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Data-Mining Kids: Internet Players Are Agile, Mobile, And Hostile
That’s what legendary Texas Longhorns coach Darrell Royal said he wanted hisplayers to be – except he pronounced it a-gile, mo-bile, and hos-tile. But that’s what the Federal Trade Commission does not want current kids’ app developers to be in tracking them on tablets and … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Apple, FTC, Google, lobby, mobile apps, PBS NewsHour, Sneak ADtack, tracking, Waldorf-Astoria, Wall Street Journal
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When A Nation Forgets Its Own Idioms . . .
. . . it looks sort of idiotic. The hardworking staff can’t help but notice that what once were familiar American phrases have become, well, unfamiliar. Some recent examples: • Democratic strategist on CNN describing Mitt Romney’s Latino problem thanks … Continue reading
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Tagged CNN, Ed Shultz, Elgin Marbles, forget our idioms, French Open, mangled phrases, MBTA, Mitt Romney, MSNBC, Nicolas Sarkozy, NPR, PBS NewsHour, Rick Perry, The Ride
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Occupy Wall Streetniks Settle In
Leading indicators that the Occupy Wall Street movement isn’t going away anytime soon. • This PBS Newshour’s piece on Thursday night: • This piece from The Art Newspaper: Occupy Wall Street group looks to open arts space NEW YORK. A … Continue reading
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Tagged arts space, Occupy Wall Street, PBS NewsHour, The Art Newspaper
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The GOP’s “Non-Negotiable Terrorist Demand”
On Friday’s PBS NewsHour, liberal chinstroker Mark Shields accused Congressional Republicans of issuing a “non-negotiable terrorist demand” in the debt-ceiling rumpus on Capitol Hill – namely, the requirement for passage of a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution before the … Continue reading
Public/Private Sector Compensation Bakeoff (PBS NewsHour Edition)
More grist for the salary mill, via Tuesday’s PBS NewsHour (video embedded): Protests in Wisconsin, Elsewhere Stir Debate on Public vs. Private Pay, Benefits And we take up the contentious question of public- versus private-sector pay with Harley Shaiken of … Continue reading
