TreeHugger:
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew sprinkles Holy Water over the Mississippi River. Photo by GANP/Dimitris Panagos from Ecumenical Patriarchate via Flickr.A 69-year-old man with a long white beard and big black robes may seem like an unlikely role model for teenagers, but Greek Orthodox youth in the United States apparently f (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
• The chain hopes to sell about 36 of its 45 bookshops• Lack of credit insurance led to difficulties in buying stock The sale of Borders UK, the troubled book retailer, appeared to be foundering today, raising fears for the future of the hard-pressed business.The company, with 45 stores in Britain, has been hoping to sell a (Read More)
The Guardian:
Conspiracist prominent in movement claiming president is an imposterNeil Sankey has spent his life investigating organised crimes. As a former British police officer with almost 20 years experience, he was seconded to elite units of Scotland Yard through most of the 1970s and now runs his own private detective agency in Cal (Read More)
The Guardian:
• The chain hopes to sell about 36 of its 45 bookshops• Lack of credit insurance led to difficulties in buying stock The sale of Borders UK, the troubled book retailer, appeared to be foundering today, raising fears for the future of the hard-pressed business.The company, with 45 stores in Britain, has been hoping to sell a (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
It's cute and it's cuddly. And in 30 years, campaigners say, the koala will be extinct. But this emblematic animal has a curious history – and its fate is mired in politicsWhen south-eastern Australia was consumed by bushfires in February, one image shut out all others. Nearly 200 humans might have perished, but a koala had (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
The digital economy bill is misnamed. A more honest title for the legislation, recently introduced in the Lords, would be the copyright protection and punishment bill. It is less about creating the digital businesses of the 21st century than protecting the particular 20th century business models used in music and film.The b (Read More)
New York Times:
Internet-based local news organizations are drawing big-name journalists, including veterans of the established news outlets they are competing with.
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Valleywag:
Remember the moment you knew MySpace was doomed? It came in the form of obnoxious ads. Which your Twitter stream is about to be. So: are you making that cash, or being cashed in on? Pay Per Post is back.Today, the Times runs a trend(ing) piece in the business section on how Twitter users are making serious cash Tweeting ads (Read More)
Gawker:
Remember the moment you knew MySpace was doomed? It came in the form of obnoxious ads. Which your Twitter stream is about to be. So: are you making that cash, or being cashed in on? Pay Per Post is back. Today, the Times runs a trend(ing) piece in the business section on how Twitter users are making serious cash Tweeting ad (Read More)
Valleywag:
Remember the moment you knew MySpace was doomed? It came in the form of obnoxious ads. Which your Twitter stream is about to be. So: are you making that cash, or being cashed in on? Pay Per Post is back.Today, the Times runs a trend(ing) piece in the business section on how Twitter users are making serious cash Tweeting ads (Read More)
Gawker:
Remember the moment you knew MySpace was doomed? It came in the form of obnoxious ads. Which your Twitter stream is about to be. So: are you making that cash, or being cashed in on? Pay Per Post is back. Today, the Times runs a trend(ing) piece in the business section on how Twitter users are making serious cash Tweeting ad (Read More)
Ars Technica:
EMI recently scored an epic victory against the US website that tried to sell Beatles tracks online for a quarter, but the whole incident raised a familiar question: why, exactly, isn't The Beatles music legally available online?The answer isn't hard to find—as everyone knows, The Beatles' own music company (Read More)
Ars Technica:
The Queen announced on Wednesday that her government would deliver Internet piracy legislation; today it arrived in the form of the massive Digital Economy bill meant to modernize the UK's approach to everything from copyrights to broadband to video game ratings to domain names. The bill contains no sanctio (Read More)
MSNBC:
Authorities say a 12-year-old boy assaulted by a group of middle school classmates in Southern California may have been targeted after an Internet posting urged students to beat up redheads.
Southern California - Facebook - Middle school - United States - California. (Read More)
Gawker:
Why would newspaper circulation rates going up be an issue to anybody? That's great! Print's dying and someone's succeeding! THANK GOD. Except, not. The AP just hit the wire with a pretty great story on this. For example, the charmers at my hometown paper, the Las Vegas Review Journal, saw an increase in circulation this ye (Read More)