Ever since The New York Times announced in January that it would install a paywall by early 2011, speculation about how it will work has been high. All the detail the Times provided at the time was that it would allow site visitors to freely access a certain number of articles per month before hitting a paywall, and…

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NYT Subscriber Survey Hints at Paywall Strategy

The company also has hired new marketing and sales employees. Marketing analytics and database marketing provider Alliant Cooperative Data Solutions LLC has chosen Christine Pelczar to fill the newly created position of director of sales.

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Marketing firm Alliant names a director of sales

Here’s what CSR has learned from our first Win a Date contest we held last week: LOTS of our home cooks need a night out with their honey. After reading all of the comments that came in about why YOU need a  Dinner Date  Cooking Class for two, we have chosen the winner to be Deborah! In Deborah’s entry she wrote, “After a quick evening of throwing together dinner, baths, practicing school work, walking the dog, feeding the cats, brushing teeth and convincing our two year old that he really does need to sleep tonight…we’re spent.

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Who Won a Dinner Date at CSR?

The iPhone 4 went on sale in many other nations on Friday, and unlike the explosion in the media in the U.S., there seems to have been remarkably little fuss around the globe about the matter. The Sydney Morning Herald grabbed the biggest chunk of the news with a piece titled “iPhone 4 fault fails to surface for Sydney fans.” And though the first paragraph of the article hurls some nationalistic zingers — “Maybe their mobile signal is weaker, or maybe our hands are just smaller?” — it’s actually onto something. If the Aussies are seeing fewer issues with the antenna design of the iPhone 4, then what the heck is going on

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No Antenna Issues for Australian iPhone 4: Did U.S. Litigiousness, Media Invent It?

As it stands, there is no reliable way to judge the sustainability of a company. Sustainability is, of course, a subjective thing, and one whose definition changes depending on the industry

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RICHMOND, Va. Virginia’s lawsuit challenging the Obama administration’s health care reform law cleared its first legal hurdle Monday as a federal judge ruled the law raises a host of complex constitutional issues

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Health care reform lawsuit passes first legal hurdle

At a ceremony held at the Department of Commerce in Washington, D.C., the 2010 class of the National Inventors Hall of Fame was formally inducted. David Kappos, director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, said, “The 2010 inductees have collectively amassed 387 patents.

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Inventors Hall Of Fame Inducts 16 New Members

News Corp. is weighing a bid for Major League Baseball’s bankrupt Texas Rangers, the New York Post reported Monday.

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News Corp. Considers Bid for Rangers

It’s Sunday and so begins Discovery Network’s annual week-long programming of shark “documentaries” – Shark Week 2010. This event has been a ratings success (translating into advertising dollars) but exasperated shark advocates have reviled the network’s reliance on over-sensationalism and distortion of the facts.The programming usually consists of one large budget new program, several new smaller budget programs, and then the rest of the programming slate is filled out with selections from …

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Shark Week 2010: how to balance against one particular perspective

According to The Washington Post , you don’t even have to like to cook in order to appreciate the gizmos, gadgets and gurus of food fixings in “Inventive Eats,” the first exhibit in the brand-spanking new installation space at the National Inventors Hall of Fame in Alexandria. Designers Laurie Mobley and Mitch Scott were given the job of setting up a universally appealing show in a few months’ time, so they built it around 20 food-related inductees

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Thanks to Rachel Ray, extra virgin olive oil (or “EVOO” as she has playfully deemed it) has become a grocery staple in American grocery stores as well as American kitchens. Remember, it wasn’t so long ago that olive oil in the home meant that rancid bottle of Bertolli hanging out in the back of the pantry with the discarded bottles of molasses and rice wine vinegar. Now, EVOO is front and center in the kitchen and used for just about everything from salad dressings to cakes

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Virginity questioned: How extra virgin olive oil lost its purity

For organic caterer Annie Marshall, what was originally a means to support her daughter has since become a dedication to teaching people the benefits of healthier eating reports FrederickNewsPost.com .

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Veggie Annie’s Recipe For Success

WZZM 13, the Grand Rapids ABC affiliate owned by Gannett Co., Inc., announced today that it will be airing six Mid-American Football Conference (MAC) games beginning Saturday, September 18, 2010.

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WZZM 13 Announces Mid-American Conference (MAC) Football Schedule

Before you all admire me for making my own pav, let me assure you that I have never made my own pav till now, though we have pav bhaji at home quite often. I live in Goa where there is no shortage of freshly made bread, and it is also …

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My Diverse Kitchen: Pav Bhaji With Home-made Laadi Pav (Spicy …

New Englanders will go through an elaborate drill this evening to make sure that our emergency weather nerds are at the ready, via http://ares.ema.arrl.org/local/2010_Hurricane_Hudson_Mass_Drill_Participants_Doc_Rev_1.pdf The purpose of the simulation?

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Hurricane preparedness

According to John Calvert at the United States Patent and Trademark Office , A provisional patent application (PPA) is a patent application that can be used by a patent applicant to secure a filing date while avoiding the costs associated with the filing and prosecution of a non-provisional patent application. More specifically, if a non-provisional application is filed within one year from the filing date of a PPA, the non-provisional application may claim the benefit of the filing date of the PPA. Because a PPA is not examined, an applicant can also avoid the costs typically associated with non-provisional patent prosecution (certain attorney’s fees, for example) for a year while determining whether his/her invention is commercially viable

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Hoboken’s Ian Sacs (right) and Juan Melli with a Corner Car. (Jim Motavalli photo) HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY — Fresh off the $1.75 PATH tubes from Manhattan, I am standing on a pleasant residential street lined with brownstones in downtown Hoboken, New Jersey with the boyish Ian Sacs, head of the city’s transportation and parking bureau. In front of me is a Toyota Prius, just like any other except for the fact that it is parked in a green-lined space …

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Innovative car sharing helps a walkable city clear its streets

Publishers Lunch daily email is reporting that, in addition to the State of Texas, the Connecticut Attorney General is investigating ebook pricing: Now Bloomberg reports that at least one other player is Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal’s office, saying “the information was disclosed in an e-mailed statement.” The news service says they are “investigating agreements between the country’s largest e-book publishers and Amazon.com and Apple that may block competitors from offering cheaper e-book prices.” Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us

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More state anti-trust investigations of ebook pricing

Cnet’s Crave gadget blog has an article about these free comics : One of the under-the-radar killer apps of Apple’s iPad is the collection of comic book storefronts (which also double as comic readers). They’re all free, and connect you to virtual comic shops that sell digital issues of comics for about $2 each–with transactions handily conducted through Apple’s app store back end. There are official Marvel and DC Comics apps, along with indie apps such as Comics + app from iVerse, IDW Comics, and the Comics app from ComiXology, which sell titles from a variety of large and small publishers

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20 great free iPad comics

From a Blog Post In June, we concluded a survey, linked on 10 of our highest traffic websites, with more than 5,000 responses from patrons around urban and rural America.

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Ebooks and audiobooks: stats about OverDrive users