On June 13 our own Joanna published an article entitled Kobo growing pains – user issues and my prescription , in which she detailed some of the problems she had with the new Kobo Reader.
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Kobo Vice President replies to issues raised by TeleRead’s Joanna
The Washington Post calls the charges against Lee Farkas “to date the biggest criminal case related to the crisis that nearly brought down the financial system.” This one’s a win for the Special Inspector General of the TARP Neil Barofsky: Prosecutors said the scheme was discovered after Neil Barofsky, Treasury’s special inspector general for the Troubled Assets Relief Program,…
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Audit Notes: Mortgage Charges, BP Testimony, FT.com Ad Revenue
In other news Thursday, rescue workers searched for dozens of workers underground after an explosion rocked the San Fernando Mine in Amaga, Colombia, killing 16. Also, European Union leaders adopted new sanctions against Iran and its nuclear program.
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News Wrap: Coal Mine Explosion Killls At Least 16 in Colombia
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Freelance Writing Jobs for June 17, 2010 : Working Writers
The chance that the News Corp bid for BSkyB will be followed by a $2 billion offer for SKY Network Television of New Zealand was enough to have Macquarie’s Auckland-based analysts run for the abacus yesterday.
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Last weekend, in the middle of the Portland farmers’ market at PSU, a cheerful group of youngsters enjoyed a personal, hands-on cooking class from James Beard award-winning chef, author, and local food systems expert Cory Schreiber. …
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The job of an academic is to conduct research, and that means publishing manuscripts for the world to read. Computer science is somewhat unusual, among the other disciplines in science and engineering, in that our primary research output goes to highly competitive conferences rather than journals. Acceptance rates at the “top” conferences are often 15% or lower, and the process of accepting those papers and rejecting the rest is famously problematic, particularly for the papers on the bubbl…
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Rebooting the CS Publication Process
There’s a paper in the Journal of Political Economy that has sparked a bunch of discussion. The article, bearing the snappy title “Does Professor Quality Matter? Evidence from Random Assignment of Students to Professors,” looks at the scores of over 10,000 students at the US Air Force Academy over a period of several years, and finds a small negative correlation between the faculty effect on performance in an introductory course and performance in a follow-on course
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Faculty Evaluation Is Really Complicated
It doesn’t inspire confidence in the Washington Post that it fails to mention the blockbuster SEC fraud charges against Goldman Sachs in a story about how the Obama administration has failed to file criminal charges against Wall Street. Nearly 1 1/2 years into Obama’s tenure, despite several cases against mortgage companies whose lending practices contributed to the crisis, the…
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WaPo Flags Obama Inaction on Wall Street Crime
StartupNation is collaborating with Overstock.com to help connect your small business with the tens of millions of shoppers at Overstock.com through Overstock’s Main Street Store.
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Depending on whether or not you’re a calendar purist, this coming weekend is either the first weekend of summer movies or merely the weekend right before the summer truly begins; either way, there are two big releases coming up in the …
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The Washington Post picks a good moment to profile Scott Rasmussen, the pollster who’s hitting the big-time, even if the old-school polling crowd doesn’t like it. As cash-strapped newspapers and television networks struggle to meet the growing demand for polls, Rasmussen, 54, is supplying reams of cheap, automated surveys that will measure — and maybe move — opinion, especially…
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Audit D.C. Notes: Ouija Boards, Older 99ers, Making Lemonade
When I began the Freelance Writing Jobs blog five years ago, it was a fun hobby. I enjoyed trolling the Internet for job leads each morning and sharing with my fellow freelancers. For me, it was a relaxing way to enjoy my first cup of coffee
Steve Hayden, Vice Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide; Chris Actis, Senior VP, MediaVest USA; Shiv Sigh, VP, Razorfish; Chris Wilkes, VP, Hearst Magazines Digital Media; Randall Rothenberg, President & CEO, Interactive Advertising Bureau, Moderator Hayden: size does matter and the iPad is a content machine. Question: when buy an ad on Wired does this have to be approved by Apple and he won’t get back any info from them on the ad results? Apple will always provide the best user experience.
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Untethered – The Bottom Line: the role of advertising
Peter Davis, President McGraw-Hill Education; Brian Murray, President & CEO HarperCollins Publishers; Carolyn Reidy, President and CEO, Simon & Schuster; David Steinberger, President & CEO, Perseus Books Group; Tom Turvey, Director, Strategic Partnerships, Google; Peter Osnos, Founder and Editor-at-Large, PublicAffairs Books Davis: at McGraw only a small part of business plays by the traditional rules of publishing. The educational part is very healthy. Sold Business Week because of desire to reduce exposure to advertising based revenues.
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Untethered – The future of book publishing
By guest blogger Sharon Halkovics Summer desserts don’t have to take much work – just let the beautiful fruit of the season shine through. One of our loyal blog followers, Patrice Berry, asked last week what our favorite strawberry recipes are
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Summery Strawberry Clafoutis
In the realm of marketing, Gatorade is probably best known for splashy commercials featuring some of the world’s most famous athletes. Mashable reports that a new effort behind the scenes of the PepsiCo-owned sports drink maker is putting social media quite literally at the center of the way Gatorade approaches marketing. The company recently created the Gatorade Mission Control Center inside of its Chicago headquarters, a room that sits in the middle of the marketing department and could best be thought of as a war room for monitoring the brand in real-time across social media.
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Inside Gatorade’s Social Media Command Center
Trip Adler, CEO, Scribd; Ryan Charles, Mobile Product Leader, Zagat Survey; Mark Coker, CEO, Smashwords; Brad Inman, CEO, Vook; Josh Koppel, Founder, ScrollMotion; Kevin Kelleher, Blogger, The Big Money Adler: Scribd: social publishing and reading. Over 50 million monthly users.
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Untethered: Meet the apps
Atrios says: I really can’t believe how fast the “you can’t hurt BP! If you do, you’re just hurting poor little old ladies!!!” idea was spread. Like the idea that boycotting its gas stations won’t really hurt BP, the “oil spill is hurting pensioners” meme is awfully helpful PR for BP. The British press, at least the…
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Beleaguered Pensioners
Calorie Reality: A Dinner Size Eggplant Parmigiana entree from Olive Garden weighs in at 850 calories. Try this delicious classic Italian Recipe from the the healthy kitchen of registered dietitian, Sari Greaves and slash 550 calories! Makes 4 sandwiches.
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Recipe Corner: Skinny Eggplant Parmigiana Sandwiches