Category: Economics
Electronic Frontier Foundation – Fully-qualified Nonsense in the SSL Observatory
What stupidity.
ThinkProgress – Bristol Palin’s Nonprofit Paid Her Seven Times What It Spent On Actual Teen Pregnancy Prevention
Apparently it’s totally justifiable to spend most of your money on advertising and salary (a salary which only 1.50% of all Americans make that or better) for a non-profit and basically nothing on your non-profits actual mission.
NYTimes.com – Pandora Discloses a Privacy-Related U.S. Inquiry on Apps
Wonder when we’ll start hearing something what this investigation into mobile advertising and I presume privacy is trying to discover.
Call Me Fishmeal. – Success, and Farming vs. Mining
Really good read.
Sunlight Foundation – House Violates 72 Hour Pledge Again
De-funding a valuable public resource and usurping democracy, all emergencies and all in a days work for Republicans.
Forbes – Transocean Execs Get Bonuses after ‘Best Year in Safety,’ Despite Gulf Oil Disaster
So the question must be asked how many employees die and how many environmental catastrophes are created in a bad year for safety?
Starbucks Coffee Company – What’s New
Pretty good April Fool’s joke by Starbucks, though seriously imagine how awesome this would be.
Nieman Journalism Lab – Baseless speculation! Frank Rich and the price of paywalls for writers
Good point to recognize this difference, but the point must still be made that both need to be paid, and half to find a system that enables writers and publishers to make money off the content.
Technologizer – Swoopo Quietly Files for Bankruptcy
So happy to see this company fail, this was a despicable business model.
NYTimes.com – The Austerity Delusion
We have to avoid being like Europe so we’ll do what Europe did but it’ll turn out differently for us.