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...This smart, funny, borderline-practical handbook, which went to No. 3 on the New York Times best-seller list and No. 1 on Amazon, is brimming with ideas. In it, Moore suggests a busy agenda for a Democratic President's first 10 days, including drafting rich kids to fight our wars, defeating al-Qaeda by digging water wells around the world, banning high-fructose corn syrup and making HBO free for everyone. He proposes six ways to fix elections - I mean, make the process work. (Oddly, these don't include putting elections for the presidency, the Senate and the House...
...five top-grossing documentaries of all time - it's Moore, Gore and the penguins. Slacker Uprising won't join this company, since it wasn't released in theaters, and it won't be a big moneymaking DVD (as of Sunday night, it was No. 2,829 on Amazon's best-seller list), because Moore is offering it free on his website. There it's sort of a sensation: 2 million hits in the first three days; it reached No. 1 on both iTunes and Amazon VOD. ("The only return any of us are hoping for," Moore writes, "is the largest...
...game, trying to cement its role as an indispensable social network for people who still have jobs and provide an answer to the question, What can I do there? Today the company announced it was opening its network for the first time to partners, such as Google and Amazon, and offering business-focused applications created by outsiders to members. Eight applications, ranging from an Amazon book-review tool to a store-and-share space for a gigabit of files, went live Tuesday night. Expect more to come...
Compare, for instance, how apps spread on Facebook: When a user installs an application, that action is communicated to his friends via a news feed. That won't happen on LinkedIn. And likewise, if you recommend a book to one of your LinkedIn contacts via the "Reading List by Amazon" application, the contact doesn't need to install the Amazon app to get the recommendation...
...Green-collar movements in the United States and the United Kingdom, vernacular architecture in India, and the harnessing of the Amazon all are vested in the new idea that growth and conservation are not mutually exclusive terms. It’s paramount to recognizing that CPE is a complete reversal of the old way of thinking. It combats both “neo-liberal” corporate executives and overly protectionist environmental activists trying to bootstrap a green revolution...