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PMetrics Widget Brainstorming

I'm in the process of developing a sidebar widget for pMetrics that displays a blog's "rank" in relation to other pMetrics sites. It should be released at the end of this coming week if all goes as planned. In the process of building this widget, I'd like to build in other features that might be of interest to the pMetrics user community. So let ... (Read on Source)

Brain Boosters

Our reporter enters the new world of neuroenhancers by having his brain zapped with electricity and dosed with chemicals to see if it makes him smarter and more alert.

The Emergence of Next-Gen Networks, Part 2: Wireless

With the emergence of wireless networking, ultra slim notebooks, PDAs and smartphones, mobile communications have quickly become an integral part of doing business. Mobile capabilities are set to take another leap forward with the introduction of new standards for wireless broadband wide- and local-area networking.

Rural Telecoms Target Washington in Fee Fight

A group of rural telecom providers' claim that industry giants put the squeeze on their businesses after the small companies figured out a way to increase profits and drive telephone calls to their lines has mushroomed beyond its humble Iowa roots to Congress and the FCC. At the center of the whirlwind is Kelley Drye Collier Shannon, which is advising the rural telecoms in court and on the Hill, and providing a perfect illustration of how D.C. firms can serve clients across several distinct platforms.

The Top SEOs ?Give it Up? In Seattle for SMX

Early last month in a city known as ?Seattle?, a group of search marketers attended a magical gathering called Search Marketing Expo. You?ve already heard about most of the magic that took place, but there was one meeting Lord Sullivan would not let the peasant bloggers discuss until one month... (Read on Source)

US gets back at apathetic Puerto Rico team - FOXSports.com

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Author Promotes Important Values in a Children's Book that Looks Good Enough to Eat

Motivated by her experience with Hollywood media, author Sharidan Williams-Sotelo's The Legend of Limpy and Lumpy will inspire a much-needed confidence in children. (PRWeb Aug 30, 2007)

Time Warner Divisions Team Up for Movie Promo (AdWeek.com)

AdWeek.com - NEW YORK Online gaming is at the center of an upcoming Time Warner Cable cross-promotional effort to sell its services as well as create buzz around Fred Claus, a major holiday release from sister company Warner Bros. that stars Vince Vaughn and Paul Giamatti.

Brennan will 'put his feelings on International Rules aside'

GAA President Nickey Brennan says he will put his personal views on the future of the International Rules series to one side for make or break talks on the compromise game with his Australian counterpart.

Schwartz Hand & Feet Cream

I was thinking about coming out with Barry Schwartz branded products. You know, like the George Foreman grill.... So I got this prototype in the mail, Schwartz Hand & Feet Cream! (Read on Source)

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Hypernatremia

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Mandriva Linux 2009 Beta 1

The first beta for Mandriva Linux 2009, code named thornicrofti, is now available. There is information about the new release in various places:

How to Find Freelance Writing Jobs Online Posted By : RobFerrall

Finding freelance writing jobs on the internet is not all that difficult. In this short tutorial I cover one method that any writer can use today to find freelance writing jobs online. More: continued here

China Should Score More Olympic Gold

LiveScience.com - China's hopes for a huge haul of Olympic medals this year look like they may be fulfilled. (Read on Source)

UBS shakes up after second-quarter losses

ZURICH, Switzerland, Aug. 12 (UPI) -- Swiss bank UBS said its fourth consecutive quarter of losses reached $326 million, triggering a management and organizational shakeup.

Valleywag names the "10 most terrible tyrants of tech"

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Earthquake Zone Off Oregon Coast Surprisingly Active

Scientists have completed a new analysis of an earthquake fault line that extends some 200 miles off the southern and central Oregon coast that they say is more active than the San Andreas Fault in California.

Robot Asimo can understand three voices at once

For the first time a robot comes close to having the human ability to single out one voice from many � and in some ways it surpasses human performance

Microsoft Gives Windows XP Extra Life

... to wait for Windows 7, a repackaged vista. Do yourself a favor, upgrade to Ubuntu or Debian instead. I tried Linux and BSD but liked BSD more& Ultimately, I went back ...

IDNet Interview Q4-2008

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Rasmussen Reports and Predictify Launch Rasmussen Reports Prediction Center

New Partnership Provides Crowd-Sourced Data on Politics, Business and Lifestyle Indicators and as a Complement to Traditional Polling Data (PRWeb Oct 17, 2008)

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Donald Trump Launching MMA Reality Show

Rich guy and All-Star businessman Donald Trump is taking his interest in Affliction and the MMA to television. He hopes. Trump partnered with Affliction in June and it looks like he’s finally trying to use his influence to help out the company. (Read on Source)

Home Sweet Office: Telecommute Good for Business, Employees, and Planet

Ever since OPEC vexed Jimmy Carter into wearing a cardigan, telecommuting has been touted as a fix for what ails the US office worker — the agony and expense of commuting, the drudgery of cubicles, the shortage of family time. Long before the advent of the Web, evangelists were confident that cordless phones and faxes had already made the office a relic. "Working from home holds the promise of a new American dream," Paul and Sarah Edwards gushed in their 1985 manifesto, Working From Home, in which they extolled the virtues of commuting from breakfast nook to den.

Two decades later, however, most workers still trudge to the office. Though a third of the more than 150 million working Americans telecommute at least occasionally, most do so just a few days each month. Only 40 percent of companies permit any sort of work-at-home arrangement, which means most insist on full-time attendance. According to a 2006 survey by the Telework Exchange, the top fear among resisters is that they'll lose control of their employees, whom they doubtlessly envision frittering away the hours between 9 and 5 playing Minesweeper and munching Cheetos.

Telecommuting's foes couldn't be more misguided. When gasoline costs $4 a gallon, companies shouldn't just be doing all they can to expand telecommuting — they should be scrapping their offices entirely. No, not turning them into toy-filled communal spaces, as advertising titan Chiat/Day infamously did in the early-'90s, but abandoning them outright.

That might sound a bit radical to those who swear by the office's supposed benefits, like camaraderie and face-to-face collaboration. But time and again, studies have shown that telecommuters are every bit as engaged as their cubicle-bound brethren — and happier and more productive to boot. Last year, researchers from Penn State analyzed 46 studies of telecommuting conducted over two decades and covering almost 13,000 employees. Their sweeping inquiry concluded that working from home has "favorable effects on perceived autonomy, work-family conflict, job satisfaction, performance, turnover intent, and stress." The only demonstrable drawback is a slight fraying of the relationships between telecommuters and their colleagues back at headquarters — largely because of jealousy on the part of the latter group. That's the first problem you solve when you kill your office.

Earlier this year, an IDC report from Asia found that 81 percent of managers believe telecommuting improves productivity, up from 61 percent in 2005. The increase is attributable largely to the proliferation of unified communications technologies — tools that connect mobile and remote workers. These include products like LifeSize Express, the first hi-def videoconferencing system priced at less than $5,000, as well as Web-based services like Google Docs and Glance, which let users view a remote colleague's onscreen work in real time (in the case of Glance, with cursor movements and all).

The traditional office, meanwhile, remains a black hole of interruptions, procrastination, and soul-crushing politics. According to Gloria Mark, an informatics professor at UC Irvine, the typical office worker is interrupted or switches tasks every three minutes — hardly enough time to accomplish anything of substance.

True, there is value to getting folks together under one roof, but those gatherings needn't occur every day. Instead of leasing traditional offices — currently averaging around $21.25 per square foot annually, and a quarter of that is typically either vacant or underutilized — companies could join meeting-room cooperatives, which allow firms to assemble when necessary. Given that it costs more than $15,000 per year to provide an employee with 200 square feet of cubicle, the savings would be significant — so great, in fact, that companies would still come out thousands of dollars ahead after springing for workers' broadband and VoIP expenses.

Ditching the office could also provide businesses with a leg up in the scramble to recruit and retain talent. For starters, location would no longer limit a company's employment pool — gifted Kansans wouldn't be forced to uproot their lives for opportunities in, say, California. Also, based on the average American's commute time, driving speed, and vehicle specs — and assuming that gas costs $4 per gallon — a telecommuter would save around $1,200 a year on fuel alone — an instant salary bump, of sorts.

Perhaps you've been an office drone for so long that you can't imagine life without fuzzy, low-slung cubicle walls. Well, given that the typical American house is now over 2,500 square feet — up more than 60 percent since the early '70s — surely you can find room to build your own cube. Add some stale coffee and a buzzing fluorescent light and it will feel just like... well, you know where.

Brendan I. Koerner (brendan_koerner@wired.com) is Wired's Mr. Know-It-All.

Yahoo, AOL in due diligence on combination: source (Reuters)

Reuters - Yahoo Inc and Time Warner Inc's AOL unit are looking at each other's books to figure out how much money they could make together and where costs can be saved, a person familiar with the talks said on Wednesday, indicating a merger may finally be on the way.