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Democratic strategist: don’t bet against Harry honors China, riling
critics (AP)
Reid (Yahoo! News: U.S. News)
Submitted at 9/30/2009 7:15:53 AM
By Thomas Ferraro (Front Row election is 14 months away, which
Washington) Menendez called “an eternity in James buzzed up: Schumer,
Submitted at 9/29/2009 3:01:16 PM politics.” Democrats Vow to Fight for
Yet he acknowledged Senate Public Option After Setback
A top Democratic strategist has a Democrats face a challenging (Bloomberg)
tip for political gamblers: Don’t environment in trying to retain 20 seconds ago 2009-09-
bet against Harry Reid. their 60-vote majority in the 100- 30T08:22:25-07:00
Polls show the embattled Senate member chamber, their biggest in
majority leader in jeopardy of decades.
being rejected by voters in his Menendez said Republicans Search on for Tenn. baby
home state of Nevada for a fifth, seem to be betting against the snatched by fake agent
six-year term. But Robert U.S. economy rebounding and (AP)
Menendez, the Senate Democratic Democrats enacting healthcare
campaign chief, said he expects reform. The campaign chief said (Yahoo! News: U.S. News)
Reid to pull through next year. he expects the Republican Submitted at 9/30/2009 7:32:27 AM
“I’m convinced that Harry Reid strategy to backfire.
will win,” Menendez told But Jennifer Duffy, who tracks 2darkpark buzzed up: About
reporters on Tuesday at the Senate races for the nonpartisan 4,000 U.S. troops to leave Iraq in
headquarters for the Senate Cook Political Report, said she October (Reuters)
Democratic campaign committee. expects Senate Democrats to lose 3 seconds ago 2009-09-
“I would not bet against Harry their 60-vote majority though 30T08:27:26-07:00
Reid.” retain control of the chamber. Economic data weigh on
He praised Reid for protecting According to Duffy, betting
Nevada against becoming the site p e r c e n t a g e p o i n t s a n d 7 conservative agenda. against Reid might be a pretty Wall Street
for a proposed nuclear waste percentage points, respectively. “Harry Reid is not Tom Daschle, good bet. She lists his race as a (Financial Times - US
dump and helping stimulate its Reid’s numbers have conjured and this (Nevada) is not South “tossup.” homepage)
economy with new jobs. up memories of Democrat Tom Dakota,” said Menendez, noting Click here for more Reuters Submitted at 9/30/2009 7:46:16 AM
Yet polls show the often Daschle, who in 2004 became the that registered Democrats now political coverage
outspoken and combative Reid first Senate leader in a half outnumber registered Republicans Photo Credit: Reuters/Jim Economic data weigh on Wall
l e s s t h a n l o v e d b y m a n y century to be voted out of office. in Nevada. South Dakota is a Young (Reid walks out of West Street
constituents. Republicans made Daschle their traditionally Republican state. Wing after meeting with President By Samantha Pearson in New
In fact, a Rasmussen survey top congressional target that year, Overall, 38 Senate seats are up Obama) York
released in mid-September found branding the South Dakotan for election next year — 19 now Published: September 30 2009
Reid trailing two potential “chief obstructionist” to then- held by Republicans, 19 by 13:59 | Last updated: September
Republican challengers by 10 President George W. Bush’s Democrats. The November 2010 30 2009 15:46
2 Politics/
The First Draft: Public option, Afghan policy under scrutiny
By David Alexander (Front
Row Washington)
Submitted at 9/29/2009 6:38:33 AM
Democrats on the Senate
Finance Committee face off
Tuesday over whether an overhaul
of the U.S. healthcare system
should include an optional
government-run health insurance
plan.
The panel, which is debating
changes to Chairman Max
Baucus’s healthcare reform bill, is
dealing with amendments about
the public option Tuesday.
The public insurance option has
become a hot button issue. Many
Democrats, including President
Barack Obama, say it is needed to
make sure there is enough
competition to drive down prices.
Most Republicans strongly
oppose a government-run plan,
fearing it will have an unfair
competitive advantage that will
drive private insurers out of the
marketplace.
Baucus, seeking to craft a bill
that could win bipartisan support,
left the public option out of his
healthcare bill. Instead, he
proposed creating private
healthcare cooperatives as an
means of ensuring competition
with insurance companies.
Groups on both sides have been
airing advertisements, targeting
Baucus, insurance companies and
others.
A tracking poll by the Kaiser
Family Foundation Tuesday
found that public support for
health reform rose in September
after declining during the
summer. The poll found 57
percent believe reform is more
important than ever.
It found 59 percent favored a
public option.
A public option would directly
affect only a small portion of the
population. Most Americans
would continue to get their health
insurance through their
employers.
Those who don’t have insurance
through their employer would be
entitled to purchase insurance
through a government-run
exchange that would offer private
insurance polices and, possibly,
either a public or cooperative
option.
Other healthcare reform bills
passed out of congressional
committees have included a
public option. Baucus’s bill is the
last one still in committee, much
delayed by efforts to craft the sort
of bipartisan measure Obama
supports.
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Obama says healthcare is his top
domestic priority. He’ll be
keeping an eye on it from the
White House Tuesday, but the
main issue on his agenda for the
day is Afghanistan.
Obama is due to meet NATO
Secretary General Anders Fogh
Rasmussen and U.S. officials
throughout the day as he
considers a proposed strategy shift
that could require the deployment
of thousands more troops to
Afghanistan.
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Got an opinion? Washington Post
holds pundit contest
By Tabassum Zakaria (Front
Row Washington)
Submitted at 9/29/2009 9:36:55 AM
In a town (over) loaded with
opinions, The Washington Post is
looking for a fresh voice.
The newspaper for politics
central has taken the unusual step
of launching a contest for
“America’s Next Great Pundit” on
it’s columnist page (bottom right
corner in today’s paper).
The field will be narrowed to 10
who will then go through a
rigorous competition of writing on
deadline, fielding questions,
shining on video.
“After each round, a panel of
Post personalities will offer kudos
and catcalls, and reader votes will
help to determine who gets
another chance at a byline and
who has to shut down their
laptop,” the contest explanation
explains.
Sounds like the newspaper
version of reality TV.
The winner gets to write a
weekly column for the Post print
or online editions for $200 a
column for 13 weeks (that adds up
to $2,600 over three months —
don’t quit your day job).
“We’ll set our promising pundit
Pace of US job cuts slows in September
(Financial Times - US
homepage)
Submitted at 9/30/2009 8:04:08 AM
US companies made fewer jobs
cuts in September than in any
month in the past year, as the pace
of job losses has slowly begun to
on a path to become the next
byline in demand, the talking head
every show wants to book, the
voice that helps the country figure
out what’s really going on,” the
newspaper says.
UPDATE: The Post responded
to our questions about Why do the
contest and Why not hire the
winner? “Washington is a hot
spot for political pundits, and we
wanted to give our readers a
different kind of opportunity to
join in the conversation and
debate. This is intended to be a
abate, but a labour market
recovery continues to show signs
that it will lag the rest of the
economy.
In other data released on
Wednesday, the commerce
department said that the US
economy contracted at a slower
fun contest with a great prize,
though we’re open-minded about
where it might lead,” Kris Coratti,
spokeswoman for The
Washington Post, says.
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click here.
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(protest in front of Supreme Court
over election in December 2000)
pace than previously estimated in
the second quarter, offering hope
that the recession has subsided
and that output will begin to
expand again the second half of
the year after shrinking for four
consecutive quarters.
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Tango gets UN cultural
approval
(BBC News | Americas | World Belgium has put forward its
Edition) Procession of the Holy Blood in
Submitted at 9/30/2009 5:22:24 AM Bruges and China has nominated
several of its artistic traditions,
The Tango has been declared including the Tibetan opera.
part of the world's Intangible In August, it was revealed that
Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the international financial crisis
the United Nations. and the outbreak of swine flu had
The United Nations effected the Argentinian
Educational, Scientific and economy, with a particular
Cultural Organisation aims to emphasis on tourism.
preserve a list of legacies under The number of tourists who
threat from global change. have travelled to the country has
Argentina and Uruguay, where decreased and some Tango shows
the dance originated, jointly h a v e b e e n f o r c e d t o c l o s e
submitted it. temporarily, according to Luis
UNESCO said heritages seeking Veiga, president of Argentina's
a p p r o v a l , t r a n s m i t f r o m chamber of Tango venues.
"generation to generation" and UNESCO declared in 2001 that
give "communities and groups a living traditions - from dance and
feeling of identity". music to rituals and handicrafts -
It added that the dance deserve the same protection as
" e m b o d i e s a n d e n c o u r a g e s natural and cultural treasures like
diversity and cultural dialogue." the Great Wall of China or the
Argentinian official Hernan Great Barrier Reef.
Lombardi said he was "very proud Approved traditions are added
that the music and dance of the to a document, grandly titled The
T a n g o h a v e n o w b e e n Representative List of the
s a f e g u a r d e d f o r h u m a n i t y . Intangible Heritage of Humanity.
Artistic traditions Steps are then taken by UNESCO
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It’s never too early to think
elections…
By Tabassum Zakaria (Front
Row Washington)
Submitted at 9/29/2009 1:08:11 PM
It’s more than a year away, but
the White House is already
making clear that President
Barack Obama will not be on the
sidelines of the 2010 elections.
Just about everything that
happens in political Washington
next year will have an eye toward
November 2010 when all the seats
in the U.S. House of
Representatives, one-third of the
Senate and some state
governorships will be up for
grabs.
Republicans will be hoping to
break the Democratic triple crown
in Washington — control of the
House, Senate and White House
(of course the White House is
taken until 2012).
The White House today let it be
known that Obama will be very
involved in the elections next year
in rallying support for Democrats.
The 2010 elections will also be
seen as a referendum on Obama’s
policies.
“I think the president will be an
active participant in the elections
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Submitted at 9/30/2009 10:40:00 AM
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Covidien Ltd.(NYSE: COV), first
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in 2010,” White House
spokesman Robert Gibbs said. “I
don’t think there’s any doubt
about that.”
(Remember reports that the
White House was urging the New
York governor not to run)
“I think we have a significant
interest in how they turn out. I
think the president will put, a long
way before that, put our best case
forward in 2010, and support
candidates that share his vision
up about 15%.
An aging U.S. population and
the likelihood that U.S. public
policy to universalize health care
will lead to least 3-5 million more
citizens per year for the next eight
to ten years receiving regular
US and Cuba in high-
level talks
(BBC News | Americas | World
Edition)
Submitted at 9/29/2009 11:48:33 PM
A senior American diplomat
held high-level talks with the
Cuban government during a visit
to Havana earlier this month, US
officials have confirmed.
It was the highest-level contact
between the two sides in years.
State department official Bisa
Williams held the talks with
Cuba's deputy foreign minister.
The decades-old US trade
embargo on Cuba remains, but
there has been an easing of
tension since US President Barack
Obama came to power in January.
for long-term sustainable Earlier this month, Ms
economic growth,” Gibbs said. Williams, the deputy assistant
A column by Richard Cohen in secretary of state for Western
today’s Washington Post says Hemisphere affairs, was part of a
Obama is still in presidential US delegation that went to
candidate mode and has yet to Havana to discuss the possible
shift into presidential gear. resumption of direct postal
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Young (Obama at rally for go through third countries,
Senator Creigh Deeds who is meaning it can take several weeks
running for Virginia governor) to arrive.
Ms Williams stayed on in Cuba
after the postal service discussions
for five more days, says the
BBC's Michael Voss in Havana.
health care services means one US diplomats say she also held
thing: it's a good time to be a separate meetings with a number
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Cuba.
Mr Obama has indicated he
would be open to dialogue with
Cuba's leaders.
But he has said that, like
previous American presidents, he
will only consider a full lifting of
the embargo once Cuba's
communist government makes
significant moves such as the
holding of democratic elections.
However, in a sign of thawing
relations, he has eased travel
restrictions for Americans
wanting to visit Cuba and the two
countries are holding direct talks
on immigration.
Cuba's President Raul Castro
has said he is prepared to
negotiate with the Obama
administration, providing there
are no preconditions.
His brother, former President
Fidel Castro, also last week
praised Mr Obama for his
commitment to tackling climate
change.
But our correspondent says no-
one is expecting any rapid
breakthroughs on core issues such
as ending the decades old trade
embargo.
Instead both sides are looking at
ways of working together on
confidence building measures
such as immigration and postal
services and possibly anti-drug
smuggling co-operation.
News of Bisa Williams
extended stay suggests that this
quiet diplomacy is starting to
gather pace.
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Scores dead, villages flattened in devastating Samoan tsunami
- CNN International
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Submitted at 9/30/2009 7:08:46 AM
(CNN)-- Survivors of a deadly
earthquake-triggered tsunami
which hit the Samoan islands
Tuesday have described how they
watched the inrushing sea
swallow up coastal towns and
villages leaving devastation in its
wake.
iReporter Alden Tagarino
captured this image of the damage
caused by the tsunami in Pago
Pago.
At least 111 people are
confirmed killed in Samoa,
neighboring American Samoa and
Tonga. But officials in the
Polynesia region have expressed
fears the toll will rise as rescue
workers struggle to reach outlying
villages submerged and flattened
by the wave.
American Samoa resident
Frances Faumatu told CNN she
had fled to Aoloau, the highest
village on the island, as the
earthquake shook her house.
"All of a sudden we heard on the
radio everybody had to run for
safety," she said. "Right after the
quake, the tsunami came."
Faumatu and others stayed on
the mountain for two or three
hours until the warning was lifted,
watching as the sea swallowed
Pago Pago, island's capital, and
then receded.
At least 22 people are confirmed
dead in the U.S. island territory.
Cars, debris, and parts of
buildings were randomly strewn
over the landscape where the
powerful waters dropped them.
See iReporter images of the
aftermath »
But in some cases, the sea left
nothing behind. "Other villages
were taken to the ocean,"
Faumatu said.
"I can't even compare the image.
It's one thing to see a photo or
footage, but just to be there in
person is pretty dramatic,"
Maneafaiga T. Lagafuaina told
CNN Wednesday. "American
Samoa itself is experiencing a
great loss."
The 8.0-magnitude quake hit the
small cluster of Samoan islands in
the South Pacific early Tuesday.
In Samoa, the death toll stands
at 82, according to government
minister Maulolo Tavita. But he
said he feared the number of
causalities would continue to rise.
Around 220,000 people live on
the two main islands which make
up the nation of Samoa. The
population of American Samoa is
about 66,000. See a map of the
affected region »
Salamo Laumoli, director of
health services at the LBJ
Tropical Medical Center in Pago
Pago, said he feared more
fatalities would turn up as rescue
workers strived to access parts of
the island severed by damaged
infrastructure.
"I thought it was the end of the
world," said Laumoli. "I have
never felt an earthquake like that
before."
Patients at the hospital were
briefly moved to higher ground,
but they were soon brought back
and the hospital is operating, the
U.S. Federal Emergency
Management Agency said. The
airport in the capital of Pago Pago
was also operational and being
used for emergency flights,
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submerged by the tsunami. The
walls of water were so strong that
they twisted concrete beams and
mangled cars. See an explainer on
tsunamis »
Laumoli said people in outlying
villages on one end of the main
American Samoa island had been
cut off because the connecting
bridge was washed away. Listen
to Laumoli speak about the
impact of the quake and tsunami »
American Samoa Gov. Togiola
Tulafono, speaking from Hawaii,
said Tuesday's quake ranked
"right up there with some of the
worst" disasters on the island. He
said he had spoken to the military
about mobilizing reserve forces
for assistance.
Tulafono was on his way back
home from Hawaii on Tuesday
FEMA said. people had been confirmed dead
"The wave came onshore and o n t h e n o r t h e r n i s l a n d o f night on one of two U.S. Coast
washed out people's homes," said Niuatoputapu. Three others were Guard transport planes delivering
Cinta Brown, an American Samoa missing and four people were aid. He told reporters Tuesday it
h o m e l a n d s e c u r i t y o f f i c i a l being treated for serious injuries, had been hard being away from
working at the island's emergency he said. home as the disaster unfolded. It
operations center. "The hospital on the island is was a time, he said, for families to
The same happened on the hard- reported to have suffered major be together.
President Obama declared
hit east and west sides of d a m a g e ; telephone
American Samoa, said Brown, communications has been cut as a American Samoa a major disaster
who was standing in a parking lot result of damage to equipment area, ordering federal aid to
when her sport utility vehicle and facilities on the island; homes supplement local efforts.
A U.S. Defense Department
began rocking left and right. and government buildings have
She said she could hear the been destroyed; the airport official said 75 members of the
rattling of metal of a large chain- r u n w a y h a s b e e n s e v e r e l y Hawaii National Guard were
link fence around the lot. "It damaged making it impossible for ordered to American Samoa to
shakes you because you know any fixed wing aircraft to land," a begin assisting with medical
something else is coming," she statement from the Tongan prime relief, search and rescue and
said. minister's office said. Were you p r o v i d i n g c o m m u n i c a t i o n s
The British Foreign Office said there? Send us your photos and capabilities on the island. The unit
will bring enough supplies to
one of the dead in American video
Samoa was a British national, but A series of aftershocks sustain themselves for 96 hours
no other details were provided. reverberated through the region and its expected more aid from
In Tonga, Lord Tuita, the acting Tuesday as reports emerged of the military could begin flowing
prime minister, said at least seven entire villages flattened or
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Deadly tsunami hits Pacific islands
(BBC News | Americas | World
Edition)
Submitted at 9/30/2009 3:50:03 AM
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Radio DJ Lupe Lohmann
describes the moment a tsunami
hits American Samoa
A tsunami triggered by a strong
quake in the South Pacific has
killed more than 100 people in
several islands.
At least 77 people were reported
dead in Samoa, more than 25 in
American Samoa and at least six
in Tonga.
Residents and tourists fled to
higher ground as whole villages
were destroyed. Boats were swept
inland and cars and people out to
sea.
The 8.3-magnitude quake struck
at 1748 GMT on Tuesday,
generating 15ft (4.5m) waves in
some areas of the islands.
The Samoa islands comprise
two separate entities - the nation
of Samoa and American Samoa, a
US territory. The total population
is about 250,000.
A general tsunami warning was
issued for the wider South Pacific
region but was cancelled a few
hours later.
Separately on Wednesday a 7.9
magnitude earthquake struck a
different fault line off the
Indonesian island of Sumatra,
killing at least 13 people.
The prime minister of Samoa,
Tuila'epe Sailele Malielegaoi, said
the latest death toll there was 77,
including four overseas visitors,
with 150 more people being
treated in hospital.
He said he was shocked at the
devastation.
"So much has gone. So many
people are gone," he told
Australia's AAP news agency.
He said there had been
extensive damage but that
hospitals were coping well and
that he was considering aid offers
from New Zealand and Australia.
"Had it happened in darkness,
there could have been more
disaster in terms of the number of
those who died or are missing," he
said.
US President Barack Obama has
declared a major disaster in
American Samoa, enabling
federal funding to be made
available to help victims. He
pledged a "swift and aggressive"
government response.
False alarm
American Samoa Governor
Togiola Tulafono said the effects
of the tsunami would touch
everyone.
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"I don't think anybody is going
to be spared in this disaster," he
said.
Eni Faleomavaega, who
represents American Samoa in the
US Congress, said the waves had
"literally wiped out all the low-
lying areas in the Samoan
islands".
He said the tsunami had struck
too quickly for a full evacuation.
Samoa's Deputy Prime Minister
Misa Telefoni told AAP that the
ocean had receded, heralding the
oncoming tsunami, "within five
minutes" of the quake.
"With the location and the
intensity... I don't know if
anything better could have been
done."
Officials at the Samoa
Meteorology Division said many
of those who died were killed by a
second wave after they went to
gather fish that had been washed
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Homes gone
A government official in Tonga
said at least six people had been
killed there and four more were
missing.
But New Zealand's acting Prime
Minister Bill English said Tongan
officials had told him a
"considerable number of people"
had been swept out to sea.
Mr English added: "Over the
next 12 hours the picture could
look worse rather than better."
The Pacific Tsunami Warning
Centre (PTWC) said the quake
struck at a depth of 33km (20
miles), some 190km (120 miles)
from Apia.
Radio New Zealand quoted
Samoan residents as saying that
villages were inundated and
homes and cars swept away.
Graeme Ansell, a New
Zealander near Apia, told the
radio station the beach village of
up after the first.
Sirens reportedly blared out Sau Sau Beach Fale had been
across the Samoan capital, Apia, "wiped out".
again late on Tuesday but the "There's not a building standing.
warning was thought to be a false We've all clambered up hills, and
alarm. one of our party has a broken leg.
Dr Lemalu Fiu, at a hospital in There will be people in a great lot
A p i a , s a i d t h e n u m b e r o f of need around here," he said.
casualties was expected to rise as Witnesses have reported scenes
people arrived from coastal areas of destruction.
bringing reports. "It's horrible... The village is
gone and my once beautiful
Mr Telefoni said there were
fears the major tourism areas on beachfront villa has now been
the west side of Upolu island - the s u b m e r g e d i n w a t e r , " J o s h
eastern of the two main Samoan Nayangu told the BBC after
islands - had been badly hit. fleeing the area on a small fishing
"We've had a pretty grim picture boat with his wife and son.
painted of all that coast," he said. Are you in the area? Have you
Australian Prime Minister been affected by the quake? Let
Kevin Rudd confirmed the death us know using the form below:
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take a week before the full extent a large file you can upload here.
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Work begins on national e-health record network continued from page 5
in, the official said.

(AP) The Coast Guard is transporting

more than 20 officials from the
Federal Emergency Management
(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) administration said. systems, allowing VA staff to others' databases, have shown Agency to American Samoa, said
Submitted at 9/30/2009 7:32:23 AM B u t t h e d e b a t e o v e r securely access patient data from s o m e s u c c e s s h u r d l i n g t h e John Hamill, external affairs
interoperability among health care 1,400 VA hospitals and clinic differences between records officer for FEMA in Oakland,
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - providers, which has been going across the U.S. but that benefit software. California.
Dr. James E. Sanders is a big on for years, could take well ends at the medical center's doors. A survey this year by The FEMA team will include a
believer of switching patient beyond the 2014 timeframe to be When a patient isn't in that Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit variety of debris experts, housing
records from old paper files to solved, industry experts say. system, Sanders said his staff has firm eHealth Initiative found 57 experts, members of the Corps of
sophisticated computer databases. "A private sector effort started to revert to receiving the records health information exchange Engineers, and other disaster
The electronic medical records 11 years ago and is still a going by fax and then scanning them groups were operating in the U.S., relief specialists, Hamill said.
system at the Department of concern," said Carla Smith, into the system. up from 32 in 2007. The quake generated three
Veterans Affairs' Kansas City executive vice president of the Dr. David Blumenthal, the At the moment, there are separate tsunami waves, the
Medical Center gives Sanders and Healthcare Information and Obama administration's health hundreds of programs sold by largest measuring 5.1 feet from
his staff almost immediate access Management Systems Society. information technology director, scores of developers approved by sea level height, said Vindell Hsu,
to medical histories, allowing "Every year they solve an X acknowledged that a national the Certification Commission for a geophysicist with the Pacific
them to seamlessly treat veterans number of problems. They're system for sharing records is far Health Information Technology, a T s u n a m i W a r n i n g C e n t e r .
from other states. But when eating the elephant one bite at a off. He said federal officials hope nonprofit group that evaluates Preliminary data had originally
patients aren't in the VA's system, time." to issue regulations controlling whether medical record software reported a larger tsunami.
it could mean hours or days For an integrated system to how medical information is m e e t s f e d e r a l a n d i n d u s t r y CNN's Barbara Starr, Augie
before doctors have crucial work, developers at different shared by the middle of next year s t a n d a r d s . Martin, Mariano Castillo, Moni
information to properly care for companies have to agree on how and plan to provide about $300 With billions of dollars in B a s u , T e s s E a s t m e n t , J i m
patients. their hundreds of programs million in stimulus funds to potential revenue at stake, the Kavanagh and Nick Valencia
"It's increasingly frustrating for uniformly present information and d e v e l o p r e g i o n a l a n d l o c a l vendors have a big incentive to contributed to this report.
us and other providers that it's connect with each other. For i n f o r m a t i o n e x c h a n g e s . ensure that their products don't get All About U.S. Geological
difficult to find a workable example, if one uses its own set of But he said the government will shut out of a national system. Survey• American Samoa
interface," said Sanders, chief of abbreviations, the information likely stay out of the thorny issue Industry experts say that's made
staff for the Kansas City veterans would be useless to a doctor who of exactly how that national interoperability a key feature in
hospital. "Our systems don't talk uses a different program. system will work. most new programs.
to each other." As opposed to a "national" "We're very committed to "If you envision that everyone
Interoperability, or allowing system, some envision a "network innovation and we're very aware who has a computerized system $300 DIY Street-
providers to share records and of networks" that would resemble that the government is not the can talk to another system in a
view them from anywhere, is a the model used in the banking r e p o s i t o r y o f a l l w i s d o m , standardized way, you've in View Camera (Car
requirement for facilities to industry for customers to access especially in a field as dynamic as essence started to build the Not Included)
receive some of the more than $17 their accounts through ATMs health information technology," foundation of a national network
billion in stimulus funding that nationwide. Blumenthal said. "So we fully even if it didn't exist as such," By Charlie Sorrel (Wired Top
the government is offering to Studies have found that less expect there will be a lot of said Rod Piechowski, senior Stories)
e n c o u r a g e t h e a d o p t i o n o f than 10 percent of U.S. health different solutions to the exchange associate director on policy for Submitted at 9/30/2009 7:23:00 AM
e l e c t r o n i c m e d i c a l r e c o r d s . care providers are using electronic problem." the American Hospital
Congress will likely penalize medical records. Regional groups, which use A s s o c i a t i o n . . c o n t e n t > Using eight cheap webcams, a
providers who aren't doing so by Sanders, for instance, has access bridge programs to allow health GPS receiver and open-source
2014, cutting their Medicaid and to one of the nation's most care providers in a city or state to software, Roy D. Ragsdale built a
Medicare payments, the Obama expansive computerized record view patient records in each rig that can do what Google’s
Street-View cars do: take images
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Surf's up: Google Wave has arrived for a few

Shalom: Say
fortunate beta testers. - Christian Science Monitor hello to the first
(Most Popular - Google News) where they can invite others to well, quirky. It allows users to find nearby
Submitted at 9/30/2009 7:44:43 AM share photos, text, gadgets, and
links. (A video explaining Google
There are also still key features
of Google Wave that we have yet
cars, make reservations, and
unlock a reserved car’s doors all-Israeli ETF
Surf's up: Google Wave has Wave’s features is here.) to fully implement. For example, from the device’s touchscreen. By Steven Halpern
arrived for a few fortunate beta Co-creator Lars Rasmussen you can’t yet remove a participant Check it out. (BloggingStocks)
testers.(NEWSCOM) explains it like this on the Google from a wave or define groups of –– Submitted at 9/30/2009 11:00:00 AM
Photos ( 1 of 1) Blog: users, draft mode is still missing Are you on Twitter? Did you
Google is making some waves Here’s how it works: In Google and you can’t configure the receive a Google Wave Filed under: Newsletters, ETF
with the beta launch of its latest Wave you create a wave and add permissions of users on a wave. invitation? Tell us about it. Investing, DJIA, Stocks to Buy,
communication tool. By Amy people to it. Everyone on your We’ll be rolling out these and We’re@CSMHorizonsBlog.| Israel
Farnsworth| 09.30.09 wave can use richly formatted other features as soon as they are Main "Reflecting the stability and
For a few fortunate beta testers, text, photos, gadgets, and even ready — over the next few Comments Leave a Comment maturity of its economy and
Google Wave has finally arrived. feeds from other sources on the months. We do not publish all financial markets, Israel was
Google’s new communication and web. They can insert a reply or Until then, people are already comments, and we do not publish recently upgraded to developed-
collaboration tool, which they say edit the wave directly. It’s dreaming up ways they could use comments immediately. The market status," says fund expert
is their attempt at “what email concurrent rich-text editing, Google Wave when it is fully comments feature is a forum to Mark Salzinger.
would look like if it were where you see on your screen released. discuss the ideas in our stories. In The Investor's ETF Report,
designed today,” integrates nearly instantly what your fellow Chicago-Sun Times Journalist Constructive debate - even he looks at iShares MSCI Israel
a s p e c t s o f e - m a i l , s o c i a l collaborators are typing in your Andy Ihnatko describes how pointed disagreement - is Capped Investable Market
networking, instant messaging, wave. That means Google Wave Google Wave would help him welcome, but personal attacks on ETF(NYSE: EIS), noting, "For a
and real-time editing. Today, it’s is just as well suited for quick write and edit his column, and other commenters are not, and nation of just more than seven
being offered to 100,000 beta messages as for persistent content filmmaker Jonathan Poritsky will not be published. million people, Israel generates
testers by invite only. — it allows for both collaboration imagines an entirely different Tip: Do not write a novel. Keep exceptional economic
S o w h o r e c e i v e d t h e s e and communication. You can also movie-making process with the it short. We will not publish productivity."
invitations? use “playback” to rewind the aid of Wave. lengthy comments. Come up with "GDP per capita was recently
Google says they were sent to wave and see how it evolved. And the telecommunications your own statements. This is not a $28,200, good for 49th in the
developers“who have been active Still, it’ll take some time before platform company, Ribbit, a place to cut and paste an email world, very close to established
in the developer preview” since G o o g l e W a v e i s r u n n i n g company based in Mountain you received. If we recognize it as developed markets like New
June, users who signed up early smoothly, according to the View, Calif., has launched a voice such, we won't post it. Zealand and Italy.
and gave feedback about the Google blog: -collaboration feature which Please do not post any Continue reading Shalom: Say
project, and some Google Apps Since first unveiling the project enable Google Wave users to comments that are commercial in hello to the first all-Israeli ETF
customers. Those who received back in May, we’ve focused participate in real-time nature or that violate copyrights. Shalom: Say hello to the first all
invitations will also able to almost exclusively on scalability, conversations and type at the Finally, we will not publish any -Israeli ETF originally appeared
nominate up to five friends to use stability, speed and usability. Yet, same time. Who knows, maybe comments that we regard as on BloggingStocks on Wed, 30
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SFO prepares to charge BAE Systems
(Financial Times - US Wednesday poised to press country’s most-politically charged Fraud Office to secure an agreed agency’s self-imposed deadline of
homepage) criminal charges over BAE cases finally comes to a head, the guilty plea by the company were midnight, people familiar with the
Submitted at 9/30/2009 6:33:15 AM Systems’ arms deals as the long- Financial Times has learned. still live but looked unlikely to matter said.
running probe into one of the Last-ditch efforts by the Serious result in a deal before the
Corruption investigators were on
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Kraft given deadline
Some Chicago residents hoping Olympics bid a for Cadbury bid
bust (AP) (Financial Times - US
homepage)
Submitted at 9/30/2009 8:05:15 AM
(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) insisting that no matter what 45 percent against; that's a drop such fears, but it can be a tough
Submitted at 9/30/2009 6:26:23 AM organizers say, the games will from the 2-1 support the sell at a time of headline-grabbing Kraft Foods, the US food maker
push people from their homes, newspaper found in a February corruption cases, the biggest one stalking Cadbury, has been given
CHICAGO – The mayor, the lead to more corruption and raise poll. involving former Illinois Gov.
president and Oprah Winfrey may taxes. a little less than six weeks to
The 2016 bid committee said its Rod Blagojevich a Chicagoan announce a firm intention to bid
hope to return to Chicago from "I don't believe anything the city own poll last week shows support accused of trying to sell President
C o p e n h a g e n w i t h t h e 2 0 1 6 and the 2016 committee says," for the UK confectionery group or
from 72 percent of Chicagoans. Barack Obama's vacant U.S. walk away from its would-be
Olympic Games, but some around said Larry Rivkin, who grew up in But even that segment has Senate seat to the highest bidder.
town hope the International Chicago. prey.
concerns. "I just think that the history of The Takeover Panel, which
Olympic Committee deems the At least one person was later Seconds after saying the games corruption sets the stage for a
Second City the second city. regulates takeovers and mergers
arrested for trying to interfere in Chicago would be "thrilling," brutal series of events like misuse in the UK, said on Wednesday
As in second to Rio de Janeiro. with workers erecting Olympic Susan Blaine was wondering what of funds and insider dealings,"
Or Tokyo. Or Madrid. that it had given Kraft a deadline
symbols in a downtown plaza. tens of thousands more riders will said Brian Hayes, 53, of Chicago. of 5pm on November 9 to follow
The opposition is not as visible It's not that the bid does not do to an already overwhelmed Frazier, of the Atlanta Games,
as the "We Back the Bid" signs enjoy wide support. Laid-off through on its interest in a deal or
public transportation system. doesn't think the opposition declare that it would not be
plastered across town. But in a laborer Dennis Ries, 45, said the "A Cubs game turns my matters to the IOC.
city all too familiar with stories of Olympics would bring jobs. bidding.
commute to chaos," said Blaine, "They will probably be
public corruption and problems Resident Molly Mason, 53, sees 51. "You're belly button to belly disappointed if there wasn't McDonald's. Yes, They
with public services, there is the games enhancing tourism and button." anything," he said.
serious concern the games can public transportation. For others, concerns about taxes Members of a group called No Really Are Everywhere
only mean more troubles and "There's no downside, only have only intensified since Mayor Games Chicago hope he's wrong. By Corrina Lawson (Wired Top
bills for residents. upside," Mason said. Richard Daley flip-flopped in They're headed to Copenhagen to Stories)
"I know it's going to cost us Others note protests routinely April, telling the IOC he'd sign a tell the IOC that Chicago is in Submitted at 9/29/2009 9:00:00 PM
money somehow," said Joseph accompany Olympic bids. contract promising the city would such financial straits that it cannot
Patrick, a 51-year-old stay-at- " The Olympics always take full financial responsibility afford the games and is such a Ever wonder where the closest
home dad. "The government galvanizes all sorts of opposition," for the games after long hotbed of political corruption that McDonald's was? Well, someone
doesn't have a job (so) the only said A.D. Frazier, chief operating maintaining he wouldn't. it doesn't deserve them. has mapped every single one of
place they can get money is from officer for the 1996 Atlanta "For a lot of people that was "We are bringing materials to the fast food restaurants on a map
us." Games. definitely a major moment, when back up our claim that Chicago is of the United States and,
A new Web site In Chicago, though, the they said, `Wait a minute, we're not fit to host the games," said depending on your point of view,
Chicagoansforrio.com is the talk opposition seems to be getting going to be ... on the hook Tom Tresser, an organizer for the you will be either thrilled or
of the town and features the game stronger. financially for a very large group. appalled to find out the answer.
"Match the Olympic host with its A poll released this month by amount,'" said Anna Tarkov, who
estimated budget overrun." About the Chicago Tribune showed writes The Daily Daley blog and
170 protesters marched outside residents almost evenly split, with opposes the bid.
City Hall on Tuesday night, many 47 percent in favor of the bid and Organizers have tried to allay

Palin publisher delays e-Book to drive hardcover sales

By Zac Bissonnette
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 9/30/2009 11:20:00 AM
Filed under: Books, Politics
HarperCollins has elected to
push up the publication of Sarah
Palin's memoir to November 17 --
it had originally been planned for
the spring, but now you'll have
time to get it for the holidays.
The book, which is titled Going
Rogue: An American Life, is
highly anticipated because it's
special on two counts. It's the first
book Sarah Palin has ever written
and perhaps the first book she's
ever read. It's currently the
number six best-selling book on
Amazon.com (Glenn Beck is
number two, so lock your doors).
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Google Earth Will Track
LaHood: Distracted driving a 'menace to society' Cars and People In Real
Time [Google Earth]
(AP) By Jesus Diaz (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 9/30/2009 7:20:00 AM
(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) Congress is watching closely. Transportation officials said in a District have banned driving
Submitted at 9/30/2009 6:51:29 AM Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., research report that 5,870 people while talking on a handheld cell This is one of the awesomestest
who will address the gathering, were killed and 515,000 were phone, according to the Insurance and scariestest technology
WASHINGTON – and other Democrats introduced injured last year in crashes where Institute for Highway Safety. demonstrations I've seen in a long
Transportation Secretary Ray legislation in July that would at least one form of driver Many safety groups have urged a while: Georgia Institute of
LaHood called distracted driving require states to ban texting or e- distraction was reported. Driver nationwide ban on texting and on Technology's students are using
a "menace to society" Wednesday, mailing while operating a moving distraction was involved in 16 using handheld mobile devices CCTV video to map actual
kicking off a two-day meeting on vehicle or lose 25 percent of their percent of all fatal crashes in while behind the wheel. vehicles and people into Google
preventing drivers from using annual federal highway funding. 2008. In July, the Virginia Tech Earth. Why is this scary?
mobile devices behind the wheel. The Obama administration has not LaHood said on any given day Transportation Institute found that Right now, all the data
The Obama administration taken a position on the bill. last year, more than 800,000 when drivers of heavy trucks displayed is anonymous, which
reported that nearly 6,000 people Prior to the meeting, LaHood vehicles were driven by someone texted, their collision risk was 23 makes up for a cool looking
were killed and a half-million said the administration would using a hand-held cell phone times greater. Dialing a cell phone technology. You could see a
injured last year in vehicle crashes "work with Congress" to develop during the day. and using or reaching for an football game in real time or the
connected to driver distraction, a w a y s o f c u r b i n g d i s t r a c t e d The panel of government electronic device increased risk of actual traffic in your route to
striking indication of the dangers driving. The meeting would officials, safety advocates, collision about six times in cars work. Eventually, you will be able
of talking on cell phones and solicit ideas to address the researchers and lawmakers hoped and trucks. to see clouds moving, the weather
texting while driving. problem "similar to what went on to develop a consensus on the The Virginia Tech researchers changing, and even birds move in
"To put it plainly, distracted with seat belts and (blood-alcohol roadway hazards and hear found the risks of texting real time.
driving is a menace to society," limits of) 0.08 where you really warnings from young adults who generally applied to all drivers, Now, put on your tin foil hat
LaHood told more than 300 educate the public, where you tell caused car accidents because they not just truckers. A separate reportand imagine.
participants at the government's people that they have to take were texting while driving. by Car and Driver magazine Imagine that someone is able to
'distracted driving summit.' personal responsibility for these The new data underscored the found that texting and driving is tag you in some way. In theory, it
"Distracted driving is an epidemic things." major problem of distractions more dangerous than drunken could be as easy as having access
and it seems to be getting worse Ultimately, LaHood said, he involving young drivers. The driving. to one of the CCTV cameras and
every year." wanted the meeting to set "the greatest proportion of distracted ___ this system. You mark a car on
The Transportation Department s t a g e f o r f i n d i n g w a y s t o drivers were those age 20 and On the Net: the screen and, provided that you
brought together experts to take a eliminate texting while driving." under. Sixteen percent of all under Distracted Driving Summit: have enough cameras along the
hard look at the highway hazards Previous efforts to reduce -20 drivers involved in fatal http://tinyurl.com/ncozgx way, the technology would be
caused by drivers talking on cell drunken driving and encourage crashes were reported to have State laws on cell phones, able to follow the vehicle
phones or texting from behind the motorists to wear seat belts taught been distracted while driving, the d r i v i n g :wherever it goes. In England, for
wheel. LaHood said he would the government a "valuable government said. http://tinyurl.com/5k5bwy example, this will be really easy
offer recommendations Thursday lesson," LaHood said. "We need a Eighteen states and the District to do, because there are CCTV
that could lead to new restrictions combination of strong laws, tough of Columbia have passed laws cameras absolutely everywhere.
on using the devices while enforcement and ongoing public making texting while driving And let's not talk about RFID
driving. education to make a difference." illegal and seven states and the tags.
UN recalls top US diplomat from Afghanistan Sept. 30, 1861: A Novelist Of course, I'm sure that no
With a Nose for Disaster government agency will be
(Financial Times - US dispute with the head of the the top US diplomat at the UN interested in using this for
homepage) operation in Kabul over the mission in Kabul, had been By Tony Long (Wired Top controlling someone's
Submitted at 9/30/2009 5:23:57 AM country’s flawed presidential removed from his post after a row Stories) movements. Why would they?
elections, a western diplomat said with his European boss over the Submitted at 9/29/2009 9:00:00 PM Now, excuse me while I go pack
The United Nations has recalled on Wednesday. election. and move to an island in the
a top diplomat from its Reuters cited a UN official as Happy Birthday to the man who, Maldives. [ PopSci]
Afghanistan mission following a confirming that Peter Galbraith, in a prescient novel, will foretell
the sinking of the Titanic by 14
years.
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Fate of Government-Run Health Insurance May
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Submitted at 9/30/2009 7:40:21 AM
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(AP)
The fate of a government-run
health insurance plan may rest in
President Obama's hands after the
Senate Finance Committee
rejected amendments that would
include the so-called "public
option" in its version of health
care reform legislation.
Liberal Democrats failed twice
on Tuesday to include a
government-run insurance option
in the legislation before the
committee, the last of five
congressional panels completing
work on the president's top
domestic priority.
Once touted by Obama as
essential in "keeping insurance
companies honest," the
government plan was blasted by
Senate Republicans and moderate
Democrats, some of whom argued
it would lead to a single-payer
system.
The vote to strike down two
separate amendments underscored
the disagreement among
Democrats over the necessity of a
Video: TOTO robot catches tennis balls, hopes for a deeper purpose in life
By Darren Murph (Engadget)
Submitted at 9/30/2009 10:41:00 AM
Fido conked out for the evening?
Your youngster not really into
"playing catch" at age 14? Enter
TOTO -- a brilliant robotic
contraption conceived at Reinhold
-Würth University -- that can
absolutely act as a suitable
replacement. Short for Tracking
public option. Whether Obama
will continue to fight for it
remains to be seen.
The first amendment, proposed
by Sen. John D. Rockefeller of
West Virginia, was rejected 15 to
8. The second, penned by Senator
Chuck Schumer of New York,
was defeated 13 to 10.
Rockefeller had proposed a plan
modeled on Medicare, the federal
health care program for senior
citizens, in which the government
would set what it pays doctors,
hospitals and other medical
providers. Schumer proposed a
government plan that would look
more like a private insurance
company and negotiate payment
rates with providers.
Sen. John Ensign, D-NV, was
quick to pounce on Rockefeller's
amendment, arguing that his idea
for a public option would deny
doctors participation in Medicare
for two years if they choose not to
participate in a new government
program.
Others, including Sen. Kent
Conrad, D-ND, who has crafted
an alternative plan that would set
up a series of non-profit health
care cooperatives, blasted
of Thrown Objects, the camera-
equipped system views and tracks
incoming objects, and once said
object is within catching range, it
clamps down in order to grab
hold. Eventually, the inventors
would love to see the machine
have an impact within a
manufacturing facility, but
considering just how effective
conveyor belts have been over the
Rockefeller's plan, saying, "The
devil is in the details." He said if
the amendment is implemented,
"every major hospital goes
broke."
The White House has been
backtracking on its commitment
to a public option. Obama made
"universal health care" a
centerpiece of his presidential
campaign, but he later said a
government-run program was not
essential to reform.
"The public option, whether we
have it or we don't have it, is not
the entirety of health care
reform," the president said at a
town hall meeting in Colorado on
Aug. 15. "This is just one sliver of
it, one aspect of it."
Health Secretary Kathleen
Sebelius has said that the public
option "is not the essential
element" and has suggested that
non-profit cooperatives would be
a viable alternative.
Supporters of a government-run
plan have vowed to keep up their
fight as the bill moves toward the
Senate floor, and then to
negotiations with the House.
Democratic leaders in both
chambers are pushing for floor
past few scores, we'd say it has its
work cut out for it. Video's after
the break, and it's worth checking
Top News/ Gadgets/
votes in the fall.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a
strong supporter of a government
plan, said Tuesday there's no rush
on passing a House bill, especially
since the legislation won't take
effect until 2013.
"I believe we will have a public
option in our bill," Pelosi said
during a briefing Tuesday with
reporters.
But senior Senate Democratic
aides told FOX News that
Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-
NV, will not include a public
option in a health care reform bill
he will create once the Finance
Committee completes its action
this week.
After shooting down the two
amendments, the committee will
reconvene Wednesday to debate a
number of other important issues
in health care legislation,
including thorny issues like
abortion and insurance coverage
for illegal immigrants.
FOX News' Trish Turner and
the Associated Press contributed
to this report.
out.
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HP to merge
printers and PC to
bolster both
By John Biggs (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 9/30/2009 7:04:40 AM
HP’s printer division, long a
cash cow, is being folded into its
PC division after sales of printers
and ink fell this year. Most
companies broke out their printer
divisions once they realized they
could make a lot of money there
but now that HP is beating Dell,
the company may see a good
reason to bring printers and PCs
together.
There’s not much more info but
it seems this just needs one more
signature from CEO Mark Hurd
to be complete.
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US relaxes grip on the internet

(BBC News | Americas | World accountable, taking into account them over to the US government," internet as a force for innovation,
Edition) everyone's interests," said Viviane explained Mr Beckstrom. economic growth, and freedom of
Submitted at 9/30/2009 8:07:21 AM Reding, European Commissioner "Now we submit those reviews expression," said US Assistant
for information society and to the world and post them Secretary for communications and
The US government has relaxed media. publically for all to comment." information Lawrence Strickling.
its control over how the internet is 'Global system' In addition, a number of "This framework puts the public
run. The Internet Corporation for independent review panels - interest front and centre."
It has signed a four-page Assigned Names and Numbers including representatives of Businesses have also welcomed Safety: Obama
"affirmation of commitments" (Icann) is a not-for-profit private foreign governments - would the change of direction by the US. Administration now
with the net regulator Icann, sector corporation - set up by the specifically oversee Icann's work "Google and its users depend
giving the body autonomy for the US government - to oversee in specific areas. every day on a vibrant and looking to eliminate
first time. critical parts of the internet, such Mr Beckstrom said the decision expanding internet; we endorse texting while driving
Previous agreements gave the as the top-level domain (TLD) to break away from the US this affirmation and applaud the
US close oversight of Icann - name system. Top level domains government had been made "over maturing of Icann's role in the By Nicholas Deleon
drawing criticism from other include .com and .uk. the last year and a half". provision of internet stability," (CrunchGear)
countries and groups. Since its inception in 1998, it "Stakeholders told us that the said Eric Schmidt , CEO of Submitted at 9/30/2009 8:00:55 AM
The new agreement comes into has periodically signed accords - JPA should not be renewed and Google.
effect on 1 October, exactly 40 known collectively as the Joint that it wasn't appropriate for it to However, the new agreement Looks like the Obama
y e a r s s i n c e t h e f i r s t t w o Project Agreement (JPA) - with be renewed," he told BBC News. does not totally sever the links Administration, which really
computers were connected on the the US Commerce Department's "It is also recognition by the US between the US government and ought to be focused on getting
prototype of the net. National Telecommunications and government that the internet is a Icann entirely. Americans like me affordable
"It's a beautifully historic day," Information Administration. global system." The body also has a separate health care (unless doctors now
Rod Beckstrom, Icann's head, told These papers meant that the US The internet began as a research agreement with the US - to run accept World of Warcraft Gold as
BBC News. government was responsible for project by the US military, known the Internet Assigned Numbers payment, lol!), has set its sights
The European Commission, reviewing the work of the body. as Arpanet. Authority (IANA) - that expires in on eliminating the scourge of
which has long been critical of These have now been On 1 October 1969, the second 2011. distracted driving once and for all.
Icann's alliance with the US abandoned in favour of the new computer was connected to the The IANA oversees the net's Case in point: Transportation Sec.
government, welcomed the new "affirmation of commitments", a network, said Mr Beckstrom. Ever addressing system. Ray LaHood is holding a summit
deal. brief document which turns the since, the US has played close Print Sponsor this week that has the ultimate
"Internet users worldwide can review process over to the global attention to the workings and goal of “finding ways to eliminate
now anticipate that Icann's "internet community". growth of the net. texting while driving.”
decisions...will be more "Under the JPA, Icann staff "Today's announcement bolsters
i n d e p e n d e n t a n d m o r e would conduct reviews and hand the long-term viability of the

Cramer on BloggingStocks: Here comes the death of the bearish funds

By Jim Cramer • IMF Says Red Ink at Banks to out of business. BloggingStocks: Here comes the
(BloggingStocks) Continue Oh, sure, last year some of the death of the bearish funds
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Oscar-winning director Roman Dozens of Zelaya

Polanski has enjoyed life of luxury ... supporters held
(BBC News | Americas | World
- New York Daily News Edition)
Submitted at 9/30/2009 8:06:59 AM
gunpoint and flown out of the
country after being accused of
violating the constitution by
(Most Popular - Google News) stunned. women's boutique. planning to hold a vote on
Submitted at 9/30/2009 1:46:06 AM "Why arrest him now? I'm "We don't understand this in Honduran security forces have constitutional reform.
shocked," Ruth Fiedler, a worker France," said the owner of Vogel, raided a building and say they He made a dramatic return to
BY Linda Hervieux at the Brot Bar, told reporters. a florist where Polanski was a have arrested more than 50 the country on 21 September and
SPECIAL TO THE NEWS "We're praying for him." regular. supporters of ousted President has been in the Brazilian embassy
Updated Wednesday, Polanski began going to the "He's not just a client. He was Manuel Zelaya. since then, refusing to give
September 30th 2009, 8:24 AM Swiss celebrity playground in always nice, adorable, a very Soldiers and riot police h i m s e l f u p t o t h e i n t e r i m
Polanski ready to fight 1969, after the Charles Manson good father. He treated my staff s u r r o u n d e d t h e b u i l d i n g i n g o v e r n m e n t o f R o b e r t o
Should he be extradited to the cult murdered his first wife, like a father," said the florist, who Tegucigalpa where the protesters M i c h e l e t t i .
U.S.? Sharon Tate. Two years ago, he didn't want her name printed. had camped out for weeks. Mr Micheletti's cabinet is
PARIS, FRANCE - It's been a bought a chalet of light-colored Across the quartier, dotted with The dawn raid took place under m e a n w h i l e u n d e r m o u n t i n g
luxe life on the lam for movie wood called the Milky Way. dozens of designer shops from t h e i n t e r i m g o v e r n m e n t ' s pressure to revoke the decree that
director Roman Polanski. "He comes to buy bread every Chanel to Versace, Polanski is controversial decree suspending suspended civil liberties.
Most fugitives assume fake day, and it's always the biggest well-known as a "regular guy" civil liberties. The measures allow
i d e n t i t i e s a n d h i d e o u t i n one when he has guests. He's who avoids the spotlight and Mr Zelaya is still in the unauthorised public meetings to
flophouses, but since fleeing from always friendly and smiling," prefers a quiet life with his third Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa be banned and news media to be
a rape charge in California in Fiedler said. wife, willowy French actress following his surprise return to temporarily closed down.
1978, Polanski has lived openly in Polanski was charged in 1977 Emmanuelle Seigner, 43, and Honduras last week. However, members of Congress
France- regularly shuttling from with raping a 13-year-old girl he their two kids. The arrests were made at the have indicated they will act to
his Paris penthouse to a swank p l i e d w i t h c h a m p a g n e a n d Seigner, who starred in National Agrarian Institute, police r e s c i n d t h e o r d e r i f M r
Swiss hideaway. Quaaludes. He served 42 days in Polanski's thriller "Frantic," left said. Micheletti's government does not.
Polanski, 76, a dual citizen of jail, but fled when a plea deal the couple's apartment for Zurich "We're going to take them to the And Gen Romeo Vasquez
France and Poland, traveled freely collapsed. Monday and visited her husband prosecutor's office to assess if Velasquez - the head of the armed
across Europe before the Swiss On Avenue Montaigne- Paris' in jail. they have committed crimes," forces who oversaw the removal
nabbed him Saturday in Zurich on toniest shopping street, where Kids Morgane, 16, and Elvis, police spokesman Ernin Cerrato of Mr Zelaya - has urged talks on
a U.S. request. P o l a n s k i h a s a p e n t h o u s e 12, were picked up at their told the AFP news agency. the prolonged political crisis.
Polanski's lawyers Tuesday apartment- neighbors were furious apartment late in the afternoon in He said the action formed part Mr Micheletti has himself
asked a judge to free him from jail that California authorities are a blue BMW driven by a woman of the decree announced at the indicated the decree could soon be
while he fights extradition. That's pressing the case even though the who declined to comment. weekend that suspended civil lifted, amid concerns that the
unlikely to happen because he victim, now a mother of three Polanski, described as a doting liberties. elections scheduled for 29
was a fugitive for more than 30 living in Hawaii, wants the dad, last year hosted a screening Farm leader Rafael Alegria said November could be affected.
years. charges dropped. of his film "The Pianist," which the "the decree is completely Correspondents say there appear
Residents of Gstaad, the swank "Whether it was right or wrong won him an Oscar in 2003, to illegal," adding that the building to be widening splits among those
ski resort where Polanski spent 30 years ago, this lady's wishes benefit his daughter's private belonged to farm workers. who initially supported Mr
most of last summer and has been should be respected," said Karen school. Farm workers have been among Zelaya's removal from power and
a familiar face for decades, were Hansen, owner of Cazak, a those staging protests since the backed the interim government.
removal of Mr Zelaya on 28 June. Print Sponsor
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Can 'Kate Plus 8' minus Jon equal Afghan girl killed by
Emmy Award? - Los Angeles Times RAF leaflet drop
(Most Popular - Google News) (World news and comment basic warnings about explosives.
Submitted at 9/30/2009 6:47:15 AM from the Guardian | The news of the death came as
guardian.co.uk) Gordon Brown told Sky News
First Kate Gosselin dumped Submitted at 9/30/2009 2:44:39 AM that where the military wants new
husband Jon in real life. Now she equipment "they have got it" and
is doing the same in reel life as Ministry of Defence says box refused to rule out sending more
their hit TLC show " Jon & Kate should have broken up mid-air but troops to Afghanistan.
Plus 8" is revamped to " Kate Plus instead fell in one piece "I can say that we will do
8" starting Nov. 2. In a statement, A box of leaflets dropped by an whatever is necessary and that
TLC President Eileen O'Neill RAF plane in Afghanistan landed does not rule out doing what is
explained, "Given the recent on and killed a young girl, the necessary for our troops," Brown
changes in the family dynamics, it Ministry of Defence said. said.
only makes sense for us to refresh The box should have broken "Where they want new
and recalibrate the program to apart in mid-air but struck the equipment – and there have been
keep pace with the family. The young girl intact. She was taken a thousand new vehicles gone into
family has evolved and we are to a hospital in Kandahar where the defence department costing a
attempting to evolve with it; we she died. The leaflets were billion pounds – where they need
feel that Kate's journey really premiere in May. However, this: " Frasier" -- the TV series dropped over a rural area of refurbishment or new helicopters,
resonates with our viewers." popular-ballot voters opted for that's won the most Emmys ever Helmand province by an RAF where they need new equipment
Whether this revised version of "Antiques Roadshow," "Dirty with 37 -- is about two snooty C130 Hercules on June 23. like night vision equipment, they
reality resonates with Emmy J o b s , " " D o g W h i s p e r e r , " brothers, Frasier and Niles Crane, "It is a matter of deep regret that have got it.
voters is another matter. Last "Intervention," "Mythbusters" and obsessed with wine, women and one of the boxes failed to fully "I defy you to say that any
summer, " Jon & Kate Plus 8" two-time past champ "My Life on song. Sure, voters love series open and on landing caused urgent operational requirement
failed to make the final cut for the D-List" in that race. The gritty about dysfunctional families such serious injuries to an Afghan that is needed by the military has
best reality program at the Emmy "Intervention" ended up winning as the Cranes, but "Jon & Kate child," said a spokesman. been turned down by the
Awards. On the surface that snub the Emmy Award. Plus 8" crossed the line, offending "The child was treated at a local Treasury."
seemed a surprise as it was the top The Emmy fate of " Jon & Kate academy members exactly at the medical facility in Kandahar A UN report published on
-rated show in the category, Plus 8" underscored something wrong time. where, despite the best efforts of Saturday said August was the
drawing more than 10 million we already knew about Emmy staff, she died as a result of her deadliest month of the year for
viewers to the fifth-season voters — they're snobs. Consider injuries. An investigation into the civilians in Afghanistan because
Casio Puzzle watch: Awful pretty How to Cook Beer Brats incident is under way."
Defence sources said the girl
of violence from the insurgency.
About 1,500 civilians died from
By John Biggs (CrunchGear) By How-To Wiki (Wired Top was taken to a local hospital in January through August this year,
Submitted at 9/30/2009 6:49:06 AM
Stories) Kandahar instead of to an up from 1,145 for the same period
Submitted at 9/29/2009 9:00:00 PM International Security Assistance of 2008.
It may not do much – it’s Force hospital, which may have • Afghanistan
basically a feature watch with Nothing goes with a cold one been better equipped. • Military
stopwatch, alarm, and 24-hour like a bratwurst boiled in beer, The MoD would not comment • Defence policy
time – but it’s nicely designed. f i n i s h e d o n t h e g r i l l a n d on what type of leaflet was guardian.co.uk© Guardian
This Casio, called the Poptone smothered in sauerkraut and involved but said the air drops News & Media Limited 2009 |
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Dozens feared dead as tsunami sweeps Pacific islands

By Toni O'Loughlin, Jo The Samoan police assess damage and take the "It's just devastating like the about the full impact and we do
Adetunji, Adam Gabbatt (World commissioner, Lilo Maiava, said governor home. wrath of God," said Vincent Iuli, have some real concern that over
news and comment from the police there had confirmed 63 In Samoa, the wave reportedly a villager. "I've never seen the next 12 hours the picture
Guardian | guardian.co.uk) deaths, but said that with officials sent water and debris surging up anything as powerful as this. I could look worse rather than
Submitted at 9/30/2009 8:07:43 AM still searching affected areas that to 100 metres inland, leaving was just about to get into the car better."
number could rise soon. terrified residents fleeing their to go to work when the warning The Pacific tsunami warning
• Death toll expected to rise with Officials in American Samoa homes for higher ground. came on the radio." centre said it had issued a general
whole villages flattened said at least 19 people were killed In Apia, on Samoa's second- Iuli raced to take his wife and alert for the region, which
• British child among victims on on the island. Unconfirmed largest island, witnesses said the children to higher ground but got includes the Cook Islands, New
Samoa and American Samoa reports said five people were dead ground shook for up to three split up in the confusion. The Zealand, and Hawaii, and was
Scores of people are feared dead in Tonga. minutes. Businesses and schools wave hit the village 15 minutes monitoring the situation.
and many more injured after a One agency reporter said there were forced to close and the city later. Hawaii, which was initially put
powerful earthquake triggered a were "bodies everywhere" in the was left virtually deserted with Hundreds sought shelter in a on tsunami alert, was later
tsunami that swept the Pacific main hospital on the Samoan thousands of people gathered on church on higher ground. While downgraded.
islands. island of Upolu, including at least nearby hills, according to reports. the wave rushed past the building Japan's meteorological agency
Cars and people were swept out one child. She said three or four Villagers reported cars and houses the water seeped in and reached issued a tsunami warning along its
to sea by the fast-churning water villages had been wiped out on a washed out on to reefs. the top of the pews where many eastern coast.
as survivors on the worst-hit p o p u l a r t o u r i s t c o a s t n e a r Graeme Ansell, a New were standing. Six people were The US geological service said
islands of Samoa and American Lalomanu, on the south of the Zealander who was at the beach killed and another three were the earthquake struck about 20
Samoa fled to high ground, where island. village of Sau Sau Beach Fale on missing. After two hours of miles below the ocean floor and
they remained huddled for hours. Hampered by lack of power and Samoa, said it was levelled by the frantic calls Iuli made contact was followed 20 minutes later by
The floodwater engulfed cars c o m m u n i c a t i o n s , o f f i c i a l s wave. "It was very quick. The with his wife. an aftershock of magnitude 5.6.
and homes, flattened villages and struggled to assess the casualties whole village has been wiped "There's a lot of mud and there Brian Atwater, a tsunami expert
washed ashore a large boat that and damage. But the death toll out," Ansell told a New Zealand are dead fish lying everywhere for for the service, said although the
came to rest on the edge of a seemed sure to rise. radio station from a hill near about a quarter of a mile inland." earthquake and tsunami were big,
highway. The Samoan prime minister, Apia. "There's not a building Hundreds of people are the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami,
The 8.3-magnitude quake struck Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi, standing. We've all clambered up crowding on the high ground which killed 150,000 people, was
about 125 miles from Samoa at looked shaken aboard a flight hills, and one of our party has a behind the village where chiefs 10 times as strong.
6.48pm BST, sending a large from Auckland, New Zealand, to broken leg. There will be people have set up a camp until Samoa and American Samoa
wave into Apia, the capital of the Samoan capital. in a great lot of need round here." emergency services reach them. have a combined population of
Samoa, and a 1.5-metre wave into "So much has gone. So many American Samoa is home to a "Each family has a chief and this about 250,000.
Pago Pago, the capital of people are gone," he told US national park that appears to is when they rise to the occasion," • Samoa
American Samoa. reporters. "I'm so shocked, so be especially hard-hit. Holly Iuli said. • Natural disasters and extreme
Separately, a second earthquake, saddened by all the loss." Bundock, spokeswoman for the Mike Reynolds, the weather
of magnitude 7.6, triggered Malielegaoi said his own village national park service's Pacific superintendent of the national • United States
tsunami warnings in Indonesia of Lepa was destroyed. west region in Oakland, park of American Samoa, was • New Zealand
this morning after it struck off the "Thankfully, the alarm sounded California, said the park quoted as saying four tsunami • Japan
coast of Sumatra island, damaging on the radio and gave people time superintendent and another waves from 15ft to 20ft high • Tonga
buildings. It is not clear if there to climb to higher ground," he member of staff had located only roared ashore soon afterwards, • Indonesia
were any casualties. Indonesia is said. "But not everyone escaped." a fifth of the park's 13 to 15 reaching up to a mile inland. Toni O'Loughlin Jo Adetunji
thousands of miles north-west of In Washington, Barack Obama employees and 30 to 50 In Tonga, New Zealand's acting Adam Gabbatt
the Pacific islands but lies on the declared the situation a disaster, volunteers. prime minister, Bill English, said guardian.co.uk© Guardian
same volatile Indo-Australia making federal funds available to The territory is believed to have the situation could "look worse News & Media Limited 2009 |
tectonic plate. victims in American Samoa – a been hit by four separate waves. rather than better" over the next Use of this content is subject to
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waves, with a two-year-old Lieutenant John Titchen, said a Minutes later their homes were swept out to sea and are
B r i t i s h c h i l d a m o n g t h o s e C130 plane was being dispatched gone, crushed by the force of the unaccounted for," English said.
confirmed dead. to deliver aid to American Samoa, wave. "We don't have information
16 World/ Gadgets/ Tech News/ Internet News Record

US diplomat 'forced out' of Afghanistan

By Peter Beaumont, Jon apparently said they could no Galbraith's reported removal shortly after a stormy meeting in
Boone (World news and longer work with him. comes within days of reports that mid-September attended by a
comment from the Guardian | Eide has confirmed that the US and its allies decided to large number of election
guardian.co.uk) Galbraith left the country after an accept Karzai remaining as monitoring organisations and
Submitted at 9/30/2009 6:08:08 AM argument, but denied he asked the president even if the investigation other groups where he attacked
secretary general to remove him. into voter fraud meant his share of IEC officials for not making
Officials say Peter Galbraith In an email to the BBC, Galbraith the vote falling below 50%, which preparations for a run-off.
removed from UN post after denied he had been fired, but he is had been expected to trigger a run A UN diplomat said Galbraith's
pressing for inquiry into results not expected to return to Kabul. -off with his closest rival, strategy had been to try to compel Need a new friend? How
heavily favouring Karzai The recall of Galbraith would Abdullah Abdullah. the IEC to investigate the huge about the WowWee
The most senior American almost certainly have required the Galbraith was formerly the US number of suspicious ballots Robover or Joebot?
diplomat at the UN mission in a g r e e m e n t o f t h e O b a m a ambassador to Croatia and helped before announcing preliminary
Afghanistan appears to have been administration and has come as a negotiate the end of the war in results that put Karzai well over By Nicholas Deleon
forced out of his post after failing surprise following the earlier that country. He served as director the 50% mark. (CrunchGear)
to secure an investigation into demand by Obama's own envoy to of political, constitutional and Galbraith was reported to have Submitted at 9/30/2009 7:30:50 AM
claims of widespread fraud Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, electoral affairs for the UN been furious that the IEC first
favouring Hamid Karzai in the that Karzai respect the proper transitional administration in East voted to apply a set of fraud Man alive, there’s only a few
August presidential elections. election process. Timor from 2000 to 2001. standards to its count that would topics I write about with any
According to UN officials US criticism of the Karzai Outspoken in his criticism of the have excluded tens of thousands regularity here: e-books, World of
speaking anonymously, Peter administration emerged in the conduct of the US war in Iraq of votes, only to reverse the Warcraft, sports, and robots. I’m
Galbraith, the deputy UN special l e a k e d c o n f i d e n t i a l r e p o r t during the Bush administration, decision the next day, apparently not even a fan of robots, and yet I
envoy, is being removed from his prepared by the US commander in he resigned from government to following political pressure. always get assigned the robot
post following a row with his the country, General Stanley write The End of Iraq: How His tough stance prompted Eide, stories! Like today, I wake up and
Norwegian boss, Kai Eide, over McChrystal, which warned that American Incompetence Created once a close friend of Galbraith, see this assigned to me: new
the issue. Galbraith had taken an corruption within the Karzai a War Without End. to ask him to leave the country for WowWee robots. What? Oooh,
outspoken line towards the government was as big a threat as Within hours of the news that a short period. Eide is far less WowWee, I know them.
allegations of fraud in the 20 the Taliban. Galbraith was not expected to confrontational and has adopted a Right, so there’s two new
August election, in the process The exit of Galbraith, a highly return to Kabul, a member of the cautious approach to navigating WowWee robots out there: the
angering Karzai, the incumbent regarded diplomat who first came UN's political affairs unit had through the aftermath of an Roborover($69) and the
president. to prominence in the Balkans, resigned. Others are likely to election now widely regarded as Joebot($99). The names are
Galbraith – responsible for would appear to further reduce follow among the diplomats who irreparably tainted. fantastic, yes. (WowWee,
electoral matters at the UN Obama's scope for manoeuvre in liked Galbraith personally and • Afghanistan incidentally, is my favorite name
mission in Kabul – has already Afghanistan at a time when he is backed his tough approach to • United Nations for a company. Much better than
left the Afghan capital. UN facing calls from his military officials of the Afghan • Hamid Karzai “Apple” or “Microsoft” or
officials previously acknowledged commander for up to 40,000 more Independent Election Commission • Obama administration “Sony.”) The Roborover moves
the dispute but attempted to play soldiers. The delivery of such a (IEC), who many believe are • United States around on those treads you see,
it down as a difference over prominent scalp for Karzai – if complicit in attempts to rubber- Peter Beaumont Jon Boone shaped as such so it can roll over
"style". confirmed – would underline how stamp a Karzai first round victory. guardian.co.uk© Guardian dangerous household items with
Whether or not Galbraith little leverage the international One UN source said the mood News & Media Limited 2009 | relative ease. Think action figures
returns in the short term, UN community has over his regime, inside the mission was "far from Use of this content is subject to and the like.
sources say the secretary general, w i d e l y r e g a r d e d b y t h e happy" while another said the our Terms & Conditions| More Meanwhile, the Joebot actually
Ban Ki-moon, was persuaded to international community as being west appeared resigned to dealing Feeds walks around on his two legs, and
end Galbraith's mission after part of the country's problem. with a tainted president. you can issue commands either
ministers in Karzai's government Perhaps significantly, Galbraith left Afghanistan via voice or “tapping his arms,”
whatever that means.
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By Scott Thill (Wired Top Superman/Batman: Public animated film is also their best. What do you want? I wish I had a
Stories) Enemies, DC Comics and Warner robot as a young boy in the
Bros.' sixth straight-to-DVD Bronx.
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Thousands trapped after Indonesia Georgian attack

quake 'unjustifiable in law'
By Justin McCurry (World have been destroyed," Rahmat quoted a witness as saying. By Ian Traynor (World news on Georgian villages and that
news and comment from the Triyono, of the Indonesian "There are some fires, bridges are and comment from the Russian peacekeeping forces
Guardian | guardian.co.uk) geophysics and meteorology cut and there is extreme panic Guardian | guardian.co.uk) "would not or could not" control
Submitted at 9/30/2009 7:07:27 AM agency was quoted as saying by here because water pipes are Submitted at 9/30/2009 7:54:01 AM them.
the Jakarta Post. "Up to now we broken and there is flooding in the "There is the question of whether
Quake brings down hospital, haven't been able to reach Padang. streets." EU investigation also concludes the force by Georgia during the
hotels, homes and bridges in Communications have been cut." Padang, a city of 900,000 South Ossetian irregular forces n i g h t o f 7 / 8 A u g u s t w a s
Padang, western Sumatra The Pacific Tsunami Warning people, sits on one of the world's violated rules of war in attacks on justifiable under international law.
Thousands of people were Centre issued an alert but later most active faultlines along the Georgian villages It was not … it is not possible to
feared trapped under the rubble of cancelled it. Tremors from the "ring of fire", where the Indo- Georgia started last year's five- accept that the shelling of
collapsed buildings following a quake were said to have been felt Australia plate and the Eurasia day war with Russia in an action Tskhinvali with Grad multiple
powerful earthquake in the in Malaysia and Singapore. tectonic plate grind together to which was unjustifiable under rocket launchers and heavy
Indonesian city of Padang, a A 6.2-magnitude aftershock cause frequent tremors and, international law, an exhaustive a r t i l l e r y w o u l d s a t i s f y t h e
senior health ministry official said followed the initial quake about occasionally, large earthquakes. EU investigation found today. requirements of having been
today. 22 minutes later, the The same faultline caused the The investigators said they were necessary and proportionate." The
Rustam Pakaya, the head of the meteorological agency said. 2004 tsunami in which 232,000 unable to substantiate Georgian report also said Georgian attacks
health ministry's disaster centre, The earthquake came hours people died in Indonesia, c l a i m s t h a t t h e a t t a c k w a s on Russian peacekeepers in South
said a hospital near the epicentre after another quake triggered a Thailand, Sri Lanka, India and launched to stall a Russian Ossetia "in the initial phase of the
had also collapsed. tsunami that left at least 100 other countries across the Indian i n v a s i o n o f t h e b r e a k a w a y conflict" were unjustified.
"Jamil hospital collapsed and people dead on the Pacific islands Ocean. province of South Ossetia . "There was no ongoing armed
thousands of people are trapped in of Samoa and American Samoa. "Padang sits right in front of the In more than 1,000 pages of attack by Russia before the start
the rubble of buildings," Pakaya A resident described the scene area with the greatest potential for analysis, documentation and of the Georgian operation.
said. to Indonesia's Metro Television. an 8.9 magnitude earthquake," witness statements, the report "Georgian claims of a large-
The magnitude 7.6 quake was "For now I can't see dead bodies, Danny Hilman Natawidjaja, a added, however, that the Russians scale presence of Russian armed
centred 32 miles north-west of the just collapsed houses. Some half- geologist at the Indonesian had moved mercenaries and forces in South Ossetia prior to
city in western Sumatra, said the destroyed, others completely. Science Institute, said earlier this paramilitary forces into the the Georgian offensive could not
US geological survey. People are standing around too year. "The entire city could drown Russian-backed South Ossetia in be substantiated … it could also
An earlier quake prompted a scared to go back inside. They in a tsunami triggered by such a apparent preparation for armed not be verified that Russia was on
tsunami that struck the Pacific fear a tsunami. quake,." he added. hostilities before President the verge of such a major attack."
islands of Samoa and American "No help has arrived yet. I can • Indonesia Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia • Georgia
Samoa, killing more than 100 see small children standing • Natural disasters and extreme launched the offensive. • Russia
people. around carrying blankets. Some weather The EU team of military, • European Union
L o c a l r e p o r t s s a i d t h e people are looking for relatives Justin McCurry political, human rights, and Ian Traynor
Indonesian quake brought down but all the lights have gone out guardian.co.uk© Guardian international law experts, under guardian.co.uk© Guardian
buildings and bridges, damaged completely." News & Media Limited 2009 | t h e S w i s s d i p l o m a t H e i d i News & Media Limited 2009 |
houses and started fires. There Other eyewitness accounts said Use of this content is subject to Tagliavini, also concluded that Use of this content is subject to
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fatalities but several people were buildings collapsed. Feeds violated the rules of war in attacks Feeds
reported injured. "Hundreds of houses have been
"A number of hotels in Padang damaged along the road," Reuters
Kathy Ireland Eliminated on 'Dancing with the Stars'
(ETonline - Breaking News) Ireland and her pro partner Tony for the recap! said after learning her dance-floor Chmerkovskiy joined Kathy and
Submitted at 9/30/2009 3:33:00 AM Dovolani were booted from the "There is so much to take away fate. Tony in the bottom two, but were
ballroom Tuesday night on from this experience. I wouldn't "Entourage" actress Debi Mazar spared elimination.
Model and entrepreneur Kathy "Dancing with the Stars." Read on change a moment of it," Kathy and her partner Maksim
18 World/ Finance/ Gadgets/ Internet News Record

Israel to free Palestinians for Shalit Target downgraded by

video UBS
By Mark Fightmaster
By Rory McCarthy (World released will be published in case military raids in Gaza over the (BloggingStocks)
news and comment from the there are objections within Israel past three years that have left Submitted at 9/30/2009 10:20:00 AM
Guardian | guardian.co.uk) and they are then likely to be hundreds of Palestinians dead and
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Video: SNES runs beautifully on N900, makes our hearts flutter

By Darren Murph (Engadget) an N900 of his own, and rather baby -- he's not in the corner or originally appeared on Engadget
Submitted at 9/30/2009 9:53:00 AM than testing out the social anything. on Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:53:00
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one most dear to our hearts. staggeringly authentic gameplay on past the break for a video of Gaming
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Business.view: Woke up, smelled the coffee
(The Economist: Daily
columns)
Submitted at 9/29/2009 4:22:00 AM
Business.view
Sep 29th 2009
From Economist.com The
Starbucks turnaround is going
surprisingly well
IT COULD certainly pass as a
stand-alone Seattle
neighbourhood coffee house.
There is an eclectic mixture of old
wooden tables to sit at, and
pictures by local artists adorn the
walls. Wine and beer are on sale,
too, along with cheese and meat
plates. It feels cosy and not at all
corporate. The only clue to the
true identity of 15th Avenue
Coffee and Tea is the small print
on the door: “inspired by
Starbucks”. For “inspired by”,
read “owned and operated by”.
These facts ensured that the store
opened in July to a triple-shot of
controversy, with protesters
outside its doors—no doubt to the
delight of Starbucks.
Apparently it was cheaper to fit
out this experimental store—and
similar, locally-customised ones
in Paris and Tokyo—than a
conventional outlet. And although
it would be too expensive to refit
all Starbucks branches in this
“inspired” way, the coffee retailer
plans to draw on its experience
here to give them a more
personal, local feel, as it tries to
recapture the pleasant café
atmosphere which originally
made its name.
This is but one part of the
strategy initiated by Howard
Schultz after he returned in
January 2008 to run the firm he
had made great but which had by
then entered a seemingly
inescapable spiral of decline.
Investors approve: having fallen
below $8 last November, down
from an all-time high of nearly
$40 in 2006, shares in Starbucks
have risen above $20, a bit higher
than they were when Mr Schultz
took charge for the second time.
So far this year, they are up by
nearly 120%, while the S&P 500
index is not quite one-quarter
higher.
Mr Schultz has left no bean
unturned in his effort to turn
Starbucks around. His successor
as chief executive, Jim Donald,
had overseen a suicidally rapid
worldwide expansion of the chain.
On his return, Mr Schultz’s first
step was to reverse this, closing
poorly performing outlets. The
next was to change the way things
were done within the stores, to
improve the efficiency of
everything from the process by
which an order is passed from
customer to barista to new
systems to minimise waste milk.
This has reduced annual operating
costs by around $500m so far, and
has helped win a reprieve for
around 30 stores that had been
scheduled to close but now seem
viable.
At the same time, there has been
greater emphasis on the quality of
service. The chain closed every
store for a day to teach the staff to
make a better espresso. To
preserve morale, the firm has
resisted the temptation to cut its
generous health-care benefits. It
took 10,000 store managers to a
pep rally in New Orleans, where
among other things they did a
combined 50,000 hours of
community service and were
entertained by Bono of U2.
To freshen the brand, Starbucks
is also encouraging its customers
to be better citizens. It offered
free coffee on the day of Barack
Obama’s inauguration in
exchange for a promise to do
volunteer work in the local
community. The firm has also
cosied up to the “fair trade”
movement, trying to put behind it
the humiliating defeat it suffered
when it took on Oxfam and other
non-profits over an attempt by
Ethiopian coffee growers to assert
intellectual-property rights over
their beans. Now Starbucks raises
money to help victims of
HIV/Aids by selling coffee under
Bono’s brand, RED. And it has
pledged to build sustainable long-
term relationships with its
farmers. To this end Mr Schultz
recently travelled to Rwanda,
where the firm has opened an
agronomy office and a farmer-
support scheme to help spread
best practice.
Regular customers have been
bombarded with offers through a
sophisticated social-media
campaign. Starbucks boasts one
of the most popular corporate
Facebook fan-pages, with 4m
“friends”, and 300,000 followers
on Twitter. It is also trying to shed
its recent image as a purveyor of
unhealthy dairy and sugar
products (make mine a venti
double-caramel latte with
whipped cream). The menu has
been revamped, to remove trans-
fats and artificial dyes, and add
salads and banana-based
smoothies.
Starbucks has had to fight off
intensifying competition from
McDonald’s, and the effects of
the downturn, by offering cut-
price "value meal" combinations
of drink and food. At the same
time, in fancy stores such as 15th
Avenue Coffee and Tea, it has
been courting coffee connoisseurs
with an elaborate machine that
makes individual cups from the
finest beans through a mechanised
equivalent of the Japanese tea
ceremony (well, sort of). Instead
of getting rid of Starbucks’
popular hot snacks, as Mr Schultz
had initially threatened, to avoid
unpleasantly cheesy odours, the
recipe has been altered to use less
pungent cheese and to ensure that
it does not drip onto the oven and
burn.
Some of these factors have had
a greater impact than others. Yet
overall, in the most difficult
economy in its history, especially
for high-end products (and this,
remember, is a firm nicknamed
Fourbucks due to its high prices),
Starbucks seems close to halting
its decline. Same-store sales have
not quite stopped falling, but the
rate of decrease has slowed
significantly, while cost-cutting
and other efficiencies have
increased margins. As analysts at
Goldman Sachs put it, "Starbucks
appears to be making the right
moves to transition into a ‘staying
power’ phase where its strong
competitive position could sustain
a premium valuation.”
If the economy recovers
Economy/ 19
quickly, the operational changes
in Starbucks’ stores mean that a
large part of the additional
demand will go straight to the
bottom line. Another potential
source of profits growth is the
firm’s new instant-coffee brand,
Via, which was launched
nationwide in America and
Canada on September 29th. Mr
Schultz says his technologists
have helped him achieve his long-
term ambition of finding a way to
make instant coffee that does not
taste stale. To add to profits, Via,
which costs 99 cents a sachet, will
have to sell well but not
cannibalise Starbucks’ existing
customers, who pay several times
as much for ready-made drinks.
Earlier this year it was common
to liken Mr Schultz to Michael
Dell of the eponymous computer-
maker, another founder who had
returned to his firm and failed to
revive it. This was in sharp
contrast to Apple’s co-founder,
Steve Jobs, who showed that a
boss could return to the site of his
greatest achievements and do
even better. Michael Dell
continues to struggle: shares in his
firm are still only worth around
three-quarters of their value when
he returned to the top job in early
2007, and around one-quarter of
the all-time high in March 2000.
Mr Schultz’s second act, by
contrast, looks increasingly likely
to be judged a success.
Back to top ^^ Readers'
comments
The Economist welcomes your
views.
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Japan's feeble opposition: Fixed on the past

(The Economist: News The internal election is a ministers range from pro-union on what it calls wasteful aspects
analysis) stunning reminder of how fast the activists to fiscal hawks; there is of previous fiscal-stimulus efforts
Submitted at 9/29/2009 12:20:44 AM LDP’s fortunes have sunk. During plenty of room for vigorous could jeopardise whatever growth
more than half a century in power, policy debate, especially over the there is. So could a strong yen.
Japan's feeble opposition leading the LDP used to mean budget, that a lively opposition Meanwhile, the threat of deflation
Sep 29th 2009 | TOKYO leading Japan. Mr Tanigaki is party could help to stimulate. The is increasing. In August consumer
From Economist.com Japan's only the second party boss who election also gave the Japanese prices excluding food fell by 2.4%
o n c e - f o r m i d a b l e L i b e r a l has not been prime minister at the people their first real taste of voter from a year earlier, the biggest
Democrats pick yet another same time. But he follows three power at the national level. decline since records began in Throwboy Halloween
uninspiring leader nondescript predecessors—Shinzo Having learned at last that they 1971.
ANYONE hoping for a new era Abe, Yasuo Fukuda and Taro can “kick out the bums”, it would Mr Tanigaki hardly looks like Pillows Add Some Boo
of vigorous two-party politics in Aso—who, as prime ministers, be a shame if there were no the man to capitalise on such to the Mac OS X Finder
Japan will be disappointed by the their deafness to the concerns of credible opposition to turn to; that problems. He was a competent,
choice of Sadakazu Tanigaki to the electorate helped to seal the was one of the main drawbacks of somewhat hawkish, finance
[Apple]
head the vanquished Liberal LDP’s fate. the LDP’s near-eternity in office. minister under the former prime By Jesus Diaz (Gizmodo)
Democratic Party (LDP). If Mr Tanigaki vows to lead the So far the new government has minister Junichiro Koizumi, but Submitted at 9/30/2009 8:00:00 AM
anything, the 64-year-old former party to victory in upper-house got off to a reasonably trouble- he is better known for his
finance minister is even more elections next summer, but that free start. Apart from a few gentleness than his guts. His This Halloween I'm planning to
m i l d - m a n n e r e d t h a n Y u k i o looks unlikely. No one of higher questionable gestures, such as one favourite motto relates to the go as the Spinning Beach Balls of
Hatoyama, the prime minister he calibre emerged to lead the LDP to suspend debt payments by Japanese concept of wa, or Death. I'll gut one of these
is supposed to battle on the because prospects in that election small and medium businesses to harmony, which he hopes to use Halloween Finder Pillows, put it
parliamentary stage. are now so gloomy that the party banks, cabinet ministers have not to heal the wounds in his party. In on my head, apply some colorful
Mr Tanigaki won 300 of the 499 president is almost bound to be appeared to be the left-wing that sense, he resembles Mr paint to my naughty bits, and go
votes cast in the LDP’s internal forced to resign afterwards. firebrands some had feared. Mr Hatoyama, who repeatedly talks around New York naked.
election on Monday September In the August 30th election the Hatoyama has won praise about his belief in a fuzzy concept Throwboy—the people who do
28th. The election was a chance LDP lost 181 seats, accumulating abroad—though there have been call yuai, or fraternity. Every so the chat pillows and Mac OS X
for the party to show that it a paltry tally of 119 compared murmurs of concern from often both men will stand against pillows—says you can get each of
intends to rebuild itself after with 300 held by Mr Hatoyama’s business and unions at home—for each other on the floor of the Diet, the 9 by 11-inch pillows for $29,
losing power a month ago for only Democratic Party of Japan. seeking a leading role for Japan in or parliament. Brace for debate or the whole set for $100. [
the second time in 54 years. But U n l e s s t h e D P J ’ s f o r t u n e s the cutting of carbon emissions. with all the cut and thrust of a Throwboy]
by picking Mr Tanigaki over d e t e r i o r a t e s h a r p l y , i t w i l l He also had a smooth first paper-napkin fight.
younger guns with ambitions to probably hold a majority in both meeting with Barack Obama in Back to top ^^ Readers'
shake up the party’s gerontocracy, houses after the upper-house America last week. comments
the LDP shows that its eyes are elections, which would drive the But there are plenty of problems The Economist welcomes your
still fixed on the past—and has LDP into the political wilderness. that could blight his government’s views.
not learned many lessons from It would be a pity for Japan if popularity in the months to come.
defeat. “We need to return to the the Liberal Democrats gave up Economic recovery is by no
LDP’s origins—that politics is for without a fight, however. The DPJ means assured and the
the people,” Mr Tanigaki said. is untested in office, and its government’s desire to cut back

Thanko rolls out non-crappy portable multimedia player with built-in camera
By Serkan Toto (CrunchGear) portable media player that houses speakers (5mw x 5mw (32)), a you can also connect it to your
Submitted at 9/30/2009 7:01:40 AM a digital camera. The device mini remote control and between TV.
comes with 8GB of built-in four and six hours of battery life Thanko is selling the DIGITAL
Japan’s No. 1 crap gadget maker memory (miniSD cards are (four hours for video playback). MP4 AudioPlayer AV already
Thanko surprisingly announced a supported and works only with The device supports MP3WMA, (price: $140). Expect them to list
new device today that doesn’t Windows XP/Vista. J P E G a n d the player in their English store
look too crappy: The DIGITAL Buyers will get a 4.3-inch TFT format), a USB 2.0 port, two mini AVI(DivX)/FLV/RM/RMVB and for international customers soon.
MP4 AudioPlayer AV[JP], a screen with 480×272 (16:9 WMV files. It weighs 150g and
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The Pacific tsunami: Paradise rocked Researchers propose $30

(The Economist: News
analysis)
people, cars and other debris as
far as 100 metres inland. Many
Samoan settlements are coastal
protection is training coastal
dwellers themselves to recognise
the signs of a possible
portable fuel cell charger,
we don't hold our breath
Submitted at 9/30/2009 1:22:45 AM
and both Apia and Pago Pago, the tsunami—such as strong,
The Pacific tsunami capitals respectively of Samoa prolonged ground shaking—and
Sep 30th 2009 and American Samoa, were to seek higher ground at once. As By Tim Stevens (Engadget)
From Economist.com Over 100 deluged. Thousands have been with most hazards, the more Submitted at 9/30/2009 9:29:00 AM
people are killed as tsunamis made homeless and survivors are informed the public are, the better
strike the Pacific said to be sheltering on high their chances of survival. If you believed all the fuel cell
TSUNAMIS that struck in the ground. Samoan meteorological Aid will flow quickly to many talk that's been bandied about in
S o u t h P a c i f i c o n T u e s d a y officials suggest that some victims affected areas. Barack Obama, press releases over the years you'd
September 29th were nowhere were killed by a second wave that America’s president, has declared have thrown away your plug-in
near as devastating as the waves swept ashore as they gathered fish that the situation in American chargers by now and started
that hit countries around the washed up by the first. Samoa is a disaster and has squirting alcohol into all your
Indian Ocean in December 2004. The death toll might have been promised that federal relief funds gadgets. Many promises have
Then, an earthquake of 9.0 worse if the waves had struck in will be available. Australia and been broken, so please take this
magnitude caused a tsunami that darkness rather than the early New Zealand, where many news of a supposed $30 fuel cell
claimed an estimated 230,000 morning. It helped, too, that some Samoans reside, and Britain charger for cellphones and other
lives. According to the Pacific lessons had been learned from reported their citizens to be of to such pricing but instead got
mobile devices with a suitably distracted researching information
Tsunami Warning Centre, the previous disasters. A general among the dead. New Zealand’s large chunk of salt -- or some
waves this week were triggered tsunami alert was issued across air force is helping to search for about Taiwanese convenience
sodium-free flavor enhancer if stores. Did you know there are
by an 8.3 magnitude earthquake the Pacific, as far apart as Hawaii bodies and to transport medical your doctor has imposed such
that took place some 120 miles and New Zealand. Samoa itself and other aid. 4,807 7-Eleven franchise
dietary restrictions. Scientists at locations around Taiwan?
(195km) south of the Samoa developed an early-warning The tsunami is a setback in a the Industrial Technology
group of islands (see map). On s y s t e m f o l l o w i n g t h e 2 0 0 4 region of weak economies: many Amazing!
Research Institute in Taiwan have Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Wednesday another earthquake, tsunami, based on the sending of of the island countries are heavily created a prototype charger that
well over 7 magnitude, was text messages to local leaders, reliant on aid and remittances. Researchers propose $30
runs on small tubes containing portable fuel cell charger, we
r e p o r t e d o f f S u m a t r a , i n followed by the sounding of The waves may also raise solid-state hydrogen, "plasticized"
Indonesia. church bells and sirens. A national anxieties in low-lying islands, don't hold our breath originally
so that it is only released when appeared on Engadget on Wed, 30
Over 100 people were thought drill was held in 2007 after a such as Tuvalu and the Tokelau mixed with water. The canisters
to have died in Samoa and tsunami had killed over 20 people Islands, that rising sea levels will Sep 2009 09:29:00 EST. Please
are said to sell for $.30 a pop, see our terms for use of feeds.
American Samoa, which together in the Solomon Islands. But Misa mean greater threats from the leaving one researcher to say:
have a population of some Telefoni, Samoa’s deputy prime ocean to human life and Permalink| Email this| Comments
"They could be sold at 7-Eleven."
250,000. American Samoa was minster, said that the speed of livelihoods. We want to write a skeptical
reportedly hit by four separate Tuesday’s disaster left people Back to top ^^ Readers' response analyzing the feasibility
waves. Another seven people with desperately little time to comments
were killed in Tonga, several respond. “The ocean went out The Economist welcomes your
hundred kilometres farther south. within five minutes [of the views.
Witnesses described fleeing from earthquake].”
waves 4.5 metres tall which swept That suggests that the best

Kindle Flunking Out Of Princeton?

By Michael Masnick (Techdirt) received free Kindle DX's as part of an academic tool,' said Aaron Stan Katz." devices for training students
Submitted at 9/29/2009 9:00:50 PM of the University's e-reader pilot Horvath '10, a student in Civil I have to admit that I don't quite anyway?
program, many of them said they Society and Public Policy. 'It's understand the value of the Kindle Permalink| Comments| Email
theodp writes"At Jeff Bezos' w e r e d i s s a t i s f i e d a n d clunky, slow and a real pain to DX as a reading device for This Story
a l m a m a t e r , T h e D a i l y uncomfortable with the devices. 'I operate.' How about a second schools or... anything, really. In
Princetonian reports that less than hate to sound like a Luddite, but opinion? The device is 'hard to the meantime, why are schools
two weeks after 50 students this technology is a poor excuse use,' added Horvath's professor, using closed off DRM-encrusted
22 Economy/ Gadgets/ Tech Tips/
OptionsXpress: Going for Broker
(Financial Sector and Stocks
Analysis from Seeking Alpha)
Submitted at 9/30/2009 6:49:27 AM
All signs point towards increased
trading volume in equity options,
futures and forex trading.
OptionsXpress ( OXPS) is among
the leaders in discount brokerages
that specialize in these areas.
OXPS came public in 2005 and
showed nothing but growth
through the first half of 2008
before succumbing to the putrid
market conditions that followed.
The shares had shown good
strength through 2007 and then
plunged with the markets to
bottom at $8.38 /share on March 6
th of this year.
As I’m writing the shares are
offered at $17.32 – about double
their 2009 low while also about
half their 2007 high of $34.95.
The company has no debt (short
or long term) and they’ve been
buying back their own shares
since the sell-off. The outstanding
shares have dropped from over 63
million to under 58 million since
2007.
Here are their per share numbers
as reported by Value Line:
2009 will be a down year. Zacks
and others see about $1.04 and
$1.31 for 2009 and 2010
respectively as markets gradually
recover. I’m a bit more optimistic
than they are that earnings will
pick up sooner and stronger.
CNET Declares Picasa the Winner at Facial Recognition [Facial Recognition]
By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 9/30/2009 7:00:00 AM
CNET's Josh Lowensohn used
his own mug as a standard to
At Tuesday’s quote OXPS is
now trading for about 13.3x next
year’s estimate. That’s well below
almost all historical levels
including 2008’s horrific market
environment. In fact, these shares
are now below the lows from the
entire period from late 2005 right
through most of 2008.
With proven earnings power of
around $1.50 /share (attained in
both 2007 and 2008) it doesn’t
take a lot of imagination to picture
a 16 multiple and a $24 minimum
price target over the next 12 - 24
months. That may well prove
conservative as OXPS hit peak
share prices of $26.20, $33.94,
$34.95 and $33.74 in the calendar
years 2005 through 2008
respectively.
For short-term traders here’s a
nice play for less than six
months…
If OXPS rises to at least $17.50
by March 19, 2010 (+ 1.4% or
better from Tuesday’s price):
> The $17.50 calls will be
exercised.
> You will sell your shares for
$17,500.
> The $17.50 puts will expire
worthless.
> You will have no further
option obligations.
> You will end up with no shares
and $17,500 in cash.
That’s a best-case scenario net
profit of $3,830/$13,670 = 28%
achieved in less than 5.6 months
measure the facial recognition
prowess of iPhoto, Windows Live
Gallery, and newcomer face-
finder Picasa 3.5. The verdict?
Picasa 3.5, because it's all about
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on shares that only needed to rise
by 1.4%.
What’s the downside?
Is OXPS remains under $17.50
/share on March 19, 2010:
> The $17.50 calls will expire
worthless.
> The $17.50 puts will be
exercised.
> You will be forced to buy
another 1000 shares of OXPS.
> You will need to lay out an
additional $17,500 in cash.
> You will have no further
option obligations.
> You will end up with 2000
shares of OXPS.
What’s the break-even point on
the whole trade?
On the original 1000 shares it’s
their $17.32 purchase price less
LaCie offers up gigantic
the
$1.75 /share call premium =
‘Sound2 laptop speakers
$15.57 /share. By Doug Aamoth A/V device.”
On the ‘put’ shares it’s the (CrunchGear) Which, translated, means
$17.50 strike price less the Submitted at 9/30/2009 7:00:14 AM “Them’s some big speakers right
$1.90 /share put premium = there.” They ought to be able to
$15.60 /share. I f y o u ’ r e s i c k o f t i n y , push out some decent sound, too,
Your average break-even would unobtrusive laptop speakers then at 15 watts apiece.
be $15.59/share. boy-oh-boy does LaCie have You can plug the $99 speakers
OXPS could drop by as much as something for you. directly into your laptop via USB
$1.73 /share (-9.9%) without The marketing jargon reads or there’s a line-in jack as well in
causing something like this: case you want to hook up your
a loss on this trade. “Today LaCie announced high- Diamond Rio MP3 player or
Disclosure: Author is long end speakers, modeled after whatever the cool MP3 player is
OXPS shares and short OXPS Cabasse’s renowned loudspeaker nowadays.
options. technology – the LaCie Sound2 Should be available soon,
Speakers, design by Neil Poulton. although LaCie’s product page
LaCie has partnered with famous says they’re out of stock at the
acoustic engineering company moment.
Cabasse to bring high-quality LaCie Sound2 Speakers[LaCie]
sound to any computer system or
denying face matches, which recognizing your features? [
Picasa makes easiest. Do you see CNET]
face-to-face with Lowensohn's
assessment? How accurate is your
the workflow of approving or own photo organizer at
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Beware the Current Bull Market in
Derivatives
(Financial Sector and Stocks
Analysis from Seeking Alpha)
Submitted at 9/30/2009 5:56:14 AM
The Dow is near 10,000 again.
The business press is full of
stories about the resurgence in
mergers, IPOs and even so-called
blank check companies.
There’s one statistic, however,
that should give investors pause:
the growth in the total dollar value
of derivative contracts at the top
too-big-to-fail banks in the United
States.
In the second quarter of this
year, the notional value of
derivatives contracts at JPMorgan
Chase ( JPM), Goldman Sachs (
GS), Bank of America ( BAC)
and Citigroup ( C) increased by
$1.92 trillion, to $191 trillion.
Shockingly, Citi is responsible for
most of that gain from the end of
the first quarter.
Overall, the total dollar value of
outstanding derivatives
transactions at the top 25 U.S.
commercial banks was $203
trillion, according to the Office of
the Comptroller of the Currency,
meaning that the nation’s four
biggest banks account for 94
percent of the industry’s total
exposure to derivatives.
Now the concentration of
Kim! Khloe! Kourtney! The Many Looks of the Kardashian Sisters!
(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 9/30/2009 3:20:00 AM
From brides to babies to
breakups, the Kardashian sisters
are no stranger to lives in the
derivatives at a handful of banks
isn’t new. It’s even to be
expected, bank regulators say.
The OCC, in its quarterly
derivatives report, routinely notes
that the Big Four “have the
resources needed to be able to
operate this business in a safe and
sound manner.”
In other words, the biggest
banks are best suited to handle all
these derivatives contracts
because they’ve been doing it for
so long.
But it’s this regulatory logic that
has helped enshrine the too-big-to
-fail doctrine. A handful of
financial institutions are deemed
more indispensable than others
because they are too
interconnected to fail. It’s the
large concentration of derivative
contracts at a troubled bank like
Citigroup that made a big bailout
necessary.
So it’s particularly disturbing to
find that the total dollar value of
outstanding derivatives at Citi
rose by $2.3 trillion, to $31.9
trillion in the second quarter. By
contrast, the notional value of
derivatives transactions at
JPMorgan Chase — the leader in
this category — fell by $1.2
trillion, to $79.9 trillion.
It’s hard to fathom how a bank
limelight. Take a look at the
headline-making reality stars --
Kim, Khloe and Kourtney-- as
they strut their stylish stuff at red-
carpet premieres and glittering
Hollywood bashes. What's up
Economy/ Gadgets/ Entertainment/ 23
that has yet to prove it can stand
on its own two feet without huge
amounts of federal support should
be adding to its potential
derivatives exposure.
That’s especially so with Citi
losing $238 million in trading
revenue because of derivatives in
the second quarter. Citi managed
that feat even as the nation’s 25
top commercial banks took in
$5.1 billion in derivatives trading
revenue in the same time period,
according to the OCC.
This is why, of all the proposals
for reforming the financial
system, the Obama
administration’s plan to require
that the vast majority of
derivatives be traded on well-
capitalized exchanges is the most
Swordfish Net 102 Dual: the
important.
The president’s team needs to
first netbook with twin Atom
keep the pressure on Congress to
enact a measure that will ensure CPUs
there’s a way for a trading partner By Darren Murph (Engadget) x 600 resolution), a 160GB hard
to get paid on a derivatives Submitted at 9/30/2009 9:06:00 AM drive and Windows XP runnin'
contract, even if the bank on the the show. It's available to order
other side of that transaction fails. Alright, so we're going to go for the low, low price of $449,
And if anyone doubts the need ahead and caution against buying though we wouldn't expect the
for regulating derivatives and anything that claims to have a stock 3-cell battery to last very
making it easier to unwind a "dual Bluetooth" module, but if long (read: an hour) with a pair of
troubled too-big-to-fail bank, Citi you're feeling froggy, the planet's CPUs sucking down juice.
should provide all the evidence first (and probably last) dual CPU [Via Wired]
that’s needed. netbook has just been launched. Filed under: Laptops
Not dual core, mind you, but dual Swordfish Net 102 Dual: the
processor. The admittedly chintzy first netbook with twin Atom
looking Swordfish Net 102 Dual CPUs originally appeared on
next for the constantly surprising claims to have a pair of 1.6GHz Engadget on Wed, 30 Sep 2009
sisters? Keep clicking back to Atom N270s within, not to 09:06:00 EST. Please see our
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PartnerRe: ParisRe Acquisition
Should Strengthen Balance Sheet
(Financial Sector and Stocks
Analysis from Seeking Alpha)
Submitted at 9/30/2009 6:07:59 AM
On Monday, PartnerRe Ltd. (
PRE) announced that it will
acquire the remaining shares of
ParisRe Holdings Limited through
a merger in lieu of the stock-for-
stock transaction agreed upon
earlier.
By choosing a merger vote
instead of an exchange offer, the
amended structure is expected to
accelerate PartnerRe’s acquisition
of ParisRe. However, the
consideration granted to ParisRe
shareholders will remain
unchanged.
PartnerRe has entered into
agreements to acquire 77%, and
previously acquired
approximately 6%, of ParisRe’s
outstanding common shares. In
these transactions, PartnerRe
offered (subject to certain
adjustments) the same exchange
ratio of 0.30 PartnerRe common
shares for each ParisRe common
share. The closing of the 77%
block purchase is currently
expected to occur in Oct. 2009,
subject to certain conditions and
regulatory approvals.
Shareholder approvals from
both the companies in connection
with the closing of the 77% block
purchase have been obtained. As a
James Joyce Estate Agrees To Pay Legal Fees To Professor It Sought To Stifle
By Michael Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 9/29/2009 11:40:39 PM
We wrote in the past about how
the estate of author James Joyce
tried to use copyright law to
result, PartnerRe will hold 83% of
ParisRe’s outstanding common
shares.
Following the closing of the
block purchase, ParisRe has
agreed to call a meeting of its
shareholders to vote on a proposal
to effect a merger, governed by
Swiss law, of ParisRe into a
wholly-owned subsidiary of
PartnerRe. The merger, when
approved by the holders of at least
90% of all outstanding ParisRe
voting rights, is expected to
become effective in December
2009.
PartnerRe intends to obtain a
listing for its shares on the
Euronext Paris stock exchange,
which will be effective upon
completion of the merger.
PartnerRe will also seek to
prevent a professor from quoting
any works from James Joyce or
his daughter Lucia Joyce in a
biography of Lucia Joyce she was
working on. This was, of course,
ridiculous, and after many years
implement measures to enhance
shareholders’ access to liquidity
including through the New York
Stock Exchange.
Upon successful completion of
the merger, ParisRe, together with
its operating subsidiaries, will be
fully integrated into PartnerRe’s
existing operating structure. The
acquisition will strengthen
PartnerRe’s balance sheet and
financial flexibility by creating a
greater market presence, risk
diversification, capital strength
and scale in the face of uncertain
and volatile financial and
reinsurance markets.
As such, we maintain our
Outperform recommendation on
PartnerRe.
in court, the estate didn't just lose,
but was ordered to pay attorneys'
fees as well, totaling more than
$326,000. The estate then
appealed that as well, but has now
agreed to settle, and pay $240,000
Internet News Record
Engadget HD reviews VUDU
on the LG BD390 Blu-ray
player
By Ben Drawbaugh appreciated and if you've been
(Engadget) waiting to pull the trigger on a
Submitted at 9/30/2009 11:07:00 AM Blu-ray player, this might just be
the feature that'll make your
Today's the day that VUDU goes finger twitch.
live for owners of the LG BD390 Continue reading Engadget HD
Blu-ray player, so of course the reviews VUDU on the LG BD390
crew over at Engadget HD Blu-ray player
managed to get an early look. As Filed under: HDTV, Home
you might expect, those HD snobs Entertainment
at EHD are hard to please, so that Engadget HD reviews VUDU
combined with the comparison to on the LG BD390 Blu-ray player
Blu-ray and Netflix's Watch Now, originally appeared on Engadget
makes for an interesting read that on Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:07:00
you'll just have to click on EST. Please see our terms for use
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in attorneys' fees to the professor, Abusing copyright law to stifle
Carol Shloss. While the end result free speech is always a problem.
was good, the fact that she had to Permalink| Comments| Email
go through this whole process just This Story
to write a biography in the first
place is still quite problematic.
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UBS May Leave Bad Bank Deal
with Swiss Government
(Financial Sector and Stocks
Analysis from Seeking Alpha)
Submitted at 9/30/2009 6:03:03 AM
UBS AG ( UBS) intends to close
its relationship with the Swiss
government by purchasing its
toxic assets back from the bad
bank deal and hopes to turnaround
by next year. With the recent
rebound in the credit markets, the
company believes that it could
add back its assets to its balance
sheets. However, this would not
be possible before the second half
of 2010.
UBS AG is engaged in a fight
with FINMA, Switzerland’s
financial independent supervisory
authority over its plan to opt out
of the bad bank scheme. Under
the bad bank scheme, the
company incurs hefty charges for
protecting against huge losses on
toxic assets. However, FINMA
has ruled out such possibilities in
the midst of the current unstable
market. Though the Swiss
government sold its 9% stake in
UBS last month, around $23.5
billion of UBS assets are there in
the government’s bad bank.
Of late, UBS is making
headlines for all the wrong
reasons. The U.S. officially
started gathering account details
Twins 2 games back of Tigers after twinbill split
By Associated Press
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 9/29/2009 10:47:19 PM
Why Verlander Won
• It was Verlander's sixth start
of 4,450 UBS clients in America
who allegedly evaded taxes after
Switzerland agreed to provide the
relevant facts.
Switzerland recently signed an
agreement to share banking
information from January 2010
upon request from French tax
authorities. This has resulted in
large fund outflows as worried
investors are eyeing a safe refuge.
Swiss banks have enjoyed large
foreign deposits inflows over the
years as a result of the country’s
tax system, which emphasizes
extreme secrecy. However, the
adoption of the Organization for
Economic Co-operation and
Development standards for tax
cooperation coupled with the US
this season with no walks and at
least eight strikeouts, which is the
most in the majors.
• He recorded 17 swinging
strikes for the eighth time this
season.
Internal Revenue Service’s
lawsuit against UBS have led to
dilution of secrecy.
The ongoing global economic
turmoil severely hurt the Swiss
banking major’s balance sheet
after the subprime crisis led to
record losses. In particular, the
investment banking arm of UBS
experienced large trading losses
after significant decreases in
commissions and fee income. Its
asset quality is beginning to turn
negative and is expected to
worsen further in the coming
quarters. However, we expect the
recent signs of economic recovery
augur well for UBS.
• The Tigers' starter averaged
96.3 mph on his fastball, the
eighth time he's averaged at least
96 mph in a start this season.
-- ESPN Stats & Information
Economy/ Gadgets/ Sports/ 25
Blu-rays to Include PSP-
Exclusive Digital Copies [PSP]
By Mark Wilson (Gizmodo) over USB (we doubt it will work
over Remote Play, but that'd be
Submitted at 9/30/2009 6:40:00 AM
pretty handy).
Starting this November, some Whether or not you own the
Blu-ray releases will include necessary PS3/PSP combo or
digital copies that only play on have any interest in digital copies
PSPs. of your Blu-ray movies, this news
G o d z i l l a a n d T h e U g l y seems like yet another reason why
T r u t h — b o t h S o n y P i c t u r e s the PS3 makes for the most
films—will include extra discs attractive BD player on the
that won't do anything special market. While it doesn't have
when placed in a standard Blu-ray features like Netflix streaming,
player. But when played in a PS3, Sony will always put the new
users will be able to download a stuff on the PS3 first. [ Blu-ray
PSP-exclusive digital copy. The via Joystiq]
PSP copy can be downloaded
26 Economy/ Gadgets/ Internet News Record

DoubleSight Mini USB

Displays Are Cheap
Enough to Imagine On
Your Desk [Usb
Displays]
By Danny Allen (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 9/30/2009 7:40:00 AM

Using a mini-monitor for

Photoshop toolbars or tracking
email is pretty handy, but they're
also pricey. So even though
DoubleSight's new 7- and 9-inch
LCDs aren't touchscreen (like the
$230 Mimo 720-S), I like that
they start at just $120.
That price gets you the 7-incher,
which has a resolution of 800 x
Bankers, Finance Ministers Defend the Dollar 480. The 9-inch models ($160
with detachable webcam; $140
(Financial Sector and Stocks will provide a lot of numbers currency adviser Gyohten is now making a new swing low at without) can do 1024 by 600.
Analysis from Seeking Alpha) including non farm pay roll and hailing the merits of a stable and 1.4527. Each uses USB for both video and
Submitted at 9/30/2009 7:25:25 AM the monthly unemployment rate. strong dollar, to be used a a Do we have an inverted spike power—you don't need any fancy
It is likely that some of those reserve currency for years to high in place, or are we going to graphics card.
We have a variety of economic r e p o r t s w i l l g i v e u s s o m e come. Finally a Russian Central rally back for a retest of this high? What sells me on them, though:
reports, that although interesting, v o l a t i l i t y . Banker claims they will keep 30% We have cast our vote and have t h e y ' l l a l s o p i v o t b e t w e e n
are not market movers. The Of more importance to the USD of their currency reserves in taken a small long at 1.4535 with l a n d s c a p e a n d p o r t r a i t
market was cheered by a report has been the chatter of Central dollars, and favors a stable dollar. a fairly tight stop down 80 pips. orientations. Nice. Of course, you
which said US home sale prices Bankers, and various finance Did the G20 meetings result in a Our concern is the large spec long can pick up a full size monitor for
were down only 13.3% from last ministers. The Euro central group secretly assigned the task of i n t h i s m a r k e t . S o f a r t h e less than $150, but if desk space is
year, better than anticipated. So banker's Trichet and Central Bank the dollar's defense? entrenched long has not budged, precious to you, a mini-monitor
much for the good news. Next the m e m b e r N o w a t n y a r e b o t h So far the defense of the dollar so we wonder, why then, does he might be the way to go. [
consumer conference board praising the merits of a strong seems to be working. The year's not defend his position. We are DoubleSight]
reported that their reading had dollar. Japan's new Finance spike high of 1.4843 and the looking, perhaps hoping, for a
slipped from the anticipated 57 Minister Fujii daily comments subsequent reversal that day revival of the bulls enthusiasm.
and the previous 54.5 level, down about the merits of a strong yen remains unchallenged. Currently
to 53.1. The balance of the week have abated, and a special we are trading at 1.4553 after
Internet News Record
Nikon D300s DSLR Review: Not Much of an Upgrade
[Review]
By matt buchanan (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 9/30/2009 7:00:00 AM
Nikon's D300s is the very same
camera we loved two years ago,
but with a few new tricks to try to
stay relevant in this crazy video-
shootin' DSLR world we live in.
Namely, 720p video. Same Ol'
Same Ol'
The D300s remains a capable,
even impressive camera. I mean,
it's not like it got worse: The
D300 retains the same sensor,
excellent 51-point autofocus
system, fantastic chassis build
quality and ergonomics—just
about the same everything—as the
D300, and it still holds up 2 years
later, mostly.
Low-light performance is solid,
as you can see in the giant sample
gallery here that walks through
ISO ranges. We're talking fairly
good-looking stuff up through
ISO1600, though noise starts to
creep in there, finally getting
oogly around ISO3200. It's no 5D
Mark II or D700, but it still stands
up. Color saturation remains top-
notch, and it seemed to handle
white balance even a bit better
than 5DMkII we shot alongside it
at Giz Gallery last week. Bottom
line, though, you're getting the
same D300 performance. (Which
means D300 reviews are still
worth reading.)
So What's New?
• 720p video recording
• Extra SDHC slot
• More Active-D Lighting
controls
Gadgets/ 27
Here's the thing about the
D300s: It's a great camera, no
doubt. The problem is two-fold:
At $1800, it costs the exact same
as the D300 did when it was
released two years ago, but
beyond video, delivers no major
advancements. There's no new
pixel-squeezing camera tech here.
The other part is that the very
shortly forthcoming 7D from
Canon is their first direct
competitor to Nikon's D_00 semi-
pro cameras, and it may make the
value proposition look even less
fantastic with what appears to be
the most advanced video features
of any DSLR yet. As it stands, the
D300s is a tough purchase call
(you can pick up a D300 for $150
less if you don't need video), and
certainly not a necessary upgrade.
But we hope to head-to-head the
7D and D300s very soon to figure
out the best camera you can buy
for about $1800.
If only Nikon had just given us
• Tweaked button layout Oh just shot, since the playback ways—continuing the storage the D400 like we'd wanted.
Hey, Video button is how you adjust the over from the CF card, duping Some Giz posts shot w/ D300s:
What's majorly new in the display's brightness in live view whatever goes to the CF card, or • Sprint Hero Gallery
D300s is video, and even it's not a mode. to save JPEGs from RAW+JPEG • How Do You Install a 900-
whole lot different than what you The video quality itself is good, shooting. (Handy, since OS X and Pound TV?
saw with the D90, which also shot generally, but pushing past Aperture don't support D300s • Equivocation w/ HD
720p video(and had a similar ISO1600, it starts getting a little RAW files yet.) • The Mighty Chew-box-a
12.3MP sensor). But, there's dicey (Brian's shirt makes my And of course, one of the best Dual memory card slots are a
s t e r e o i n p u t , a n d y o u c a n eyes and ears hurt it's so noisy in things about Nikon cameras is huge win
autofocus during recording—it's this clip): Beyond video, my that since the lens mount for their Good low-light performance,
god-awful slow, so you're better favorite new addition to the SLRs hasn't changed in about 50 awesome color saturation
off doing it your own damn self. D300s are the dual memory card years, you can use seriously Two-year-old sensor costs this
Not to mention movies are capped slots, which were formerly a super vintage lenses (and save money), year's money
at 5 measly minutes. And if you're pro feature. The extra slot holds which is something we definitely DSLR video still has a long way
still in live view, you can't an SDHC card, which you can use took advantage of while shooting. to go
actually watch the stuff you've a n u m b e r o f d i f f e r e n t The Value Shopper's Verdict
28 Gadgets/ Tech/ Entertainment/ Internet News Record

Motorola Tao (Sholes) purportedly seen running John Travolta Returns to Bahamas
Android, traversing America
By Darren Murph (Engadget)
Submitted at 9/30/2009 10:16:00 AM
All we've got to go on here are a
few screen images, but at a
cursory glance, they sure match
what we expect the Motorola
Sholes (or Tao, as it were) to look
like. The biggest news is that
Android is alive and well, and
while we're still waiting for an
official release date, things are
looking up for this to be the
outfit's second-ever Google-
powered device. Have a peek in
the read link for a few more
Courtroom
thread and refresh it continuously
until actual hardware shots slip
out. Not saying that's "normal,"
but hey...
[Via phoneArena]
Filed under: Cellphones
Motorola Tao (Sholes)
purportedly seen running
Android, traversing America
originally appeared on Engadget
on Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:16:00
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(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 9/30/2009 7:40:00 AM
ET confirms that actor John
Travolta has returned a week later
to a Bahamas courthouse for a
trial related to an alleged extortion
attempt.
Travolta testified last
Wednesday about the day his 16-
year-old son Jett died following a
seizure, according to the
Associated Press. The AP reports
that Travolta performed CPR on
his chronically ill son after he and
his wife were alerted to his son's
condition when they were
awakened at 10:15 a.m. by a
nanny.
A man and a woman are being
prosecuted in the trial for
allegedly attempting to extort $25
million from the actor. The trial
began last Tuesday and
prosecutors are alleging that the
paramedic who treated Travolta's
late son threatened to go public
with confidential information
unless the actor paid him.

80legs: Web Crawling Isn’t Just for Google Anymore

By Ben Parr (Mashable!) favorite websites or search large websites for updates, run a and incubators. There are no
Submitted at 9/30/2009 12:05:43 AM engines at all. media or research analysis of upfront costs, so if your business
Web crawling’s not a simple billions of web pages. And of is privately owned, less than three
This post is part of Mashable’s business though, which is why course, you can build your search years old, and generates less than
Spark of Genius series, which Google spends millions per year engine. U.S.$1 million in annual revenue,
highlights a unique feature of on the task. Not a lot of small So here’s the big question mark: you can sign up today.
startups. If you would like to have businesses can afford the price of what’s the cost? The answer: not Entrepreneurs can take
your startup considered for crawling billions of web pages, much at all. Indeed it’s affordable advantage of the Azure Services
inclusion, please see the details although they could really use that for small businesses, at a price of platform for their website hosting
here. The series is made possible type of information. $2 per million pages crawled plus and storage needs. Microsoft
by Microsoft BizSpark. 80Legs, which launched last well, including changing the $0.03 per CPU-hour used. To recently announced the“new
Name: 80Legs week at the DEMO Conference, depth level, the number of URLs crawl a billion pages, it would CloudApp()” contest– use the
Quick Pitch: 80legs is a web c l a i m s t o d e m o c r a t i z e w e b to crawl, the type of pages to cost you $1000 plus the cost of Azure Services Platform for
crawling and processing service crawling and make it effective a n a l y z e , w h e t h e r t o c r a w l the CPU hours. hosting your .NET or PHP app,
that puts the power of 50,000 and affordable to the small outgoing links, and much more. Considering the information and you could be the lucky winner
computers to use at a fraction of business and the entrepreneur, not Once you’ve finished crawling, you’ll get, it’s a good deal. of a USD 5000* ( please see
the cost. just to the Googles and Bings of you’ll get the data that overviews Crawling the web has never been website for official rules and
Genius Idea: Web crawlers. the world. the results of your crawl. so easy. Spark of Genius Series guidelines).” Reviews: Google,
Spiders. Indexing. They are all Using the interface is dead Once you get past web Sponsored by Microsoft BizSpark PHP
essential aspects of not only web simple. Just pick where you want crawling’s association with BizSpark is a startup program Tags: 80Legs, bizspark, demo
searches, but of simply scouring 80legs to crawl and set what search, it’s easy to understand the that gives you three-year access to
the web for information. Without you’d like it to find. Of course, implications of cheap, accessible the latest Microsoft development
crawling, we wouldn’t have there are a wide range of features web crawling. You can search tools, as well as connecting you to
updated information on our for customizing your crawls as a nationwide network of investors
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Facial recognition face-off: Three tools compared
By Josh Lowensohn
(Webware.com)
Submitted at 9/30/2009 4:00:00 AM
Last week's Picasa software
update from Google brought with
it a neat trick--facial recognition.
But it wasn't the first consumer
photo-editing software to find
faces. In January, Apple unveiled
the latest version of iLife, which
included an updated version of
iPhoto that could detect and
recognize faces in your photos.
And this time last year, Microsoft
released an updated version of its
Windows Live Photo Gallery
desktop software that could find
faces inside of photos, though it
couldn't (and still can't) recognize
who's in them.
So, how do these three stack up?
To figure that out, we put them to
the test. Using 500 sample photos
on fresh installs of each program,
we tracked around how long each
of the tools took to process all the
photos, as well as some notable
hits and misses from each.
To be fair, our results may not
scale, or match the experience you
will have. For one, we're using a
test bed of photos that's almost
entirely 12-megapixel JPEG files,
whereas some people may be
shooting smaller or larger files
that may be in different formats
and contain large groups of
people--something that can slow
these programs down. You're also
likely to have a whole lot more
than 500 photos sitting around on
your computer; we certainly do.
The apps and workflows
iPhoto
iPhoto is the only product of the
bunch that's Mac-only. It comes
bundled with all new Macs, but
the latest version (which includes
face detection) must be purchased
as a software upgrade if you've
got iPhoto '08 or lower.
Face scanning in iPhoto
happens automatically, but it's
largely a manual process,
requiring users to "train" the
system to recognize certain faces.
The program took around nine
minutes to scan through our 500
test photos and when it was done
it didn't offer up any suggestions
of photos with faces in them.
Instead, users are required to
click on a photo with a face in it
and hope the program picked it
up. If it has, users can simply type
the name in--which will auto
complete if the person is in your
Mac address book. If someone's
face was not found, but you can
see it in the photo, you can
manually contain the face inside
of a box, then tag it with their
name.
iPhoto's system offers up
suggestions of faces it thinks
belong to certain people.(Credit:
CNET)
After you add names to just few
photos, iPhoto's system begins to
piece together others that look the
same--although it doesn't learn as
fast as it does for photos where it
already found the faces. In my
testing, it only took two photos to
get it to offer up some more
suggestions. If those suggestions
are correct, continuing to add
them was just a matter of a few
clicks.
iPhoto's system for doing this
isn't perfect though. As far as
workflows go, iPhoto's is one of
the most arduous. As it offers up
suggestions, you need to click an
additional button to get into the
"confirm name" mode. There's
also not a way to skip directly to
its suggestions without first
scrolling down past the photos
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with an array of faces that can be facial detection in this bunch did
claimed by name. These names not mean Windows Live Photo
can be created on the fly, or if Gallery was the slowest. In fact,
you're signed into your Google in our tests, the software came out
account--pulled from your Google the fastest, scanning through our
Address Book. test photos in just under eight
Picasa offers up suggestions of minutes.
faces it thinks may be that person, That was unfortunately the
along with notifications on when fastest part of the process though,
it finds new matches (seen as the since "detection" is about all it
orange question marks on the does. As for recognizing who is in
left).(Credit: CNET) those photos and putting them
Now here's where Picasa offers into groups, the legwork gets put
one of the best user workflows out entirely on the user. This wouldn't
of all of these services. Once be so bad, except for the fact that
you've identified a few photos as built-in tools for organizing
the same person, it begins offering require that you go through each
up suggestions of other photos photo one at a time to name each
you've already confirmed as that where they may have appeared. face it's found.
person. And instead of making you click You can click on multiple
And unlike Picasa, there's no through one at a time, it has photos with the same person and
way to bulk accept or reject speedy ways to bulk accept or drag them over to your source list
iPhoto's suggestions, which deny its suggestions. of "people tags," but this does not
means you need to click through It does this two ways: one is to automatically assign whatever
one at a time. One click accepts give you a little alert with an face the program found to that
the person as a match, whereas orange question mark next to their person. This leaves you with an
two clicks reject it. This works name. It also lets you skip directly additional tag the system has not
great for a handful of photos, but to those recommendations while yet assigned.
if you're going through hundreds ignoring the items that you've Windows Live Photo Gallery is
of shots it's a huge pain. already confirmed as that person-- Microsoft's free Web-enabled
Picasa 3.5 something iPhoto does not. It also photo editing and organization
Google's Picasa 3.5 is the first lets you bulk confirm all of them software. It can detect faces,
software version of Picasa to at once, which can be a huge time although isn't able to recognize
feature facial recognition and saver instead of clicking the little the same person across multiple
sorting. It's also one of the easiest yes and no buttons that sit below photos.(Credit: CNET)
programs to use out of the three each suggested photo. As for manually assigning
we tested. Windows Live Photo Gallery people tags to faces it's found, if
Picasa begins to scan for photos Windows Live Photo Gallery is you're signed into your Windows
as soon as you fire it up for the Microsoft's free Web-enabled Live ID it can pull in names from
first time, as well as any time new d e s k t o p p h o t o l i b r a r y your online address book. This
photos are added. For us, it took management, editing, and sharing speeds up the process (assuming
1 4 m i n u t e s o n c e i t s t a r t e d software. It's largely the same as you have the people in there
scanning to when it finished, the Windows Photo Gallery already), but here again, the user
however having recently tested software that ships with Windows workflow has not been well
this on a larger library, those but adds a few extra features like thought out.
times don't necessarily scale. a p h o t o s y n c i n g b e t w e e n Instead of surfacing recently-
Some users may have to leave the computers, a panoramic stitching used contacts to the top when
program running for a few days tool, batch resizing tools, and beginning to type a name, it
for it to finish scanning. facial detection.
Once it's done, it presents you Being the oldest software with FACIAL page 30
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continued from page 29
consistently puts things in
alphabetical order. If you have a
large address book, or friends
with slightly similar names this
really stinks. It's also annoying if
you're going through a "roll" of
photos from an event where you
have many of the same people.
One thing Windows Live Photo
Gallery does well is offer users a
way to categorize their friends
into folders. Actually, this needs
to be done from somewhere like
Hotmail, or another service that
lets you access or edit your
address book. But the results are
great. You can very quickly sort
out friends and family from
business contacts and coworkers.
In Picasa and iPhoto you're stuck
with an alphabetical source list.
Winner: Picasa
If we were to choose one of
these apps to help churn through
an enormous library, Picasa is the
way to go. It has, hands-down, the
best workflow for finding faces,
as well as alerting users to when it
had found people in new photos.
It's also the only program out of
the three we tested that's cross
platform, meaning you can use it
on either a PC or Mac and have an
identical face recognizing
experience.
Face detection hits and misses
Hits
Something surprising that just
kept happening with all three
pieces of software was it picked
up small faces in photo frames
and posters, as well as people
behind reflective glass surfaces.
All three software apps were
able to find faces in the
background of this photo of
CNET News Senior Writer Erica
Ogg.(Credit: CNET / Josh
Lowensohn)
This happened on a number of
occasions but was most apparent
when using Picasa since it shows
you all of the possible faces it
picked up inside of one menu.
Many times these were people far
off in the background, or in spots
so dark that the photo had to be
brightened up a bit for us to see
that there was a person there.
Also impressive was that all
three pieces of software did not
pull up photos of the pets that
were included in some of the
photos from our batch of test
shots, as well as from an auxillary
test done with 20 photos of the
same cat. Blog MacLife had a
different experience--at least for
iPhoto, and was able to get the
software to discern between two
cats.
Misses
It should be noted that all three
of these programs (and facial
recognition in general) has an
incredibly hard time with
sunglasses, hats and hooded
sweatshirts, and to a lesser degree,
things like regular glasses and
facial hair.
Just like the Unabomber, hiding
half of your face with large
sunglasses and covering up your
hair with a hood is a surefire way
to have all of these apps be unable
to identify you. That was certainly
the case for some of our test
photos. We threw in more than 50
shots that included large
sunglasses--none of which were
picked up as recognizable.
No Windows Live Photo
Gallery, this is not a face.(Credit:
CNET)
Also problematic were features
that were face-like that got picked
up by the software, as well as
facial expressions. Wide smiles,
open mouths, and upturned
eyebrows threw off all three
pieces of software. Again, this is
one of those areas where the
software's workflow can make
these misses less bothersome.
What was more of a problem
though, were the programs not
being able to pick up people's
faces if turned sideways--be it a
profile shot, or someone with a
tilted head. For posed snapshots
this isn't a big deal, but a good
number of our photos featured
people who weren't looking at the
camera. Out of three programs,
Picasa handled that the best,
simply highlighting them as faces,
even if it was unable to tell whose
they were.
Other things to look out for
include slightly obscured faces,
like people in mid-bite at a meal,
as well as faces that are slightly
out of focus. This isn't a big
problem with point-and-shoot
cameras, but if you have an SLR
and are using a lens with a
shallow depth of field, someone
just slightly out of focus can
render their face undetectable to
the software.
Conclusions
These three pieces of software
each offer different approaches to
photo management and
organization, and face detection is
just a small part of the many
things they do. It's also hard to
truly stack them together, since
two of them can only be run only
on one kind of operating system
(iPhoto for Mac and Windows
Live Photo Gallery for Windows).
That said, what matters in the
end is the workflow--or how
you're able to go through the
suggestions it comes up with and
use it to help organize and
categorize your photos. For that
Picasa is the clear winner.
Out of all three products Picasa
required the least amount of time
and effort for us to properly go
through our photos and feel
confident that we had tagged them
all. It also had one of the best
systems for accessing and editing
information about stored online
contacts by basically sticking the
Google contact manager into the
program as its own window.
In second place is Apple's
iPhoto, which can also make
tagging large batches of photos
relatively easy, but in the end it
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lost out to Picasa due to all the
extra clicking and training
required to even begin the tagging
process. It also got taken down a
notch on the user friendliness
scale for not providing more
notice when it had come up with
more possible face matches.
And in last place was Windows
Live Photo Gallery, which to be
fair, is limited to face detection
and not recognition. My hope is
that future versions will take a
page from Google's efforts and
focus less on the feature itself as
much as what users need to do in
order to use it for organizational
purposes. As it stands the tagging
process is just too manual, and
without the quick tagging
shortcuts and optimizations like
Picasa and iPhoto have, users just
get muddled down with too many
button presses to make it worth
their while.
Has your experience differed
from ours? Let us know in the
comments.
Note: The machine used for
testing was a late-2008 Apple
MacBook with a 2.4GHz Intel
processor and 4GB of RAM. For
testing on Windows, the same
machine was used but in Boot
Camp running an RTM build of
Windows 7 Ultimate.
Originally posted at Web
Crawler

New Video: Kathy Ireland Vows Not To Stop Dancing

(ETonline - Breaking News) up her stilettos on "Dancing with entrepreneur from continuing to to partner." teacher and to just be able to meet
Submitted at 9/30/2009 5:30:00 AMthe Stars," and ET was backstage dance, however. She told ET, "I'm Though their time together was a man of such integrity, such
with the mogul and former model going to be dancing at my great cut short, they are walking away character, it happens very rarely
After the judges' scores and right after her elimination. grandchild's wedding thanks to with a lifelong friendship. Kathy in life."
America's votes were tallied, Getting the axe on "Dancing" this guy." Her partner Tony said, "I feel like the big winner in
Kathy Ireland was forced to hang w o n ' t d e t e r t h e m o d e l a n d Dovolani promised, "I'll be there this because I got him as my
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Yet Another
Dropbox the iPhone app has dropped Ridiculous Jury Patent
By Michael Jones (The features, or browse their complete Award Tossed Out
Unofficial Apple Weblog online help library, without
(TUAW)) having to leave the app. As many By Michael Masnick (Techdirt)
apps fall short in this area, it's Submitted at 9/30/2009 2:04:53 AM
Submitted at 9/29/2009 9:30:00 PM
refreshing to see such detailed
Filed under: iPod Family, documention available, let alone Just weeks after we questioned
iPhone, App Store If you've been right from the app. why juries got to set patent
waiting patiently for the Dropbox A couple of side notes: As I awards, since those awards are
app [ iTunes link] to hit the App mentioned above, the new user often ridiculously high and are
Store, your wait is over. The app signup does not appear to work increasingly being tossed out by
has arrived, and brings with it the properly sometimes. I'm guessing higher courts, it's happened again.
simplicity that Dropbox users this will be fixed in short order, A jury ruling from earlier this
have come to know and love. though. You can log out of your year that would have had
Since Dropbox itself is a free Dropbox account by tapping the Microsoft paying $388 million for
service, it's a pleasant surprise to Unlink iPhone from Dropbox patent infringement has been
see a simple, easy method for button on the settings panel, but tossed out on appeal. It's become
creating a new Dropbox account beware that you will loose any quite clear that juries don't
right off the bat if you don't favorites you have stored (the app understand most of the actual
happen to already have one. The does warn you of this). And issues on patent law. At a
app just asks for a name, e-mail finally, when you do logout of conference on patent law last
address and password, prompts your account, the app just week hosted by the Santa Clara
you to accept the terms of service, disappears from the screen, as if it University law school, it was
and creates the account. During crashed, although you are pointed out how little information
my testing, I did encounter a successfully logged out. In my is given to the jury on patent
problem where I would receive a eyes, these are minor issues (well, information. For example,
nondescript "Account creation aside from the signup problem), professor John Duffy pointed out
failed (null). Please try again." and will likely be addressed with that jurors were only given 12
message, which I'm guessing may future updates, but still good to pages of information on how
be due to high load on their watch out for. patent "obviousness" is
servers. Still, this is not an several types of files, including This could definitely be handy if All in all, this is a very well determined, which he says is
encouraging encounter for new P D F s , t e x t d o c u m e n t s , you need to take a quick video done, simple app that connects significantly less than any
users. spreadsheets, pictures and videos. and have it available on another you with an already great (and textbook he's ever used -- and yet,
Once logged in, everything You can also tag files as a favorite machine without having to plug in free) service. It's available now in they're supposed to make a legal
worked pretty smoothly. On first by tapping the star at the bottom your phone and wait for it to sync. the App Store for free. determination on it. So, once
login, You are presented with a of the file viewer, which adds the Also unexpected, but incredibly Gallery: Dropbox for iPhone again, why does it make sense to
brief welcome document that item to the favorites panel and welcome, is the massive amount TUAW Dropbox the iPhone app let juries make these kinds of
highlights some of the features of caches a copy locally on the of documentation that is available has dropped originally appeared decisions?
the app. Backing out of the device so that it's immediately from inside the app's settings on The Unofficial Apple Weblog Permalink| Comments| Email
document will take you to your available. panel. In addition to giving you (TUAW) on Tue, 29 Sep 2009 This Story
Dropbox, which quickly lists any An unexpected feature is the g e n e r a l d e t a i l s a b o u t y o u r 21:30:00 EST. Please see our
of the files and folders you may ability to take pictures, video, or account, the settings panel offers a terms for use of feeds.
have in there. The app features use existing media and upload link to watch a video about how Read| Permalink| Email this|
built-in document preview for them directly to the Dropbox. Dropbox works, take a tour of the Comments
Model Talk at Jaeger London
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Blog) to show, these pros are expected London, minutes before the show —Rebecca Suhrawardi Austin Follow ELLE on Twitter.
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32 Tech/
Yahoo may expand its video lineup
By Tom Krazit (Webware.com)
Submitted at 9/29/2009 12:05:00 PM
SANTA MONICA, Calif.--
Yahoo's Media group is kicking
around ideas for expanding its
lineup of original video content to
include slightly longer scripted
and unscripted shows, according
to the head of the group.
Frank Nicotero hosts Yahoo's
"Prime Time in No Time," a
successful short original program
that could serve as a launching
pad for longer original content
shows.(Credit: Screenshot by
Tom Krazit/CNET)
Jimmy Pitaro, vice president of
media for Yahoo, said the
company is soliciting and
reviewing ideas for new shows
that are a little longer than the 3-
to 5-minute news and
entertainment programs that
Yahoo currently produces. Sitcom
writers need not apply, however;
the shows will not stretch to the
traditional 22-minute television
programming slot and will fit into
one of the group's current
properties: news, sports,
entertainment, or finance.
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has
tipped the corporate scales back in
favor of the Media group during
her first eight months on the job,
promising to invest in the group
with the savings wrung from cuts
in other areas. And if the
company's search deal with
Microsoft goes through, the
Media group could be the primary
area for new investment at the
company.
Yahoo has had a bit of a love-
hate relationship with original
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The Rule Of Law Over
The Rule Of Reason
By Michael Masnick (Techdirt) this woman had no intention of
Submitted at 9/30/2009 3:46:01 AM making meth. The whole thing is
ridiculous, but is symptomatic of
W h i l e n o t d i r e c t l y a a problem that we're seeing all too
tech/business related story, Jonny often, where the focus is on
sent in this rather disturbing story enforcing poorly thought out
of a grandmother arrested in laws, to ridiculous consequences,
Indiana for buying two whole with no attempt to ever look at the
boxes of cold medicine in less negative consequences and seeing
than a week. As you're probably if the original law made any sense
aware, most states have greatly in the first place.
limited the ability to buy cold We've discussed this in the past
m e d i c i n e t h a t c o n t a i n s with regards to other laws as well.
pseudoephedrine, the ingredient In business, if you plan a new
that makes most cold medicines initiative, you have metrics and
effective -- but also a key y o u c h e c k t o s e e i f y o u
ingredient used in making meth. a c c o m p l i s h t h e m , a n d y o u
So, rather than deal with the monitor negative effects of what
growing meth problem head on, you do as well. So why don't
many politicians sought to annoy politicians ever do this? When
content over the last decade. The Kanye West made a lifelong pretty much anyone with a serious they pass a law to ban spam,
much-hyped arrival of former enemy of Taylor Swift at the cold by making it quite difficult to increase copyright duration or
ABC executive Lloyd Braun as MTV Video Music Awards. get any drug that actually contains take away privacy for some
head of the Santa Monica-based Yahoo believes there's room to useful medicine. reason or another, why are
group never panned out the way it expand beyond those so-called Apparently, the Indiana law politicians never asked to put in
was originally pitched back in "video snacks," but hasn't nailed forbids buying more than 3.0 place benchmarks to see if the
2005. Braun had once hoped to down a specific concept just yet. grams of the stuff in a single laws actually do what they
create TV-style programming for Instead, Pitaro said the company week, and the two boxes of cold promise? Why aren't there any
the Internet, but it didn't work is considering a wide variety of medicine exceeded that amount. plans for a change or a removal of
then, and it still doesn't work now. ideas that include scripted and The end result? Police show up at the law if it turns out to do more
But instead, Yahoo has built a unscripted shows and that will the woman's house and arrest her harm than good? Certainly, by
large audience around short, somehow take advantage of the -- and then keep defending the this point in time, there's a better
original easy-to-produce programs medium, linking out to social- arrest, citing meth abuse, even as process to creating regulations
that essentially summarize the networking sites or encouraging everyone admits that this woman than simply saying what they're
events of the previous night, such viewer participation. was not making meth:"I feel for intended to do without ever
as the daily " Prime Time in No Expect to see these shows her, but if she could go to one of bothering to check to see if those
Time," or preview an upcoming popping up by the first quarter of the area hospitals and see a baby goals are achieved?
event, such as Sunday morning's " next year, Pitaro said. born to a meth-addicted mother Permalink| Comments| Email
Fantasy Football Live." "Prime Originally posted at Relevant ..." It's difficult to see what that This Story
Time in No Time" counts several Results has to do with anything
million viewers a day, peaking at considering that everyone knows
7.3 million viewers the day after
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Force Snow Leopard's Leaked Microsoft

Dictionary.app to reuse definition Courier Footage Is Hot
window [VIDEO]
By TJ Luoma (The Unofficial behavior of using one window for By Barb Dybwad (Mashable!)
Apple Weblog (TUAW)) all definitions. Submitted at 9/29/2009 9:11:33 PM
Submitted at 9/30/2009 10:30:00 AM Rob must truly be credited for
discovering this gem, because (as We’ve waxed poetic about
Filed under: Tips and tricks of this writing) Google comes up Apple’s mythical Tablet recently
The Dictionary.app in Snow 100% empty when looking for (and even seen some more
Leopard has been driving me nuts. 'ProhibitNewWindowForRequest'. evidence to support it). But
If you use LaunchBar or Spotlight When was the last time you tried Microsoft, too, has a rather
(or probably any other method of to Google something and came up attractive looking tablet-like
sending a word to completely empty? That doesn't device in the speculative stages as According to the video,
Dictionary.app), it opens a new happen often anymore! well: the Courier. publishing from your Infinite
window. And then another. And Turns out that Rob used another Now, a leaked video of the Journal is easy, with pages and
then another. This might be handy tip from his site to find hidden Courier’s user interface sheds sections exporting to Courier
if the window bar was updated to preferences(something else which more light on some of the design files, Powerpoint presentations, or
show the word that you had which I consider essential reading has gotten more difficult in Snow aesthetic behind this still PDFs. And according to Mary-Jo
looked up, but it doesn't, meaning for Mac users (I have even Leopard). It's the circle of life... or unconfirmed device that appears Foley, the device will run
that the extra windows are just submitted a few tips of my own at least, tips. to be part tablet and part digital Windows 7 … but not be able to
clutter. over the years). I knew if anyone Thanks again, Rob. Now where planner, with a dual-screen hinged install Windows 7 applications.
Before 10.6, Dictionary.app could find an answer, it was Rob. do you want me to send your design and pen and finger Say what?
reused the same window for each Well, it turns out they don't call Ferrari? (You'll have to read Rob's controls. Yep — apparently that’s
new definition. If you wanted to him Rob "The Hints Guru" post to get that joke. It also In the video, unearthed by because someone up high thinks
go back to a previous word, you Griffiths for nothing. Not long explains how to undo this change Gizmodo, we see a very fluid the first generation of Microsoft
could simply use the "Back" after my cry for help, Rob figured if you decide you want to revert to interface where any item can be Tablets failed because the apps
button. As we've heard countless out how to Force Dictionary to the standard 10.6 behavior.) drag and dropped easily. The weren’t specific to the form
times, Snow Leopard has been show definitions in one window. TUAW Force Snow Leopard's overarching metaphor is factor. There could be some truth
about subtle refinements, but this As you might expect, it involves Dictionary.app to reuse definition apparently dubbed the “infinite in there but still — we hope for
was a step backwards to me. I was e n t e r i n g a c o m m a n d i n window originally appeared on journal,” where items can be Microsoft’s sake they come up
surprised that there isn't a T e r m i n a l . a p p w h i l e The Unofficial Apple Weblog clipped and stored from the web, with a better alternative app store
Preference setting to reuse the Dictionary.app is not running: (TUAW) on Wed, 30 Sep 2009 annotated and highlighted, moved than what they’ve done with the
same window or open a new one. d e f a u l t s w r i t e 10:30:00 EST. Please see our around, and modified with a Zune HD to-date.
In a fit of frustration yesterday, I c o m . a p p l e . D i c t i o n a r y terms for use of feeds. palette of drawing and design Check out the video below and
posted a bounty on Twitter and ProhibitNewWindowForRequest - Read| Permalink| Email this| tools. let us know what you think: are
asked Rob Griffiths to see if he bool TRUE Comments An on-board camera handles you sweating this device? Which
knew of an answer. Rob is the Voilà! Dictionary will now bringing in visuals and documents interests you more: the mythical
proprietor of MacOSXHints.com revert back to the 10.5 and earlier from the physical world as well. Apple Tablet, or the mythical
Everything is searchable for later Microsoft Courier?
retrieval, with a Courier Pen Image above courtesy of
handling text input duties. Of Gizmodo
course the device overall is a Tags: microsoft, microsoft
touchscreen, and designed with courier, Tablet, tablet pc,
finger control and gestures in Windows 7
mind as well. Easy Publishing,
But No Apps?
34 Tech/
Google Wave meets conference calls, HOW TO: Copy the
with Ribbit
By Rafe Needleman
(Webware.com)
Submitted at 9/29/2009 5:26:00 PM
Ribbit puts a conference bridge
inside a Wave message.(Credit:
Screenshot by Rafe
Needleman/CNET)
It's becoming clear that Google
Wave, which is slowly emerging
from closed beta, has potential to
be much more than a text-
messaging platform. As the
telecommunications platform
company Ribbit shows, and as
does a frothy little
videoconference app from 6
Rounds, Wave's architecture
makes it a compelling platform
for real-time streaming
communication.
The Ribbit team recently
showed me their prototype
widget, which lets Wave users
quickly set up a conference room
inside a "wave" message on the
service. Once you add the Ribbit
conference widget to a wave,
everyone in it becomes part of a
potential voice chat. Users need to
enter their phone numbers, which
remain hidden from other users.
Then anyone in the wave can call
all the participants at once to start
a conference. (Users can also call
only particular people in the
wave, if they wish.)
The cool thing about the Ribbit
integration into Wave is how easy
it is to get a conference going
that's clearly related to a
document (a wave) that a team is
already working on. You also get
a dashboard view of your
conference where you can see
who's on and who's not, and drop
Entire iTunes Catalogue
in 25 Seconds
callers mid-stream.
Future additions to the service
will include options to record
calls and transcribe them -- for a
fee perhaps.
6 Rounds is conceptually related
to Ribbit, although with more of a
focus on fun videoconferencing
(with silly video effects and
everything) and the sharing of
YouTube videos. But the idea is
the same: Within a de facto group
on Wave, you can quickly add a
conferencing widget to bring
people into a conversation. See
also Zorap from Demo, which is
similar, although without a Wave
widget.
It looks like both of these apps
blend perfectly with the Wave
By Stan Schroeder
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/30/2009 4:57:45 AM
Answer: easy, if you’re a
brilliant scientist and have access
to the kind of technology
available to the folks at Bell Labs.
They’ve broken the optical data
transmission record, crossing the
100 petabit per second.kilometer
barrier. More precisely, they’ve
transfered 15.5 terabits of data per
second over the distance of 7,000
kilometers.
To do this, the researchers from
the Bell Labs facility in
Villarceaux, France have used
155 lasers, each operating at a
different frequency and carrying
100 gigabits of data per second.
Multiply the number of lasers
with the transmission rate, and
experience, which is part e-mail, you get a crazy number of 15.5
part IM, part groupware. They terabits per second, over the
s h o w h o w , i n a m o d e r n distance of 7000 kilometers.
communications system, the Multiply those two numbers, and
barriers between text and voice you get over 100 petabits per
and video communication, and second.kilometers (a standard
more interestingly between measure for high speed optical
asynchronous and real-time transmission).
communication, really do begin to
To make all these silly numbers
dissolve. more understandable, I’ve applied
What's not clear is how or if a little math to it. The iTunes
Google will integrate Google Store holds some 10 million
Voice into Wave. That's a big songs. The average size of a song
shoe that has yet to drop.
on iTunes is roughly 5 megabytes.
Click to see video demos of So, the entire iTunes catalogue is
Ribbit, 6 Rounds, and other about 50 million megabytes, or
Google Wave extensions.
47.6 terabytes heavy.
Originally posted at Rafe's Now, turning that number of
Radar
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15.5 terabits per second into
terabytes, we get roughly 1.9
terabytes per second, meaning
that it would take around 25
seconds(47.6 / 1.9 = 25) to
transfer the entire iTunes
catalogue over the distance of
7000 km. The calculations are
rough: give or take a second or
two, if you must, but it’s still
mind-boggingly fast, especially
for us mere mortals, used to WiFi
and Gigabit Ethernet at best.
Of course, it’ll take quite a bit
of time before we see such
transfer speeds in real-life use, but
it’s impressive nonetheless.
Here’s a scary thought: one day,
we’ll be able to copy more music
than it’s possible to listen to in a
lifetime in a matter of seconds. To
find out the technical nitty-gritty
about this achievement, check out
the official press release.
Image courtesy of iStockphoto,
Eraxion Reviews: Multiply,
iStockphoto
Tags: Bell Labs, data
transmission, itunes
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Rumor Roundup: iMac and Mac EyeTV app for iPhone

Mini due to refresh before October released
By Chris Rawson (The
9th? Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
By Josh Carr (The Unofficial could essentially steal all of Submitted at 9/30/2009 9:40:00 AM
Apple Weblog (TUAW)) Apple's ability to announce a
Submitted at 9/30/2009 11:00:00 AM cool, new product. We're pretty Filed under: Accessories,
good at digging the information Multimedia, iPhone, iPod touch,
Filed under: Desktops, up anyways... but why make it App Review Elgato, maker of finicky. I found the only way to
Hardware, Rumors, iMac, Mac easy for us? EyeTV, has released EyeTV for get reliable, stutter-free playback
mini We have received countless We're hoping that these rumors iPhone [ iTunes Link], an app that on my iPhone was to close the
tips about the availability of don't amount to a minor speed allows access to both live and EyeTV playback window on my
iMacs and Mac Minis - or lack bump... SD Card slots, Blu-ray, recorded video content from any Mac. Apparently the strain of
thereof. AppleInsider posted Cinema Display styled design -- If Mac running EyeTV 3.2 or later. displaying content on my Mac
earlier that Apple notified retailers we don't see something new, we'll The $4.99 app lets you view live and simultaneously streaming it to
that their Mac mini orders will not all be somewhat disappointed. and recorded TV on your iPhone my iPhone was just too much for
be filled at the moment -- but We're also hoping for a MacBook or iPod touch over your local a 2.6 GHz processor to handle.
soon. A later update states that the refresh but that conversation has network, and it also allows you to You can set video quality on
low-end Mac mini has been paled in comparison to the iMac access the same content from a Live TV from 80 kbps to 800
discontinued entirely, leaving us and Mac mini rumors. We've been remote WiFi location using a kbps, and there's also a setting
to believe that we'll be seeing a on the edge of our seats since service called MyEyeTV. that allows you to always use
hardware upgrade shortly. Monday when the store went Unsurprisingly, just like highest quality when you're on a
Several of our tipsters work for down twice. Each time gave us no SlingPlayer, access over 3G isn't local network. Again, streaming
Apple Authorized re-sellers who on September 18th, received fruit from the Apple tree, but we'll possible. over my local network almost
are running very low on desktop shipping information but today... keep an eye out. Let us know if Accessing either live or always worked well, so long as I
supplies, even an Apple Store tip they received an email saying that you hear anything else about it via recorded TV over your local wasn't trying to play back content
says they have 4 iMacs in stock. their Mac mini order will ship on our tips page or in the comments. network is simple, and usually on my Mac at the same time.
When I worked at the Apple October 9th. TUAW Rumor Roundup: iMac works well. Recorded content Continue reading EyeTV app
Store, there were always 40+ L a s t l y , a n A p p l e S t o r e and Mac Mini due to refresh plays back almost immediately for iPhone released
iMacs in stock. Having 4 in a employee "confirmed" the rumor before October 9th? originally with barely a stutter to be seen -- TUAW EyeTV app for iPhone
store is just unheard of -- unless of new machines being out this appeared on The Unofficial Apple the caveat to this is that all released originally appeared on
there's something in the works. October to one of our readers. I Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 30 Sep recorded content has to be The Unofficial Apple Weblog
The day of, or a few before the have to speculate and say that the 2009 11:00:00 EST. Please see rendered into a format the iPhone (TUAW) on Wed, 30 Sep 2009
announcement, we would always employee (who we won't name) is our terms for use of feeds. will understand, which can take a 09:40:00 EST. Please see our
get a couple pallets worth of probably reading too many rumor Read| Permalink| Email this| while if you have a slower Mac. terms for use of feeds.
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notification from corporate. refreshes for this exact reason. It's
Another tipster ordered a mini too risky -- one careless employee

First Lady to Travel Down 'Sesame Street'

(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 9/30/2009 7:21:00 AM
First Lady Michelle Obama will
reportedly be spending a sunny
day on "Sesame Street."
Mrs. Obama will appear on the
40th anniversary season of the
children's TV show to encourage
kids to eat healthy food, Reuters
reports. On Nov. 10, the first lady
will plant a vegetable and fruit
garden on the White House
grounds during her "Sesame
Street" segment.
"All these seeds need to grow
are sun, soil and water. If you eat
these healthy foods, you're going
to grow up to be big and strong, great!"
like me," Obama says on the
show, according to Reuters. "I
know you're going to like these
vegetables, because in addition to
being healthy, they really taste
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Yahoo updates YUI tool for slick
Web interfaces
By Stephen Shankland
(Webware.com)
Submitted at 9/29/2009 6:01:00 PM
Yahoo on Tuesday released
version 3 of its Yahoo User
Interface library, a software
collection programmers can use to
endow Web sites with fancy user
interface elements written in
JavaScript and Cascading Style
Sheets.
"YUI 3's core infrastructure and
its utility suite are all considered
production-ready with today's
release," Yahoo's Eric Miraglia
said in a blog post Tuesday. "The
code we're shipping today in 3.0.0
is the same code that drives the
new Yahoo Home Page, and it
goes out with confidence that it
Add RoboForm to Chrome with a Custom Chromium Build [Downloads]
By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 9/30/2009 8:05:00 AM
Windows; RoboForm, one of our
readers' favorite password
managers, is only officially
available as an add-on for Firefox
and Internet Explorer. Unless you
grab a custom Chromium build
has been exercised vigorously and
at scale."
The YUI libraries are open-
source, freely available, and used
widely around the Internet for
Web site tasks including
animation, drag-and-drop,
fetching data from various types
of sources, and responding to
events--chores that are more
complicated but that often are
useful as the Web moves from
static Web pages toward
interactive applications.
Compared with YUI 2, the new
version is smaller, faster, easier to
program with, and more secure,
Yahoo said. It's easier to break
code into minimum-size pieces
through a dependency
configurator or YUI's ability to
with a RoboForm adapter built in,
crafted by the RoboForm team
itself.
The build is Windows-only at
this point, and requires a separate
installation of the RoboForm
software. But for those eager to
use the well-regarded password RoboForm, or who aren't using
storage and auto-filling features of Xmarks for Chrome, it's a pretty
download required components
on its own. Also, Yahoo is
working to add widget abilities
for creating small programs.
A convenient YUI feature is that
Yahoo is willing to host most of it
on its own servers, saving hassle
and Web server bandwidth.
The new version is the first
ground-up reworking of the
software since 2005. No doubt
YUI will be the subject of
discussion at Open Hack Day and
YUIConf, both in October.
This chart illustrates the smaller
file sizes of one YUI 3 libary that
helps with retrieving data from
various sources.(Credit: Yahoo)
Originally posted at Deep Tech
Yahoo veteran named to
MySpace CTO spot
By Caroline McCarthy
(Webware.com)
Submitted at 9/29/2009 5:38:00 PM
MySpace has appointed Alex
Maghen to the role of chief
technology officer, the News
Corp.-owned social site
announced Tuesday. He replaces
outgoing CTO Aber Whitcomb,
who had been at the company
since its inception.
Maghen was already at
MySpace, serving in the CTO
position of its MySpace Music
division, a joint venture with the
major record labels. Prior to that,
he held CTO roles at Yahoo
Entertainment and MTV
Networks--the latter of which was
also the former employer of
current MySpace entertainment
execs Courtney Holt and Jason
Hirschhorn.
"The next phase of MySpace's
evolution will further empower
our incredible audience of
consumers, developers, artists,
content creators, and advertisers
with the tools they need to
broadcast, discover, and express
handy solution.
RoboForm and the adaptable
Chromium build are free
downloads for Windows systems
only. RoboForm for Google
Chrome / Chromium browser[via
Web Worker Daily]
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themselves," Maghen said in a
release. "The future of our
technology organization will be
guided by an open platform and
world-class standards to create a
place of invention for our
technical staff as well as the
world's development community."
MySpace has fallen out of the
tech industry's favor, surpassed
both in traffic and technological
innovation by once-smaller rival
Facebook--even though MySpace
advocated developer-friendly
open standards well before
Facebook came out in full support
of them.
There have been some
promising signs of late on the
technology front: a MySpace-
Twitter status sync proved
popular enough to make
MySpace's URL shortener the
second most popular on the
microblogging service.
Originally posted at The Social
Want HD Video on
the iPhone? Akamai
Akamai is a company that may
Is
not Making
be familiar
WANT toit everyone,
pagePossible
37 but
By Stan
most Schroeder
internet users have indirectly
used their services. They provide
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Exclusive from 360iDev:
OpenFeint 2.1 released, over
200 games in App Store
By Steven Sande (The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
Submitted at 9/29/2009 7:30:00 PM
Filed under: Gaming, Software,
Interviews, Developer This
afternoon I had the opportunity to
talk to Jason Citron and Eros
Resmini of Aurora Feint, the
company behind the OpenFeint
social gaming platform. At
360iDev, Aurora Feint announced
the availability of OpenFeint 2.1
to the developers on hand, as well
as touting that over 200 active
games using OpenFeint are now
on sale in the App Store.
Citron noted that there are about
500 indie developers, like those in
attendance at 360iDev in Denver
this week, who are working on
other gaming titles using the
OpenFeint platform. OpenFeint
2.1 is available immediately for
download at www.openfeint.com,
and information on the open and
free business model for the
platform is on the site as well.
OpenFeint is being used in some
of the top games in the App Store
right now, including geoDefense
Swarm(which debuted at #2 when
it launched), Rope 'n Fly
2(currently in the top 50), and
Apple featured games Unify and
Above & Beyond. The platform
provides a way for developers to
add social gaming elements to
their work without reinventing the
wheel, as standard APIs are used
instead.
TUAW will have more news
from 360iDev tomorrow, so stay
tuned!
TUAW Exclusive from
360iDev: OpenFeint 2.1 released,
over 200 games in App Store
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a distributed computing platform
for global Internet content and
application delivery, and their
customers include Microsoft,
MySpace, and Metacafe.
Now, they’ve turned their
attention to HD video. Their HD
Network, which is an upgrade to
their existing network, will let
content and service providers
offer high quality video on a
variety of platforms: on your PC,
through Flash and Silverlight, but
also on the iPhone.
The problem with HD video is
the fact that you need a lot of
servers and advanced technology
to be able to deliver it to a lot of
people. Akamai has servers in
about 1,000 locations in 750 cities
around the world, and they’ve got
a lot of experience in delivering
video content. Their HD Network
streaming platform supports
adaptive bitrate streaming, instant
response to viewer interactions
Bing Ads Warn About Online Scams
By Stan Schroeder
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/30/2009 2:11:02 AM
If you’re looking for information
on how to fix your credit score
through Microsoft’s search engine
Bing, you might get warned that
many of the links you’ll encounter
are, in fact, scams.
It’s a new campaign devised to
protect users from getting
scammed; Microsoft worked with
the US Federal Trade
Commission (FTC), Postal
Inspection Service, and Western
Union to provide public service
announcements (PSAs) in the
form of ads on Bing results pages.
The ads should appear for
relevant keywords only; I’ve tried
Tech/ Entertainment/
with the video player, and
includes an open, standards-based
HD video player, all of which
should ensure a smooth HD
experience. Finally, according to
Akamai President and CEO Paul
Sagan, they’ve got network
connection of 2 Mbps or faster to
two-thirds of consumers in the
U.S., as well as 5Mbps or greater
to over 25% of the population.
What does this mean for us, the
users? Well, if Akamai secures
deals with enough content and
service providers, we can soon
expect a lot more HD video in our
lives, especially on our mobile
devices. Add to that the rumors
about a HD-capable Apple tablet,
and you’ll see a bright, HD-
enhanced future ahead of you.
Tags: akamai, HD Network,
iphone
about a dozen different
combinations, and haven’t seen
them, but it could be because I’m
not located in the USA. You
should see them if you’re looking
for foreclosure rescue, lottery, and
fixing credit problems. If you
click on one, you’ll land on trade
commission or Microsoft Web
pages containing advice about
37
Will & Jada Pinkett
Smith Slated to Co-Host
Nobel Peace Prize
Concert
(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 9/30/2009 1:10:00 AM
Hollywood power-couple Will
and Jada Pinkett Smith will lend
themselves to the Nobel Peace
Prize Concert according to the
Associated Press.
The husband and wife will serve
as co-hosts of the annual event on
December 11 in Oslo, Norway.
According to the AP, major acts
such as Wyclef Jean, Toby Keith,
and Donna Summer will perform
as well.
The Smith’s said in a statement,
"The opportunity to recognize the
laureate's contributions to the
world peace movement will be an
awe-inspiring experience. We are
both humbled and honored to take
part in the Nobel Peace Prize
Concert this year."
avoiding online scams.
The initiative might move to
other search engines, too. “We’ll
encourage other search engines to
follow Microsoft’s lead and use
PSAs to help their users avoid
scams,” said David Vladeck,
director of the FTC bureau of
consumer protection. Be that as it
may, this is another move by
Microsoft that shows they’re
serious about grabbing more of
that search market share,
something they’ve been
surprisingly good at so far.
Reviews: Bing
Tags: ads, bing, microsoft,
scams
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Apple sets out to prove that there is an Facebook Releases Free

app for just about everything Tool for Translating Your
By Michael Jones (The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
Site
By Barb Dybwad (Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/29/2009 6:00:00 PM
Submitted at 9/29/2009 10:12:17 PM

Filed under: Apple, App Store

Since the birth of the App Store,
Apple has oft stated "there is an
app for just about everything."
Now, it seems they have come up
with a great way to prove their
claim.
Apple has added an " Apps for
Everything" section to their
website, complete with a wide
range of selections from Apps for
Cooks, to Apps for Managing
Money, to Apps for Moms and
Dads. Each section is then broken
down into different tasks or
activities that are associated with
the group, and highlighting a
particular app for that item,
complete with screenshots and a
link to the App Store.
Based on recent trends,
including our own " 5 Apps"
series, it's easy to see that
breaking down the massive list of
apps available in the App Store
and grouping them by different
occupations or activities is a great
way to bring otherwise hard-to-
find apps to the spotlight. It's
good to see that Apple has come
up with a nice, clean way to do
this on their own website, and I'm
sure it will serve as a great
resource to users who are looking
for the perfect app.
[via LoopInsight]
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Facebook is announcing a new
tool, Translations for Facebook
Connect, that will tap into the
wisdom of the crowd to help
webmasters and site owners
translate their websites and
applications for an international
audience.
The technology is based on the
same solution Facebook
developed for itself when it
decided to make the site available
in multiple language. The
Translations application launched
in January 2008 to great success,
as volunteers around the globe
chipped in to translate Facebook
into more than 65 languages.
Translations for Facebook
Connect will be released as a free
tool for developers. The
framework can be used to
translate sites into any of the
languages Facebook supports —
including, of course, Pirate(check
out the complete list here). Once
enabled, the tool will display
content in a visitor’s native
language if they log in using
Facebook Connect. For all the
technical details on how to
implement the new framework,
head on over to the Facebook
Developer Wiki.
What do you think: is Facebook
Connect Translations a brilliant
way to distribute a huge task, or is
Facebook taking advantage of the
free labor of the crowds? Let us
know in the comments. Reviews:
Facebook
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TiVo turns on in BlackBerry App World

By Jessica Dolcourt app that will let people control DVRs.
(Webware.com) their TiVos from the BlackBerry To use it, you'll need a wireless
Submitted at 9/29/2009 9:01:00 PM smartphone. data service plan, a Series2 or
The app will let TiVo owners Series3 standalone TiVo, 355KB
Post updated 9/30/09 at 8:20 am see a guide of what's playing memory space on a BlackBerry
PT with more information.(Credit: when, including browsing by running v4.2 or higher of the
TiVo) category, popular shows, and mobile operating system.
Good news comes to TV- daily picks. You can also search Originally posted at The Really @NHL? Is It
w a t c h e r s w i t h T i V o D V R s for shows by their title, a Download Blog Necessary To Fill The
installed in their living rooms. On keyword, or by an actor's name. remotely program your home
Wednesday, TiVo and BlackBerry Once you find your show, you can TiVo to record it. The app has Whole Background
-maker RIM unveiled a free TiVo use Tivo for BlackBerry to dominion over multiple TiVo With Legalese?
BySo, with the
Dennis YangNHL season now
(Techdirt)
under way this week,
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running a twitter promotion where legalese? It is barely even legible.
you have to guess the winner of A simple link would have
each of the games this Saturday.
Tweet the correct winners
sufficed, but it almost seems like
a childish response to a lawyer's Coming Soon: Internet Apps that
to@NHL and you could win request to put these rules up on
yourself a trip for two to a regular
season game of your choosing.
their twitter page. Then again, in
reading through the extensive
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The promotion is fine and all, but rules, I was reminded of my By Sarah Perez application needs to track all of its eject bad nodes as needed. Results
what I was surprised at was the favorite part of any sweepstakes (ReadWriteWeb) components, update them when So Far
ridiculous background image that in which Canadians take part, the Submitted at 9/30/2009 7:00:00 AM needed, and make sure that all the Already the team has had
is on the NHL twitter page: an math question. different pieces are able to promising results. For example,
image of the entire legal "Official Permalink| Comments| Email European researchers have been communicate with each other. Scalaris, an open-source scalable
Rules" in both English and This Story working for years on a system that Within the SELMAN system, an transactional storage for Web 2.0
French. allows developers to create individual component can be services won first prize in the
Seriously? Whose idea was it to internet applications that can queried for this information, such IEEE International Scalable
fill the entire background with manage and fix themselves. as its version number and which Computing Challenge 2008. Peer-
Called SELFMAN, the project other components it interacts to-peer video streaming
aims to address the challenges with. If the version number is out- application PeerTV uses
inherent in large scale of-date, it would be automatically SELFMAN to quickly test an
applications. According to Peter updated. evaluate new P2P components.
Van Roy, project coordinator, The self-tuning piece of the There's also a demo of a
"The central challenge when you system involves having the distributed Wikipedia that can
Massachusetts Says Cops Need build big internet applications is
how to keep them running without
application automatically adjust to
changing loads as well as changes
handle more queries that the
current version and a graphics
Warrant To Stick GPS Device having to tweak and manage them
all the time. We wanted to make
taking place among the various
nodes on the network. To do so, it
program that lets multiple users
collaborate on a design.
On Your Car big internet applications easy, so
that all the management problems
uses a load-balancing algorithm
that detects overloads, node
Van Roy believes that
SELFMAN represents the first
By Michael Masnick (Techdirt) a court in NY ruled the other way, you normally have are handled by crashes, and other disruptions. step towards an internet filled
Submitted at 9/30/2009 5:44:26 AM saying that it was a violation of the system itself. It will take the What was more challenging for with "unbreakable" applications.
the 4th Amendment. Now, the internet to the next level." the researchers was the self "Right now we're just scratching
For the past few years, it's s t a t e S u p r e m e C o u r t i n Indeed it will. defense aspect of the SELFMAN the surface," he says.
become increasingly common for Massachusetts has weighed in as Sponsor system. They discovered that the For more information about
police to put GPS devices on well, again saying that a warrant How it Works safest systems were not those in these applications, stay tuned to
suspects' cars to track where they is needed to put a GPS device on Within the SELFMAN project, which nodes are directly linked, ICT Results, a European research
are. But, that's kicked up a bunch your car. So that makes NY and t h e r e a r e f o u r k e y a r e a s but those in which nodes can tracking firm, which will soon
of legal questions concerning Massachusetts as states where determined to be vital in order for communicate with other nodes in highlight the various applications
whether or not it's legal to do that police can't randomly stick GPS a distributed application to have just a few steps. Within these in more detail.
without a warrant. So far, the devices on your car. The other 48 the ability to manage itself: self- sorts of networks, dubbed "small Image credit: Unlisted Sightings
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Earlier this year, we saw one Permalink| Comments| Email healing, and self-protecting. security service can automatically
court (a federal appeals court, 4th This Story To configure itself, an detect abnormal behavior and
circuit) say that police didn't need
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Kiva's Causemopolitan on World Tour: Social Media for
Social Good
By Jolie O'Dell
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 9/29/2009 11:16:49 PM
It's been a long and winding road
for serial volunteer and social
media philanthropist Sloane
Berrent.
Since her unplanned departure
from an L.A.-based startup in
2008, Berrent has traveled
through eight countries,
documenting and publicizing the
struggles of those in developing
areas through her blog posts,
tweets, images, videos, and her
own presence at events at home
and abroad. From post-Katrina
New Orleans to a trash dump in
Manila to a monastery in Burma,
read on for her story of trying to
achieve social good through social
media.
Sponsor
RWW: "Social media for social
good" has become the catchphrase
du jour, it seems. What does it
actually mean; how much can
social media users affect social
change, and how?
I am a strong believer in the
idea that the things you do online
are meant to facilitate your offline
interactions. People are so fast to
click a button, and that can be
great. Retweeting, forwarding,
and Facebook walls are great
engagements. But what's more
difficult is the donate button.
That's the big hurdle and
disconnect. I'm trying to provide
these inspirational opportunities
in timeboxed campaigns. Social
media is slowly catching on, but
there's a lot of noise. Standing out
is hard; it's important to have an
offline component.
Berrent was visibly disturbed by
what she witnessed at this Manila
trash dump, where she saw
shoeless children running through
piles of debris.
RWW: Tell me about your
experiences with Kiva borrowers.
What kinds of people and
enterprises have you seen? In
your opinion, does microlending
have a measurable impact on
struggling local economies?
Kiva is really unique. It has a lot
of power users - more than any
nonprofit I've ever seen. One man
has made a thousand loans. It's
individual stories, and people
really connect. You get updates
on that person, and people say it's
their favorite email of the month.
As a microlending company, Kiva
is one spoke in the larger wheel of
microfinance. On a global scale, it
has a very big impact.
Typically, when you go to a
village or province, certain
industries are prevalent. In a
fishing community, maybe the
borrower bought a fishnet or a
fishing boat. In an area with a lot
of bamboo, it's going to be crafts.
I worked in eleven branch offices.
I met over 40 different female
borrowers individually and over
250 in my time there.
I can see that the money Kiva
provides makes a difference.
Microfinance is a very slow
process, and there are gems and
sparks of people who break
through the poverty cycle. When
you see villages changing, it's
really something. It's like
watching grass grow, but it's
really beautiful grass.
This woman is a pig farmer and
a recipient of funds from a Kiva-
affiliated organization.
RWW: Now you're working on
a seven-day, seven-city tour to
raise awareness and funds for
malaria prevention through bed
nets. Where did this idea come
from?
It's a city-by-city competition on
who can raise the most money for
malaria nets, but also an
opportunity for anyone to donate
who wants to get involved. The
tour starts this Saturday night in
New York City and continues for
the next seven days in Miami,
New Orleans, Chicago, Seattle,
San Francisco, and ends in Los
Angeles on Friday...
I'd just finished Kiva training,
and I was going to the Philippines
for three months. And all I could
think was, "When I come back,
I'm going to be thirty." I've honed
in a lot on my direction - using the
Internet to help people. And what
if I could use this opportunity to
give back, involving people in
different parts of the country -
something really ambitious?
I wanted it to be about saving
lives. I wanted to say, "I saved
this many lives on my birthday."
I've done a lot of work in HIV and
AIDS; I looked into that and polio
and malaria, and that's what stuck
with me. The campaign has no
administrative fees. One hundred
percent of the funds go to
malaria... in rural northern Ghana.
Providing malaria nets will really
be a part of saving lives there.
Berrent met this monk in Burma
and spent the afternoon pagoda-
hopping with him.
RWW: What needs or gaps do
you see in philanthropic efforts
online?
I think it's not having a strategy
to begin with, not knowing the
tools in your toolbox before you
start. There's a lot to be said for
jumping in and having fun, but
nonprofits don't have the
resources to play around online.
They think it's about getting
interns and getting followers and
fans without figuring out why a
medium is important and how to
make it successful for them.
RWW: What's one surprise -
good or bad - that you've come
across since you started working
with Kiva? What did you not
expect from this experience, and
what did you learn?
I learned that it's much more
complicated than the website
makes it seem. There's an entire
division devoted to foreign
exchange currency. The
operational cost analysis, the
challenges of technology in the
developing world, the processes
of remittance - it's incredibly
complex. There are regional
specialists. On the site, you can
make a loan in five clicks, but a
lot of machinery comes together
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to make it that way.
RWW: What's next for you? Is
there more globe-trotting in your
immediate future? How do you
think the web will continue to be
part of your life and career?
One of the best parts of this past
year has been that I've gone
through long periods where I
didn't have Internet access. That's
brought me a heightened and
renewed sense of my purpose in
the world and my authentic desire
to make the world a better place.
I'd like to be able to continue to
support campaigns - even for-
profit ventures - that I believe in,
and I think social business is a
wonderful intersection of the two.
I want to explore avenues with
online and offline components,
while continuing to blog and tell
stories I'm passionate about.
Follow Berrent's next
adventures on Twitter or at her
blog.
And all this is just the tip of the
iceburg that is Sloane Berrent's
fascinating story. For a fuller look
at her travels and timeline, check
out this list of her nine favorite
posts on her blog, The
Causemopolitan, covering
humanitarianism, her work in
New Orleans, the phenomenon of
serendipity in international travel,
and much more.
Many thanks to Sloane Berrent
for the use of her videos and
images as well as for sharing her
story with us and our readers.
Discuss
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iPhone Developer Steals Customers' Phone Diller: Humbug

on 'Internet is
Numbers, Calls Them free' mythology
By Sarah Perez provided by Apple. patching - it's more of a feature.
(ReadWriteWeb) That seems unlikely since Apple "It's important to remember that (CNET News.com)
Submitted at 9/30/2009 7:30:49 AM does not provide this sort of perfectly legit applications can Submitted at 9/30/2009 8:11:09 AM

private information to App Store reach your phone number plus

Company calls customers in developers nor does it provide your entire address book as well," In Barry Diller's paleontological
attempt to sell paid version of direct access to that information Ars Technica blogger Erica Sadun view of the Internet, we're still
mobile app via the iPhone SDK (software wrote back in January. just coming out of the primordial
Within iTunes' user ratings development kit), the tool used by "Applications can also obtain ooze and slouching toward the
section of iPhone application developers to build their mobile personal information from most of "click to buy" button.
mogoRoad, a real-time traffic apps. Apple Doesn't Provide the iPhone file system..." The IAC/InterActiveCorp CEO
monitoring tool available in Phone Numbers, but They Do While the large majority of app and self-professed opportunist,
Switzerland, several users claim Provide Access developers out there would never rather impatiently told CBS News'
to have received phone calls from However, it's not entirely do anything quite so nefarious as Katie Couric earlier this week that
the development company behind inaccurate of the company to say what mogoRoad did and the day is coming when people
the mobile software. Reportedly, that Apple did provide them with Apple sneaks in a hidden undoubtedly wouldn't want to risk will regularly pay for content. As
the company is asking the app the customers' phone numbers. symbolic link between the app's alienating their customers in this he has before, he trotted out the
owners if they would like to Although Apple doesn't directly sandboxed preferences and a fashion, it's unsettling to know example of Apple, which has
purchase the paid version of the give out this info, they do provide global preferences property that they could. And every time managed turn its iTunes store into
application. While unsolicited a relatively easy way for any app list...Peek in Library/Preferences you install a mobile app, you're "a multimillion-dollar business"
sales calls are annoying and developer to retrieve mobile with "ls -a". You'll find a putting yourself at risk. based on the once-heretical notion
intrusive, the bigger issue here is numbers from the phone. In other symbolic link to As of now, Apple hasn't of asking people to spend money
how did the company get its words, Apple didn't give out the /private/var/mobile/Library/Prefer officially responded to requests on digital music and video
customers' phone numbers to numbers in question, they just ences/.GlobalPreferences.plist, for comment as to how they will "We're still so young at this,"
b e g i n w i t h ? A c c o r d i n g t o provided access to them. which is where (among other proceed with regards to this Diller said of where the world is
mogoRoad, the information came Although mogoRoad won't items), you'll find a preference situation, either to us or to the on the Internet timeline. "We
from Apple. admit it, the most likely c a l l e d blog originally reporting this don't even have, really, a first real
Sponsor explanation as to how they SBFormattedPhoneNumber. This story, French site Mac4Ever. generation. We're just kinda
The recipients of the unwanted retrieved the phone numbers preference provides exactly what H o w e v e r , g i v e n t h a t t h e getting one."
calls said that they were contacted i n v o l v e s t h e u s e o f a n the name implies: the user's phone development company has clearly In due time, he said, content
a few weeks after the initial undocumented feature which number formatted to the current abused an undocumented feature, companies will be unburdened of
installation of the mogoRoad allows any Apple iPhone/iPod locale. that should be enough to get them "this mythology of 'the Internet is
application. An operator would Touch application to access the In checking with multiple b o o t e d o u t o f t h e A p p free'", which was perpetrated by a
then try to sell them the paid phone number of the device on iPhone developers this morning, S t o r e . . . h o p e f u l l y f o r g o o d . seemingly prehistoric tribe that
version of the mobile software. If which it is installed. In an article we confirmed that the trick still Many thanks to MacWord, cared only about bandwidth and
pressed as to how the company on tech blog Ars Technica from works as described above. It's Not which pointed us to this story. availability.
got access to their phone number, earlier this year, the process of a Bug, It's a Feature Discuss "The Internet, you have to
the operator would generally doing so was described as "a Believe it or not, this isn't remember, was started by tech
respond that the information was shockingly easy thing to do:" actually a security hole in need of people," Diller said.
For more from Couric's joint
Street Chic: Milan interview of Diller and fellow
By ELLE.com (ELLE News on Italian ELLE’s Eva) makes a appear in ELLE.com's Street Chic Daily Beast founder Tina Brown,
Blog) chic statement. Daily. see "@KatieCouric: Tina Brown
. Follow ELLE on Twitter. and Barry Diller."
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BUG Labs WiFi Release: DIY Web- AppBank: Facebook

Enabled Gadgets for All App Template and Cash
By Dana Oshiro Rather than trading old products
(ReadWriteWeb) For Non-Developers
Submitted at 9/29/2009 6:52:57 PM
for newer models or adjusting to
the limitations of their gadgets,
consumers may one day learn to By Dana Oshiro
Have you ever wanted to build a build better experiences for (ReadWriteWeb)
better web cam, GPS device or themselves. Semmelhack listed a Submitted at 9/29/2009 4:59:32 PM
web video pet monitoring service? number of commercial products
Well you just might get your Eight years ago job titles like users add the AppBank App
that can already be recreated Designer Application in
chance. Bug Labs recently using BUG modules. Below are "social media marketer" and even
released their latest BUGbase "community manager" were few Facebook. From here they are
that BUGbase's WiFi has taken a some of his examples: asked to choose between creating
device module with an embedded 1. Novatel Mifi: This pocket- and far between. As netizen and
WiFi and bluetooth solution. Best year to launch with significant sized mobile hotspot can be social networking populations a personality quiz, trivia quiz,
known for its Lego-like hardware hardware, software and regulatory have grown over the years, so too name decoder and gift. Users then
created using the BUGbase Wifi
blocks, BUG offers users a set of s t r u g g l e s t o o v e r c o m e . and BUG 3G modules. have the number of opportunities create their project, add it to the
p r o g r a m m a b l e m o d u l e s t o Nevertheless, the results are a 2. Dash: Most basic GPS to earn money online. Enter Facebook Developer site and
develop DIY gadgets. What triumph for the entire open source solutions can be built using the AppBank- the first crowd-sourced apply for AppBank payment
makes this so groundbreaking is community. paid content service for Facebook. verification.
the fact that the company is Says Semmelhack, "The world BUGbase, GPS and BUG 3G With AppBank, users build It took me approximately 30
offering one of the first-ever open is already rapidly changing via modules. quizzes, polls and games and earn minutes to create my 5 question
3. Kodak Easyshare One camera
source WiFi hardware solutions. popular software applications like with WiFi Card: Users can create money by getting their friends movie quiz and see it indexed
This means that both large-scale Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, t h e i r o w n c a m e r a v i a t h e involved in their creations. next to other Facebook quizzes.
hardware manufacturers and Digg, etc. It will change even B U G b a s e W i F I , B U G c a m Sponsor We're also given the opportunity
garage tinkers can utilize the more radically when we are able modules. They can also add ReadWriteWeb has written to track our application traffic via
code. to personalize our hardware articles on sponsored social media a basic analytics dashboard. It will
Sponsor experiences as easily as our geotagging with the BUGlocate in the past, including sponsored be interesting to see if AppBank's
GPS module. Discuss
CEO Peter Semmelhack noted digital ones." Tweets and sponsored blog posts. template-based quizzes can
However, AppBank takes a compete with more robust
An open reboot on Saturday slightly different approach. Users
have the creative freedom to
developer-built applications. In
any case, the company has huge
(Scripting News) have a conference room nearby, experiment and create actual opportunities to expand its
Submitted at 9/29/2009 8:22:05 AM within say a 5 minute walk, would Facebook apps using a basic quiz- template as well as tailor content
you like to host this small based template. The company is for the Facebook mobile
We're going to combine this meetup? We'd find an appropriate less interested in the content and experience. To build your own
week's Rebooting the News with way to thank you in the podcast. messaging of the application as it application, visit AppBank.com
next week's and do it Saturday Also, please post a comment is in the people it engages. Discuss
afternoon live in San Francisco. below if you'd like to come. Can't To become an App Designer,
Jay will be in town for the Online guarantee how much room we'll
News Association meeting, and of News special, and you're invited! have, we may end up doing it at a
course I live a BART ride away in We're looking for a place that's Starbuck's!
Berkeley, so we'll meet at 4:30PM very near to the Hilton. If you
and do a 75-minute Rebooting the
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Yahoo! Issues Call for Homepage The Biggest Loser: Week Three
By Jason Hughes (TV Squad)
Apps, Plugs Proprietary Submitted at 9/30/2009 2:16:00 AM

(S08E03) Perhaps as a response

Development Platform to no one going home last week,
or maybe it was always in the
cards, but tonight saw the
By Jolie O'Dell whether that experience is one of elimination of entire teams as
(ReadWriteWeb) entertainment, education, opposed to the individual
Submitted at 9/29/2009 8:45:27 PM practicality, socialization, or elimination of week one that sent
information. The apps pop into a Alexandra home. This meant that
The Yahoo! Developer Network The YAP premise is fairly lightbox-style layout, called the stakes couldn't be higher as
blog has a post today calling for straightforward. Styled "a wide "Small View," on scrollover and
" i n n o v a t i v e a n d f l a w l e s s " open, self service environment," go to a full-page "Canvas View" everyone was going to have to
applications to be submitted for the platform allows developers to when a user clicks through. pull their weight to shed those
inclusion in a gallery section on build apps and submit them to pounds and keep their team safe,
Yahoo! has made conscious and right? everyone else's, as well. Let me
their redesigned homepage. Y a h o o ! w i t h n o b u s i n e s s ever-increasing efforts to open tell you, choices were made and
Apps are to be built using development deals or contracts. themselves to the developer You'd think so.
In a very interesting and all hell broke loose!
Yahoo!'s proprietary development D e v e l o p e r s u s e t h e i r o w n community in what many see as a Continue reading The Biggest
platform, YAP. The YDN post environments, stacks, and servers struggle to remain interesting and revealing twist, Alison announced Loser: Week Three
further noted, "We're working on and code in any language they viable in the age of the open API. that this week on The Biggest Filed under: Other Reality
an array of additional developer like. For the developers, the T o o l s s u c h a s Y Q L , t h e i r Loser Ranch, it was all about Shows, OpEd, Episode Reviews
monetization opportunities - these benefit is instant distribution. For proprietary query language which choices. As such, she set up Permalink| Email this| |
will be available soon." The Yahoo!, the benefit is a ton of free we covered in depth, and their several scenarios, challenges and Comments
gallery's inaugural class includes R&D and IP. temptations whereby people could
YAP application development make choices that could not only
YAP-built applications from For users, the benefit is a slew platform help to foster a sense of
Mint, Lumosity, Flixter, Target, of widgets to make the Yahoo! relevancy for the aging web giant. affect their fate in the game, but
and WordPress. portal more intensely personal, Discuss
Sponsor

Spell Your Way to Victory in Scribblenauts

By Chris Baker (Wired Top thousands of objects—pretty star. But that's boring! Get more
Stories) much anything that's not inventive. Chop It Down
Submitted at 9/29/2009 5:00:00 PM copyrighted or vulgar," says Spell "beaver" and a flat-tailed
Jeremiah Slaczka, creative rodent gnaws at the tree. "Ax,"
The new Nintendo DS title director at game developer 5th "lumberjack," and "chain saw"
Scribblenauts packs a lot of Cell. "Forks, tables, hang gliders, also work. Go Evel Knievel
innovation into an unassuming night-vision goggles, tractor If you can't reach the star with a
package. To solve puzzles, beams, pyromaniacs, the Grim ramp and a unicycle, don a
players summon useful objects by Reaper ..." Such intoxicating stovepipe hat glued to an umbrella
typing or scribbling words on the creative freedom leads players to for extra lift. What Objective?
touchscreen (spell out "ladder" dream up ever more convoluted of a tree—that have a near-infinite Screw the damn star. Make up
and—poof!—a ladder appears). and absurd ways to win. The array of solutions. Jump Up to It your own objectives: Summon
Sounds simplistic, right? Until Objective Type "bed" and a bed appears, God and make Him battle
you realize how vast the game's S c r i b b l e n a u t s o f f e r s allowing you to bounce to the longcats and ninjas.
vocabulary is. "There are tens of missions—like getting a star out Dropbox for iPhone
Makes a Great Kitchen
The iPhone
Aid and iPod touch make
[Dropbox]
for a DROPBOX
convenientpage
quick-look
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continued from page 43
reference tool when you're using
recipes you don't have a hard
copy of. With the arrival of
Dropbox for iPhone, those
portable screens become really
convenient kitchen tools.
You could, of course, always
get at recipes searched out on web
sites or emailed to you from your
iPhone or iPod touch, but that
requires a few clicks, and ignores
the recipes you may already have
stashed on your desktop or laptop
computer. If you install Dropbox
on your main computer and
include your recipes in your
synced files—whether by
dropping a copy in your "My
APNDroid Switches Mobile Data for Better Android
Battery Life [Downloads]
By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 9/30/2009 5:30:00 AM
Android: When you're asleep, at
an event, or otherwise indisposed,
you don't need your battery-
draining data connection, but you
might still want to take phone
calls. Free Android app
APNDroid can selectively turn off
your data access while allowing
calls.
The app's design is a clever one,
as activating APNdroid from its
app button simply activates the
on/off switch for GPRS, EDGE,
and 3G networks, allowing you to
use the APNDdroid icon as a kind
of widget on your Android
screens. You obviously won't be
Dropbox" folder or using a
symbolic link to sync any
folder—you'll have a copy of all
those recipes in your Dropbox
app, and it's fairly easy to drop
more in.
More convenient than just
access, though, are the features
Dropbox has built-in for
cataloging and organizing. The
app can read PDFs, Word
documents, and HTML files
natively, without having to launch
another app. Your "recipes" folder
gets organized in alphabetical
order, and you can quickly mark
down your culinary successes
with a star for quick access later.
able to surf the web or sync
Google services while your data
services are off, or send MMS
messages. You will, however,
have basic phone functionality,
and your battery will probably
live a bit longer without having to
Want to share a recipe with a
dinner guest who especially loved
it? Email it right from Dropbox,
and they'll get your copy of it, not
a link they'll have a hard time
searching for later.
My wife maintains a fairly rich
collection of recipes grabbed from
all sorts of places in a desktop
folder, so this is just an
observation I made while hooking
it up to Dropbox last night. If
you've got another
recommendation for how to make
an iPod touch or iPhone into a
great kitchen assistant, drop it in
the comments.
keep a data antenna powered at all
times. If you need a quick fix but
want to keep cellular data services
off, you can still switch on Wi-Fi
to sync or send an important
message.
If they could only make a plug-
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Former MySQL
CEO Mickos
joins Benchmark
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 9/30/2009 7:19:00 AM
Marten Mickos, surrounded by
inflatable MySQL dolphin
mascots.(Credit: Benchmark
Capital)
Marten Mickos, the one-time
chief executive of MySQL who
left about a year after Sun
Microsystems acquired the open-
source database company, has
joined Benchmark Capital as an
entrepreneur in residence.
"Why I like @benchmark: They
in so data could be turned on and
off by the Locale app, we'd be consistently ask 'What's best for
living in the age of total Android the entrepreneur?' and they think
control. big," Mickos said Tuesday on
APNdroid is a free download Twitter.
for Android phones only. Be sure The admiration is mutual.
to note the developer's warning: If "Marten Mickos builds global
y o u ' r e g o i n g t o u n i n s t a l l disruptive businesses. As CEO of
APNdroid, do it while your data MySQL AB for seven years,
services are on, or else the Mickos grew that company from a
fake/non-existent Access Point garage start-up to the second
Name the app uses to kill data largest open-source company in
will stick, and you'll have to the world," Benchmark said on its
m a n u a l l y s w i t c h i t b a c k . Web site.
APNdroid[Google Code via Mickos joined MySQL in 2001,
AndroidGuys] stayed through Sun's 2008
acquisition, and left earlier this
year. Mickos also is on the board
of cloud computing start-up
RightScale and Thunderbird e-
mail software backer Mozilla
Messaging.
Internet News Record Tech Tips/ TV/ 45

I actually like
Jay Leno's
10@10
By Jane Boursaw (TV Squad)
Submitted at 9/30/2009 9:00:00 AM

The Jay Leno Show has taken a

bit of a beating from viewers and
critics, but my household has been
Hammer Hinge Pins to Keep LAlarm Turns Your Laptop's watching, and we like the show.
Sure, there are parts of it that fall
a little flat (like, ok, The Real
Open Doors from Closing USB Port into an Alarm Housewives of Orange County bit
last night; Jason didn't like it
[Household] [Downloads] either), but overall, Jay's pretty
funny no matter what he's doing,
By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) picture mash-up): By Jason Fitzpatrick would need to use a strap to and we enjoy the show.
Submitted at 9/30/2009 4:30:00 AM Rather than resetting the hinges (Lifehacker) secure to something—is removed One of the bits we like is
or propping it open with a potted Submitted at 9/30/2009 6:30:00 AM from the USB port. What task it 10@10, the part where Jay gets
A door that refuses to stay open plant, remove one of the hinge will perform is up to you. LAlarm celebrities on his screen and asks
is a truly frustrating bit of pins, lay it on a hard surface, and Windows: LAlarm uses the USB can sound the alarm, literally over them ten questions about
household disobedience. Snap that strike it lightly with a hammer port or power port of your Laptop your laptops speakers, launch anything. In last night's episode,
door into shape with a pin bend, until the hinge pin has a slight as a sensor to detect when your applications, delete files, or he caught up with Billy Crystal,
and learn a few other door fixes bend. Tap the pin back in place. laptop has been disturbed. recover them. In recovery mode currently in Philadelphia touring
while you're at it. The increased friction will keep While a piece of software is no critical files can be sent to you with his show, 700 Sundays.
As fall turns into winter weather the door where you want it. substitute for keeping your laptop remotely if the thief uses your Continue reading I actually like
for much of the U.S., now's as Popular Mechanics has four directly in your hands at all times, laptop. Jay Leno's 10@10
good a time as any to look around more fixes at the link, and you're when it isn't immediately practical Have your own favorite Filed under: Programming,
your house and fix doors that f r e e t o t e l l u s w h a t d o o r or convenient you can use application for laptop security? OpEd, Celebrities, Talk Show,
stick, open or close on their own, annoyances you've repaired on LAlarm to give you a heads up if L e t ' s h e a r a b o u t i t i n t h e Jay Leno
bend, or otherwise provide an your own in the comments. Door your laptop is on the move. comments. LAlarm is free for Permalink| Email this| |
imperfect seal inside a frame. For R e p a i r 1 0 1 : H o w t o F i x a Once installed you can set personal use and available for Comments
doors that swing closed or open Squeaky Door Hinge, Gaps, and LAlarm to perform a variety of Windows only. LAlarm[via
on their own, Popular Mechanics More[Popular Mechanics via tasks if your laptop is unplugged Hacked Gadgets]
recommends bending the hinge Apartment Therapy] from its power cable or the wall,
pin a bit with a hammer (pictured or if the USB drive—which you
at top-left in our little matrix
46 Tech Reviews/ Apple/ Sports/
Green-tech venture capital rebounds but off highs
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 9/30/2009 7:52:00 AM
The latest data for venture
capital in green-tech investing are
in and the numbers all point
upwards, although still off last
year's high-water mark.
Research and media companies
Cleantech Group and Greentech
Media on Wednesday released
third quarter data for venture
capital in green technologies,
showing that government stimulus
spending and signs of a
recovering economy have helped
restore confidence in the sector.
Third quarter investing rose to
$1.59 billion, representing 134
deals in North America, Europe,
China, and India, according to the
Cleantech Group. Greentech
Media's tally, which covers deals
in North Amerita and Europe,
came to $1.9 billion in 112 deals.
Although the numbers vary
slightly based on research
methodology, the trend line is
clear: up. Venture capital
investing, a sign of sentiment
toward different technology
sectors, dropped significantly
earlier this year, then stabilized in
iPhone Application Sketch Book Rights Sold to Apress Publishing
By Lisa Hoover
(TheAppleBlog)
Submitted at 9/29/2009 2:00:59 PM
Little more than a month after
releasing the iPhone Application
Sketch Book its creator, Dean
Kaplan, has already sold the
publishing rights to Apress
Publishing House for an
undisclosed amount. Kaplan says
the move will allow the book to
reach a broader market and free
the second quarter, according to
both companies.
The total amount of money
going to green-tech deals has not
yet fully recovered to last year's
levels, though. The Cleantech
Group said that third quarter 2009
investing is up 10 percent from
the previous quarter, but down 42
percent compared to the same
period a year ago.
The positive investing news
comes just a week after lithium
ion battery maker A123 Systems
went public, saw its stock soar 50
percent on the first day of trading,
and hold steady. There have been
few IPOs in green tech, but
venture capitalists remain positive
that their portfolio companies will
be able to go public in the next
two years or get bought by a
larger company.
Solar remains the area that
attracts the most money, boosted
nearly by a $200 million
investment into a factory for
Solyndra's thin-film rooftop solar
systems.
In the auto sector, notable deals
were $82.5 million follow-on
investment in electric carmaker
Tesla Motors and $46 million in
up some more time to work on
“other projects that will
compliment the sketchbook.”
According to Kaplan, future
publications of the sketchbook
will remain largely the same
except for a few minor changes
suggested by current users, like
perforated pages or different page
sizes. “Customers love the look
and feel of the book, that it lays
flat, and it’s one place to hold all
their designs,” he says. “Future
electric city car maker Think
Global.
The green building area, which
covers alternative materials,
energy efficiency and lighting,
saw $110 million in the third
quarter, driven in large part by
$60 million for drywall maker
Serious Materials, according to
Cleantech Group.
Other sectors considered
promising because of government
spending including smart grid
technologies--or using IT and
networking technology to
modernize the electricity grid--
and energy storage for vehicles
and the power grid.
Greentech Media analyst Eric
Wesoff said that there is a marked
trend toward early-stage deals.
Maturing
Green tech has been one of the
fastest-growing technology
sectors over the past few years,
but it now outpaces biotech and
software in size as well.
Data from the Cleantech Group
and the PWC MoneyTree Report
shows green tech at 27 percent of
venture-capital investing,
compared to 24 percent for
biotech and 18 percent for
modifications will no doubt be
slight.”
The opportunity to work with
Apress came about after Kaplan
software.
Even with the upbeat data, there
is a growing understanding among
venture-capital investors that
energy and water are significantly
different from other technology
areas, such as IT. Energy is a
highly regulated industry and
often requires large amounts of
capital to deliver a product to
market.
Flagship Ventures investor Jim
Matheson said last week that
venture capitalists are in a "trough
of disillusionment" phase with
green tech as they seek to find the
right mix of financing and
corporate partners and advocate
for policies that encourage
development of green
technologies.
The Senate on Wednesday
released a energy and climate bill
that proposes mandates for
renewable energy generation and
efficiency and a cap and trade
system to put a price on carbon
emissions. These policies are, in
general, favored by green-tech
companies but passage of a bill
this year is expected to be
difficult.
“threw the idea out there and they
jumped on it. Amazon did a great
job but they don’t offer the same
impact. I like the PR and
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King's Ransom: The
Wayne Gretzky Trade
and the Pain it Caused
By Michael David Smith
(FanHouse)
Submitted at 9/30/2009 11:00:00 AM
by Michael David Smith
Filed under: ESPN
When Wayne Gretzky was
traded from the Edmonton Oilers
to the Los Angeles Kings in 1988,
it was, we're told in the new
documentary King's Ransom, like
the prime minister being shipped
off to another country.
Actually, based on the evidence
in King's Ransom, which debuts
Tuesday as the first installment in
ESPN's new 30 for 30
documentary series, it was bigger
than that: The people of
Edmonton didn't view Gretzky as
their leader so much as they
viewed him as their family.
King's Ransom: The Wayne
Gretzky Trade and the Pain it
Caused originally appeared on
Fanhouse Backporch on Wed, 30
Sep 2009 11:00:00 EST . Please
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Survey: Consumers smitten with
smartphones
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 9/30/2009 8:00:00 AM
Most new smartphone users are
now consumers, a dramatic
change from just a few years ago
when the gadgets were primarily
in the hands of business types,
according to a survey released
Wednesday by research firm CFI
Group.
The survey " CFI Group
Smartphone Satisfaction Study
2009" found that smartphone
users are no longer just reading e-
mail or scheduling appointments
but also surfing the Web,
streaming video and music,
downloading games, and snapping
pictures. Smartphones are now
seen more by consumers as
minicomputers than as cell
phones, according to CFI.
Predictably, Apple's iPhone is
credited with igniting the growth
of smartphones, and it's the clear
leader of the pack. The survey
found that the iPhone has the most
loyalty and praise among its users,
with 92 percent of iPhone owners
saying they have the ideal phone.
Around 90 percent have
recommended the device, while
35 percent said they bought the
iPhone based on word-of-mouth
advice.
MediaDailyNews: VCs Back TargetCast, Will Fund Ad Sales Expansion
(MediaPost | Media News)
Submitted at 9/30/2009 7:15:53 AM
Digital out-of-home TV network
The iPhone also is tops in
customer satisfaction, ranking 83
on a 100-point scale, according to
CFI. The newer Palm Pre and
Android-based phones each
scored 77 on the scale, followed
by Research In Motion's
Blackberry at 73 and the Palm
Treo at 70. The rest of the pack,
including phones running
Windows Mobile and Symbian,
trailed the list with an overall
grade of 66.
"The iPhone is the best thing to
happen to the smartphone industry
because it captured the
imagination of a whole new set of
consumers that might not have
made the smartphone jump," said
Doug Helmreich, program
director with CFI Group.
But the growing dependence on
smartphones is a catch-22, since
consumers now demand more
from their devices. And wireless
carriers, most notably AT&T,
have struggled to provide the
quality of service that people
want. For this reason and others,
the survey found a disparity
between the most popular
smartphones and the most popular
providers.
Of the pack, Verizon Wireless
was considered the ideal carrier
among 86 percent of users
operator TargetCast Networks this
morning announced a second
round of venture capital funding.
The $6.5 million round from
questioned, and it scored 79 out of
100 for customer satisfaction. But
only 38 percent of Verizon
consumers said their phone is the
ideal smartphone, the lowest
among all carriers.
For AT&T, the situation is
reversed, but more among iPhone
users. Half of all iPhone owners
surveyed said they would like to
jump ship to another provider, but
75 percent of non-iPhone users
said they would stick with AT&T.
For customer satisfaction, AT&T
scored 69 out of 100 among
iPhone users, and 73 among non-
iPhone owners.
The survey also raised the
question of whether other carriers
might take a hit as consumers
continue to want more from the
iPhone and its brethren.
"The iPhone raised the bar not
only for other smartphones, but
for the networks as well," said
Helmreich. "The new breed of
smartphone consumers expect
more from their phones, and the
iPhone may represent only the tip
of a data-intensive iceberg."
To compile the survey, CFI
Group questioned 1,074 people
from August 3 to 10 about their
smartphone use.
Claremont Creek Ventures and
Draper Fisher Jurvetson, follows a
$6.3 million round led by
Claremont Creek in September
Tech Reviews/ Tech Blog/ Media 47
Why no Twitter clients
with an API?
(Scripting News) (Apparently they do.)
Submitted at 9/29/2009 5:10:28 AM So Scoble is taking another tack
to get what he wants. He's trying
Scoble says the iPhone version to scare Seesmic into providing
of Tweetie is so excellent that it the "curation" feature for him in
might be the one everyone their non-existent iPhone app. It
switches to. I don't know about would be simple, just a slight
that, I'm seriously considering a variant on retweeting. Maybe they
divorce from my iPhone, so I don't want to do it because
don't care so much about iPhone retweeting will soon get an
apps. overhaul. (And imho will finally
He specifically calls out work as it always should have.)
Seesmic who doesn't yet have an Which brings me to the point of
iPhone app. the piece. Maybe Twitter clients
While I use my iPhone for are now mature and competitive
tethering(and won't install the 3.1 enough of a market that they
upgrade because it would kill should support plug-ins of their
that) -- Scoble is tethered to his own. It's the way things go. They
iPhone for everything. He does all a r e p r e t t y m u c h p l u g - i n s
his tweeting and friendfeeding themselves, but then so is Twitter
from the iPhone. I find this both a plug-in for the Internet, which is
amazing and ridiculous. So many the end of the chain (it's not a
compromises. I guess Scoble plug-in for anything).
values connectivity above all else, If Seesmic supported plug-ins
and wants to travel light. then they wouldn't have to wait
He really wants a curating for their competitors to beat them
application, which I have, it's the i n t h e m a r k e t b e f o r e t h e y
app that manages my 40 Twits implemented something. They
page. I've released it as open wouldn't have to worry if it pissed
source, and set up an account for off Ev or Biz, they could just
Scbole, but it doesn't work on the shrug it off as something a
iPhone because it depends on a developer did (whatever it is that
bookmarklet and I guess they pissed them off).
don't work on the iPhone? I don't It may be impossible for them to
know enough about it to say for support plug-ins, if so, many
sure. apologies. But in case it's not, it
Bookmarklets make a lot of could be the way to answer all of
things possible. If they don't work Scoble's feature requests. "There's
on the iPhone then Apple should a plug-in for that."
get to it and make them work.
2007. TargetCast CEO Jerry Hall partnerships to sell advertising
said the funds would be used to and to build an internal
expand the company's advertising advertising sales team.
network and to develop strategic
48 Tech Reviews/ Apple/ Internet News Record

Seeing green again at Filene's Basement

(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 9/30/2009 7:01:00 AM
Artist's rendering of what an Eco
-Pod configuration could look like
on the old Filene's Basement site
in Boston's Downtown
Crossing.(Credit: Howeler Yoon
Architecture)
Howeler Yoon Architecture has
proposed that an algae farm and
vertical garden be erected at the
old Filene's Basement site in
Boston's Downtown Crossing.
The prefabricated design of
interlocking pods containing algae
-incubators on the inside and
plants on the outside would be a
temporary structure until the city
of Boston, the site's owners, and
the new owner of the bankrupt
Filene's Basement chain agree on
what to ultimately do with the
historic Washington Street real
estate.
But it's not just a one-off idea
for the Filene's Basement spot.
Howeler Yoon proposes placing
its Eco-Pods on transition real
estate throughout the city instead
of leaving the sites to lie fallow
pods can also be rented out by
researchers for algae-based
projects, according to Howeler
Yoon.
The spaces that form between
the attached pods allow for
planting and creating a vertical
garden.
While the pods and their cranes
look eerily futuristic, it's not such
a far-out idea. The U.K.'s
Institution of Mechanical
Engineers released a report in
August that suggested algae-
cultivating buildings as one idea
while developers and officials toward mitigating climate change.
spend months working through And just recently, PNC Financial
zoning, financial, and legal webs. Services Group unveiled a vertical
The pods, which are used as garden spanning 2,380 square feet
incubators for growing algae for on the south side of its downtown
biofuel, can be configured in Pittsburgh headquarters.
several ways depending on the
needs of a given site. Individual

BlackBerry Desktop Manager Hitting the Mac Oct. 2

By Darrell Etherington finally be able to enjoy equal encrypt backups for their phones,
(TheAppleBlog) status with their PC counterparts. and install software updates from
Submitted at 9/30/2009 7:11:33 AM About time, RIM. Be honest, you the desktop. BlackBerry Desktop
were just holding a grudge about Manager is designed to run on OS
W e r e p o r t e d e a r l i e r t h a t the iPhone’s success, weren’t X 10.5.5 and above. BlackBerry
BlackBerry would be delivering you? devices used with Desktop
its Desktop Manager software for As of this Friday, you’ll be able Manager for Mac must be running
Mac in September of this year. to use BlackBerry’s own software OS 4.2 or higher. Set your alarm
Keen readers will note that, in to sync contacts, calendar items for 10 a.m. PDT on Friday,
fact, that was not the case, since it and appointments, notes and task because that’s when the download
is now the last possible day for from sources such as iCal, goes live at the official
that software to appear, and that Address Book, and Entourage, BlackBerry site. Subscribe to
software isn’t coming. among others. You can also add GigaOM Pro and gain access to
It is, however, going to arrive and remove software downloaded the device itself. didn’t play back .m4a files. It our Webinar, " Biggest
just a little outside of the via BlackBerry’s App World BlackBerry users will also be recognized them and was able to Opportunities in the Smart Grid,"
originally announced release using the Desktop Manager, able to sync playlists from iTunes, retrieve track information, but it on Oct. 7, 2009.
window. On Oct. 2, which is this which is good news for people so long as the format is wouldn’t actually play them.
Friday, BlackBerry customers who’ve been trying to manage compatible. Last time I checked People with RIM devices will
who are also Mac users will their fledgling collections all via (just last week), the Tour still also be able to schedule and
Internet News Record Apple/ 49

Tweetie 2: The Complete iPhone Preview

By Olly Farshi (TheAppleBlog) tweets, tapping out messages and ongoing discussion and catch up There’s Even More…
Submitted at 9/30/2009 8:20:08 AM finding new folk to follow looks with what you missed. Also, There are details and small
and feels great with Tweetie 2. although I don’t use any read this features that you almost certainly
The sequel to Tweetie, the Writing & Replying later services, some users will be won’t come across within the first
Twitter client that earned itself the Composing richer tweets is pleased to note that there’s Read few days of using the app. For
much-coveted Apple Design easier now. Tweetie 2 lays out the It Later and Instapaper support instance, Brichter has now
Award earlier this year, is on its different options clearly so that too. included profile editing from
way to the App Store as you read you can quickly add content to One of the most ingenious little within the app.
this. your latest 140 character micro- additions to the timeline view is Another feature that I just
For the past few weeks I’ve opus. In a given tweet you’re able the “drag to refresh” gesture. picked up on today is the ability
been part of Loren Brichter’s to access your Twitter address- Instead of tapping a refresh to tweet simultaneously from
Tweetie 2 beta program, testing book and @ messages, search button, you simply scroll to the multiple accounts. When
out new features as the former current hashtags, geotag your top of the timeline and then drag composing a tweet you simply tap
Apple engineer constructed his tweet and add photos too. down. It works as intended and, the “New Tweet” header at the
new Twitter client. Plus, just like with Tweetie on thanks to the gesture combined top of the screen and then select
Brichter has rebuilt Tweetie OS X, you can now shrink URLs with a sound-effect and flippy- the other accounts that you’d like
from the ground-up. The sequel w i t h t h e t a p o f a b u t t o n . floppy arrow, it feels tangible and to post the message from. The
incorporates features such as app Obsessively attentive readers may satisfying. Landscapes & Bottom Line
persistence, offline mode, drafts, have noticed me video tweeting Locations The app is a standalone
threaded conversations, landscape from Big Bird over the past few Not only can you compose a purchase, as opposed to an
support and much more. weeks, that’s because Tweetie 2 tweet in landscape view, the entire update/upgrade. It’ll be available
Read on for an in-depth look at also incorporates video tweeting app can be browsed in landscape in the App Store soon for only
what to expect from Tweetie 2. from the 3GS. view. I appreciate that some users $2.99, just like the original iPhone
Look & Feel There’s also a wealth of options may have been waiting for this, Tweetie. There’s also an update to
While Tweetie 2 incorporates an a v a i l a b l e b e y o n d s i m p l y however it’s not a feature that I the Mac version on the way,
updated aesthetic, it won’t be retweeting a message from you quit the app, you’re able to particularly wanted, nor do I make however this will be a free update
difficult for both new and veteran someone that you’re following. pick up exactly where you left off. use of now that it’s here. If I to current owners of Tweetie for
users to get to grips with the app. Now you can quote the tweet, Every single time you exit, the could find the button to turn off OS X.
More so impressive is how the post a direct link, translate and app remembers your place and auto-rotate, I would do so. If you’re unfamiliar with the
app incorporates a raft of new even e-mail the tweet to a friend drops you right back there. Setting that little niggle aside, current state of Twitter clients,
features without overwhelming — all without leaving the app Offline reading has been the Nearby tweets feature has we’ve got a great roundup here on
the user. itself. incorporated too. You’re now able received a much-needed overhaul TheAppleBlog. It’s worth noting
Even after playing with Tweetie For prolific Twitter users there’s to compose those witty little one- t o o . T h e o r i g i n a l T w e e t i e that the original Tweetie came out
2 for a few weeks, I’m still now a drafts manager. This means liners while offline, save them to displayed an odd looking radar on top as one of the top clients.
discovering new functionality. For that you can write and save a your drafts, and unleash them on animation before loading a basic, The new app definitely gets a
instance, when replying to a tweet stack of tweets for posting later the Twittersphere next time but functional, timeline of tweets thumbs-up from me, although I’d
you can now drag down with your on. I’ve found that it’s particularly you’re online. Even users or nearby your current location. be interested to know which of
finger to “peek” at the original handy to have several drafted tweets you follow, block or The new Tweetie loads up a you will be upgrading to Tweetie
message. tweets ready to go just incase you favorite while offline will be Google Map and then pops up 2 when it comes out. Subscribe to
It’s a small feature indeed but get hit by a case of tweeter’s synced back to the server. tiny speech bubble icons GigaOM Pro and gain access to
finding these kind of miniscule block. Browsing the Timeline Exactly like the desktop version representing all the tweets in your our Webinar, " Biggest
updates brings to mind that The app now features full o f T w e e t i e , t h e r e a r e n o w vicinity. It’s an effective way of Opportunities in the Smart Grid,"
satisfied glow we all get when persistence. This means that if threaded conversations, making it sorting through local tweets and is on Oct. 7, 2009.
discovering new features in OS X. you’re, say, tapping through a much easier to jump into an a more creative approach than the
In essence, skimming through prolonged conversation and then standard timeline view. And
50 Apple/ Picture/
Dropbox: Now Native On Your iPhone
By Chris Ryan (TheAppleBlog)
Submitted at 9/30/2009 7:37:41 AM
Of all the file syncing solutions
available, one of the most popular
is Dropbox. As one of the
solutions that is also cross
platform compatible, many Mac
users have embraced Dropbox as
a more reliable and robust
solution than other alternatives,
like MobileMe’s iDisk. Diehard
Dropbox users can now rejoice as
the Dropbox team is at it once
again with the release of a native
iPhone app, allowing users to
access their dropbox on the go.
For a while, Dropbox has
provided users with an iPhone-
optimized website for accessing
their contents on the go, but that
left many users desiring more.
Even with 3G speeds, web
browsing through Mobile Safari is
not as fast as an application that
can read/write to its own
resources and sync with a server.
Native App, Native Features
With a native application, the
Dropbox team has managed to
provide full access to your
dropbox contents as well as
several interesting iPhone specific
features.
One of these is the ability to
take photos or video directly
within the application (or use
existing content on your device)
and have those photos synced to
your dropbox automatically.
Dropbox then gives users quick
access to generate an email with
an appropriate link to view the
content and share it with others.
The application itself is very
useable and functions like most
other native apps. As expected,
you can delete items from your
star icon at the bottom of the
screen when viewing the file. A
Few Shortcomings
One little complaint that I have
is that Dropbox uses its own
picture browser. As such, when I
load an image, I’m unable to
pinch to zoom like what happens
when browsing photos elsewhere
on my phone. Support for the
accelerometer is present though,
as rotating my phone allows the
photo to re-orient itself. I’m
assuming this is just a bug and
something the Dropbox team will
work out in a future update.
Another interesting piece that is
missing is the fact that Dropbox
supports Growl on its desktop
version. Though it may be
annoying, some users may be
wishing for push notifications for
any updates to their dropbox.
Again, as this is an initial release,
this is something that could come
in a later update.
Dropbox is a free download
from the App Store but does
require a valid Dropbox account.
Users can sign up for a free
Dropbox account (limited to 2GB)
dropbox just as you would an you have video files that are of a and there are paid options for
email (swipe to delete). To supported type (QuickTime and greater storage (50GB or 100GB).
prevent users from experiencing the like), they will also stream A s s o m e o n e w h o h a s u s e d
lag (as would have happened with from your Dropbox. For those Dropbox for over a year now, its a
a web app), the application caches who love sharing content, just like very robust solution for file
a copy of the directory structure the aforementioned photos, a mail syncing and in my tests, a lot
once you’ve viewed it at least icon in the lower left corner more stable than MobileMe’s
once. (This later is re-synced if allows users to generate emails iDisk. If you’ve used Dropbox or
changes occur elsewhere.) for any content stored on their the new Dropbox app and have
Typical application file types dropbox. thoughts on the matter, tell us
that are supported on the iPhone Dropbox also supports a your experience!
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Flickr at the
Getty Images
Gallery, London
By Fiona Miller (Flickr Blog)
Submitted at 9/29/2009 2:50:37 PM
Launched just 6 months ago in
March, The Flickr Collection on
Getty Images now boasts an
impressive 44,000 photographs
from Flickr members around the
world.
A selection of photographs from
the collection have been curated
by the Getty Images team to
create ‘ The Art of Serendipity’
exhibition, which is now on show
at the Getty Images Gallery in the
heart of central London.
The exhibition is free and open
to the public until October 1st.
Check out the Getty Images
Gallery website for opening times
and directions.
If you can’t make it to the
exhibition – don’t worry, the nice
people at Getty Images have also
set up a virtual exhibition in the
form of this group pool where
you’ll find many of the images
from the exhibition. Photo from
the The Art of Serendipity group
by Peter Baker.
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The 10 Million Mac Year

By Charles Jade
(TheAppleBlog)
Submitted at 9/30/2009 6:54:56 AM
With the end of September
comes the end of fiscal year 2009
for Apple. While the company
won’t be releasing the numbers
for another two weeks or so,
consensus estimates from Wall
Street for the fourth quarter will
fill in the blanks, as Apple always
beats estimates. For 2009, during
what is arguably the worst
economic downturn since the
Great Depression, Apple will
have its best year ever.
For FY 2009, Apple can expect
sales of approximately $36
billion, up from $32.5 billion last
year. While the increase will only
be half that from 2007 to 2008,
that’s against severely curtailed
consumer spending. Conventional
wisdom suggests premium
products like those from Apple
would be hit hardest in such an
environment, but Apple has been
selling strong since 2005.
However, looking at net income
over the long term, the picture is a
little different.
That bump during the late 90’s
is largely due to the original iMac,
introduced in May 1998. The
iMac probably saved the
company. It’s hard to imagine
Apple losing money or barely
profitable until 2004. That year
the company earned net income of
a quarter of a billion dollars. The
next year it was more than $1.25
billion, beginning that nice linear
trajectory to $5.5 billion for FY
2009, but enough about the
money. For those who use the
products, the real numbers are in
the success of the platform, and
the Mac is about to have its best
year ever.
Fiscal year or calendar year, it
just doesn’t matter, either way
are being cannibalized by iPhone
sales, and iPhone sales are
looking a lot like iPod sales used
to look.
Analysts are all over the place
on iPhone sales for FY 2009, with
somewhere in the range of six to
seven million iPhones sold in the
fourth fiscal quarter. Splitting the
difference at 6.5 million means
iPhone sales for the year will
come in just under 20 million.
That would nearly double last
year’s total of 11.6 million. With
the imminent introduction of the
iPhone into China, it’s a safe bet
that iPhone sales won’t be
leveling off anytime soon. The
iPhone is undeniably the biggest
success in a record year, but what
brought that success?
Two words, one name: Steve
Jobs.
2009 will be the first year the plateauing of the Mac like the That’s the biggest earner for the
company sells 10 million Macs. iPod has seen. year past, and every year going
Sales estimates for the quarter The bad news is that the back to 1996. Although Jobs
ending September 30 are for 2.7 phenomenal growth the iPod became “iCEO” in the summer of
million Macs, putting Apple just enjoyed from 2004 through 2007 1997, Apple acquired NeXT in
over that magical base-10 for the appears to be over. The good late 1996 for what would become
fiscal year. That will top last news is that’s still more than 50 OS X, and got Jobs for free. It
year’s record of 9.7 million Macs, million iPods per year. For FY was the best deal the company has
which was also a new record, but 2009, projections are for just ever made. Just look at the
then every year since 2006 has under 54 million iPods to be sold, numbers. Subscribe to GigaOM
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Craig Ehlo on Bryon Russell's Challenge To MJ: 'Just Let it Go'

By Chris Tomasson Russell: Move on. and Ehlo's Cleveland Cavaliers? Craig Ehlo on Bryon Russell's
(FanHouse) Ehlo was the first NBA victim Russell was the last victim of a Challenge To MJ: 'Just Let it Go'
Submitted at 9/30/2009 10:00:00 AM of a legendary Michael Jordan legendary Jordan shot. He was on originally appeared on Fanhouse
shot. Who will ever forget the the receiving end in Game 6 of NBA Blog on Wed, 30 Sep 2009
by Chris Tomasson sight of a sprawling Ehlo while the NBA Finals when Jordan's last 10:00:00 EST . Please see our
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52 Apple/ TV/
Quick Look: Bento 3
By Charles Jade
(TheAppleBlog)
Submitted at 9/29/2009 4:00:58 PM
The whirlwind development of
FileMaker’s consumer database
software continues with the
release of Bento 3. Bento 3 adds
several new features, including
shared libraries, iPhoto
integration, security options, and
best of all, an upgrade price.
First released in November
2007, Bento was supposed to be
the database for the rest of us,
touting ease of use over the
flexibility of complex relational
database applications like
FileMaker. Bento 1 was priced at
$49, as was Bento 2, released just
over a year later. That price
caused some consternation among
Bento 1 users opining Bento 2
was the “real” first release.
Apparently FileMaker has
listened, and is now offering
current users of Bento a $20
discount. While the price for new
users remains $49, Bento 3 has
enough “new” that those using or
needing a simple database
application should at least
consider the free trial.
As to what’s new in Bento 3,
the first thing you see is a
redesigned Template Screen.
Bento 3 adds 10 new templates,
Seth Green sells animated series to Fox
By Brad Trechak (TV Squad)
Submitted at 9/30/2009 10:30:00 AM
The team behind Robot Chicken
is moving on up...to Fox. They
sold an animated series to the
network that is intended to appear
on prime time.
The formula of the new show
will be familiar. It's pretty much a
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iPhoto’s awkward keyword
editing understands how big a
letdown this is. To balance that
letdown for me, we finally have
sharing in Bento 3.
To those who bemoan the lack
of shared, editable calendars with
iCal and MobileMe, Bento 3
appears to offer a workaround.
Bento 3 sharing is a lot like
iTunes sharing over a local
network. It’s as easy to set up as
the preference pane above, but
even more useful. Up to five
people, each needing their own
copy of Bento, can edit shared
databases. While I have not tested
this yet, I’m assuming that editing
iCal and Address Book data will
be reflected for respective users.
The last big addition to Bento 3
is the option of database security,
but there are numerous other
bringing the total to 35, as well as in a record, you see a thumbnail, create Smart Collections of small enhancements that can be
a d i r e c t l i n k t o t h e B e n t o with multiple images being cycled events, like auto maintenance or experienced in free trial. Bento 3
Template Exchange. The online through via mouseover. This is trips to the vet. Not only can I add requires OS X 10.5.7 or 10.6.1,
exchange has nearly 300 database actually pretty useful, be it with fields in Bento, like cost, but I can costs $49 (or $29 for qualifying
templates created by users and home inventory or recipes. If edit fields that iCal uses. Now, Bento 1 and Bento 2 users). There
developers at FileMaker. there are no images, you can look Bento has added iPhoto to the list will also shortly be a new release
The biggest change to the at a thumbnail of the Form View, of integrated OS X apps: Address of Bento for iPhone, free to
interface of Bento 3 is Grid View. which is not so useful. Something B o o k , i C a l , a n d M a i l . current users and $5 for new
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individual database objects, Grid s e a m l e s s i n t e g r a t i o n B e n t o new record fields with photos in Smart Grid," on Oct. 7, 2009.
View is reminiscent of iPhoto affords is invaluable. As an Bento, I can’t edit iPhoto fields.
Events. If there is a single image example, Bento allows me to Anyone who struggles with
family and school-based comedy Obviously, Seth Green is somewhat. Probably not, other
like all the other Fox animated already involved with the Sunday than giving them something else
shows. It's somewhat of a shame night Fox animated shows, since to make in-jokes about.
as Robot Chicken presented he's the voice of Chris Griffin on Filed under: Programming,
something fun and different while Family Guy. That show even OpEd, Celebrities, Pickups and
this could potentially be lost in a throws in lines occasionally Renewals, Reality-Free
crowd that includes the entire promoting a fictitious Family Permalink| Email this| |
Sunday night Fox line-up. Guy/ Robot Chicken feud. I Comments
Hopefully Green and company flavor to the show that will help it wonder if this news will change
can add some sort of unique distinguish itself. the dynamic of that "feud"
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Around the Net In
Eliza Dushku on Dollhouse, The Jay Leno Show: Julia Media: Univision Sets
Up Web Store for Show-
Epitaph One, and Echo's Louis-Dreyfus Related Products
evolution By Jason Hughes (TV Squad)
Submitted at 9/30/2009 2:38:00 AM
(MediaPost | Media News)
Submitted at 9/29/2009 8:48:40 PM
By Mike Moody (TV Squad)
I'll give Leno credit for getting Making its first foray into e-
Submitted at 9/30/2009 10:00:00 AM
creative in the ways he's starting commerce, Univision
In last week's season premiere of to incorporate celebrities into bits Communications has opened an
Dollhouse, we learned that the and segments. It fills time for him online store full of products tied
usually empty-headed Echo is and gives them their plug to its three networks'
becoming self-aware and is now opportunities. Tonight, he trotted programming fare. La Tienda
able to access memories from her out three of The Real Housewives Univision, created in
many personality imprints. of Orange County for a "Battle of collaboration with Delivery
This puts her in a very the Jaywalk All-Stars Challenge." Agent, offers goods based on
dangerous place, star Eliza And ... wow. Univision, TeleFutura and
Dushku told reporters during a I don't watch The Real Galavision TV shows.
conference call this week. While a Houswives of anywhere, but if Branded products include
self-aware Echo might be more this is the intellectual capacity of watches, hooded sweatshirts, T-
fun and challenging for an actor to their "stars," then I'm glad I don't. shirts, baseball caps, and aprons.
play than a "dumbed down Doll," I couldn't tell if they were putting Also sold are CDs, DVDs and
Dushku reminded us that any sign on an act or if they were being books tied to popular programs. In
of Echo's evolution in the themselves. Either way, it was addition, there is fan gear
Dollhouse might get her sent to obnoxious and I wanted to reach Nancy Pelosi was that she needed featuring insider sayings and
"the attic," aka Doll hell. through the screen and strangle botox. And of course, they had no images familiar to regular
The vulnerable Echo will be each of them. The blondes were idea who she was, or anyone else. Univision viewers. Eventually,
looking for allies this season, stories for the show's other enforcing stereotypes left and Continue reading The Jay Leno the product line will include items
Dushku said. She and former FBI characters. right! Show: Julia Louis-Dreyfus based on Univision Radio
agent Paul Ballard (Tamoh Continue reading Eliza Dushku If it was all an act, then that's Filed under: OpEd, Episode properties.
Penikett) "may possibly be trying on Dollhouse, Epitaph One, and even more unfortunate, because it Reviews, Reality-Free, Jay Leno
to bring down the Dollhouse from Echo's evolution means they're playing characters Permalink| Email this| |
the inside," she teased. During the Filed under: Interviews, rather than being themselves. Comments
conference call, Dushku also C e l e b r i t i e s , R e a l i t y - F r e e , What? A reality show that's less
talked about the unaired first D o l l h o u s e than real? It was funny that their
season episode, "Epitaph One," Permalink| Email this| | first reaction to seeing a picture of
working with Summer Glau, and Comments
she teased more origins and back

Will The Young and the Restless really kill off Victor Newman?
By Allison Waldman (TV
Squad)
Submitted at 9/30/2009 11:00:00 AM
Is it even possible to imagine
The Young and the Restless
without Eric Braeden as
hero/villain Victor Newman? You
would think not, but then Days of
Our Lives moved on without
Deidre Hall as Dr. Marlena his reps have said that he would Young and the Restless really kill
Evans, didn't it? Still, Braeden take a pay cut once the term is up. off Victor Newman?
and his alter ego Victor is still a However, producers are asking Filed under: OpEd, Daytime,
front and center presence on the him to take a pay cut now. That, Casting, Emmys, Reality-Free
show, an integral part of the my friends, is the rub. Braeden Permalink| Email this| |
storytelling. Therefore, the news wants to help the show stay on the Comments
that The Young and the Restless air, but he's not ready to take an
is contemplating killing off Victor economic hit until he has to.
if they cannot resolve the contract Braeden is working now under a That's understandable.
dispute with Braeden is a shocker. contract that lasts till 2010, and Continue reading Will The
54 Sports/ Fashion/
Stafon Johnson of USC Trojans awake, able to communicate
after emergency throat surgery
By ESPN.com news services
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 9/29/2009 7:31:28 PM
Reaction To Stafon Johnson's
Injury Reaction To Stafon
Johnson's Injury VIDEO
PLAYLIST
• Reaction To Stafon Johnson's
Injury Reaction To Stafon
Johnson's Injury
• Encouraging Signs For Stafon
Johnson Encouraging Signs For
Stafon Johnson
• USC RB Stafon Johnson Out
Of Surgery USC RB Stafon
Johnson Out Of Surgery
USC tailback Stafon Johnson is
awake and communicating via
writing and hand signals less than
a day after emergency surgery to
repair throat injuries from a
weightlifting accident, according
to a doctor at the hospital where
he is being treated.
Dr. Gudata Hinika, the trauma
medical director at California
Hospital Medical Center, said
Johnson is giving thumbs-up signs
and communicating in writing to
his mother and teammates after
undergoing a seven-hour surgery
to repair a crushed neck and
larynx.
Johnson is listed in stable
condition.
Johnson, a senior who scored
the seventh-ranked Trojans' go-
ahead touchdown against Ohio
Designer Playlist: Shipley & Halmos
By ELLE.com (ELLE News
Blog)
Submitted at 9/29/2009 11:40:22 AM
Here's what designers Sam
State two weeks ago, was bench-
pressing Monday when the bar
slipped from his right hand and
fell onto his throat.
Stan Johnson, the player's
father, told ESPN's Shelley Smith
that his son needed a tracheotomy
to enable him to breathe.
Pac-10 blog
ESPN.com's Ted Miller writes
about all things Pac-10 in his
conference blog.
• Blog network:
College Football Nation
Hinika said a man of lesser
stature would have died from the
injuries, but the thickness of
Johnson's neck muscles helped
him to breathe and probably saved
his life.
"Had that been any one of us,
meaning me, we would have not
survived," Hinika said. "His neck
was so solid, so muscular ... and
the discipline that one learns from
being athletic also really helped
him to calm down and just do
what he needed to do. He took
instruction very well. All this
combination and his physical
fitness contributed to his
outcome."
Johnson is expected to fully
recover, Hinika said, but the
doctor would not speculate on the
recovery prognosis for the
player's vocal cords. It may take
as long as six weeks before
doctors even ask Johnson to
Shipley and Jeff Halmos are
listening to now:
The Big Pink, "Crystal Visions"
Joy Division, "Isolation"
David Bowie, "Moonage
attempt to speak, depending on
factors such as swelling, he
explained.
Doctors are trying to wean
Johnson off a ventilator, and he is
being fed through a tube in his
stomach.
Johnson is unlikely to play
again for USC, but coach Pete
Carroll is grateful for the team
leader's improved health.
"He's not talking, but he was
making some sense of some stuff
and writing," Carroll said. "It's
very uplifting for his mom and his
family and all the guys who got a
chance to go down there. ... We're
connected. This is a very tight
program. Stafon has been a
spiritual leader and a leader on the
field for a long time here."
Carroll dropped by the nearby
hospital again a few hours before
USC's late-afternoon practice. In a
tweet, Carroll said Johnson was
"looking good and his spirits are
very high."
The news was greeted with
sighs of relief at USC's Heritage
Hall, where the seventh-ranked
Trojans gathered before Tuesday's
practice in preparation for
Saturday's key game at No. 24
California.
"It's very serious stuff, and if
anything, it's something we can
use," USC offensive lineman Jeff
Byers said. "Play every play like
it's your last, because you never
Daydream"
know. Stafon had no idea that
might his last game. Guys have
every reason now to come out and
refocus on why you love the
game, because you never know
when it can be taken from you."
Johnson, who was taken away
from USC's campus wearing a
neck brace, woke up Tuesday
morning after undergoing an
emergency tracheotomy, followed
by reconstructive surgery.
Immediately after the accident,
Johnson was coughing up blood, a
source close to the USC football
program told ESPN's Smith.
Johnson's mother, Kim Mallory,
happened to be working at the
same downtown Los Angeles
hospital where her son was
transported Monday.
An assistant strength and
conditioning coach was standing
over Johnson at the time of the
accident.
"I've seen players have the bar
slip and fall onto their chest, but
never in my 25 years of coaching
have I heard of someone dropping
a bar on their throat," said head
strength and conditioning coach
Chris Carlisle, who was standing
10 feet away at the time of the
accident. "We're fortunate he was
being spotted."
Johnson, a 5-foot-11, 210-
pound senior from Compton,
Calif., is the Trojans' second-
leading rusher and goal-line
King Tubby, "Invasion"
Glasvegas, "Flowers and
Football Tops"
The Beatles, "Happiness is a
Warm Gun" ("We just got the
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specialist. He's rushed 32 times
for 157 yards this year and leads
the team with five touchdowns.
He entered the season with 1,395
rushing yards and 14 touchdowns.
Johnson's injury is just the latest
drama in USC's eventful season,
both on and off the gridiron.
Cornerback Brian Baucham
injured his left foot and knee in a
freeway motorcycle accident
while driving to campus on Sept.
17, leaving him with serious road
burns. Another reserve defensive
back, Marshall Jones, is out for
the season after cracking a
vertebra last weekend against
Washington State.
Both injuries occurred after the
Trojans lost Shareece Wright, an
expected starting cornerback, to
academic woes before the season.
Defensive lineman Hebron
Fangupo is out for the season after
breaking his leg against
Washington State, and linebacker
Jordan Campbell is on crutches
with his severely sprained ankle
in a boot.
Ronald Johnson, the Trojans'
No. 2 receiver, is still out after
breaking his collarbone during the
Trojans' mock game one week
before the season began.
Shelley Smith is a reporter for
ESPN. Information from The
Associated Press was used this
report.
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—Erin Clements
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Panthers Loss Shows More ‘Bad Jake Than Good’

(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix)
Submitted at 9/29/2009 7:30:44 AM

Reuters Romo pitches the ball to

Felix Jones in the first half of
Monday night’s game.
The NFL season is so short that
a 0-3 start almost always leaves a
team’s playoff hopes in tatters
before Thanksgiving. It’s
especially puzzling when a team
goes from playoff participant one
season to also-ran the next.
That’s likely the case for the
Carolina Panthers, one of seven
winless teams this morning, after
they lost, 21-7, to the Dallas
Cowboys on Monday Night
Football. The Panthers, who were
12-4 a year ago, are among the
bottom feeders in points scored
and points allowed after Week 3.
Jake Delhomme was only so-so
against the Cowboys, but it was the first half. “Very conservative,” severity of the injury, which could Angeles Angels are back in have history on their side.
his late interception that sealed Randy Galloway writes in the end Pennington’s career. “It was baseball’s postseason. Their 11-0 Finally, the Seattle Mariners
Dallas’s victory, leading some to Fort Worth Star-Telegram. time — with the team 0-3 and rout of Texas puts the Angels in aren’t going to the playoffs, but
call for a quarterback change, “Forcing nothing, risking nothing Pennington not performing the playoffs for the sixth time this pitcher Felix Hernandez is set for
especially when he’s ranked 32nd — well, almost nothing — Romo particularly well — to give Henne decade. So getting to the playoffs a huge payday — in Seattle or
overall. was effective but so un-Favre like, the 13 remaining games and 400 isn’t their problem, Helene Elliott elsewhere — after his strong
“There was more Bad Jake than Brett probably disowned him. or so passes and countless writes, it’s doing something when showing this season, Geoff Baker
Good Jake in this one, yet again, And if Tony even bored himself, situations he never would see on a they arrive. “After winning only writes in the Seattle Times.* * *
and it’s getting old,” Scott Fowler at least a turnover-free practice field, in a film room or in one of five playoff series since Kenny Anderson, a No. 2 draft
writes in the Charlotte Observer. performance and a 21-7 victory mop-up duty,” Cote writes. “It their 2002 World Series triumph, pick of the New Jersey Nets in
“I have been one of Delhomme’s over the Carolina Panthers was time to give Henne the game after two first-round dismissals by 1991, spent 14 seasons in the
biggest advocates through thick allowed him to crawl back into experience that would allow his the Red Sox the last two seasons NBA playing on nine teams. His
and thin, but it’s time. The the good graces of Cowboy physical skills, mental acumen — a sweep in 2007 in which they numbers include 10,789 points,
Panthers need to do something Nation.” The Star-Telegram’s and leadership qualities to be were outscored, 19-4, and a four- 5,196 assists and $63.4 million in
dramatic if they want to have any Jennifer Floyd Engel sees a better fully, fairly evaluated in a way game loss a year ago — it’s not earnings. And he fathered seven
chance of salvaging this season. defensive effort but still room for they have not been yet.” enough anymore for the Angels to children with five women. In the
So I’d start Matt Moore for Game improvement.* * * The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are simply reach the playoffs,” Elliott Washington Post, Dave Sheinin
4 — Oct.11 at home against Chad Pennington engineered the making a quarterback change, but writes in the Los Angeles Times. tells the story of the 38-year-old
Washington. Give the kid a greatest one-season turnaround in not because of injury. The winless “It should be a pit stop, not their stay-at-home father who’s turning
chance.” NFL history last season, but he Bucs are benching Byron final destination. The start of his life around, after squandering
If the Panthers were trying to won’t play again this season after Leftwich in favor of Josh something big, not the prelude to millions and making a lot of bad
salvage their season, the Cowboys dislocating his right shoulder. Johnson, a move that the St. a big disappointment.” choices.* * *
were looking for consistency from Now it’s up to Chad Henne to Petersburg Times’s John Romano In New York, the Yankees are Major basketball programs such
quarterback Tony Romo and got rescue the winless Dolphins. The likes but says reeks of “ the whiff hoping to christen their new as Kansas and Duke have the
it. Nothing outlandish or foolish Miami Herald’s Greg Cote of desperation and the look of stadium with a World Series title, upper hand when recruiting.
to cost the Cowboys a game in wanted the quarterback change panic.”* * * Anthony McCarron writes in the
which they were scoreless through even before learning of the No surprise that the Los New York Daily News. They PANTHERS page 56
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PANTHERS
Florida Gators trainers say Tim Tebow's continued from page 55
Years of success and national

concussion Saturday was his first championships — and the best

coaching — will keep your
program in the spotlight. Ray
By ESPN.com news services concussion. He's a grown man, so • Blog network: with the Gators leading 31-7. McCallum Sr. is a successful
(ESPN.com) he's going to take care of himself. College Football Nation "Ultimately, it's my call," Meyer coach who’s led 10 players to
Submitted at 9/30/2009 7:47:46 AM I'm very proud of the way he's "I was in the room with the said. "If we go in and score right NBA careers. But there’s one
handled it." doctors because I wanted to see there, I think we do yank him out coveted recruit McCallum Sr.
Florida Gators trainers have In June, Tebow and all of it," Meyer said. "I always hear of the game. But you also want to would love playing for his mid-
determined that the concussion Florida's players underwent about the baseline. It's interesting make sure you secure the game." major program at the University
quarterback Tim Tebow sustained baseline testing. The data from how that's evolved over the years, Meyer said there is no timetable of Detroit: his son, Ray Jr., Dan
Saturday night at Kentucky was t h a t t e s t w i l l h e l p d o c t o r s so I sat and watched it. ... You put for getting Tebow back on the Wetzel writes at Yahoo Sports.* *
the first of his career. determine when Tebow has your feet together, you hold your practice field. He also made it *
Tebow, the 2007 Heisman sufficiently recovered from his hand on your hips, you raise on clear that Tebow could miss After a six-year absence from
Trophy winner, took balance and concussion and can resume one foot, those kind of things." practice this week and next and the NHL, Theo Fleury was
memory tests on Tuesday that physical activities. Tebow spent Saturday night in a still start the team's next game. attempting a comeback with the
coach Urban Meyer said were key In baseline testing, before Lexington, Ky., hospital after his "You have to earn that right, and Calgary Flames. After he was cut
to determining a timeline for his suffering a concussion, an athlete helmet struck teammate Marcus o b v i o u s l y t h e l e f t - h a n d e d last week, Fleury decided to hang
return. Meyer went through the takes a 20-minute computerized Gilbert's leg as he was being quarterback's earned that right," up his skates for good. In the
tests with his star quarterback. t e s t t h a t m e a s u r e s b r a i n sacked. Tebow was slammed to Meyer said. Globe and Mail, Allan Maki
Meyer said Tebow still has a processing, speed, memory and the ground and lay motionless as Several teammates, including recounts some of his favorite
headache and isn't allowed to visual motor skills to establish teammates and trainers rushed to c o r n e r b a c k J o e H a d e n a n d s t o r i e s a b o u t t h e 5 - f o o t - 6
watch television or read. So baseline data. After a concussion, him. linebacker Ryan Stamper, said sparkplug who was drafted only
there's no studying a play book or the athlete is retested and the Tebow eventually sat up with they were surprised by how much 166th in 1987 but went on to a
checking out tape of top-ranked results are compared to help help and slowly made his way off attention Tebow's injury has splendid career that included this
Florida's next opponent, LSU on determine his or her status. the field. He started vomiting on received. playoff goal and joyous
Oct. 10. Many top college football t h e s i d e l i n e - - a c o m m o n "I think the media is kind of c e l e b r a t i o n .
Mike and Mike in the Morning programs have begun baseline symptom of concussions -- and blowing it out of proportion," – Tip of the Fix cap to readers
ESPN college football analyst testing, including obtaining was carted off the field. Stamper said. "Again, the hit and Don Hartline.
Bob Davie talks about the b a l a n c e a n d e q u i l i b r i u m He spent the night at the how he was, I can't really say I Found a good column from the
concussion Florida QB Tim standards, to help diagnose the University Medical Center in blame them. ... But when we world of sports? Don’t keep it to
Tebow suffered against Kentucky. severity of concussions and Lexington -- with Meyer and his found out it was a concussion, y o u r s e l f — w r i t e t o u s a t
Should Tebow have been in the determine when it's safe for parents at his side. He was everyone gets concussions. Stuff dailyfix@wsj.com and we’ll
game at that point? Plus, Davie players to return. released Sunday morning, then like that happens. I guess because consider your find for inclusion in
previews some of the big games According to Tebow's high flew back to Gainesville. Meyer it happened to him everyone is the Daily Fix. You can email
this weekend. school coach, he did not suffer a s a i d t h e y p a s s e d t h e t i m e blowing it up, but I think he'll be Garey at ris84rap@gmail.com.
More Podcasts » concussion during his prep watching football and talking fine."
Tebow was at the Gators' playing career. about Saturday's 41-7 victory over Information from ESPN reporter
football facility on Tuesday, but Meyer and Tebow went through the Wildcats. Joe Schad and The Associated
he did not practice. some of the tests together. Meyer said Tuesday that Tebow Press was used in this report.
Meyer said Tebow understands SEC blog probably would have been pulled
the severity of his brain injury. ESPN.com's Chris Low writes from the lopsided game following
"This isn't a turf toe or a about all things SEC in his that drive. Some have questioned
shoulder," Meyer said. "This is a conference blog. why Tebow was still in the game
Internet News Record Sports/ 57

Report: Study shows higher dementia The Count: The Cost of

risk for NFL players Clubhouse Distractions
By ESPN.com news services memory-related conditions. "Memory disorders affect many (WSJ.com: The Daily Fix)
(ESPN.com) Dr. Julian Bailes, the chairman people who never played football Submitted at 9/29/2009 5:00:10 AM
Submitted at 9/30/2009 6:53:40 AM of the department of neurosurgery or other sports," Aiello said,
at the West Virginia University according to the Times. "We are Milton Bradley was suspended
Former NFL players have been School of Medicine whose own trying to understand it as it relates by the Cubs, his seventh team in a
diagnosed with Alzheimer's research suggested similar links to our retired players." 10-year major-league career, after
disease or other memory-related between football head injuries and Aiello also noted that telephone he described the team as “just not
conditions at rates much higher dementia, called the latest results surveys have shortcomings -- a a positive environment” in a
than the national population, "a game-changer," according to point also raised by the newspaper interview. (Bradley
a c c o r d i n g t o a s t u d y the Times. researchers in their summary, has since apologized.) Getty
commissioned by the league, The "They always say, 'We're going according to the report. Images Did Milton Bradley hurt
New York Times reported. to do our own studies.' And now Dr. Ira Casson, a co-chairman of the Cubs more with his off-field
The survey found that 6.1 they have," said Bailes, a former the league's concussions comments or his on-field
percent of players aged 50 and team doctor for the Pittsburgh committee, said a follow-up study performance?
older reported that they had Steelers, according to the report. is needed, according to the Times. The book on Bradley from his
received a dementia-related A summary of the study, which "What I take from this report is recent major-league stops is that
diagnosis. That's five times higher was conducted by a telephone there's a need for further studies he is a negative influence in the
than the cited national average of survey of former players in 2008, to see whether or not this finding clubhouse. Statistically minded
1.2 percent, according to the was sent to league officials earlier is going to pan out, if it's really baseball analysts don’t necessarily
report. this month, according to the there or not," Casson said, dispute that such an influence can
And players ages 30 through 49 report. Of the 1,625 former according to the report. "I can see have a real and negative impact
r e p o r t e d d e m e n t i a - r e l a t e d players selected at random, 1,063 that the respondents believe they on a team, but they struggle to Though the Cubs are being
diagnoses at a rate of 1.9 percent - took part in the survey, which was have been diagnosed. But the next quantify it. criticized for failing to anticipate
- 19 times the national average of conducted by the University of step is to determine whether that On Baseball Analysts, Sky that Bradley would be a
0.1 percent, according to the Michigan's Institute for Social is so." Andrecheck sought to do so using distraction, their real
report. Research. It has yet to be peer- The NFL is conducting its own a clever, indirect method. His miscalculation may have been
The study would be the first reviewed. study of 120 retired players, with premise is that some players overestimating his actual baseball
public affirmation by the NFL of In an e-mail, NFL spokesman Casson conducting the widely acknowledged to be divas, performance. He was an above-
any connections between its Greg Aiello said the study did not neurological examinations, distractions or simply jerks are average hitter over the last two
players and dementia-related formally diagnose dementia in according to the Times. The allowed to stick around because seasons but slipped a lot this year.
conditions, according to the f o r m e r p l a y e r s . " T h e r e a r e results of that study are expected their on-field performance is too Though Bradley’s anemic .397
report. For years, the league has thousands of retired players who within a few years. good to give away. Others, who slugging percentage is a better
denied there is reliable data do not have memory problems," don’t contribute as much, are cut. indicator, his 40 runs batted in
c o n n e c t i n g i t s p l a y e r s a n d he said, according to the report. Making the heroic assumption from the middle of the lineup
that baseball teams’ personnel stood out to Larry Granillo of
decisions are rational, Andrecheck wezen-ball.com. Granillo checked
examined some recent moves the archives to see if other
regarding unpopular players and regulars batting from the middle
found that the most teams chalk of a lineup collected so few RBIs.
up to negative behavior is the loss Dozens have, but no one since
of 1.5 wins in a season. A player 1993 with as many plate
who contributes more than that appearances as Bradley in a
with his bat, arm or glove is season has batted in fewer runs.
unlikely to be cut.
58 Sports/ Internet News Record

The Count: A Self-Serving Critique Zebra Report: Another Texan

of On-Base Percentage
(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix)
Submitted at 9/30/2009 5:30:29 AM
In his gig writing about his
former job for the New York
Times, ex-Phillie Doug Glanville
has shown himself to be a
perceptive analyst of personality
and culture, but not so much of
stats. The latest example:
Glanville wrote recently about
leadoff hitters and reaching base.
Though he noted that the
benchmark of a .400 on-base
percentage was a good one, he
added that there are other ways
leadoff hitters can help their
teams, such as reaching base on
error. Getty Images There weren’t
enough moments such as this one
in Doug Glanville’s career to
overcome his mediocre on-base
percentage.
To Baseball Reference blogger
Andy Kamholz, the irony(or
better put, self-serving nature of
the piece) was thick. Glanville’s
career on-base percentage was
just .315, compared to a league
average — for all batters, not just
leadoff men — of .345. Just once
did his OBP exceed the league
average in a season. And that
season he set a career high in both
hits and walks, which, as Tom
Tango points out, contradicts
Glanville’s assertion that taking
walks exacts a price in
aggressiveness.
Glanville did reach base
because of error 69 times in his
career, but factor those in and he
was still 14 points below the
league-average on-base
percentage, and that’s without
crediting other batters for
reaching base on error, too.
“If someone can take all those
numbers out there and turn
Glanville into a truly effective
leadoff man, I would absolutely
love to see that,” ESPN’s Rob
Neyer wrote.
Glanville was inspired to write
on the topic because of criticism
of Red Sox leadoff man Jacoby
Ellsbury. Ellsbury does share
Glanville’s aversion to bases on
balls, but his career on-base
percentage is a couple of points
better than the league average —
and that’s without counting his 14
times reaching base on errors.
Controversy
By Matt Snyder (FanHouse)
Submitted at 9/30/2009 10:00:00 AM
by Matt Snyder
Filed under: Chicago Bears,
Atlanta Falcons, Jaguars, Raiders,
Seahawks, Texans, Titans, NFL
Referees Zebra Report is
FanHouse's analysis of actual
NFL rules and how they are to be
applied ... because most fans think
they could do a better job than the other foot. Let's get right to it.
NFL officials, yet definitely could
Zebra Report: Another Texan
not. Click here for an introduction Controversy originally appeared
as to how we do things.
on Fanhouse NFL Blog on Wed,
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Cleveland Browns turn to Derek Anderson as

starting QB
By Associated Press BEREA, Ohio -- Derek "I'm excited about the Browns' first possession on
(ESPN.com) Anderson will start at quarterback opportunity," Anderson said. Sunday, Mangini benched Quinn
Submitted at 9/30/2009 8:11:57 AM for the Cleveland Browns on "We're all competitors, we all after just 10 quarters this season
Sunday against Cincinnati. want to play. I'm ready to go." and inserted Anderson.
Mike and Mike in the Morning Coach Eric Mangini has decided AFC North blog Anderson had more success
ESPN senior NFL analyst Chris to go with Anderson, a Pro ESPN.com's James Walker moving Cleveland's offense but
Mortensen talks about the NFL Bowler in 2007, over Brady writes about all things AFC North threw three picks in the 34-3 loss
coaches who are on the hot seat Quinn, who opened the season as in his division blog. to the Ravens.
and some potential names that Cleveland's starter but was • Blog network: NFL Nation "I felt like I went out there and
could come in to replace them. benched at halftime last Sunday in Mangini spent the entire did what I can do," Anderson
Mortensen also takes a look at the Baltimore. training camp deciding on a said.
QB situation in Miami and the
NFL rookie wage scale.
Mangini believes the 0-3
Browns have a better chance to
quarterback before picking Quinn
over Anderson. But after Quinn
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optimism. But the Suns might be
as happy as any to begin this
season with a clean slate.
Phoenix is trying to rebound
from a season where they traded
two rotation players, fired their
head coach at the All-Star break,
then had their best player suffer
an eye injury shortly thereafter
that kept him out for the rest of
the season.
All that, and the team missed
making the playoffs by only two
games. But for the first time in a
long time, there are virtually no
expectations of success. And for a
Ray Shero Talks About Building the Penguins, Defending the Cup
By Adam Gretz (FanHouse)
Submitted at 9/30/2009 11:00:00 AM
by Adam Gretz
Filed under: Penguins, NHL
Draft, NHL Free Agency, NHL
Economics, FanHouse Exclusive
Pittsburgh Penguins general
manager Ray Shero was kind
enough to spend nearly an hour on
team that struggled with so many
issues last year, they seem more
than happy to enter the season
pressure-free, while searching for
consistency and a renewed sense
of identity.
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the phone with FanHouse's Adam
Gretz discussing a variety of
topics. This is the third of a three-
part series. Wednesday's entry:
Ray Shero discusses how the
2009-10 Penguins were built
through free agency, trades, the
draft, and what he expects from
t h e d e f e n d i n g S t a n l e y C u p Building the Penguins, Defending
Champions.
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Jil at home, +J in the world
By blogeditor1 (Material and fragrances worldwide. As for
Interest on Men.style.com) Jil the woman, not the brand, she's
Submitted at 9/29/2009 12:41:47 PM coming to retail this week, too.
The first Sander-designed Uniqlo
Jil Sander is the latest brand to collection, +J (which we
let you shop in your underwear: previewed back in August), hits
Starting tomorrow, e-commerce Uniqlo's Soho flagship this
comes to jilsander.com. The new Thursday at 10 a.m. For that,
site will be powered by Yoox though, you'll have to actually
(incidentally, as good a platform suiting, knitwear, and the line's hoof it to the store. MATTHEW
as any we've come across) and covetable from-the-runway coats) SCHNEIER Photo: Jil Sander
will ship menswear (including as well as accessories, eyewear,
Closing Game Crazy
stores begin clearance
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Mats Sundin Leaves on Top
By Christopher Botta
(FanHouse)
Submitted at 9/30/2009 9:58:00 AM
by Christopher Botta Mats
Sundin, who announced his
retirement Wednesday morning at
a press conference in Sweden,
was a winner.
Don't let the lack of a Stanley
Cup on his resume fool you.
Instead, just add Sundin to the list
headed by Ernie Banks of the best
professional athletes to not win
his league's championship. When
the magnificent Maple Leaf is
inducted into the Hockey Hall of
Fame in a few years, he'll have
nothing to apologize for.
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Atari announces Ghostbusters for PSP, we're
left speechless
By Griffin McElroy (Joystiq)
Submitted at 9/30/2009 10:50:00 AM
From the day Atari first
announced it would be doing a
new video game installment in the
Ghostbusters franchise to the day
said installment was released, we
had to maintain a careful
linguistic balancing act. We had
to ration out quotes and references
to the Ghostbusters films in our
posts, working tirelessly not to
exhaust our resources. We made it
to the game's release by the skin
of our teeth -- but earlier today,
Atari did us the great discourtesy
of announcing that the title is
coming to PSP. We've just ...
we've got nothing left.
The debut trailer for the title is
posted above. It looks like a fairly
faithful recreation of the console
versions, only, y'know, tinier. It's
got a launch window of
November, meaning you can look
forward to a month of uncreative,
reference-free posts from our end.
Just make sure you don't ... cross
the ... oh, forget it.
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expected to close by the end of
October will begin a liquidation
sale, starting this weekend.
Locations expected to shutter
have received boxes and a list of
items that are to be sent back for
redistribution, which allegedly
includes "all systems, major first
party accessories (controllers,
memory, etc)." The "majority" of
games released within the last
year will be also be sent out,
"both new and used." Several
employees have commented that
closing stores will likely be
"pretty bare" by the time the sale
starts.
The timetable for the
liquidation, corroborated by
• 10/3-10/9: 30% off everything
in the store
• 10/10-10/16: 50% off
everything in the store
• 10/17-Closing: 80% off
everything in the store
There doesn't seem to be a
consistent date for when the stores
will close, but we haven't heard of
any location staying open beyond
October 27.
We continue to work on getting
a master list of which stores are
closing, as well as a list of items
sent back for redistribution.
Request for official comment
from Game Crazy corporate on
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several sources: closing stores should do, have

Wentworth Miller to play Chris Redfield in 'Resident Evil: Afterlife'

By Justin McElroy (Joystiq) And the whole thing's being done played by Wentworth Miller, Afterlife' originally appeared on
Submitted at 9/30/2009 10:15:00 AMin 3D, especially impressive fresh from his turn as an awful Joystiq on Wed, 30 Sep 2009
considering it's sure to be filled douchebag on Law and Order: 10:15:00 EST. Please see our
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has started on Resident Evil: into some sort of perverse clown performers, producers have Wentworth Miller to play Chris
Afterlife(via ComingSoon.net). car, crammed with sub-par stuffed in Chris Redfield. He'll be Redfield in 'Resident Evil:

New Resident Evil 5 content may also come to Xbox 360

By Justin McElroy (Joystiq)
Submitted at 9/30/2009 11:20:00 AM
When Jun Takeuchi surprised
Tokyo Game Show attendees with
a motion-controlled version of
Resident Evil 5(subtitled
"Alternative Edition"), he also
revealed some new included platform. Dengeki says that the New Resident Evil 5 content
content, reportedly a flashback new content may come to 360, but may also come to Xbox 360
scene set in the Spencer Mansion in a "different format," possibly originally appeared on Joystiq on
featuring Jill Valentine. implying a DLC release on Xbox Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:20:00 EST.
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Feign surprise: DJ Hero 2 allegedly in the works

By Alexander Sliwinski
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With Activision already asking
consumers to plunk down
over$100 for the DJ Hero
peripheral later this month, it's
only fair that more games use it --
but only if those titles belong to
the publisher. With that, GI.biz
reports that "at least one
independent UK games
developer" is working with
Activision's Freestyle Games on
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Covering the coverage: The Crosby Street Hotel

By blogeditor1 (Material Spring); a tidal wave of buzz. - A 99-seat screening room with
Interest on Men.style.com) Against it: $495 a night. What Poltrona Frau chairs and wool-
Submitted at 9/29/2009 10:14:13 AM will that buy you? The usual lined walls.
amenities, of course—and then - A clean conscience. The hotel
Break out the Platinum Card: some. Let's take a look: is aiming for Gold LEED
The much-trumpeted, much- - Attention to detail, from the certification.
a n t i c i p a t e d C r o s b y S t r e e t macro (40 different design - Aromatherapy. The hotel has
Hotel—the first U.S. property for schemes for 86 rooms) to the its own scent, Le Jardin 10012 (its
London's Firmdale Hotels—opens micro (the hotel logo re-created as ZIP code), created by British
October 1. ( Hotel Chatter clues a pattern on the staff's ties), says perfumer Lyn Harris for its bath
us in that the opening was pushed The Moment. products and candles. This
back from today, thanks to an - Cohabitation with particular jardin smells of
e l e c t r i c a l p r o b l e m . ) I t s commissioned works of art, like bergamot, rosemary, thyme, and
introductory offer: $495 a night. hand-forged, 700-pound steel cedar.
In the Crosby's favor: A good gates (says Curbed); a 10-foot-tall NYC landscape (and the building admittedly, has been new since MATTHEW SCHNEIER
pedigree (owners Tim and Kit Jaume Plensa steel sculpture of a of the hotel). the mid-eighties. But before that, Photos: Courtesy of the Crosby
Kemp's London hotels, including human head made from alphabet - A (temporary) piece of Soho Soho was all dark alleys, à la Street Hotel
t h e H a y m a r k e t a n d t h e letters, in the lobby; and The Ascendant. The hotel is part of the Scorsese's '85 leave-before-dark
Knightsbridge, are some of that Reconstruction of My Views, a city's "new downtown," says black comedy After Hours, shot in
city's finest); a great location (on s h o r t f i l m b y J e a n R o m a n T r a v e l + L e i s u r e — w h i c h , the neighborhood.
Crosby between Prince and Seyfried chronicling the changing
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Online Media Daily: Nielsen Adds

Internet Speed, Usage, Gaming To
TV Ratings Characteristics
(MediaPost | Media News) collecting the Internet and gaming platforms, including the recently
Submitted at 9/30/2009 5:45:24 AM characteristics data in its national organized Coalition for
people meter sample, but had not Innovative Media Measurement
In another step toward the provided them in its regular (CIMM).
i n t e g r a t i o n o f o n l i n e a n d reporting until now, because some Nielsen recently added an
television, TV ratings researcher clients have requested that they be "integrated sample" of households
Nielsen Co. has informed its made available. reporting both their TV and
clients that it is adding new Detailed breaks within the Internet usage as a subset within
sample characteristics to its sample characteristics that will be its national TV ratings sample.
ratings software that will enable available include whether the And Nielsen executives said they
advertisers, agencies and media household has a dial-up, or high- are also developing a new subset
c o m p a n i e s t o i d e n t i f y t h e speed Internet connection; the in the national TV ratings sample
composition of TV audiences number of hours individuals in the that would be capable of reporting
based on their household Internet household use the Internet at online viewing of TV

Gant's birthday, your connection speed, persons Internet home and at work; whether the
usage, whether the households are household had a land line, or
"telephone-capable," and whether mobile phone, or combinations
programming. That subset is
currently at more than 375
households and will soon be up to
presents the households play video games. thereof; and whether there is a
Nielsen said the data, which will video game player within the
400 households.
A decision to begin integrating
By blogeditor1 (Material Island (above left), made of b e a v a i l a b l e a l o n g s i d e household. data on the online viewing of TV
Interest on Men.style.com) ultrafine West Indian cotton, and conventional demographic sample The new sample characteristics programming into Nielsen's
Submitted at 9/30/2009 6:53:30 AM the Cashmere (above right), characteristic descriptors as age, come as Nielsen is racing ahead national TV ratings will need to
which updates an old woolen gender, and ethnicity, would be with its so-called "three-screen" involve Nielsen's clients, but
Trawling the archives for model with a cotton-cashmere u s e d b y c l i e n t s t o " b e t t e r measurement strategy, and as the Nielsen executives said they hope
inspiration is a common tactic for blend. And then there are those understand who is viewing in advertising and media industry are that is possible within the next
design teams these days, but Gant (bottom) that combine the old and order to optimize advertising contemplating other solutions to year.
has got a richer history than most. new: two slim-cut options—a fit campaigns." get audience measurement data
The company marks its 60th we'd call "contemporary" if it Nielsen said it has been for TV, online and mobile
b i r t h d a y t h i s y e a r a n d i s weren't based on body-hugging
celebrating with six limited- cuts from the sixties—called by
edition shirts inspired by its their original nickname, the Media Magazine: The Cover Story
lengthy back catalog. They're Hugger. Hmm, maybe that's one (MediaPost | Media News) guest editor Alex Bogusky told us The most recent movement, said
contemporary updates on vintage instance where a little revisionist Submitted at 9/30/2009 6:03:19 AM in our initial meeting about this Bogusky, "has been the
designs rather than slavish re- history might've been justified. issue. "When desktop publishing democratization of the media
creations, but some do tend more $135 to $295, available at Gant, How Alex Bogusky morphed d e m o c r a t i z e d p u b l i s h i n g i t itself. We're really seeing
in one direction than the other. On 645 Fifth Ave., NYC, (212) 813- into Max Headroom, George allowed agencies outside New mainstream media panicking ....
the vintage tip, there's the 9170, gant.com, and at Barneys Jetson, a baby, an old man, a York to compete with larger As a creative person, it was one
Pullover (top left), based on a New York's Madison Ave., zombie army, and a manifestation agencies, because the tools were thing to actually be able to build
shirt from the late forties, and the Beverly Hills, and Chicago of his own Twitter feed there to create anything if you had the things that went on the media,
Rugger (top right), inspired by the locations (for store info, visit "What my career has sort of the talent." but to be able to build the media
seventies-founded sub-line of the barneys.com) been about has been the We were just talking out some in a totally customizable fashion -
same name. On the more current MATTHEW SCHNEIER democratization of different of the trends we all agreed would
end, today's craze for fabric Photos: Courtesy of Gant aspects of the agency world," shape the media in years to come.
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we haven't even wrapped our
heads around that really."
Alex agrees with the many
people who've said our world is
fragmenting, falling apart, but
through this disintermediation, we
are opening up: "You're reading
about celebs one second and Iran
the next. And you didn't really
make it a plan to stop and check
out either one, at least I don't."
And that was when he suggested
we try to incorporate this
somehow, "The issue itself could
take on a little bit of the
randomness social media has."
What better way to show this than
to throw the actual content into
the crowd? "Is it possible to do
some CrowdSpring kind of
sourcing of the design, or
something?"
Some say CrowdSpring
harnesses the power of the many
to produce work that could not
have otherwise existed; others
charge it encourages low-rent
spec work. "It's a complicated
area that's been really poorly
executed by a lot of other people,"
says CrowdSpring cofounder
Ross Kimbarovsky (who is an
attorney focused on intellectual
property by trade).
The year-old company recently
added industrial design to its
offerings (joining graphic design,
Web design and photography),
attracting more sophisticated
projects like one from LG, which
ran a competition to design its
next mobile phone, offering 43
awards for a total of $80,000 (the
top pick got $20,000). The next
step is to add copywriting services
- which Kimbarovsky says there
has been great demand for -
making CrowdSpring a one-stop
shop of sorts.
"What's neat about it is it's all
transparent," says Bogusky. "All
of the submissions are viewable
by everybody, and they kind of
seem to build on top of each
other."
In describing how the process
worked, he figured that
graphically we could show it all:
"You could use the entire page of
images that were created as the
imagery for the article,
potentially."
After this conversation we
posted an assignment to design
the cover for this issue to
CrowdSpring. Alex tweeted about
it. We blogged about it. In 10
days we received 281 entries,
which is many more covers than
we've designed in the entire
history of the magazine.
At some point, for some
unknown reason, the crowd got
the idea that the future of media
was monkeys. A string of entries
came with all manner of 2001: A
Space Odyssey gorillas, cartoon
chimps and see-hear-speak-no-
evil monkeys. We had never made
any simian suggestion, but a few
designers had like-minded
thoughts. The crowd moves in
mysterious ways.
The cover we picked, the one
you saw when you picked this
magazine up, incorporated the
text of Alex's Twitter feed into a
familiar image of him and
transformed our masthead into the
brief we posted for the
assignment, making the cover as
much about the process of
constructing it as it is any
prediction of the future.
"What I think will happen with
crowd-sourced things is people
who are really good will find
careers, and they'll begin to
charge more even within the
venue of crowd-sourcing," says
Bogusky. But he concedes that
there are those who will find this
sort of change a frightening
proposition.
"Yeah it's a marketplace," he
says. "But if creativity is a
commodity, I want to be the one
to get there first and realize that
first, rather than try to protect
what exists now. That hasn't
worked for anybody. The music
industry blew it."
Bogusky was as good as his
word, and shortly after our cover
design project ended, he posted a
project to design a logo for
Brammo the eclectic
"powercycle" company that had
won CP+B's services in an
auction on Ebay. Some designers
were none too pleased,
denigrating the project as "spec
work" and launching a social
media campaign against it, which
ironically ended up all over
CP+B's newly socialized
homepage.
The crowd-sourced model has
to be based on speculative work,
says Kimbarovsky, "which has
some strong connotations in the
graphic design world. We spent a
great deal of time thinking about
what we could do to address those
concerns." But he sees no threat to
agencies or creatives from his
community, saying the focus is on
small businesses that couldn't
have otherwise afforded this
quality of work.
"From the very beginning we
established minimum awards on
all our project categories. While
we really wanted the buyer, the
client, to set the price, we did not
want to be the McDonald's of
design marketplaces." They set
the minimums pretty low at first -
well below market rates - and then
gradually, the minimums began
creeping higher. However,
averages tend to be much higher
than the minimums. "We've been
able to move the price up, which
is very unusual. If you're familiar
with marketplaces generally ...
when you have competition
among designers price trends
down; in our marketplace the
competition is actually among the
clients." In the first year of
business CrowdSpring has paid
out more than $2 million to
designers.
"It's one of those things where
agencies are extraordinarily
threatened by it; it's potentially
commoditizing some creativity,"
Bogusky said of CrowdSpring in
that first meeting. "It's going to
find some sort of balance
somewhere, but it is very
threatening."
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'Man Shops,'
Sundance Co-Brands
(MediaPost | Media News)
Submitted at 9/30/2009 8:02:38 AM
Integrated marketing is
becoming the new ad norm. Stella
Artois will present the Sundance
Channel's upcoming cross-
platform "Man Shops Globe,"
while Ferrero Chocolates signs on
as a participating sponsor.
Debuting Oct 7, "Man Shops
Globe" is an eight-part series that
follows Keith Johnson, a buyer
for the Anthropologie stores, as he
searches worldwide for unusual
décor. He's also on the lookout for
talented craftsmen. Future shows
chronicle Johnson's travels in
Turkey, Tunisia, India, Argentina
and France, where, with a
different team of local experts, he
images a new life for his artsy
haul.
The creative includes a print, on
-air, online and outdoor ad
campaign, in addition to in-store
events at select Anthropologie
locations in the U.S. Sundance
Channel will also support a "Man
Shops Globe" sweepstakes, "His
Job. Your Adventure
Sweepstakes," that begins Oct. 5.
Sarah Barnett, executive vice
president and general manager,
Sundance Channel, said: "The
promotional campaign we've
created to support the series
seamlessly integrates Sundance
Channel, Anthropologie, Stella
Artois and Ferrero Rocher -- four
consumer brands that share a
passion for distinction and
creativity."
As the series' presenter, Stella
Artois will be integrated
throughout Sundance's marketing
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efforts. The Belgian lager will be
featured in custom show opens
and closes, tune-in spots and
animated "You're Watching"
billboards. There are also eight co
-branded vignettes tagged "One of
a Kind." The 60-second spots
profile an artist from each country
Johnson visits. Plus, Stella Artois
will have a presence on the net's
on-demand platform.
Dave Daniels, product manager
for Stella Artois, called "Man
Shops Globe" a "novel, original
series that celebrates the finer
things."
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Ferrero, the Italian confectioner,
will be featured in three, 60-
second vignettes titled "Man
Shops Globe Unwrapped." The co
-branded pieces will air footage of
Johnson's treasured finds. Ferrero
chocolates will also be the topic
of a specially produced Sundance
Channel SUNCovered news
segment slotted on-air and online.
Launched in 1996, Sundance
Channel is a subsidiary of
Rainbow Media, which is a
subsidiary of Cablevision.