News release: “House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) released a report examining the rebranding of 13 ACORN affiliated organizations following reports that ACORN had disbanded. The report includes evidence of a recent business transaction between ACORN and the organization rebranded as Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) which details… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: April 2010
YouTube Launches New Video Page
YouTube Blog: “…we’re in the midst of one of the largest redesigns in YouTube’s history: we’re simplifying the look and functionality of the video page. That’s the page you see whenever a video plays, and this redesign is about going “back to basics,” focusing attention on the reason why you came to YouTube in the… Continue Reading
DOJ Supports AP's Proposed Digital News Registry
News release: ‘Department of Justice announced today that it supports a proposal by The Associated Press (AP) to develop and operate a voluntary news registry to facilitate the licensing and Internet distribution of news content created by the AP, its members, and other news originators. The department said that the development and operation of the… Continue Reading
International Children's Digital Library and University of Maryland Launch Children's Library iPad Application
News release: “The University of Maryland and the International Children’s Digital Library (ICDL) Foundation have unveiled a new children’s reading and library application – ICDL for iPad brings to Apple’s iPad access to the world’s largest freely available collection of multi-lingual, online children’s books with titles in more than 54 languages representing 64 countries. Through… Continue Reading
Audit Bureau of Circulations board revises definition of mag digital edition, approves new reports for U.S. newspapers
News release: “The board of the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) modified its definition of a digital magazine in the U.S. and Canada to accommodate new reading devices such as the Apple iPad. The new standards state that a replica digital edition must include a print edition’s full editorial content and advertising, but it no… Continue Reading
Researchers Develop Index of Innovative Companies
USC Marshall Center for Global Innovation: “Innovation is widely acknowledged as an important but difficult construct to measure. Currently indices of the most innovative corporations rely on soft data such as polls or subjective judgments of raters. This page describes an index for ranking the most innovative corporations that is based on hard market data.… Continue Reading
NYT: The Pay at the Top
“The compensation research firm Equilar compiled data reflecting pay for 200 chief executives at 199 public companies that filed their annual proxies by March 27 and had revenue of at least $6.3 billion. (One company, Motorola, had co-C.E.O.s.) | See a detailed description of the methodology.” Continue Reading
FCC Posts Images and Descriptions of Apple iPad
Via Mashable: “The Federal Communications Commission has publicly posted a series of images and documents sent by Apple. The documents range from calibration tests to photos of the internal components. Apple requested that these pictures not be posted for 180 days, but clearly that request was denied.” Continue Reading
Media Survey: Longer Hours, Heavier Workloads Persist; But Fears Over Further Job Erosion Moderate Online Convergence Continues
PRNewswire “The ongoing evolution of the media industry continues to place greater demands on journalists’ time and responsibilities, but concerns over staff cuts and budget reductions have lessened in the past year as the shift to online reporting creates new opportunities. This, and other findings uncovered in the “2010 PRWeek/PR Newswire Media Survey,” indicate… Continue Reading
Not-So-Equal Protection – Reforming the Regulation of Student Internships
Not-So-Equal Protection – Reforming the Regulation of Student Internships, Kathryn Anne Edwards, Alexander Hertel-Fernandez – Economic Policy Institute Memorandum #160, April 2, 2010 “Internshipsthe vast majority of which are unpaidhave become a staple of the college experience. In 1992, only 9% of graduating college students had participated in internships; by 2006 that figure increased nine-fold… Continue Reading
HUD and CPSC Issue Guidance on Repairing Homes With Problem Drywall
Follow up to previous postings on problems with Chinese drywall, this news release today: “The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) today issued interim remediation guidance to help homeowners struggling to rid their properties of problem drywall linked to corrosion of metal in their homes… Continue Reading
DHS Announces New Measures to Strengthen Aviation Security
News release: “Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today announced that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will begin implementing new enhanced security measures for all air carriers with international flights to the United States to strengthen the safety and security of all passengerssuperseding the emergency measures put in place immediately following the attempted… Continue Reading
