The former "View" co-host helped show off the show’s new set and weighed in on subjects ranging from hard news to sports.
via Hollywood Reporter http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/elisabeth-hasselbeck-makes-fox-friends-629830
“…Japan does not have a vigorous tradition of satire.”
France has made Japan angry again, this time with insensitive political cartoons about Fukushima.
With radiation levels still spiking, and the government only reticently admitting to constant leaks, some are questioning the legitimacy of PM Abe’s insistence that Tokyo is safe. With decisions not to prosecute anyone involved in the disaster, it seems that amakudari is, in Japan as in most other countries, still alive and well.
via MetaFilter http://www.metafilter.com/131904/Japan-does-not-have-a-vigorous-tradition-of-satire
Liberal activists developing Syria envy?
Some wonder if Obama can be as intense with hot-button domestic issues.
via Yahoo! News – Latest News & Headlines http://news.yahoo.com/-syria-envy—activists-divided-on-usefulness-of-an-obama-p-r–blitz-222644109.html
Left revokes Obama’s liberal card
The White House says the president’s a proud progressive. But to prominent liberals, he’s not.
via POLITICO – TOP Stories http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/barack-obama-liberals-96746.html
The NSA Effect: Scandal Casts $35B Shadow Over U.S. Cloud Computing
Many execs in the digital media and marketing industries cringe at the notion that the National Security Administration surveillance scandal has any ties to their consumer data-collection practices. As that debate rages on, a bedrock of the consumer data explosion — cloud computing — could be at risk in the U.S.
An August report from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation predicts as much as $35 billion could leak from the U.S. cloud computing market by 2016 if foreign clients pull business from U.S.-based cloud services. By 2016, Gartner estimated the public cloud computing sector would generate $207 billion.
Advertising agencies, ad tech firms offering marketing software and data management services, and brands themselves use U.S.-based cloud services, which allow relatively easy, cost-efficient access to data they use to run digital ad targeting, email marketing efforts, site optimization and loyalty programs. Amazon is one of the largest providers of cloud-based data services. Even average web users store data such as document and music files in the cloud via services such as Google Drive and Dropbox.
via Advertising Age – Homepage http://adage.com/article/digital/nsa-effect-scandal-casts-35b-shadow-u-s-cloud-computing/244089/?utm_source=Digital&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+AdvertisingAge/Digital
Abandoned Dog Found on Google Street View, Rescued
No one was sure how long Sonya had been living on the streets of Los Angeles–possibly as long as 10 years. But when she appeared on Google Street View, Eldad Hagar of the charity Hope for Paws set out to rescue her.
Sometimes humans are awesome.
Video Link -via Geekologie
via Neatorama http://www.neatorama.com/2013/09/13/Abandoned-Dog-Found-on-Google-Street-View-Rescued/
Krauthammer: Putin played Obama
He calls Obama’s foreign policy "incompetent."
via POLITICO – TOP Stories http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/charles-krauthammer-vladimir-putin-barack-obama-syria-96760.html
Tina Brown: Tired of digital devices
Shes says people are "tired of screens" and want more face-to-face interaction.
via POLITICO – TOP Stories http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/tina-brown-daily-beast-96761.html
Putin and Bush’s Favorite PR firm
With his op-ed in The New York Times Thursday morning, Russian President Vladimir Putin has done what no American can–unite Congress. Granted, it’s united by an intense, "vomit"-inducing revolution at the spectacle of being lectured to by a hostile strongman in the nation’s paper of record, but at least Putin can claim an unlikely bedfellow in President George W. Bush.
Ketchum, the PR firm Putin used to place his op-ed in The Times, was the same company that the Bush administration used to produce what the Government Accountability Office later called illegal "covert propaganda."
Under contract from the Department of Education, Ketchum paid conservative pundit Armstrong Williams $241,000 in taxpayer money to tout No Child Left Behind in appearances on CNN and CNBC, and to interview Education Secretary Rod Paige for TV and radio ads.
via Homepage http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/putin-and-bush-s-favorite-pr-firm-20130913
Brooklyn Author Heads to Queens
Even Brooklyn-bred authors such as Jonathan Lethem admit they struggle to capture the essence of the rapidly changing borough.
via WSJ.com: Arts & Entertainment http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324549004579069411717740496.html?mod=rss_Arts_and_Entertainment