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...Twitter users have signed up for Sponsored Tweets since early August. About 700 advertisers, mostly small to medium-size businesses, plus a handful of FORTUNE 500 companies, are using the platform. Marketers have access to the entire database of tweeters and can select whom they want to pay and how much they're willing to dish out. Compensation is based on a user's expertise or passion, how many followers that person has and other metrics, like how often the tweeter's followers click on the links posted on his or her Twitter page. Murphy says he has paid more...
...Twitter. A company called Izea, which made its name connecting bloggers with firms willing to compensate them for plugs on their blogs, has set up a similar service for the Twittersphere. At a site called Sponsored Tweets, Twitter users can sign in, set the price they want companies to pay them for tweeting an ad on their behalf and wait for the offers to come in. Jocelyn French, the mother of a 2-year-old boy and 1-year-old girl, has tweeted for a parenting website, a college-information site and Kmart, among others...
...white people lack "character" if they oppose legislation that may or may not disproportionately favor minorities? I am a reasonable American with a bunch of formal education and life experience, and I am opposed to the current plan solely because I do not believe there is a way to pay for it, either individually or collectively. Wait until you see the premium you will be charged to cover your pre-existing serious illness--and everyone else's--no matter what it costs. Simply legislating something doesn't make it work...
...foresaw this dilemma a decade ago, when coffee prices, which had been falling since the end of the Cold War, dropped to as low as 45˘ per lb. Fair Trade was the small farmer's savior during that crisis, paying twice the going rate. Starbucks joined the cause and this year has pledged to double the amount of Fair Trade coffee it buys, to 40 million lb., 40% of the Fair Trade beans the U.S. imports. The company declined to comment on whether Fair Trade's benefits fall short of its vision or how much it would need to raise...
...August 31st, 2009 remains unsolved.Mourning the loss of Augustin, Dr. Joia Mukherjee, Chief Medical Officer for PIH described him as “a gifted surgeon and an exceptional human being...the only surgeon in Haiti who would treat anyone, from anywhere, at anytime, regardless of their ability to pay.” Mukherjee said PIH hopes to continue his dream of making surgery accessible to all Haitians.The afternoon’s featured speaker was Nicholas D. Kristof ’82, a two-time Pulitzer Price winner columnist for the New York Times who was also a Crimson news...