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...resources, you could always launch your own counterattack: Barack Obama, frustrated with the false rumors being spread about his background and religious history, created a website in June called Fight The Smears to debunk them. But taking matters into one's own hands can be fraught. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales was notoriously outed in 2005 for attempting to whitewash his own entry on the site (Wiki contributors noted that he deleted references to his Wikipedia co-founder, Larry Sanger, as well as to a search site he founded that included adult content). Now a monitoring program called WikiWatcher aims...
...Festival (SIPF), set to take place from Oct. 8 to 31, took an egalitarian approach to submissions. "Our curators went through a blind selection process, and to lower barriers to entry, we [decided to] undertake the printing of all the works," says Gwen Lee, the festival's director and founder of the 2902 photography gallery. It's a generous move by the not-for-profit festival, given that a digital print of around 10 sq. ft. (1 sq m) in size can cost hundreds of dollars to produce...
...managers,” Light said in a statement. “I look forward to working with Blackstone’s management team as they set their strategy for taking advantage of opportunities in the world today.” Stephen A. Schwarzman, the chief executive and co-founder of Blackstone, expressed approval for Light’s decision to join the board. “We could not be more pleased that Jay has agreed to serve on our Board,” Schwarzman said in a statement. “His extraordinary understanding of financial markets...
...ahead of the curve and begin piecing together the electric infrastructure - smart meters, public charging points, more renewable power - that will speed the adoption of plug-ins. "A car affects the world more than anything else a buyer will purchase in his or her lifetime," says Felix Kramer, founder of the California Cars Initiative, a plug-in advocacy group in Palo Alto, Calif. Plug-ins can turn the car from a force for environmental destruction to something that frees us from oil - but only if we make it happen...
...this sort of investment going to help poor people get services? I think the answer is up in the air ... Who's going to do that? Not Google, not the telecoms," he says. "We need to have the political will to address those gaps through technology." Greg Wyler, founder of O3b, acknowledges that effective IT infrastructure requires "multiple components" but insists that O3b's plans are a "critical" part of that. If you're reading this in Africa, you probably don't need Wyler to tell you that. (See photos of struggle and triumph in Africa here...