JournoOnTheProwl
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A US Army Soldier takes high five with an Afghan boy in eastern Afghanistan. By Umit Bektas. From “The 45 Most Powerful Images of 2011”.
Gingrich cites fraud but Perry prefers to Sue
U.S. 2012 Election is becoming really fun to watch. Look at Virginia’s presidential nominating contest.
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, who failed to come up with 10,000 verifiable signatures, (to satisfy Virginia’s qualification process) has accused a worker hired by his campaign of fraud.
“We hired somebody who turned in false signatures. We turned in 11,100 - we needed 10,000 - 1,500 of them were by one guy who frankly committed fraud,” Gingrich says. This may well be true. What I find idiotic is that he has such an incompetent campaign team. I mean if you know you definitely need 10,000 signatures and also know that one person has about 1,500 hundred of them, you would definitely make sure the person was sound. And if he says that he had been unaware that one person held 1,500 signatures, then, he is even more incompetent than I suspect. Would you trust the reins of your country with someone who is not able to oversee his own campaign without being made to look silly? And then we come to Rick Perry. Texas Governor Perry, filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday seeking to get on Virginia’s 2012 primary election ballot after failing to qualify by last week’s deadline. I may be wrong but it looks awfully like he woke up to the “unconstitutional” nature of the state’s qualification process right after he failed to make the grade. Boy! This is going to be fun!
Earlier today I noticed something funny. My Google profile picture — the picture associated with my Gmail account, my GChat account, my Google+ account, etc — had vanished. A bug? Nope.
It turns out, Google — without telling me — went into my account and deleted my profile picture. Why?…
Photograph: Brian J. Clark/AP
Two women share historic kiss at US Navy ship’s returnFor the first time since the repeal of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell,’ a same sex couple takes part in a traditional public embrace.President Obama signed the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” into law one year ago today.
How Congress reads your e-mails
Earlier this week, we posted this wonderful Vice Magazine piece called ”Dear Congress: It Is No Longer OK To Not Know How the Internet Works,” which took Congress to task for not understanding the ramifications of SOPA and bending too quickly to lobbyists. But a funny thing happened on the way to ripping Congress a new one: Clay Johnson wrote a brilliant response titled “Dear Internet: It’s No Longer OK to Not Know How Congress Works,” in which he points out the structural problems that might cause Congress to focus more on lobbyists than actual constituents. “Lobbyists can manage the attention of our Representatives because they have the time and the resources,” Johnson writes. “But I’ve never met a member of Congress who liked constantly begging for money so that they could get re-elected. Nobody wants that.” He points out that this horrifically-designed software above, a Lockheed Martin product called Intranet Quorum, is how Congress reads constituent letters, and that contracts prevent them from going with something else. Not nearly as sexy as Gmail, is it? No wonder lobbyists get more mindshare than voters, right? There is a huge lesson here to take from BOTH articles. Read them both, if you haven’t. (EDIT: We got a good response to this, which we wrote back to.)
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I’m getting crushed.
Not sure if it’s #newnewtwitter, the end of year rush filling my inbox or how my use case for twitter has changed over the years, but I’m coming to terms with the role twitter is playing for me these days.
Early on, Twitter was a wonderful well of serendipity that I’d dip…
Should investment banks that are seeking underwriting roles in I.P.O.’s be allowed to invest client money in prospective corporate clients ahead of a potential deal?
