Yahoo My 2.5 Star Trip to Amazon's Bizarre New Bookstore | New Republic The store assumes familiarity with Amazon.com. This goes beyond understanding whether 4.5 stars is, in fact, a good if oddly precise number of stars. A shelf labelled “Most Wishlisted Cookbooks” faced the line of excited customers outside. Crucially, books in the store are priced as they are on Amazon’s site. Matching online prices is crucial to the conceit of Amazon Books: the store is not just an overcrowded ex-sushi restaurant with limited selection and a creepily insistent smile in its logo, but a physical extension of the site itself. Each book in the store is displayed face-out.This display method limits the stock that can be carried. Books are not always arranged in a clear manner. Selection is, of course, limited. Below many books is a small placard—booksellers call them shelf-talkers—giving the book’s average star rating and one of the reviews posted for the book on the site. The staff carried small handheld scanners to help them locate books. Or, that’s not exactly right.
Social Media Search Tool | WhosTalkin? Tomorrow's Internet Turns 20 “The newest key person at publishers,” says trade publication Digiday, is the “platform wrangler.” That is: “a strong voice representing their interests at a time when platforms are increasingly the way that audiences find their content and setting the rules for publishers to distribute and monetize their articles and videos.” If a large portion, or a majority, of a publication’s audience is going to be arriving through or on another company’s app or platform, someone probably ought to be paying close attention to those relationships. This makes sense! So there is a hint of self-flattery in referring to this role as a “wrangler” or a “director” or a “manager,” but I suppose that’s what job titles are for, online, in 2015, where everyone is an editor of writing, or a director of editors, or a leader of projects, of a manager of leaders. “Cool” is the highest accolade in the [Ted] Leonsis lexicon, and he has conferred it on more than two dozen presentations this year. Advertisement
Carrot2 Carrot2 Search Results Clustering Engine Carrot2 organizes your search results into topics. With an instant overview of what's available, you will quickly find what you're looking for. Choose where to search: Type your query: More options More advanced options Hide advanced options Example queries: data mining | london | clustering About Carrot2: Carrot2 is an Open Source Search Results Clustering Engine. Was Benching Johnny Manziel an Act of Discrimination? Last year, Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel signed a four-year, $8 million contract, with $4.3 million guaranteed up front. Ask most Americans, and they'll tell you they think Manziel is overpaid. Two million a year, they'll say, is too much for a guy who throws a ball for a living. Disregarding the merit of those claims—the athlete is a product of their market, so it's oddly simplistic to point a finger at one individual—the fact of the matter is: Johnny "Football" Manziel is paid to perform a task. About three weeks ago, Manziel was named starting quarterback of the Browns. For most players, this wouldn't have been an issue. "There is a very good argument that the Cleveland Browns are violating the ADA by disciplining Manziel for being at a bar." Here's where things get tricky. Alcoholism falls under the Americans With Disabilities Act. So then, let's go back and review the timeline: The Browns had the following week off. So would Manziel have a case here?
ASCII Characters By Keyboard A first stab at reproducing Jennifer Kyrnin's massive HTML Special Characterset Guide was added 13 May 2013. (13 May 2013) How to create alternate characters, such as foreign characters, those with diacritical (accent) marks, symbols, etc. [Numbers MUST be keyed on the Numeric Keypad, NOT on the top line of the keyboard.] This listing does not begin to be exact; different platforms and servers handle these codes differently. Further, I have not yet checked out each of the nearly 700 codes and results. Here are print-outs created in a graphics program of the active, non-duplicating sets Alt 032-254 and Alt 0128-0256 (because they are so detailed, I have also thumbnailed them): (07 Jun 03) (07 Jun 2003 Images by and © 2003 S. "{ }" indicates a non-funtioning code; blanks are codes that did not print in the graphics program (these images have not been fully checked out yet). (More to follow.) Here's a first stab a reproducing Jennifer Kyrnin's Web Design / HTML Guide: (13 May 2013) (04 Sep 2013)
Police creating ‘safe exchange zones’ to keep Craigslist deals from going bad Carl Pardiny, chief of police of Fairfax City, Va., stands in the newly established “Exchange Zone” outside police headquarters, where citizens can complete online transactions. (Tom Jackman/The Washington Post) The rise of Craigslist, and the easy online sale of unwanted computers or concert tickets, has been accompanied by a dark side — the tense moments when strangers must meet to complete the deal. The stories are plentiful: a string of armed robberies in Prince George’s County in June of people selling phones; a college student slain in Missouri in May after agreeing to sell a car on Craigslist; a job seeker in Ohio killed and buried by a farmer. But a new idea is emerging with local police departments around the country to combat the problem: A “safe exchange zone,” clearly marked in the parking lot of a well-lit police station, or even in the lobby of the police station, for people to meet and sell their goods with less fear of a quick or violent rip-off.
National Women’s Hockey League Gets Its First Corporate Sponsor The National Women’s Hockey League, the first paid professional hockey league for women in North America, reached another monumental milestone on Tuesday when it announced Dunkin’ Donuts as the league’s first corporate sponsor. Considering the rookie organization already has broadcasting partnerships with both ESPN3 and NESN, there are plenty of signs that the NWHL — founded this spring by 28-year-old Dani Rylan without funding from the NHL or any other established hockey organization — is here to stay. Read More: These Women Are About To Make Hockey History The NWHL launched in October, just 18 months after Rylan began looking into ways to bring women’s pro hockey to the United States. “The goal isn’t to make a profit the first year, it’s to have a sustainable product. Many still consider the league to be fledgling, but partnerships like the one with Dunkin’ showcase how valuable the trailblazing league — and women’s hockey as a whole — is becoming.