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Fingerprint Requirement For a Work Study Job?
BonesSB writes “I’m a student at a university in Massachusetts, where I have a federal work-study position. Yesterday, I got an email from the office that is responsible for student run organizations...
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California To Create Public Animal Abuser Registry
An anonymous reader writes “California legislators are moving forward with plans to create a public, online, animal abuser registry identical in function to the public sex offender registry. Is this...
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Calling all “Suckers for Hot Women on Bicycles” (TCTV)
For the last few days we’ve been getting a series of increasingly loopy emails from a startup in Sweden asking us to write about their launch. (See photo to the left.) I realize this post may be the...
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Actually, Facebook Marketing Does Work (If Done Right)
A recent post on ReadWriteWeb, titled, “Why Most Facebook Marketing Doesn’t Work” has received some attention as of late. The compelling headline surely gets brands, agencies, developers and anyone...
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California Bill To Give Parents Access To Kids’ Facebook Pages
California SB 242, proposed by Sen. Ellen Corbett, would force social networks like Facebook to allow parents access to their child’s account(s) and, more importantly, force all privacy settings to...
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Is There a New Geek Anti-Intellectualism?
Larry Sanger writes “Geeks are supposed to be, if anything, intellectual. But it recently occurred to me that a lot of Internet geeks and digerati have sounded many puzzlingly anti-intellectual notes...
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Global Mall Operator Starts Reading License Plates
First time accepted submitter skegg writes “Westfield Group, one of the largest shopping centre (mall) operators in the world, has launched a find-my-car iPhone app. The system uses a series of...
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Bloggers Not Journalists, Federal Judge Rules
New submitter squideatingdough writes “On InfoWorld, Robert X. Cringely covers a recent case of a blogger accused of libel and defamation. The federal judge ruled that journalists warrant more...
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Some Really Good Points About Ad Cookies & Privacy
Last week’s online privacy fracas-of-the-week was about the revelation that Google (and other advertisers) had learned to circumvent Safari’s settings to let third-party cookies track users more...
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The FDA Spied On Its Own Scientists
retroworks writes “The New York Times has an interesting article about efforts by the Food and Drug Administration to locate a source of ‘leaks’ within the agency. The search became a slippery slope...
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