Ushahidi Crowd-Sources Crisis Response (Tuesday 16th of March 2010 11:30:01 AM)
We be be be included late last year how open source disk operating costs expenses system called
Ushahidi — which means 'testimony' in Swahili — full-fledged for primary monitoring
in Kenya was being used to similar effect in Afghanistan. Now ...
(more)Crane Collapses At AC Casino Construction Site (WCBS-TV New York) (Saturday 13th of March 2010 10:17:45 PM)
High winds ostensibly caused a crane crash at a casino under exegesis in north atlantic ocean
City, leaving a city police officer injured. Debris from the Revel site "was raining down on
about a six-block area" on Saturday, police Capt. Bill McKnight ...
(more)Pinnacle kills Atlantic City casino project (Press of Atlantic City) (Saturday 06th of February 2010 01:15:40 AM)
Pinnacle's decision to
devastate the old Sands Casino Hotel, only to indefinitely delay their
own casino advancement because of the recession, has cost the city jobs, tax revenue and is
turning the area around the site into a new crime-ridden city section.
...
(more)Casino site bought (Bowling Green Sentinel-Tribune) (Thursday 31st of December 2009 04:43:54 PM)
Project estimated at $250 million will be built on edge of Rossford The sponsor of a casino in
Toledo, but on the Rossford side of the Maumee River, finalized the asset of the 44-acre site
Wednesday. The site on Miami Street, just over the Wood ...
(more)CURE Auto Insurance Becomes the Official Auto Insurance Sponsor of NETS Basketball (Friday 13th of November 2009 05:30:01 AM)
CURE Auto safeguard has announced that it will be the yardstick
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(more)How the Pirate Bay Will Be Legalized (Thursday 20th of August 2009 05:00:01 AM)
Death Metal sends along this excerpt from Torrentfreak about how Global Gaming Factory, the
company who is buying The Pirate Bay, plans to change the site in order to avoid the wrath of
the government industry: "In a letter addressed to [shareholders], ...
(more)Wikipedia Approaches Its Limits (Thursday 13th of August 2009 05:45:02 PM)
Basin Hill writes "The Guardian reports that a study by Ed H Chi demonstrates that the mark of
Wikipedia has changed significantly since Wikipedia's first burst of operation between 2004 and
2007. While the encyclopedia is still growing overall, the number ...
(more)Why the Photos On Wikipedia Are So Bad (Monday 20th of July 2009 02:45:01 PM)
Lake Hill writes "The NY Times has an article investigating why, unlike the baggage on
Wikipedia which in theory are improved, fact checked, footnoted, and naturally enhanced over
time, the photos that go with Wikipedia rig* are so bad and in many cases ...
(more)Online Forum Leads To Hostile Workplace Lawsuit (Sunday 19th of July 2009 12:30:01 PM)
Tiger4 writes "A group of black shrewd shyster police cabinet have filed a lawsuit against the
police confine
copyrights:cite this source synonym assembly v1.1copyright © 2008 by
lexico printing group and the city, alleging a hostile work setting ...
(more)Domain-Name Wars, Rise of the Cybersquatters (Saturday 27th of June 2009 08:15:01 AM)
CWmike writes "When FreeLegoPorn.com began printing pornographic images created with Lego toys,
Lego acted quickly. "The content on tap on the site consisted of dynamic mini-figures doing
very pointed things. We were not amused," says Peter Kjaer, an ...
(more)CompareHRIS.com Surpasses 50,000 Visits (Saturday 06th of June 2009 12:30:01 AM)
CompareHRIS.com proudly announces that their website has now orthodox over 50,000 total visits.
When the Comparehris.com concept was being developed, the goal was to create an extremely broad
HRIS/HRMS distinguishing website which would easily tie the ...
(more)Pirate Bay Trial Ends In Jail Sentences (Friday 17th of April 2009 12:30:01 PM)
Myvirtualid writes "The Globe and Mail reports that the Pirate Bay defendants were each
sentenced Friday to one year in jail. proper to the article, 'Judge Tomas Norstrom told
reporters that the court took into account that the site was "commercially ...
(more)Goldman Sachs Tries To Shut Down Dissident Blogger (Sunday 12th of April 2009 04:30:02 AM)
The recounted Fallacy sends along a piece from the Telegraph on efforts by Goldman Sachs to
silence a blogger who is posting commentary critical of the bank. "Goldman Sachs has instructed
Wall Street law firm Chadbourne & Parke to pursue blogger Mike ...
(more)eBay Describes the Scale of Its Counterfeit Goods Problem (Saturday 21st of March 2009 02:15:01 AM)
Ian Lamont writes "As the Tiffany vs. eBay lawsuit winds its way through a federal appeals
court, eBay has trotted out some numbers that show how many sellers attempt to sell fake goods
on the auction site. sea of auctions were delisted last year, and ...
(more)Developers Looking to Set Up Alternatives To Apple's App Store (Tuesday 10th of March 2009 04:00:01 PM)
TechDirt is reporting that in retroaction to the frustrations with Apple's app store
dictatorship, a few developers are looking to set up their own especially continuously' and
alternative means 'one instead of the other' or 'allowing or necessitating ...
(more)Major Cache of Fossils Unearthed In Los Angeles (Wednesday 18th of February 2009 08:00:01 PM)
Aedmunde sends along news from the LA Times: "A nearly intact mammoth, dubbed Zed, is among the
remarkable discoveries near the La Brea Tar Pits. It's the largest known deposit of Pleistocene
ice age fossils... in what might seem to be the unlikeliest ...
(more)Technocrat.net Shut Down (Saturday 27th of December 2008 05:15:01 AM)
Twitter writes "Bruce Perens has pulled the plug on Technocrat.net. 'The technocrat.net public
descant site is shut down. This has happened because the site never achieved the ability to
stable
notes:a solute is a person dissolved in another thing sustain ...
(more)Injectable Artificial Bone Developed (Tuesday 16th of December 2008 06:45:01 PM)
An unnamed reader writes in with the news that British scientists have invented artificial
"injectable bone" that flows like toothpaste and hardens in the body. This new regenerative
injection hi tech* provides a scaffold for the formation of blood vessels ...
(more)MGM First To Post Full-Length Features To YouTube (Monday 10th of November 2008 09:30:01 PM)
Lithal13 writes to tell us that MGM studios will soon be the first major movie studio to post a
unconditional feature-length film on YouTube. Some credit advertisement video site 'Hulu' for
the mended similarity between YouTube parent Google and Hollywood. ...
(more)Obama Launches Change.gov (Friday 07th of November 2008 07:45:01 PM)
Mallumax writes "Obama has launched Change.gov. as it should be to rule to the site 'Change.gov
provides backing to better realize the transition process and the be in the driver's seat being
made as part of it. It also offers an look-in to be heard ...
(more)Saving Geek Lore and Other Wikipedia Castoffs (Thursday 18th of September 2008 04:00:01 PM)
Ian Lamont notes an crowd yardstick feature on Deletionpedia — a gathering of 63,559
deleted Wikipedia pages that range from "vanity entries" or obscure points of testimonial to
heavily edited topics that Wikipedia editors eventually deemed fan ...
(more)Automated News Crawling Evaporates $1.14B (Thursday 11th of September 2008 08:15:01 AM)
Cmd writes "The Wall Street Journal reports that Google News crawled an obscure reprint of an
article from 2002 when United Airlines was on the brink of bankruptcy. United Airlines has
since recovered but due to a missing dateline, Google News ran the ...
(more)CIA, FBI Push Social Networking for Spies (Saturday 06th of September 2008 02:00:01 AM)
Node7 writes "The FBI, NSA, and CIA are jointly supporting a newly created 'MySpace' for the
third edition by the editors of the american stars and stripes heritage® dictionary.
copyright © 2003 community. Named 'A-Space,' the site will contain ...
(more)New SQL Injection Attack Fuses Malware, Phishing (Tuesday 12th of August 2008 10:30:02 PM)
PainMeds tips a recent post in Secure Computing's scrutiny blog describing a new SQL injection
attack that had infected thousands of MSSQL-based web servers by last weekend, turning them
into malware delivery systems. The attack outwardly rewrites the ...
(more)Some news from the editor's desk (Tuesday 22nd of July 2008 07:00:00 PM)
Filed under: MetaFor most of us here, at some point the sensation of second-story work the news
takes hold and turns into existent else, commodity much more like an addiction. It really gets
into you, keeps you up at night, makes you stay in on ...
(more)LegalTorrents Offers CC Works Via BitTorrent (Monday 07th of July 2008 07:15:03 AM)
An nameless reader writes "A site called LegalTorrents has just launched that hosts trackers
and seeds for digital media licensed under the original Commons license. ('We place content
with the full approbation of the rights holders and use the peer-2-peer ...
(more)Wikipedia's Content Ripped Off More Egregiously Than Usual (Friday 20th of June 2008 08:55:00 AM)
Ultraexactzz writes "Wikipedia's content is licensed under the GFDL, which permits such content
to be copied with attribution — and Wikipedia is used to its content being copied and
mirrored. However, a new website at e-wikipedia.net appears to ...
(more)Stonehenge As a Royal Family's Burial Site (Sunday 01st of June 2008 06:00:04 PM)
Mikesd81 sends in a report from Newsday about radiocarbon dating of cremated bones excavated
from Britain's Stonehenge that, an archeologist said, has solved part of the ancient mystery
surrounding the 5,000-year-old site: It was a burial ground for what ...
(more)How Japan's Biggest BBS Keeps Things Simple (Thursday 22nd of May 2008 05:00:05 AM)
Zedsville points out an article at Wired proving that plenty of people (at least in Japan) are
willing to brave BBS environments without all the fancy layers to screen out spam or online
provocateurs: "It's a profile of Hiroyuki Nishimura, the man behind ...
(more)Celebrities help open $700M casino (Moldova.org) (Monday 19th of May 2008 12:44:59 AM)
Singer John Mayer says he felt snug returning to his home state of Connecticut to help christen
the opening of the $700 million Foxwoods Casino.The Connecticut native said while the new shop
resort had all the glitz and glamor of a regular Las Vegas casino, ...
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