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Unlike iTunes, which sells songs, Snocap is really a digital middleman, monitoring audio files as they are downloaded over music services that use Snocap's system. Its main tool is a registry that stores music and acts as a global clearinghouse to identify tracks. Snocap is working with Mashboxx, headed by another veteran of the file-sharing wars, former Grokster president and outspoken recording industry critic Wayne Rosso; his company offers users legal file-sharing software. When a music fan locates a song on another computer in the network, Snocap checks to see if it is registered in its database...
...innovation is not in the tool itself...but in the commitment to apply it uniformly to all programs,” Shea said...
...OMB’s winning advance, the Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART), is a way of tracking the effectiveness of federal programs using a rigorous survey with both multiple choice and open-ended questions. This year, the OMB plans to complete reviews of 20 percent of federal programs, and expects to step it up to 80 percent next year, according to Robert Shea, an OMB spokesman...
...recruit young men to fight against Iraq. But a decade later, they took on the role of an official morality police, becoming better known for raiding parties than for raiding the Iraqi front line. June's election, however, marked the first use of the basij as a mobilizing tool in electoral politics, a role in which it proved devastatingly effective...
...archaeological record suggests that a particular style of stone tool might have been used for a hundred thousand years without revision or modification during the first two million years of our history. For Westerners who see their technology and gadgets superseded on what can feel like a weekly basis, it is hard to believe we belong to the same species as people who did not know the wheel...