March 2011
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“Milner, the 49-year-old founder of Internet investment firm Digital Sky...”
– Facebook investor and Russian billionaire pays $100m for house.
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Millennials want their news from major nat'l... →
peterfeld:
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soupsoup:
Reports of the demise of newspapers may be greatly exaggerated.
According to a new Harvard study, the denizens of the digital age — 18-to-29-year-olds — would prefer to get most of their political news about the next presidential campaign from — believe it or not — major national newspapers.
In the survey from the Harvard University Institute of...
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I have a friend. He’s a media entrepreneur and owns more than 400 domain names, all with GoDaddy as the registrar. After today, they’ll all be moved, he said, because of this:
Bob Parsons, the CEO and founder of web hosting site GoDaddy.com, recently went on a hunting trip in Africa, which is something rich people do. While there, he shot and killed an elephant and then posed with...
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“Asking whether large solar power plants are appropriate in the Mojave desert is...”
– Former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger lays out a case for putting solar farms in the Mojave as part of a policy based on improving public health, boosting the economy, and avoiding the risks of the fossil economy. (Read more at The Atlantic)
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In which Business Insider publishes e-mail to editor Henry Blodget from a GE spokeswoman regarding coverage of its U.S. tax liability:
That’s a really good point, Henry. And I’m embarrassed to see what appears to be a contradiction in approved talking points I’ve been using over several weeks. Ugh.
Gimme 10 to get to bottom of this…. (more than you need to know, but we gave written answers to...
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“They will not be contributing to reducing the (federal) budget deficit anytime...”
– Tax expert Bob Willens of New York-based Robert Willens LLC, on Bank of America. Recently, an advocacy group called U.S. Uncut has sought to curb corporate tax dodging in the U.S.
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Ten Giant U.S. Companies Avoiding Income Taxes →
diegueno:
Exxon Mobil
Bank of America
General Electric
Chevron
Boeing
Valero Energy
Goldman Sachs
Citigroup
ConocoPhillips
Carnival Cruise Lines
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Newspapers follow Groupon's Lead →
futurejournalismproject:
Groupon, the two-year-old coupon company that’s planning an IPO that would value it at $25 billion, is getting some competition from a familiar source: newspapers.
As AdAge points out, Groupon’s 2010 revenue of $760 million is one-quarter of the entire US newspaper’s online revenue. No wonder news folk want in.
While it is not yet nearly enough to stop the steady...
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Obama's pro-business record →
jonathan-cunningham:
Since Obama was inaugurated, the Dow Jones has increased more than 50% — from 8,000 to more than 12,000; the wealthiest recieved a massive tax cut; the top marginal tax rate was three times less than during the Eisenhower years and substantially lower than during the Reagan years; income and wealth inequality are so vast and rising that it is easily at Third World...
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“LinkedIn, Zynga, Facebook, Groupon, Twitter, etc. — are already public, just not...”
– Dear Warren: Here are the Overvalued Social Networking Companies - Bloomberg (via jryu)
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No Mortgage Lenders in Jail, but a Borrower Lands... →
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Entertainmentweekly: ‘Black Swan’ double claims... →
entertainmentweekly:
‘Black Swan’ double claims Natalie Portman only did ‘5 percent’ of full-body dance shots in the movie
Uh-oh:
The ballerina who served as a dancing double for Natalie Portman’s Oscar-winnning role in Black Swan tells EW she has been the victim of a “cover-up” to…
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How America's largest corporation paid $0 in taxes... →
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the20s:
BREAKING NEWS: Company Acts Humanely Toward Its Customers Three nights ago, Netflix had some technical issues that crippled its instant-streaming service. The company responded by refunding customers 3% of their monthly bill, or roughly 23 cents per person. And while that may seem small, consider that when my power went out for four days this winter, the power company offered no rebate...
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How many communists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Five. One to hold the bulb and four to rotate the table he’s standing on.
How many capitalists does it take?
Zero. The market will find a way to do it alone.
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John Stossel: Hey Jasen Comstock, why is there a Bureau of Indian Affairs?
Jasen Comstock: “We have a bureau because tribal nations are recognized as independent entities within the country, with their own governments that deal directly with the federal government (making them different than say, African Americans and Irish and Puerto Ricans).”
Stossel: They’re paying someone...
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“Rather than favoring print, perhaps the [New York] Times is moving to...”
– Damon Kiesow on Poynter.org
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Reporter becomes pimp in response to pay cut. →
The future of journalism?
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Corrupt Politics: Three States Propose Massive Tax... →
corruptpolitics:
Last week, ThinkProgress documented conservative efforts in twelve states to shift the tax burden onto the middle class even while cutting taxes for corporations and the wealthy. In three states, conservatives are going even further, proposing massive estate tax cuts for millionaires even as
Tax cuts for people who need them the least are not proper pieces of reform policy....
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Rove Group Launches Anti-Obama Wiki →
Credit where credit is due: This is an impressive use of technology from a public affairs/PR perspective.
abcnewsradio:
One of the country’s largest and most powerful pro-Republican advocacy groups with ties to Karl Rove has launched an online clearinghouse for internal Obama administration documents to expose what it says is a failure by the president to be as transparent and open as...
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tetw asked: Tetw - a Tumblr dedicated to classic journalism and narrative non-fiction - would like to know: What is you favourite article, feature or essay of all time?
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1995 article assures you: the internet will not... →
(via robot-heart-politics)
How about electronic publishing? Try reading a book on disc. At best, it’s an unpleasant chore: the myopic glow of a clunky computer replaces the friendly pages of a book. And you can’t tote that laptop to the beach. Yet Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we’ll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet. Uh, sure.
What...
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“I decided to value the gathering of experiences over the acquiring of stuff, and...”
– Neo-Minimalism and the Rise of the Technomads
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washingtonexaminer:
“Minnesota Republicans are pushing legislation that would make it a crime for people on public assistance to have more $20 in cash in their pockets any given month. This represents a change from their initial proposal, which banned them from having any money at all.”
— David Freddoso: Left bloggers go nuts over fake story
What’s that fable about...
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Righthaven lawsuit could end up weakening... →
infoneer-pulse:
Righthaven, the copyright troll we’ve mentioned a few times in the last few months, has just seen one of its lawsuits backfire in a major way, that could affect every newspaper in the country if upheld on appeal.
On Friday, a judge stated that he was going to dismiss a copyright lawsuit filed by Righthaven, a company that buys up copyrights from the Las Vegas Review-Journal and...
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Would you include a QR code on your resume?
cnnmoneytech:
My pal Lindsey Pollak is a Gen Y career expert, and as she’s writing about the young’uns, her blog often mixes technology bites with job advice. But her most recent headline really grabbed me: Should Your Resume Have a QR Code?
Never occurred to me as an option. But Lindsey has seen it in her travels, and she posed the question to her Twitter followers. Responses ranged from “edgy...
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“Curation has to be credible. If all I do is use my curation to attack somebody,...”
– The Political Notebook, on news curation. (via Josh Sternberg for Mashable.)
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Foster Kamer Named Senior Editor of 'The New York... →
fek:
soupsoup:
This is such a perfect fit. Congrats Foster, you’re “home” again.
This is my blog, so I’m gonna blog for a sec. Get off my internets if you don’t like this shit.
Anthony’s spot-on: That’s actually how it feels.
I actually still have another three weeks at Esquire, which - for the record - was a great gig. Working with Eric Gillin and Matt Sullivan was more fun than I ever...
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“The busy season for foreign news started in January in Tunisia and quickly...”
– Rush of Events Gives Foreign News a Top Priority | NY Times (via pantslessprogressive)
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“The ones who get the facts, get it right, and get it first are to be admired....”
– Cheri Jacobus
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The $5 ATM Fee is Here →
The mainstream explanation for these higher fees is that new regulations like the Dodd-Frank financial reform killed some profitable and unfriendly bank practices, and banks are replacing those lost funds with new fees appearing on our ATM receipts, checking accounts, and so forth. This makes sense.
But there is a quiet, darker suspicion among consumer advocates. They think loud announcements...
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Oil Spill Reported Near Deepwater Drilling Site in... →
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"On a recent Ohio evening the air was thick with... →
And after the lede, it gets really good.
“I wanted to write about aspects of human behavior that sicken me, but I never...”
– David Sedaris (via azspot)
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“People blog on HuffPost for free for the same reason they go on cable TV shows...”
– Huffington Post spokesman Mario Ruiz, in response to Newspaper Guild’s call for unpaid HuffPo contributors to strike
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Why corporations are psychotic →
Senator Bernie Sanders echoed the sentiments of many last week when he called for a constitutional amendment to repeal the notion of corporate personhood. This issue jumped into public consciousness last year after the Supreme Court, in its Citizens United decision, effectively allowed unrestrained corporate influence in American politics, based partially on the idea that corporations are...
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“Rangel introduced a similar draft bill in 2004 but it failed in the House by a...”
– Rangel Reintroduces Measure to Impose a Draft
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jasencomstock:
“It seems to me the public policy behind effective enforcement of the open meeting law is so strong that it does outweigh the interest, at least at this time, which may exist in favor of sustaining the validity of the law.”
— Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumim, who issued a temporary restraining order (!) barring the publication of the union-busting...
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Ad Industry's New Ethics Code Takes on Brand... →
Another principle is that advertisers should clearly distinguish advertising, public relations and corporate communications from news and editorial content and entertainment. Particularly amid growing numbers of media sources and use of brand integration in entertainment, it’s a line that’s often hard to distinguish, Mr. Snyder said.
“If consumers are unaware the...
