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Boo! Facebook Inc., the owner of the biggest U.S. social-networking site, shut down the online word game Scrabulous in the U.S. and Canada after a lawsuit was filed by Hasbro Inc., the maker of Scrabble.
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Under the proposed law, Illinois residents would get slapped with a misdemeanor and a $25 fine if caught using a cell phone or other wireless device while traversing streets. You've got to be kidding me.
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One in three children in this country are overweight. But, until now, it was unclear how much the nation's largest food and beverage companies spent influencing kids to eat unhealthy foods. Now it is VERY clear.
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Twitter was first on the scene again when an estimated 5.4-magnitude earthquake struck near Los Angeles yesterday — exactly as it was designed to do. Let the learning begin!
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Good expectations setting post from Ogilvy.
July 2008 Archives
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The first in a series of articles about the impact the internet and technology have had on reading, literacy, and education as a whole.
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Verve Wireless's mission is to save the local paper by making it mobile. It provides publishers with the technology to create mobile Web sites, so readers can read the paper on their cell phones.
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"Most businesses are started because you have a great idea, and you take it out to the public to see if they like it. This is the opposite. We're finding out what people want and doing it." Simple. Brilliant.
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Can NASCAR 'Go Green?'
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Comcast is going an extra step by talking back, contacting customers who are discussing the company online.
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The more hours you spend in front of the TV, the more likely you are to be obese, right? But, it's not the sedentary nature of television watching that causes weight gain; it's the exposure to advertising and the food mindlessly consumed while watching.
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Libraries are no longer just about literacy, if they ever were. They've evolved into social and recreational centers that mirror the communities they serve.
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Researchers have found that today's voter is pretty much the same dismally ill-informed creature he was back in the 1950s.
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A group of direct-marketing companies, along with a handful of their corporate clients, are banding together to make an inherently unsustainable practice at least a little bit greener.
I am an Ambassador for OneWebDay, a global celebration of the web that takes place every year on September 22nd. There is more information at www.onewebday.org.
This year's theme is participation in democracy online. As far as I am concerned, there is no more important subject. The functioning of our society - here in the United States and increasingly around the world - requires that people are able to participate and contribute openly and freely. The internet, and all forms of technology, expand those opportunities and open the democratic process to all. The more people participate, the more we all benefit.
Technology has the potential to bring people together in ways never before imagined, both online and offline. It can support dialogue and participation, allowing deeper understanding and problem solving. It can promote informaton and support experiences that engage, teach, and motivate people to action. Most importantly, and in the theme of OneWebDay, technology also allows people with few resources to have equal opportunities for debate and involvement, in their community, in politics, and everything else.
In my work, we are using technology and the communications opportunities that technology creates to help tackle some of the greatest challenges facing our society. We are working to eliminate nuclear weapons, end hunger, promote an independent media and bring about major changes in the way individuals and businesses operate with respect to the environment. We aren't building websites or widgets, we are helping to change the world.
I wrote my book (Media Rules!) about how organizations can use the unique and transformational opportunities that technology creates to have a meaningful, measurable impact on our society. And I can't imagine these issues could be solved if access and information about them was not free, open, and available to all. I can't imagine a society in which our democracy could not function. And those thingss go hand in hand.
That is why I support OneWebDay. I hope you will take a look at www.onewebday.org and find your own reasons to support it as well. See you on September 22nd.
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Business columnist Joe Nocera offers his (and readers') perspective on some of the great business books of all time. You'll be pleasantly surprised by the list.
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According to a new report, newspaper managers need to "find a way to monetize the rapid growth of Web readership before newsroom staff cuts so weaken newspapers that their competitive advantage disappears."
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"In the new world, the brand isn't necessarily health in the abstract. It's whatever your need is" — and that is from a healthcare company CEO. Good stuff.
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The landscape has shifted. New problems are cropping up almost daily, and voters will be demanding answers. Now what?
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Use of the Internet has rewritten the political rules for the 2008 campaign, from coverage to fund-raising to satire.
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Washington Capitals owner and former AOL honcho, Ted Leonsis, is launching a Web company to distribute films online for free, creating an outlet for moviemakers who have difficulty getting their films shown in cinemas.
I am Idea Blobbing this week. Go check out my first idea, and of course vote for it!
