One of the more controversial e-reading apps to hit in recent days is Flipboard , the free app that aggregates content that friends have shared on social media. I’ve previously reported on the controversy it engendered by its potentially copyright-violating aggregatory nature.
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iPad e-reading app review: Flipboard
The New York Times’ offering the engine behind its own iPad app proves it thinks the future of news publishing is on tablets. The code is called the Press Engine, and it could, just possibly, turn into a powerful tool for transforming the newspaper business. The Press Engine exists because other publishers, like the Dallas Morning News, approached the New York paper and requested access to the code it used to build its iPad and iPhone apps–so taken were they by the design.
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New York Times iPad App Sells Its Soul to Other Papers
Those who owe back taxes better pay up, or Pennsylvania’s department of revenue will hunt you down, Jack Bauer-style. That’s the scare tactic used in a recent series of Big Brother-like ads, which showed a satellite zeroing in on a tax cheat’s home. “Your name is Tom,” bleeps a robotic-voice, as the Google Earth-esque graphics zoom toward its target
“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” Ronald Reagan’s famous challenge to the Russian leader became a rallying-cry to end the Cold War. Now, decades later, Reagan’s son is taking up the torch, albeit for a more important cause: ending the left-wing’s dominance of email service providers
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Ronald Reagan’s Son Launches @Reagan Email Alternative to Lefty Gmail, AOL, Hotmail
Technical writing is a bit of a misunderstood profession that is carried out by very competent and talented professionals. A technical writer’s job is to take… … Fast Cash Freelance Learn about freelance writing , how to become a freelance writer , and writing for money …
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(Photo: Getty Images) Artificial food coloring has long been suspected of contributing to diagnoses of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), but a new study from Perth’s Telethon Institute for Child Health Research shows an association between ADHD and the broader diet patterns of a ‘Western-style’ diet in adolescents. The research has just been published online in the international Journal of Attention Disorders. Leader of nutrition studies at the institute, Associate Professor Wendy Oddy, explained that the researchers looked at the dietary patterns of 1,800 adolescents from the Raine Study and classified diets into ‘Healthy’ or ‘Western’ patterns.
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Five foods linked to ADHD
If we’re lucky, the BP Gulf disaster could soon be over (at least the oil gushing part of it), but the damaged local communities will need help for a long time to come. That’s where the Pepsi Refresh Project’s ” Do Good for the Gulf ” initiative comes in.
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Pepsi Refresh Project’s "Do Good For the Gulf" Campaign Takes Off
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a joint venture between Participant Media and one of the country’s biggest office supply retailers! Cause marketing has a history that is near and dear to my heart, from YouthAIDS’ partnership with footwear company Aldo and major celebrities like rapper Ludacris and pop singer Avril Lavigne to MTV’s partnership with the Kaiser Family Foundation to promote young adult health in marginalized communities. A consistent player in this scene is Participant Media , a production company started by Jeff Skoll that produces socially relevant films with an agenda to create sustained social change. Participant’s latest partnership reveals the far-reaching scope of cause marketing and CSR campaigns, as none other than OfficeMax has announced that it will donate school supplies to over 1,000 teachers when 40,000 people pledge to watch Participant’s latest film, Waiting for “Superman,” about the distraught public school system in the United States.
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Cause Marketing Gets a Lift From "Superman," OfficeMax
When Nike teamed with Apple several years ago for a fitness device that measures and records your pace and distance while running, it changed the workout world. Called Nike+, the small sensor could fit in your shoe, and sync with an iPod or iPhone to track your jogging data. It retailed for $29.
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Adidas’ miCoach Personal Trainer iPhone App Is a Freeware Nike+ Rival
Hammond says some cutting-edge researchers afraid to “make a technology decision.” Al Hammond belongs in the same category with CK Prahalad and Stuart Hart as some of the world’s pioneering bottom-of-the-pyramid researchers and strategists, and Hammond has specifically targeted rural connectivity and health care. From the World Resources Institute, where he authored the pivotal research report, The Next 4 Billion , to Ashoka, where he forges links between private companies and citizen sector organizations, whatever Hammond is working on at the moment is something you know you need to keep your eye on
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Al Hammond Shares the Latest in Bottom-of-the-Pyramid Innovations
Virtusa adopts OLPC as a pet cause, tests and improves hardware and software. One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) has had its fair share of critique and controversy, but if any of that is putting a damper on the project, someone forgot to tell its founder, MIT Media’ Lab’s Nicholas Negroponte –now he’s partnered with IT consulting group, Virtusa , which has decided to run user scenarios and tests to help improve the software and hardware behind OLPC.
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One Laptop Per Child Finds New Partners in Sri Lanka Test Run
In a world where a single TV or laptop screen can no longer contain a worthwhile story, one man dares to spill his epic across multiple platforms. But time is running out..
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"Heroes" Creator Tim Kring on His New TV Series, Transmedia, Future of Television
(Images: London Science Museum) From Ecouterre , here’s one way to turn your newspapers from ordinary trash or recycling into instant couture: This upcycled dress made from 1,000 newspaper cranes by Yuliya Kyrpo. This stunning outfit is part of the Trash Fashion show at London’s Science Museum, which has featured interesting experiments so far like clothing grown from green tea and bacteria . We’re wondering, too, if Yuliya’s gorgeous paper crane dress is a stylish but fitting fashion tribute to a well-known young victim of the atom bomb back in World War II
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Upcycled origami dress made from 1,000 paper cranes
From the No Shelf Required website : I’m thrilled to inform you that No Shelf Required: E-books in Libraries will be released in late August. This edited book, published by ALA Editions, discusses a variety of eBook topics for school, public, and academic libraries
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New book about ebooks in libraries – release in August
A Massachusetts health care bill that would force insurers to spend almost 90 percent of their premium revenues on medical care instead of administrative costs awaits Gov. Deval Patrick’s signature
ProScript Medical Transcription Solutions hires medical transcriptionists to work from home offices all over the U.S.
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Work-at-Home: Medical Transcription Jobs at ProScript
Social Media Marketing for Dummies is a resource for businesses who are looking to embrace the “social world” to engage with their customers. The author, Shiv Singh , is considered a social media guru who now heads the digital marketing for PepsiCo. If you would like to grab a copy of Shiv’s Social Media Marketing book for free, head over to dellsocialmedia.com and fill in the form.
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If anyone should be unsurprised by material in the WikiLeaks war logs dump, it’s reporter Nir Rosen—the New York-based freelance magazine writer and Fellow at NYU’s Center on Law and Security celebrated (and sometimes scorned) for his stints embedding with the U.S. Army and the Taliban. And while he wasn’t shocked by the documents, he was…
Massachusetts lawmakers say a new health care bill they approved will help small businesses combat rising health care costs and force insurers to spend more on medical care and less on administrative costs.
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Health Care Reform Measure Approved
According to ShowbizGossips.com one of the best things to sell on eBay is something you got for free. And that’s exactly what some enterprising Australians are doing as they are selling free Go Cards they got from the Queensland government. The Australian institution gave away free Go Cards to boost usage of the public transport smartcard, but some enterprising recipients tried to cash them in on eBay
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Selling ‘Free’ On eBay