February 2012
The fraud and waste that often come with outsourcing these services has been...
– The privatization trap - The 99 Percent Plan - Salon.com
Everything we once expected the government to do — from education to regulatory...
– The privatization trap - The 99 Percent Plan - Salon.com
Share. Retweet. Do shout outs to other Twitter followers. Take part in...
– Twitter for Small Businesses - 10 Things to Consider
The whole point of social media is to be, well, social. Talk to people! Take...
– Twitter for Small Businesses - 10 Things to Consider
Your customer base isn’t on Twitter. For example, maybe you’re in a business...
– Twitter for Small Businesses - 10 Things to Consider
…as a business owner, sometimes you have to do certain business tasks,...
– Twitter for Small Businesses - 10 Things to Consider
you understand that engaging customers and prospective customers via Twitter...
– Twitter for Small Businesses - 10 Things to Consider
every country has its differences, differences in child-rearing practices,...
– BBC News - Tales of woe from the roaming professionals
Whether it is the refusal to take an assignment or the failure to complete one,...
– BBC News - Tales of woe from the roaming professionals
In 1960, women teachers were better paid than other similarly educated...
– Do Women Look Down On Women In More Traditionally Female Jobs?
By making available any Member Content through the Site, Application or...
– Pinterest - Terms of Use
Pinterest likely should disclose this practice to users even if they aren’t...
– Pinterest is quietly generating revenue by modifying user submitted pins. | LL Social
One specific, problematic issue is that when individual online stores pin their...
– Pinterest is quietly generating revenue by modifying user submitted pins. | LL Social
The idea of growing big and figuring out the business later is dangerous for...
– Pinterest is quietly generating revenue by modifying user submitted pins. | LL Social
Pinterest has taken this action in a quiet, non-disclosing way. How long this...
– Pinterest is quietly generating revenue by modifying user submitted pins. | LL Social
If you post a pin to Pinterest, and it links to an ecommerce site that happens...
– Pinterest is quietly generating revenue by modifying user submitted pins. | LL Social
We need a do-not-track law, similar to the do-not-call one. Now it’s not just...
– Facebook Is Using You - NYTimes.com
Advertisers are drawing new redlines, limiting people to the roles society...
– Facebook Is Using You - NYTimes.com
In the 1970s, a professor of communication studies at Northwestern University...
– Facebook Is Using You - NYTimes.com
Because no laws regulate what types of data these aggregators can collect, they...
– Facebook Is Using You - NYTimes.com
When an Atlanta man returned from his honeymoon, he found that his credit limit...
– Facebook Is Using You - NYTimes.com
Material mined online has been used against people battling for child custody or...
– Facebook Is Using You - NYTimes.com
Ads that pop up on your screen might seem useful, or at worst, a nuisance. But...
– Facebook Is Using You - NYTimes.com
A broader issue than any new regulation “is the effort to establish a new...
– Post SOPA, What Is the Next Frontier for Internet Copyright Protection? - Knowledge@Wharton
…PIPA and SOPA had “too broad a scope and gave too much power to...
– Post SOPA, What Is the Next Frontier for Internet Copyright Protection? - Knowledge@Wharton
Many of the defenders of the legislation are established players competing with...
– Post SOPA, What Is the Next Frontier for Internet Copyright Protection? - Knowledge@Wharton
Wharton legal studies and business ethics professor Kevin Werbach predicts that...
– Post SOPA, What Is the Next Frontier for Internet Copyright Protection? - Knowledge@Wharton
The first real fear of privacy in the U.S. came when the Kodak portable camera...
– One on One: Jeff Jarvis, Author of ‘Public Parts’ - NYTimes.com
Online brainstorming is the only kind that does really work – introverts get to...
– This column will change your life: introverts | Life and style | The Guardian
…it’s people inclined toward publicness, like the new-media guru...
– This column will change your life: introverts | Life and style | The Guardian
…idea-sharing works best when we also protect the interior quiet in which,...
– This column will change your life: introverts | Life and style | The Guardian
…social sharers would be wise to consider why one big group of internet...
– Hating on the Ladies: The Real Backlash Against Pinterest - Lifestyle - GOOD
Snarking about the wedding dresses and cooking wares and artfully messy...
– Hating on the Ladies: The Real Backlash Against Pinterest - Lifestyle - GOOD
Nearly 7 percent of the country’s agricultural land, mostly in the north and...
– Drought and Cold Snap Cause Food Crisis in Northern Mexico - NYTimes.com
Profits are basically flat. They’re flat, in the same range. Operating earnings...
– Gaskins: ‘Where’s the Beef?’ - Bloomberg
If they can manage to become the default payment method for virtual goods...
– Here’s the Number That Matters in Facebook’s IPO Filing - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
Facebook’s main products are the eyeballs of the people on the site, which...
– Here’s the Number That Matters in Facebook’s IPO Filing - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
…even if Facebook gets to 3 billion users, if it doesn’t increase...
– Here’s the Number That Matters in Facebook’s IPO Filing - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
In order for its grandiose ambition of universality to succeed, Facebook would...
– Why Facebook is Failing | Jeff Wise
Gossip is an important tool [that] allows us to negotiate the complicated and...
– Why Facebook is Failing | Jeff Wise
The company has been super aggressive […] trying to metastasize into...
– Why Facebook is Failing | Jeff Wise
…if you listen to the way that people talk about Facebook you sense – or...
– Why Facebook is Failing | Jeff Wise
For all its talk of new revenue streams, Facebook is still dangerously dependent...
– Facebook: A fistful of dollars | The Economist
Although the country produces over 90% of rare-earth minerals today, it controls...
– China and rare earths: Of metals and market forces | The Economist
China also has other means of retaining control of the market besides export...
– China and rare earths: Of metals and market forces | The Economist
On January 30th an appellate body of the WTO ruled that China’s policies to...
– China and rare earths: Of metals and market forces | The Economist