O’Reilly’s Tools of Change site has an interesting essay by former Google Deputy General Counsel Alexander Macgillivray on copyright issues that need to be addressed for e-books and other digital media. The interesting thing is that many of the issues he brings up are not the ones commonly argued between copyrighters and copyfighters
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Former Google counsel on needed copyright reforms in the digital age
Each Friday I pick my favorite stories from the previous week. It is purely a subjective judgement. Check out new media discovery site – Critical Mob Oxford Dictionaries Online arrives Amazon Encore: Amazon’s gradual change, Konrath’s publishing decision Kobo growing pains – user issues and my prescription by Joanna New iPhone/iPad app from National Library of Information: WISER (Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders) USB typewriter connected to an iPad – I want one of these Teaching with the iPad – first days by Joanna Send selected full text ebooks from Open Library to a Kindle with only a couple of clicks Digg us
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Are Homemade Solar Panels Possible, Economical, and Useful?With energy prices rising steadily over the last few decades and no reason to think they’ll fal…
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DIY Solar Panels – Build Your Own Homemade Solar Panels & Save the …
When applying search engine optimisation tools, there are a number of factors that will have an effect on how long it will take for your business’s website to raise its search engine positioning. Search engine optimization is a strategy than can appear slow to show results. A well established website will naturally start to raise its
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Search Engine Optimization Has To Be Given Enough Time To Produce Results
Based on a survey with over 3600 graduate and undergraduate students worldwide, IBM’s recently released Global Student Study 2010 compares side by side the value system, mindset, and management style of future leaders with those of current generation CEOs. The findings supplement insights from their 2010 CEO Study, which we discussed in our last blog post . If you are leading a function or a business unit, you should read carefully what these students have to say.
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Leadership In the Age of Scarcity
Many of us have the goal of finding better writing clients who pay more and come back to use our services again and again , but we often sabotage our own efforts to get better gigs. Sometimes the sabotage consists of not having enough confidence to even apply for the best writing projects. When this is the case, we’re defeated before we even start.
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How to Show Your Freelance Writing Prospects that You Mean Business
NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center has published its monthly “State of the Climate Report.” The combined global land and ocean surface temperature was the warmest on record for May, March-May (Northern Hemisphere spring-Southern Hemisphere autumn), and the period January-May. The warming in May is greatest precisely where climate science suggested it would be — the high northern latitudes (see “What exactly is polar amplification and why does it matter?” — precisely the worst possib…
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NOAA: Warmest May, spring, and Jan-May on record
Can Kevin Costner’s centrifuge–a device to separate oil from water at up to 200 gallons per minute–clean up the Deep Horizon spill? We reported on Costner’s clean-up gadget back in May when he convinced the Coast Guard and BP to test his technology, and now comes news that BP has ordered 32 of Costner’s devices to try out in the Gulf. It sure makes for easy reporting; Costner’s handsome mug is certainly more appealing than oil-soaked sea life
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BP to Kevin Costner: We’ll Take 32 of Your Oil Clean-up Machines | 80beats
Too many would-be ecommerce entrepreneurs start a home business without taking the time to research and do the homework required to know what they are getting into. Starting a business on nothing more than a whim is a very bad idea, …
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ECommerce Home Business Start-Up Mistakes: What NOT to Do
Unexpected SuccessI started this trail of freelance writing jobs quite early. At first, it was only a way to escape another summer job over at my grandmother’s. She can be quite persistent and so I decided to just look for a job on my …
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» Online Writing Jobs: Success Secrets of Online Freelance Writers
Brian Peterson posts on a fascinating West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals decision involving the use of social media between a juror and defendant and the issue of disclosure of such connections during voir dire .
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Reversal of Conviction Because Undisclosed MySpace Friendship Between Defendant and Juror
I was going through some old New York Times Magazines a few weeks ago, and came across an article by financial guru Suze Orman. A lot of advisors in the financial industry don’t like Suze Orman. Sure, she has made some errors in advice and made some mistakes in her books, but in general her conservative approach to investing and insurance are dead on for the average middle class investor
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Suze Orman, Self-Worth and Freelance Writing, Part 1
So, what is brand marketing – and how does it differ from target marketing? With target marketing you are deciding who your potential customers are by looking at the problems that people in your particular niche face
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EFG Marketing Solutions, Inc. – Growing Your Company The Most Effective Way
When the first Internet connections were made commercial, the fastest type of Internet connection available was dialup. As the Internet and its web content grew in leaps and bounds, users started asking for faster Internet connections so that they could explore this content conveniently. Another step was then made with the ADSL technology.
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High Speed Cable Internet Providers
In its finale, Supernatural delivered not only one of the finest hours of network television of 2010, but it also supplied one of the most intellectually and satisfying closures any sci-fi or horror series ever broadcast.
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Mike Ragogna: HuffPost Reviews: Supernatural and Matthew Clay …
If you’re looking for ways to stretch your budget, checking all your insurance options is an important step. Consider this: If you’re over 50 and have gone for quite some time without an accident, it’s quite likely that – even after any “rebates” you receive from your auto insurer, that additional savings could be yours
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Reduce Overhead By Updating Car Insurance Quotes
One of the top 10 Internet marketing consultants, Jay Berkowitz, will present The 10 Golden Rules of Online Marketing Version 2.0 to explain strategies for Social Media and Search Engine Optimization.
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The Internet Marketing Club Hosts Free Webinar Featuring Top Online Internet Marketing Techniques
StreamSend, a leading email marketing software provider, has expanded its affiliate marketing program to partner with ValueClick Inc.’s (Nasdaq:VCLK) Commission Junction, the leading global provider of affiliate marketing solutions. Company Seeks Entrepreneurs & Opportunity Seekers to Join & Earn Extra Income.
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StreamSend.com Partners with Commission Junction for Affiliate Marketing; Company Seeks Entrepreneurs & Opportunity …
It’s the Honda CR-Z. Cars.com senior editor Joe Wiesenfelder reviews the new hybrid and explains why it doesn’t do sporty or hybrid particularly well, but it is a comfortable ride nonetheless. He also dissects its two transmissions — a …
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Cars.com Reviews the 2011 Honda CR-Z – KickingTires
Greetings to all members of the Society for the Preservation and Propagation of Old-Time Gardening Wisdom, Lore, and Superstition (SPPOTGWLS or “the Society”) I, your self-appointed Society president for life, am hereby calling to order this special meeting to share an important piece of information. It has been some time since we last met. We refer to the previous meeting minutes to determine
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The Society Meets: Anticipating the End Of Spring, Start Of Summer