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...Consumers file a class-action lawsuit against Apple after they realize that the company simply re-released its original iPod as its latest model, tricking millions of eager and unsuspecting people...
...Internet has pulled subscription and advertising dollars out from under newspapers, and free services like Craigslist have replaced previously profitable classified ads. Fighting to preserve current print circulations is a futile endeavor. However, there is a place for journalism online. If newspapers can develop a new online business model and adapt their content to the new requirements of the Web, they can and will thrive.Newspapers’ success online is dependant on their ability to make Internet content profitable. As it stands, this is very difficult. Even the hugely popular web newspaper Politico raises a full 60 percent...
...long-term fix is to build a new Somalia. Nation-building is something the Bush administration initially shied away from in Afghanistan, allowing the Taliban to regroup, and came round to in Iraq, with mixed and frequently bloody results. China provides a better model for nation-building in Africa, focusing almost wholly on the continent's commercial potential - and, as a byproduct, the stabilizing effects of poverty alleviation - by pumping billions into infrastructure in war-torn territories such as Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Angola is now stable, if horribly corrupt; Congo is still...
...making money: "When people think of a blogging business model, the first thing that comes to mind is that they'll run ads on their site. But in fact, the economics of this route are rather dicey - so don't quit your day job expecting that cash will fly into your pockets the second you sign up ... It takes hundreds of thousands of readers to earn anything approaching a living online...
Alternative currency comes in many forms. In addition to time-banking, there are Local Exchange Trading Systems (LETS), systems of mutual credit that vary by location. This model was developed by Michael Linton in Canada, though it seems to have taken off mostly in the British Isles; an estimated 40,000 people in the U.K. use these for at least some transactions. (See TIME's top 10 everything...