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Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Pssst, want to save a bundle on textbooks?
By Joe Wilcox, Betanews
That's the question raised by Amazon's new Kindle Textbook Rental service, announced today. Amazon claims 80-percent savings when renting rather than buying. Would you go for it?
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Monday, July 18, 2011
Can You Live on Dividends Alone?
This is a guest post from Robert Brokamp of The Motley Fool. Robert is a Certified Financial Planner and the adviser for The Motley Fool?s Rule Your Retirement service. He also has a blog, Twittering thing, and other things that are supposed to be important but he often forgets about, such as hygiene. Robert contributes [...]
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Too Little, Too Late? News Corp Forms Group To Oversee Ethics
When News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS) ran an ad in multiple newspapers across the UK this weekend, it promised “further concrete steps” to right the wrongs that have engulfed the company and its key executives in scandal. Today we got an example of one of these: the company has announced the “formal establishment and extension” of the Management and Standards Committee, independent of News International, which will cooperate with the current investigations and also provide standards for ethics and governance in the future.
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Ex-News Corp Exec Rebekah Brooks Arrested By Appointment; Police Chief Out
If you felt a small earthquake just now, it was the tectonic plates of press and power moving in the UK. Rebekah Brooks, who resigned just Friday as chief executive of News International, the UK publishing unit of News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS), was arrested today by Scotland Yard in a pre-arranged move. The possible charges, according to multiple reports: suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications & corruption allegations. The BBC reports plans for the arrest were made after her resignation and we have confirmed that the decision for Brooks to leave was made without News Corp knowing she was about to be arrested.
Forget FarmVille, now you can play Google News
By Joe Wilcox, Betanews
You could spend real money for virtual goods on the farm, or earn merit badges from Google for being an informed citizen instead. For free.
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My First Garden: What I?ve Learned So Far
This is a guest post from Jenny Sandman, who writes at Broke Foodie. This summer is my first attempt at full-scale gardening. This is the first year I?ve lived in a house with a yard; previous gardening efforts were limited to containers of herbs and the odd tomato plant, on windowsills or apartment patios. To [...]
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Pass notes No 3007: Harper Seven
What's the reason behind the Beckham baby's idiosyncratic name?
Age: One day.
Appearance: Baby-faced and baby-bodied.
Is it a baby? It is.
A baby named Harper Seven? Correct. Born yesterday at 7.55am in Los Angeles, Harper Seven joined Brooklyn, Romeo and Cruz as the fourth child, and first daughter, of Victoria and David Beckham.
Ah, she's a Beckham. That explains the ridiculous name. What's the story behind this one? Theories abound for both parts. Some say Harper is a reference to novelist Harper Lee, the reclusive and mysterious author of To Kill a Mockingbird. Which, given that Victoria is on record as admitting "I haven't read a book in my life", seems unlikely.
What is it then? The couple's favourite orchestra member? Or the sexual position they used? Almost certainly neither. Harper is a fairly common first name in America and apparently they just fell in love with the sound of it.
And the Seven part? Well, the baby was born in the seventh month, at around 7am, weighing a little over seven pounds, to a father who not only played football in the number seven kit for both England and Manchester United but actually has the number seven tattooed in roman numerals on his forearm.
So? So it might have a little to do with that.
Boring! Or? Or it a reference to Seinfeld.
That's more like it. How? In an episode from, fittingly, season seven, George Costanza tells his fiancee Susan that he plans to name their first child Seven, calling it a beautiful name for a boy or a girl. She, naturally, laughs him out of court.
So they've gone with a name so daft that it's literally a joke? Well, it was a joke. Now the Beckhams have gone there, we'll no doubt be seeing baby Sevens for years to come.
Not to be confused with: Seven of Nine, The Magnificent Seven, Johnny Five.
Do say: "We've renamed our youngest Bassoonist Three."
Don't say: "What exactly is the harper position?"
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Russia Won't Ban Gmail or Skype Amid Security Concerns
It looks like Russia won't be banning Skype or Gmail, after all. The Kremlin was reportedly considering blocking both services, along with Hotmail, in response to a major cyberattack that crippled the country's most popular blog and an independent news site. Some within the Kremlin had believed the services posed a major threat to national security, but some critics had thought the government may have just been looking for an excuse to tighten its control over the Web -- ahead of December's parliamentary elections and next year's presidential race.Russia Won't Ban Gmail or Skype Amid Security Concerns originally appeared on Switched on Mon, 11 Apr 2011 09:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Google's New Crossword-Style Trivia Game Wants Puzzlers to Search
Using agoogleaday.com instead of the regular Google shields you from real-time questions and answers, so your network and top hits won't spoil the fun. Searching down the 'Net's rabbit hole is kind of interesting, but Google really needs a way to track your success. After all, puzzle fiends solve for the glory and the feeling of completion, not the quiet satisfaction of "knowing things." Duh.
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Sunday, July 17, 2011
Man Goes to Prison for Threatening Eric Cantor on YouTube
A man named Norman LeBoon is headed to prison after making threats to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a video posted to YouTube. In the clip, the 38-year-old LeBoon called the Republican "a liar" and "a Lucifer," and promised to shoot him. LeBoon pleaded guilty to the charges in November, and, on Thursday, was sentenced to two years in prison, along with an additional three years of supervised release.Man Goes to Prison for Threatening Eric Cantor on YouTube originally appeared on Switched on Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Harry Potter iPad App Hits It Big Despite Hefty Price
Would you pay $12.99 for a Harry Potter book app? Probably, if you’re one of the people who helped shatter records for the midnight screening of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II ($43.5 million!). ScrollMotion and Insight Editions’ Harry Potter Film Wizardry is the iPad app of the week. And hey: included in the cost is an invitation to the Yule Ball.
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Spare Change: Mondo Beyondo Edition
After a month of hemming and hawing, I’ve finally made a decision about where to travel next. After a brief stop to see Adam Baker in Indianapolis, I’ll spend most of August wandering around England. I have just a handful of goals: I want to return to Avebury for a longer visit. I saw this [...]
A Guide to Selling Unwanted Items
A few weeks ago, I put out a call on Twitter and on Facebook for detailed posts that people would like to see. I got enough great responses that I’m going to fill the entire month of July – one post per day – addressing these ideas. On Facebook, Amanda requested an article on “How [...]
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Review: Difficult Conversations
Every Sunday, The Simple Dollar reviews a personal finance or other book of interest. Also available is a complete list of the hundreds of book reviews that have appeared on The Simple Dollar over the years. One of the most frequent issues that I’m asked about is how exactly to start a conversation about a [...]
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Microsoft's Tulalip slip-up may have revealed its new social network
What's this site with a funny name? It very well may have been a test site for Microsoft's answer to Google+.
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Celebrity magazines must be scrutinised
Lord Justice Leveson's inquiry into press ethics should take a look at gossip sheets too
I don't know if Lord Justice Leveson has a permanent mobile phone number ? he's probably using burners ? but if anyone has it can they give him a bell and ask if his inquiry into press behaviour will take in celebrity magazines?
I only ask because I'm looking at one of the cover headlines on this week's New! magazine ? Broody Kate's Anorexia Nightmare ? and the grim, confected "story" about the Duchess of Cambridge that lies therein, and wondering whether such titles will escape this opportunity to take a long hard look at what they do, before stabbing themselves in the eye with rusty knives?
It could be that New! editor Kirsty Tyler regards this sort of thing as public service journalism, peppered as her mag is with odd-sounding anonymous sources and opinions from medical "experts" who do not treat the duchess. But the fact that Kirsty has opted to run such stuff this week of all weeks suggests she's just itching for a chance to appear before a judicial inquiry to defend what I suppose we'll call her valuable work. As far as intellectually dazzling appearances before an inquisitor goes, I imagine the outing would be something akin to Ed Murrow taking on Senator McCarthy, though of course that happened on TV and not in a quasi-court. Perhaps the analogy is a United States congressional committee calling a literal muppet ? Elmo from Sesame Street ? to appear in 2002.
Of course, I've no wish to single out Kirsty. Lost in Showbiz has previously showcased the work of her fellow mag editors, and asked why the likes of Reveal and Heat felt moved to publish pictures of a clearly unstable Amy Winehouse taken in her own home, or to run cover stories blaring "Britney: my children or my sanity?", which contained precisely nought quotes from recently sectioned Britney Spears.
More to the point, when the then-information commissioner produced his 2007 report into the "the unlawful trade in confidential personal information", the list of titles paying private investigators contained magazines as well as newspapers. There was Best, Closer, Real ? even Marie Claire. I'm sure none of us could bear such organs of the press to be the 13th fairies at the inquiry. Be a love, your lordship, and do not deny them an invitation.
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A brother is a friend given by Nature. ~Jean Baptiste Legouve. 9 Reminders for Cherishing Your Brother
Sometimes it's easy to be hard on your brother or to take him for granted. Yet, for many people who have a brother, it can be a good thing to take stock of his good qualities, to recognize all the great things he does (including for you), and to give him a morale boost that shows him you really do care about him and that you're glad he's your brother.
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Spare Change: Reader Requests Edition
Ah, summer. Warm weather, food on the grill, watermelon…and writer’s block. As happens every summer, the creative juices have taken a vacation — not just for me, but for other GRS writers as well. So, as also happens every summer, I’m solving the problem by coming directly to you, the readers. Get Rich Slowly is [...]
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Forget FarmVille, now you can play Google News
By Joe Wilcox, Betanews
You could spend real money for virtual goods on the farm, or earn merit badges from Google for being an informed citizen instead. For free.
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Seven steps to creating or revising your household routines schedule
When creating a new household routines schedule or revising one you've used for years, follow these seven steps.
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Friday, July 15, 2011
Best Sources for Summer Produce
This post is from staff writer Sierra Black. Sierra writes about frugality, sustainable living, and raising children at Childwild.com. The summer harvest season has finally begun here in Boston. Near my house, Farmers’ markets are popping up, brimming with fresh greens, ripe strawberries, and luscious radishes. Our first CSA share delivery of the season arrived [...]
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Ask Unclutterer: Prioritizing family, education, and career
Reader Viktoria wants to know how she can do it all.
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Preserving the Value of Food
A few weeks ago, I put out a call on Twitter and on Facebook for detailed posts that people would like to see. I got enough great responses that I’m going to fill the entire month of July – one post per day – addressing these ideas. On Facebook, Emily requested to know more about [...]
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Sony provides 'peek' at new tablets, and not much else
The WiFi-only S1 has a wedge-shaped design -- like a magazine with the cover folded back -- that gives it a center of gravity that makes it, Sony says, easier to hold. �The S2, which will be available exclusively through AT&T as a 4G device, is a dual screen clamshell.
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The Blurry Line Between Experiences and Stuff
This post is from staff writer April Dykman. A few months ago I wrote a two-part post about a study on how money, if spent correctly, can buy happiness. In the report, researchers Elizabeth Dunn, Dan Gilbert, and Timothy Wilson used empirical research to identify eight key ways to spend money that have been proven [...]
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Android By The Numbers: 550,000 Activations Daily Across 400-Plus Devices
Larry Page provided some hard data Thursday to support the assertion that Google’s's Android mobile operating system is the world’s most popular mobile platform. On a conference call with analysts following the company’s Q2 earnings report, the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) CEO said that over 550,000 phones are activated every day on Android—“a HUGE number even by Google?s standards.”
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Bad, but inevitable: The consumerization of IT is accelerating
Everyone, led by Vice President Whatshisname, wants to use their iPhone on the corporate network. Don't IT security people have enough problems? But the onslaught of unsecurable consumer devices in the enterprise is probably unstoppable.
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Best Sources for Summer Produce
This post is from staff writer Sierra Black. Sierra writes about frugality, sustainable living, and raising children at Childwild.com. The summer harvest season has finally begun here in Boston. Near my house, Farmers’ markets are popping up, brimming with fresh greens, ripe strawberries, and luscious radishes. Our first CSA share delivery of the season arrived [...]
Sharp's 5.5" and 10.8" Galapagos Android Tablets: due July 25?
According to an announcement from security software company McAfee, Sharp's first Android tablets will be available starting on July 25.
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Thursday, July 14, 2011
Surreal Gaming in 'Machinarium' Creator's Latest, 'Osada'
If you've played either of Amanita Design's previous works -- the 'Samorost' series or 'Machinarium' -- you know to expect a visually thrilling spectacle. Amanita's latest game, 'Osada,' leans more towards the surreal insanity of their 'Samorost' games than the more puzzle-oriented 'Machinarium,' with a stream-of-consciousness flow of nonsensical visuals and simple point-and-click puzzles. Oozing with irreverence and insanity, 'Osada' is an invigorating time-waster that's sure to delight anyone with a taste for the strange.
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Sony provides 'peek' at new tablets, and not much else
The WiFi-only S1 has a wedge-shaped design -- like a magazine with the cover folded back -- that gives it a center of gravity that makes it, Sony says, easier to hold. �The S2, which will be available exclusively through AT&T as a 4G device, is a dual screen clamshell.
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Man Goes to Prison for Threatening Eric Cantor on YouTube
A man named Norman LeBoon is headed to prison after making threats to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a video posted to YouTube. In the clip, the 38-year-old LeBoon called the Republican "a liar" and "a Lucifer," and promised to shoot him. LeBoon pleaded guilty to the charges in November, and, on Thursday, was sentenced to two years in prison, along with an additional three years of supervised release.Man Goes to Prison for Threatening Eric Cantor on YouTube originally appeared on Switched on Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Patch My PC Free: Easy updates for handful of apps
The best of the competition knows about hundreds of thousands of tools, so the 30 or so supported here won't get you very far. But it's a new project, and numbers will increase.
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How to Make a French Ponytail
This is a cute style that works well for sports or school. It's a lot easier to accomplish than a French twist or a French braid and it can be dressed up or down.
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Edie Falco: 'I'm tougher than Nurse Jackie'
In recent years, Edie Falco has become a mother and fought a very private battle with breast cancer. She tells Hermione Hoby how Carmela Soprano and Nurse Jackie have helped her stay strong
When The Sopranos ended in 2007, it seemed impossible that we'd ever think of Edie Falco as anyone other than Carmela. She'd played Mrs Tony Soprano, mobster wife, for eight years in HBO's cultural juggernaut of a series, winning three Emmys and two Golden Globes in the process. Falco seemed destined to be for ever "Carmela" in the way that Lisa Kudrow is for ever "Phoebe".
But then she was cast as Nurse Jackie. The comedy, now on its third series, is set in a Manhattan emergency room where Falco presides as a stoic, imperturbable nurse with a robust disregard for bureaucracy and a ferocious addiction to prescription painkillers. With her grim practicality and utilitarian haircut, Jackie seems a world away from the materialistic, voluptuously coiffed Carmela but both characters share a delicious moral dubiousness.
The first episode ? in which Jackie forges an organ donor card, steals from a rich patient to give to a poor one and flushes the severed ear of a violent diplomat down the toilet ? won her an Emmy. It made Falco the first female actor to win one for comedy as well as drama but if anything validates the "best television actress of her generation" tag, it's simply that people in the street now shout "Nurse Jackie" rather than "Carmela".
I meet Falco in her local New York cafe and she strides in looking trim and vigorous. The spiked crop is pushed back under a headband and she seems formidably together, particularly in comparison with Jackie's chaos.
"I am, yeah," she nods. "Having been there myself I know that the alternative is yucky and I see how different my life is as a result of getting myself together." Falco, now 47, has been sober for 20 years after giving up alcohol. "It proved to me that I don't have to be a mess to do what I do," she says, her large light blue eyes fixing me. "Which is a big question a lot of addicts have ? like "Oh, it's my muse" or whatever excuse you tell yourself to keep drinking. It sort of cleans the channel from where you get your inspiration, unclouds the way. It takes what it takes to find these things out."
Before Nurse Jackie, she kept getting cast as wives and mothers, "and at the time I was neither. I thought, what if I was just a woman? And then this came along and ? I never really connected it until actually right now ? I realise it was what I had asked for."
Jackie is a wife and mother, albeit the kind who grinds painkillers into powder and snorts them before preparing her kids' cereal. But the show, says Falco, "is really just about this woman's struggle to get through the day".
When asked who's tougher, Jackie or her, she barely hesitates: "I think I'm tougher actually, for sure," she nods. "And my toughness was hard-won so I can stand behind everything I say and do. I get impatient with her denial; I just want to say, you've got a marriage, kids at stake, just get it together, enough already!"
Falco grew up in Brooklyn ? "a sensitive kid growing up in an imperfect environment, I'll just leave it at that" ? and seeing her mother do community theatre made her want to act.
"I used to think it was the coolest thing in the world, that she had her job in the day and then in the evening she and a bunch of other grownups would put on costumes and act things out. It was the most preposterous thing, magic from beginning to end."
Falco graduated from the acting programme at the State University of New York at Purchase in 1986, but it was a long time before she was able to support herself through acting alone. There was secretary work, "waitressing for a gazillion years" and also a stint in a Cookie Monster costume.
"Oh God," she says, closing her eyes and grimacing. I apologise for bringing back the memories. "It's all right, it's OK, they're never very far away. So yeah, I dressed up as Cookie Monster. At a wedding. To get people up on to the dance floor. But I got $75 a wedding and that was huge back then. Uhhh," she exhales, with a little head shake, "I still can't believe those days really are behind me."
The Sopranos ensured that they were. Falco quickly became a household name, but did her best to avoid the fuss around the show. "My mom would call and say, 'Oh I was reading on a website . . .' and I'd say [she puts on a stern voice]: 'Mom? I can't go there.' It wasn't until it ended that I became more aware of just what it was and what it meant to people. It's just hugely flattering."
In 2003, midway through filming a season, Falco was diagnosed with breast cancer. "At 11 o'clock I got the diagnosis and I had to be at work at one," she says. "It was important for me to go through it privately. I have great respect for people who can go out there and proclaim it but that's not how I do things."
She told her family and close friends, who include the show's producers ? both women in their 40s. They duly scheduled Falco's filming around chemo appointments and saw that she had a wig to play Carmela in. "It was perfect for me," says Falco. "The more I was able to just show up for my job, the more healthy I stayed. You kind of become what people expect of you, so if nobody knows and they're like, 'Buck up!' then that's what I'll do."
As for surviving cancer, "I had all these large thoughts and I'm embarrassed to say they kinda went away. You start out with all these grand proclamations and here it is, almost eight years later, and I still bitch about the same stuff, still complain about my wardrobe or whatever."
But motherhood has also prompted some of those large thoughts. Falco has two adopted kids, six-year-old Anderson and three-year-old Macy.
"I wonder how did I ever manage without being a mom, you know? I get so much nourishment from being around these guys. I have an odd, cosmic feeling about it ? we're all the mothers to all the children, all here to raise each other and take care of each other."
They get excited when they see her face on the subway or sides of buses. But, she says, "the weirdest thing was two summers ago: I'm in the Hamptons, bouncing my baby in a swimming pool and there's an aeroplane going by with a banner with Nurse Jackie on it . . . it was just too bizarre. We go and do our job and go home and you forget that it's being recorded and millions of people are seeing it. That piece of it is something I don't think about so much. Until somebody comes at me with that kind of grin as if I'm something other than human."
When she leaves a young guy recognises her and accosts her, thrilled. I think he's grinning because onscreen and off, she is nothing but human.
Nurse Jackie is on Sky Atlantic HD every Tuesday at 10pm.
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The Morning Lowdown 07-14-11
Some of the stories people are talking about this morning:
» Swedish freemium music service Spotify is finally live in the U.S. Invite-only access and subscriptions started this morning. (paidContent)
» Bancroft Family Members Express Regrets at Selling Wall Street Journal (NSDQ: NWS) to Murdoch (The Guardian). But one star of that piece, Chris Bancroft, tells Reuters (NYSE: TRI), “I have to thank Rupert for persisting and for buying the paper.” Reuters
» Union-Tribune owner hires investment advisor to explore possible sale (Romenesko)
» The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) to Repay Carlos Slim loan five months earlier than planned, more than three years earlier than the notes were due. (NYT)
» The Latest iPad-Only Magazine (paidContent)
Ask Unclutterer: Prioritizing family, education, and career
Reader Viktoria wants to know how she can do it all.
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Spotify Launching In U.S. Thursday; Invite-Only Free, Instant Premium
U.S. music enthusiasts who have claimed all along that they would be willing to pay for Spotify will get their chance to prove it Thursday. The streaming music service has finally pulled off its long-promised launch and will go live tomorrow. Ad-supported unlimited free access—yes, you read that right—comes with a catch: it’s invite only and those invitations will be limited. (Leave an e-mail here and you’ll have a good shot.) But there’s an easier way in: pay for it.
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6 Tips for Removing Waste From Your Life
Waste is more than the stuff in your trash can. You can be subjected to waste in many parts of your life, including time, talent, and effort. In this article, you'll learn a number of ways to reduce waste in your life and to restore a sense of purpose and balance. Here is how.
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NoTW Lesson: The Coverup Is Usually More Damaging Than The Original Crime
Larry Kramer, the author of “C-Scape: Conquer the Forces Changing Business Today”, was founder and former CEO of CBS (NYSE: CBS) Marketwatch.com and the first president of CBS Digital. He sits on the boards of Discovery Communications (NSDQ: DISCA), Inc., American Media Inc., and Freedom Communications, Inc., among others. He also served on the board of Contentnext Media board prior to our sale to Guardian News & Media. He writes about journalism and other matters on his C-Scape blog.
The rapid disintegration of News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) in London because of the News of the World scandal highlights a growing reality in the media world today: Integrity and reputation mean more to news organizations today than ever before.
In the old days, it was very difficult for anyone to challenge existing media franchises. It was expensive to own, or even rent, printing presses. It was extremely difficult to get a license to broadcast audio or video. Magazine publishing was extremely expensive. Great media brands took time to be built.
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Workspace of the Week: Cable free, clutter free
This week?s Workspace of the Week is Breez110's streamlined setup.
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Best Savings Accounts for 2011
After a year or two of quiet, the mammoth online savings account comment thread has come to life again. I conducted that savings account round-up in March 2007, back when banks were offering interest rates as high as 5% for their online savings accounts. GRS readers chimed in with their own favorite savings accounts, and [...]
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Level Up Your MMORPG Character Using Developing Economies
These virtual goods are nothing to sniff at, with certain accounts laying out megabucks for whatever helms and chainmail they fancy. The report estimates that the largest Chinese suppliers of in-game "gold" net nearly $10 million, while other firms can make up to $1 million; the whole worldwide virtual market is nearly an $8 billion dollar industry. The good news is that, because there are no real supply costs, a large portion of the profits go into the hands of the worker, directly benefiting them instead of a corporation. The bad news is that, with Western gamers shelling out all of their money to buy better in-game goods, they'll never be able to save up money to move out of Mom's basement. Bad-um!
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