‘Me? Just Chilling…’ [Pic Of The Day]
[ On the set of 30 Rock, Tina Fey phones it in. And thus concludes the bad pun portions of our day. Image via INF ] More »
Spotted! Edward Norton Plays the ‘Celebrity’ Card to Blow Off a Bill [Stalker]
In Leaves of Grass Edward Norton plays twins, one of whom deals pot. At last night’s snack-accompanied SxSW screening, Edward’s mellow went up in smoke when he thought he received a bill for his munchies. A witness writes in. More »
Survey Finds European Kids Are Not So Clever After All [Kids]
There’s a myth Americans are dumb while Europeans read Kierkegaard from childhood. Except a survey in England found one in 20 kids think Luke Skywalker or Richard Branson were first on the moon and the Queen invented the telephone. [BBC] More »
How Lehman, With The Fed’s Complicity, Created Another Illegal Precedent In Abusing The Primary Dealer Credit Facility
Five months ago, Zero Hedge observed the nuances of the Federal Reserve’s Primary Dealer Credit Facility (PDCF) and concluded that this artificial liquidity boosting construct was nothing more than yet another scam to allow banks to extract ever more money from taxpayers, with the complicit blessing of the Federal Reserve Board Of New York (as [...]
WWD Reader Profile: Larry Salibra, Founder, Attigo
WebWorkerDaily readers are a diverse bunch. Every week, I profile a different reader and ask them to share what they do, how they do it, and some of their favorite hints and tips.
Who are you and what do you do?
My name is Larry Salibra. I am [...]
Roundup: Social Media Monitoring Tools
There are countless ways to track your brand on social media. Simple methods include using Twitter search and Google Alerts; more elaborate tools include Radian6’s newly announced Engagement Console, which will scour numerous social platforms for any mention of your brand.
So here’s a roundup of some of the more popular tracking tools.
Monitoring Dashboards
Twazzup 2.0 beta [...]
First Look: March 9
How should companies survive a recession and do well afterward? Empirical research into the activities of 4,700 public companies during three recent recessions makes clear that the healthiest survivors simultaneously deployed both defensive and offensive maneuvers. Writing in the March issue of Harvard Business Review, HBS professors Ranjay Gulati and Nitin Nohria and Kellogg School [...]
Do Sharks Need Protection From Us?
Used in everything from soup to nutritional supplements and skincare products, sharks are a multi-billion dollar, global, mostly unregulated industry. Now conservationists want to declare eight species endangered.
With a powerful torpedo-shaped body almost the size of a bus, the ability to sniff out one drop of blood in 25 gallons of water–or up to three [...]
Virgin Media to Start Trialing Overground Fiber-Optic Broadband in the U.K.
Inhabitants of the picturesque village of Woolhampton, 50 miles west of London, are set to be guinea pigs for an interesting broadband experiment. Virgin Media is to trial running fiber-optic cables from telegraph poles, piping ultra-fast broadband direct to the villagers’ homes.
Although you might think that it’s just case of stringing up the cables on [...]
Tweetmaster General Evan Williams Touts Twitter as a Worldwide Force for Democracy
Evan Williams, one of the founders of Twitter, has given a lengthy interview to the BBC World Service, in which he claims that social media is fundamental to the spread of democracy. Or should that be the other way around? In the 30-minute program, which debuts tonight, he also touched on why he turned down [...]