Archive for June 24th, 2009
A recent New York Times article poses the question: If it’s too big to fail, is it too big to exist? The article poses some good points which I’ll summarize as best I can: We have moved past the era of many small banks, and will probably not return to it any time soon if at [ READ MORE ]
An article from SocialistWorker.org reports on the case of William Robinson, a professor of sociology at the University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB). This controversy centers around Robinson’s condemnation of the Israeli invasion of Gaza that began in 2008 December. As stated in the second paragraph of the article: This campaign against academic freedom is not just an [ READ MORE ]
Wired.com’s Threat Level reports on a new Associated Press policy aimed at reporters. The intent of the policy is “to make sure material posted by others doesn’t violate AP standards.” That would be all well and good. Except this is for employees’ personal Facebook profiles–and that is where I think this policy goes over the line. [ READ MORE ]
Following up the previous story on the WNBA blocking the WNBA Outsiders Twitter account, the latter tweeted a few hours ago that it may have been as simple as a misunderstanding over improper use of the WNBA logo. If this is the case, I still stand by my earlier statements; this could have been resolved [ READ MORE ]