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US Postal Service in trouble?

Submitted by richardcadler on Tue, 05/31/2011 - 22:10
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http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_23/b4231060885070.htm

A drop in first class mail has caused a problem:

"Postal service executives proudly note that if it were a private company, it would be No. 29 on the Fortune 500."

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Internet companies and internet freedom

Submitted by richardcadler on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 02:49
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http://mailright.co.uk/email-marketing-articles/How-safe-is-your-Twitter...

Your Twitter name could run afoul of a trademark dispute. And if it does, don't expect prior warning from Twitter.

Fortunately, this example had a happy ending, but it might not have.

Just another reminder of what we own and what we don't.

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Concern about data.gov shutdown

Submitted by richardcadler on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 05:40
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http://www.shareable.net/blog/can-datagov-be-saved

Paul Davis at Shareable.net writes about the potential budget slashing of the transparency platform Data.gov :

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Snyder pushes joint police, fire in Michigan

Submitted by richardcadler on Mon, 03/21/2011 - 02:06
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http://www.detnews.com/article/20110318/POLITICS02/103180368/1022/Snyder...

So another initiative from the governor would merge police and firefighter departments.

Even aside from issues of quality, as the Detroit News article suggests, there's a larger problem here that I see, and it came up three years ago in a BoingBoing article about the DHS tasking firefighters with looking for evidence of terrorism.

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NASA's Open Source Summit 2011

Submitted by richardcadler on Tue, 03/15/2011 - 07:24
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http://www.nasa.gov/open/source/

NASA has announced an open-source summit to be held on March 29 and 30 in Mountain View, California:

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The 'Twitter causes revolutions--or not' debate I

Submitted by richardcadler on Mon, 02/14/2011 - 02:41
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http://www.buzzmachine.com/2011/02/13/gutenberg-of-arabia/

The straw men are piling up fast in the less than useful or interesting debate about whether social media such as Twitter and Facebook 'caused' the movements in Tunisia and Egypt.

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CEO's and the presidency

Submitted by richardcadler on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 10:06
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http://www.salon.com/technology/how_the_world_works/2011/02/02/mitt_romn...

A pair of challenges, by Salon's Andrew Leonard and The American Prospect's Jamelle Bouie, to the perennial claim that experience as a corporate CEO is the best kind of preparation for the Oval Office.

Leonard:

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