"With a reach of a potential 35 million homes in the Middle East and North Africa region, Cartoon Network's decision to create an Arabic language channel is a bold move."
A few weeks ago, however, I was visiting a friend and fellow teacher who asked a more basic question: "so how would I get started with this whole Twitter thing?"
One of the most common dismissals of Twitter sounds something like this, "I don't need to know what a bunch of people had for breakfast." My response to this is always, "if that what you're seeing on Twitter, you're following the wrong people."
Twitter can help academics make and maintain connections with people in their fields, find out about interesting projects and research, or crowdsource questions and technical problems, but it can be difficult to know where to start.
China plans the launch of a state-run search engine, a joint effort between state-owned China Mobile, and Xinhua, the official state-run news agency. The Chinese internet search market looks extremely lucrative, with Baidu and Google being the current major players.
Will India be the next government to impose restrictions to Google and Skype? The country has already blocked RIM's BlackBerry due to its instant messaging and e-mail encryption features.
"The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men -- the man he is and the man he wants to be."
-- William Feather
As digital books continue to gain market share, one of the country's oldest mass-paperback publishers is abandoning its traditional print books and making its titles available in digital format and print-on-demand only.
Magazines have long used focus groups to tailor their package. New Scientist took another route for its latest issue, testing whether neuromarketing, which examines the brain’s response to products and brands, could help make the magazine more appealing.
The subjects’ reactions were then analyzed by NeuroFocus, a company with headquarters in Berkeley, Calif., which then rated the results on a scale of 1 to 10, based on factors like memory activation and emotional engagement.
“The human brain loves to solve simple puzzles,” he said. “Anytime something is concealed and revealed, the brain rushes toward it.”
However, if you read the scripts and perform any work that is used by anyone in the company to make any type of decision about that script, then you must be paid for your time.
The U.S. Department of Labor has outlined a list of criteria that ALL must be met in order for an internship to be unpaid.
The training, even though it includes actual operation of the facilities of the employer, is similar to that which would be given in a vocational school;
The training is for the benefit of the trainee;
The trainees do not displace regular employees, but work under close observation;
The employer that provides the training derives no immediate advantage from the activities of the trainees and on occasion the employer’s operations may actually be impeded;
The trainees are not necessarily entitled to a job at the completion of the training period; and
The employer and the trainee understand that the trainees are not entitled to wages for the time spent in training.