The Huffington Post, September 3, 2010 by Chris Hoofnagle
http://huff.to/cMoNg7
David Kirkpatrick’s The Facebook Effect complements Accidental Billionaires…. But its main contribution is the description of the Facebook “effect”: its potential for changing the internet. This vision makes clear that Facebook is not a toy for college students to “hook up”; it is a platform for sharing data that can erode the power of existing institutions, even the power of Facebook itself.
The American Prospect, September 2, 2010 by Ann O’Leary
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_power_to_act
The power delegated to the president by Congress under the Procurement Act is very broad. The president can develop policies that have a real impact in improving labor and employment standards among workers employed by federal contractors. With nearly a quarter of the workforce affected by such conditions, these policies will surely have a ripple effect across the economy.
San Francisco Chronicle, September 1, 2010 by Nanette Asimov
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/08/31/BAFR1F6EQV.DTL
UC’s law school Dean Christopher Edley said that when the commission makes its formal recommendation to the regents this fall, “we need to allay the emotional concerns of parents who see that their campus of choice has made room for out-of-state students—but not their kid.”