges in need of repair
19 Jun 2013 | 5:02 amStudy finds 1 in 9 bridges in the USA needs repair; 260 million a day cross these bridges. -
Former investigators of TWA Flight 800 want new probe
19 Jun 2013 | 1:32 amRetired investigators claim that findings on the cause of the crash of Flight 800 were "falsified." -
Karzai sets new conditions for talks with Taliban
19 Jun 2013 | 1:31 amKarzai said Taliban must stop its violent attacks and the U.S. must step out of talks. -
In Berlin, Obama to call for reduction in nuclear arms
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Obama skips over red states
19 Jun 2013 | 1:07 amPresident Obama all but avoids red states on his trips
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Meet the 2013 Point Scholars: Living Proof It Does Get Better
19 Jun 2013 | 3:00 amRemember these names — they're the next generation of LGBT leaders. read more -
Op-ed: Dreaming in the White House
19 Jun 2013 | 2:05 amHow one queer DREAMer went from living on a couch shared with her parents to the White House. read more -
Day of Decision Op-ed: When a Marriage Would Split Us Up
19 Jun 2013 | 1:00 amTom Wolfe says marrying his partner in their home state, where same-sex marriage is legal, would most likely hurt his husband-to-be's chances of remaining in the U.S. read more -
PHOTOS: A Mass Wedding First in Maryland
18 Jun 2013 | 3:24 pmTaking advantage of marriage equality in Maryland, the mayor of Baltimore officiated a mass wedding — billed as the first of its kind in the city — on Sunday during Pride. read more -
Dallas Councilwoman Objects to "Homosexual Conduct" in HIV Testing Billboard
18 Jun 2013 | 12:21 pmA Dallas City Council member has raised concerns that an HIV testing billboard may be promoting tolerance of gay African-American men. read more
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Book News: Kim Jong Un Reportedly Gave 'Mein Kampf' As Gifts
19 Jun 2013 | 4:56 amAlso: The folly of marathon readings; Tom Wolfe has a new book; VICE apologizes for tasteless photo spread.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us -
Heat, Spurs Headed To Game 7 After Stunning Game 6
19 Jun 2013 | 4:11 amThe Heat won in overtime on Wednesday night in what LeBron James called "the best game I've ever been a part of."» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us -
Taliban Attack Kills 4 Coalition Soldiers; Afghan Govt. Suspends Talks
19 Jun 2013 | 3:37 amThe developments cast doubt on the newly-announced peace talks between the insurgents and the U.S.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us -
Tick Tock: Make The Serve, Pitch, Putt Or Shot
19 Jun 2013 | 12:23 amIn baseball, golf and tennis in particular, we are being slowly lulled to sleep before every pitch, every shot. Hurry up already, says commentator Frank Deford.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us -
U.S. Automakers Are On A Roll, But Hiring Is Slow And Steady
19 Jun 2013 | 12:21 amProfits for the nation's carmakers are on the rise, but after years of doing more with less, higher profits are unlikely to translate into significant numbers of new jobs. There are eight fewer plants and hundreds of thousands fewer workers in the industry than before the Great Recession.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
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Strategic Public Relations
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Brand's Annual Report Published via Instagram
13 Jun 2013 | 9:33 am"Story drives the form. Form does not drive the story." A local journalist instilled this mantra in me recently. And it would appear this mantra is being applied to annual reports.Over the last decade, annual reports have gone from dry as toast financial documents to become a brand's "secret weapon" (vs. bread and butter /rimshot). Take this example from Warby Parker -- which provides an interactive, behind the scenes look at "how it all goes down" at the popular online eyewear brand.Rather than having the production, or typical annual report… -
Search & Social Ads Moving In-Stream
24 May 2013 | 8:16 amTwitter’s new Lead Generation Cards are the latest example of convergence in the advertising industry as social media and search create more in-stream opportunities for brands to connect with consumers. According to Mashable, the cards let users “easily and securely share their email address with a business without leaving Twitter or having to fill out a cumbersome form.” They’re part of Twitter’s larger strategy to bring richer content inside the Twitter experience and to give brands another reason to leverage its enhanced targeting capabilities. Rich Media…for Search &… -
Could LinkedIn Contacts Become LinkedIn Social CRM?
28 Apr 2013 | 7:09 pmLinkedIn's new Contacts app is designed to help users stay in touch with important business contacts and build contacts with others.According to Mashable: "LinkedIn Contacts integrates into your email, mobile address book and calendar to create a one stop shop of sorts for all of your contacts that is accessible from the web and an app."LinkedIn has rolled out a steady stream of design, social and content enhancements over the last six months as it aims to increase the engagement across its business platform. And this new app will certainly increase the odds that you'll be connected to your… -
Who Should Own Content Marketing In Your Organization?
6 Mar 2013 | 8:18 amRead enough industry opinion on content marketing, and you can start to determine each author’s professional background. If their point of view is focused on: Interactive: the author tends to be in digital marketing or may work with a digital agency; Creative: a traditional marketer might be chief storyteller, perhaps working with a creative agency; Editorial: the expert could come from public relations or might work with a PR agency; Media: someone with paid media background, who takes a media-neutral approach to building an audience or may be working with a digital agency. Read Between… -
An Important Tip for Sustainable Content Creation
6 Mar 2013 | 7:46 amAt the recent, inaugural #solopr conference, I really enjoyed the other speakers' presentations. One of those individuals, Tom Martin, served up a simple but powerful tip regarding content creation.Whether you're blogging, part of a brand newsroom or just creating content - think in terms of cornerstones and not just cobblestones.Star Wars as Cobblestones and Cornerstone Star Wars offers the simplest way to understand the cornerstones vs. cobblestones concept. Each episode in the Star Wars franchise is a cobblestone. All six movies together are a cornerstone. George Lucas made one movie at…
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Cummings Releases Full IRS Interview Transcript
19 Jun 2013 | 5:32 amThe House Oversight Committee's top Democrat on Tuesday released the full transcript of a congressional interview that he said "debunks conspiracy theories" about the IRS targeting controversy. Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), ranking member of the committee, produced a complete interview transcript in which an IRS manager in Cincinnati said he elevated the first tea party case that led the agency to begin singling out conservative groups for extra scrutiny. Cummings released partial transcripts from the manager's interview last week, prompting warnings from committee chairman Darrell Issa… -
Journalist Michael Hastings Dies
19 Jun 2013 | 4:31 amThe journalist Michael Hastings, best known for a Rolling Stone story that led to the resignation of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, died early Tuesday in a car crash in Los Angeles, his employer said. In a single-car crash that occurred about 4:25 a.m. in the 600 block of North Highland Avenue, a vehicle crossed a median, struck a tree and burst into flames in the Hancock Park area. The driver was pronounced dead at the scene. "Michael was a great, fearless journalist with an incredible instinct for the story and a gift for finding ways to make his readers care about anything he covered, from wars… -
Florida Makes Bong Sales a Felony
18 Jun 2013 | 6:30 pmRuss Belville, Huffington Post: Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) signed into law the "bong ban" bill this weekend. Under this statute, someone caught owning or selling a pot pipe twice in the state is a felon, which in Florida means losing the right to vote virtually for life. But at the consumer level, if you're caught with a used marijuana pipe, it's going to be hard to argue it was for tobacco use. You'll get a first degree misdemeanor and face one year in prison the first time you're caught and a third degree felony and face five years in prison if you're caught again. -
Congressman: Fetuses Pleasure Themselves
18 Jun 2013 | 6:08 pmRep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas) said Monday that abortion should be banned as early as 15 weeks after conception because he has witnessed male fetuses masturbate at that stage. "This is a subject that I do know something about," said Burgess, a former OB/GYN. "Watch a sonogram of a 15-week baby, and they have movements that are purposeful. They stroke their face. If they're a male baby, they may have their hand between their legs. If they feel pleasure, why is it so hard to think that they could feel pain?" -
Company Digs for Atari 2600 E.T. Cartridges
18 Jun 2013 | 3:53 pmA digital company in Los Angeles has secured the rights to dig at an Alamagordo, N.M., landfill to look for a legendary treasure of early videogaming -- the millions of E.T. game cartridges buried by Atari after the game was an enormous flop. "It's not a myth," said Mark Esquero, 69, who claims he scooped up an E.T. cartridge and more than a dozen others in 1983 from a deep hole in the landfill the night after Atari's trucks dumped them.
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Macworld
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Master the command line: navigating files and folders
19 Jun 2013 | 5:30 amIf you’ve been using a Mac for any length of time, you know that it’s more than just a pretty point-and-click, window-and-icon interface. Beneath the surface of OS X is an entire world that you can access only from the command line. Terminal (in /Applications/Utilities) is the default gateway to that command line on a Mac. With it, instead of pointing and clicking, you type your commands and your Mac does your bidding. Why would you want to do that? For almost all of your computing needs, the regular graphical user interface is enough. But the command line can be handy when it comes to… -
How to extract audio from movie files
19 Jun 2013 | 5:00 amA reader who prefers to remain anonymous has some movies that he’d like to turn into an entirely different kind of media file. He writes: I have some MPEG-4 music video files and all I want to do is lift the soundtrack from them and burn that music to CD. What’s the secret? There are many secrets to this one. Allow me to run down a few of them that are built into the current Mac OS and Apple applications you likely have on your computer. Use QuickTime Player X: Launch QuickTime Player X (found in the Applications folder) and use it to open your movie. Choose File > Export and in the… -
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 presents an impressive and innovative upgrade
19 Jun 2013 | 4:00 amIf you like Lightroom 4, you’re probably going to appreciate version 5 even more. The latest iteration of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom introduces a new set of well-thought-out features while maintaining snappy performance. Our stock MacBook Pro 15-inch Retina Display laptop had no trouble importing large raw files, scrolling through hundreds of thumbnails, or applying sophisticated image edits. In other words, Adobe kept its house in order during this refresh. Some of the touted new features, such as Smart Previews and Upright, are quite innovative. Others are refinements to existing tools. -
Catching up with developers: Brent Simmons on Vesper and iOS 7
19 Jun 2013 | 4:00 amVesper made its debut the week before Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference. But with Q Branch’s Brent Simmons in San Francisco for Apple’s annual conference, the time seemed right to talk about the new note-taking app for iOS. In this latest in our series of video chats with developers, we ask Simmons on how Vesper’s flatter interface fits in with what we’ve seen so far from iOS 7. We also talk about the possibility of syncing features finding their way into future versions of the app. -
Four ways OS X Mavericks will save your MacBook's battery
19 Jun 2013 | 3:30 amWhen Apple unveiled the iPad in 2010, I immediately fell in love with its impressive battery life, and couldn’t wait until they day when the same longevity would come to my Mac. With the upcoming release of OS X Mavericks and the latest round of revisions to the company’s laptop hardware, it looks like I (alongside, I suspect, many other Mac users) could finally get my wish, thanks to a few clever software tricks that have found their way into the latest incarnation of Apple’s desktop operating system. Hardware and software The obvious way to improve battery life in a laptop is to…
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Independent Contractor Relationship Between Sender and Advertiser Dooms Spam Claims – Kramer v. NCS
17 Jun 2013 | 4:54 am[Post by Venkat Balasubramani] Kramer v. NCS, 12-1956 (8th Cir. May 28, 2013) Kramer, who operated an internet service provider... -
Facebook Posting of Criminal Trial's Witness List Isn't a "True Threat"--US v. Amaya
14 Jun 2013 | 9:57 amBy Eric Goldman U.S. v. Amaya, 2013 WL 2548393 (N.D. Iowa, June 11, 2013) This is a quite lengthy sentencing... -
Warranty Disclaimer in PC TuneUp's EULA Fails -- Rottner v. AVG
11 Jun 2013 | 12:24 pm[Post by Venkat Balasubramani with comments by Eric] Rottner v. AVG Technologies, 12-10920-RGS (D. Mass May 3, 2013) [pdf] Rottner... -
Online Dating Websites Aren't Required To Warn That Some Members May Be Murderers (Forbes Cross-Post)
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CAN-SPAM Violations For Private WHOIS Information and Putting Disclosures in Remotely Served Images – ZooBuh v. Better Broadcasting
10 Jun 2013 | 8:13 am[Post by Venkat Balasubramani] Zoobuh, Inc. v. Better Broadcasting, LLC, 11cv00516-DN (D. Utah May 31, 2013) Spam litigation has waned....
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Publishing 2.0
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5 Types of Advertising That Are NOT Native Advertising
11 Jun 2013 | 10:00 amWhen a term is as hot and hyped as “native advertising”, it’s inevitable that everyone will want to appropriate it to describe everything they are doing. Which means the term will be widely misappropriated. While it’s still open for debate exactly what native advertising is, it’s useful to agree on what native advertising is NOT. Here are 5 types of advertising that are not *native* advertising: 1. Advertiser content that’s a poor fit with a publisher’s brand “15 Crazy Dance Crazes” on a financial news and commentary site “Men Only: The Case Against… -
Scaling Native Advertising
30 May 2013 | 6:47 amHow will native advertising scale? That’s the question on the mind of every brand advertiser, ad agency, and publisher. Native advertising has emerged as a great hope for the future of advertising, to capture the billions of brand ad dollars expected to shift from TV, where mass audiences are finally collapsing, and from online display advertising, where already rock bottom prices, consumer attention, and effectiveness continue to plummet. Native advertising is also a great hope for monetizing mobile, where display ads aren’t just dying but DOA and digital dimes have turned into pennies… -
How to Fix RSS Redux
9 May 2011 | 1:59 pmFive years ago, I wrote a post about How to Fix RSS (which was my first post to appear at the top of Techmeme). The technology and media landscape has dramatically changed since then, so I’ve updated the simple three-step program, with a particular focus on news organizations. RSS is NOT dead… it just needs to be reborn: Take down the partial text RSS feeds from your website — they are useless, and nobody uses them. (Refer the four people still using them to 2 or 3 below.) Post your best content to Twitter and Facebook — they are infinitely more user-friendly,… -
Publish2 Update: Network Growth and New Business Model
9 May 2011 | 1:49 pmFrom the Publish2 Blog: Many people have reached out to us recently and asked, “How’s Publish2 doing? You guys have been very quiet for the last few months.” That’s because we’ve had our heads down rolling out the full content distribution service that we announced last summer and launched in beta last fall. And… we’ve successfully launched our business model. So it’s time for an update on the growth of our content distribution network and our new software-as-a-service licensing business. Network Growth The value of any network grows exponentially with the… -
Disrupting the Traditional News Syndication Model
2 Jan 2011 | 8:20 pmOriginally published on Nieman Journalism Lab Clay Shirky predicts that in 2011 traditional news syndication will see widespread disruption. I couldn’t agree more. But I don’t think the disruption will happen the way Clay describes it. Clay’s prediction assumes that news consumption will continue its shift from traditional media to the traditional desktop web, where the hyperlink rules and news consumers bounce from hyperlinked page to hyperlinked page and from site to site to site. I think that assumption is wrong. In 2011, we’ll see open acknowledgement of what has long been…
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Somali Islamist rebels attack U.N. compound in Mogadishu
19 Jun 2013 | 5:38 amMOGADISHU (Reuters) - Islamist militants carried out their first major assault for years on a U.N. compound in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, dealing a blow to fragile security gains that have allowed a slow return of foreign aid workers and diplomats. -
Afghan government to shun U.S. talks with Taliban
19 Jun 2013 | 5:23 amKABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Wednesday his government would not join U.S. peace talks with the Taliban until they were led by Afghans and would suspend negotiations with the United States on a troop pact. -
Suicide bomber embraces and kills Sunni politician in Iraq
19 Jun 2013 | 5:08 amMOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew himself up as he embraced a Sunni Muslim political leader in northern Iraq on Wednesday, killing the man and four of his family a day before elections in the area. -
Afghans must talk to each other for peace, Obama says
19 Jun 2013 | 5:07 amBERLIN (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Wednesday Afghans must talk to each other to resolve the conflict in their country even though huge mistrust exists between the government and its Taliban foes. -
World Bank watching Fed, ready to respond
19 Jun 2013 | 4:53 amLONDON (Reuters) - The World Bank is concerned about the spillover effects on developing countries of a slowing of U.S. money creation and will move to provide affordable capital when borrowing costs rise, its president said on Wednesday.
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Imagination Technologies' profit dips on licensing slowdown
19 Jun 2013 | 4:40 amLONDON (Reuters) - Imagination Technologies, the British chip designer whose graphics technology is in smartphones from Apple and Samsung, reported lower full-year profits as licensing slows. -
New CEO begins Alcatel makeover
19 Jun 2013 | 1:28 amPARIS (Reuters) - Telecom equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent plans to focus on networking products and high-speed broadband and will slim down with a billion euros in cost cuts by 2015 in a bid to reverse years of losses. -
Softbank closer to acquiring Sprint after Dish abandons bid for now
19 Jun 2013 | 1:06 amTOKYO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Japan's SoftBank Corp cleared a major hurdle in its attempt to buy U.S. wireless provider Sprint Nextel Corp, as rival bidder Dish Network Corp declined to make a new offer after SoftBank sweetened its own bid last week. -
Rhode Island on track to make payment on 38 Studios bonds
18 Jun 2013 | 8:47 pm(Reuters) - Rhode Island remains on track to make a $2.5 million interest payment next year on bonds that were used to finance the facilities of 38 Studios, a now-bankrupt videogame company founded by former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling. -
Acer sees tablet, notebook PC shipments to be flat in second quarter
18 Jun 2013 | 8:22 pmTAIPEI (Reuters) - Acer Inc, the world's No.4 PC vendor, said on Wednesday that it expects notebook and tablet PC shipment to be flat in the second quarter from the first quarter, versus an prediction of 0-5 percent growth made in April.
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Bulls Break Yahoo! Inc.'s (YHOO) Bearish Stranglehold
19 Jun 2013 | 2:29 amOption trading is sluggish on Yahoo! Inc. today, but receiving the most attention is the January 2014 34-strike call . -
Scientists Uncover Lost City Hidden In The Cambodian Jungle
18 Jun 2013 | 10:10 pmA team of archaeologists have uncovered the 1,200-year-old city of Mahendraparvata deep in the jungle of Cambodia. -
Biz Break: Silicon Valley's NSA Prism response heats up with Google petition, Yahoo disclosure
18 Jun 2013 | 5:50 pmTech companies continued Tuesday their scrambled reaction to allegations that the National Security Agency can access their users' data with impunity, as Google stepped up its campaign for clarity and Yahoo disclosed its participation . -
NSA Prism disclosures: All the user-data requests from tech's biggest names
18 Jun 2013 | 2:40 pmTechnology's biggest names have rushed to disclose the number of law-enforcement requests for data they receive, a result of allegations that they have provided the National Security Agency "direct access" to customer data on their servers. -
Yahoo! to Hold Annual Meeting of Shareholders on Tuesday, June 25 at 8 A.M. PT / 11 A.M. ET
18 Jun 2013 | 10:21 amYahoo! Inc.'s Annual Meeting of Shareholders will be held on Tuesday, June 25, 2013, at 8 a.m. PT / 11 a.m. ET, at the Santa Clara Marriott Hotel, 2700 Mission College Boulevard, Santa Clara, CA 95054.
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Report: Hernandez questioned on homicide
19 Jun 2013 | 5:33 amInvestigators searched New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez's North Attleboro, Mass., home Tuesday in connection with the death of a man who police said was an associate of Hernandez, ABC News reported. -
Serena's Steubenville comments create stir
19 Jun 2013 | 5:00 amSerena Williams says in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine that, while not blaming the victim in the Steubenville rape case, "she shouldn't have put herself in that position." -
Heat edge Spurs in OT, force deciding Game 7
19 Jun 2013 | 4:28 amLeBron James shrugged off a poor start to get 32 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds, Ray Allen hit a 3-pointer with 5.2 seconds to play to force OT and the Heat staved off elimination with a 103-100 victory over the Spurs in Game 6 of the NBA Finals. -
Heat edge Spurs in OT, force deciding Game 7
19 Jun 2013 | 4:28 amLeBron James shrugged off a poor start to get 32 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds, Ray Allen hit a 3-pointer with 5.2 seconds to play to force OT and the Heat staved off elimination with a 103-100 victory over the Spurs in Game 6 of the NBA Finals. -
San Jose sues MLB over vote on A's move
18 Jun 2013 | 9:44 pmMajor League Baseball is dragging its feet on having team owners vote on the Oakland Athletics' proposed move to a new ballpark 40 miles south in San Jose, San Jose city officials said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
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These BigLaw firms had the highest spreads in partner compensation
19 Jun 2013 | 5:10 amFor the first time this year, the American Lawyer has asked the nation’s 200 largest law firms to supply figures on the spread in compensation between their top-paid and lowest-paid partners. The publication received responses from 111 law firms, the American Lawyer reports. For law firms in… -
Which law firms were honored for placing women in leadership roles?
19 Jun 2013 | 4:05 amForty-two law firms have received a “gold standard certification” for placing women in leadership roles. Women in Law Empowerment Forum created the list to emphasize leadership roles by women equity partners, rather than law firm policies or practices, according to the group’s website. The 42 firms met at… -
Barbershop doubles as a law office
19 Jun 2013 | 3:39 amConnecticut lawyer Don Howard notes that the city of Hartford is “oversaturated with lawyers and barbershops.” That’s why he has opened a barbershop on Main Street in New Britain and placed his office in the back of the place, the New Britain Herald reports. A criminal… -
Federal judge OKs suit over ‘shocking’ claim 911 operator told harassed man to return to crime scene
18 Jun 2013 | 3:15 pmDisagreeing with a recommendation by a magistrate that a civil rights case should be dismissed, a federal judge in Denver gave a green light on Monday to a family's lawsuit over the death of a Sudanese refugee. Soon-to-be victim Jimma Reat, 25, and others called 911 in April 2012 reporting… -
Google asks intelligence court to relax gag orders on secret data requests
18 Jun 2013 | 2:29 pmCiting its First Amendment rights, Google has asked the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to relax long-standing gag orders restricting what can be said about the information the court requests. In a Tuesday motion (PDF) that seeks a declaratory judgment, the Internet search-engine Goliath says it wants to…
