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2008 Fed 100 award winnerAmerican Council for Technology
An IT VP?
WSJ's Washington Wire blog reports
Donatelli confirmed the lunch conversation but acknowledged, “She would not be a traditional pick.” There could be pressure on McCain however to chose a woman or a minority running mate, given the Democratic field.
Fiorina’s negatives? She’s not a party figure with obvious ability to unite Republicans, she doesn’t bring a state with her, and she carries baggage from her time at HP, where she was ousted over performance issues.
White House Blackberry issue...
Fox News is reporting
Sources with knowledge of the incident said the official, Rafael Quintero Curiel, served as the lead press advance person for the Mexican Delegation and was responsible for handling logistics and guiding the Mexican media around at the conference.
Mexican Embassy spokesman Ricardo Alday said Thursday he was asked to tender his resignation once he arrived back in Mexico City.
"Mr. Quintero will be responsible for explaining his actions to the American authorities conducting an investigation. The Mexican government deeply regrets this incident," he said.
Quintero Curiel took six or seven of the handheld devices from a table outside a special room in the hotel where the Mexican delegation was meeting with President Bush earlier this week.
Everyone entering the room was required to leave his or her cell phone, BlackBerry and other such devices on the table, a common practice when high-level meetings are held. American officials discovered their missing belongings when they were leaving the session.
Are you Web 2.0 ready?...
fascinating story
As companies grapple with whether, and how, to offer a social-networking platform for their workers, some are realizing that if they don't act quickly, their workers will go ahead and do it anyway. And that can mean forfeiting control over what content gets posted where, and who can see it.
"Do you really want Facebook to manage it for you in the outside world, or do you want to do it yourself so you have control?" said Duane Nason, a lead Web engineer with The Gap clothing retailer. "If someone posts something to MySpace and you want it taken down, what's their policy on that?"
Nason was at the Web 2.0 Expo this week to learn more about how social networking, mashups and other new technologies can be applied at his company. He's one of many representatives from large companies at the conference who are grappling with similar questions.
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This story makes me :-)
kids in school are occasionally using what I call "text talk"
'IT'LL JUST COME OUT BY ITSELF' (LOL!), ONE VALLEY TEEN EXPLAINS
OMG. Hieroglyphic text-speak is slipping into homework.
A national look at middle- and high-schoolers found that two-thirds of students have accidentally used instant-messaging style in their academic work, according to a survey released Thursday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
A quarter admitted they have used smiley faces and other emoticons in their papers. Half confessed to informal punctuation and grammar, and four in 10 take typing shortcuts such as "LOL" to express "laughing out loud."
Can NE1 say "Big fat F"?
"Now the teachable moment for parents and teachers is to talk about what makes informal writing and what makes formal writing - and what's appropriate in each of those spheres," said Amanda Lenhart, senior research specialist at the Pew project.
Lenhart said she "isn't worried" about this generation. "This is what I would term a new slang," she said. "We've always had slang. This is different only in that the language comes out of text instead of spoken language, which is how most of our slang has emerged in the past."
The findings don't surprise local students and teachers, who say that instant messaging has become the primary form of communication for a generation weaned on BlackBerry and Motorola Razr phones. They often don't realize what comes out when they let their fingers do the talking.
"I'll forget I'm writing a formal paper. I'll replace 'for' with the number 4," said Vivek Musinipally, a senior at San Jose's Leland High School who is bound for the University of California-Berkeley. "It'll just come out by itself without me thinking about it. But when I proofread, I laugh when I see it."
You can read the Pew Internet & American Life Project report for yourself here.