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...superb August Osage County.The story of an aging proprietor of an inner-city donut shop and the street kid who comes to work for him, it (like A Steady Rain) purports to have some street cred. But the thugs who menace the young employee (leaning on him to pay off gambling debts) look like B-movie retreads, the off-screen violence seems manufactured for effect, and the denouement is far more sentimental...
Another proposal comes from Journalism Online, a pay-for-news company whose founders include Steven Brill, the former editor of Content, and L. Gordon Crovitz, a former publisher of the Wall Street Journal. The company's proposal would provide an outlet for news from many providers, but would allow them to decide which parts of their content should go behind a pay wall and how much to charge. Unlike Google, however, Journalism Online's platform remains in development. Another proposal from MyWire's Global News Service, owned by Louis Borders (the founder of Borders Books), would also organize content from...
Microsoft, the other big-time company that, like Google, already has the technology available to implement a pay wall, also proposes aggregating information from several news sources in one pay-to-play location. The company's proposal emphasizes user preferences and aims to make the content accessible from any device, both on- and off-line. Yahoo is said to be readying an idea as well, but has not yet given any details. (See the top 10 magazine covers...
...hard to tell what payoff would go to the winning technology provider, says Gordon, nor is it even known who would own the content. There is also the question of whether the various pay-for-content ideas would fly with consumers. Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently told British broadcasting executives that charging for online content won't work except for niche and specialist markets. Consumer surveys tend to support those doubts. A Belden Interactive survey released in mid-September found that computer users who said they'd pay for news online would shell out an average of only...
...Women in the Australian army taken some significant steps towards equality since 1979 when it was announced that they would get the same pay as their male colleagues. In 1987, the Royal Australian Airforce saw the first two women complete their education toward becoming pilots, and by 1992 most positions became open to women with the exclusion of frontline roles. At the beginning of 2009, the category of ground-based air defense was opened to women. But despite these advances, Australian women still only occupy 13% of military positions. And today, they are lawfully excluded from roles in seven divisions...