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January 17, 2007
Gmail and office email
NY Times: Firms Fret as Office E-Mail Jumps Security Walls -- More Internet-literate workers are forwarding their office e-mail to free Web-accessible personal accounts.
A growing number of Internet-literate workers are forwarding their office e-mail to free Web-accessible personal accounts offered by Google, Yahoo and other companies. Their employers, who envision corporate secrets leaking through the back door of otherwise well-protected computer networks, are not pleased.
Posted by eubie at 9:15 PM permalink
The 24-hour journalist
NY Times: The Media Equation: 24-Hour Newspaper People -- Having a blog makes me approachable, reader-friendly and engaged. Perhaps too engaged.
For those of you who don’t have a blog yet, think of one as a large yellow Labrador: friendly, fun, not all that bright, but constantly demanding your attention.
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There has always been a feedback loop in journalism — letters to the editor, the phone and more recently e-mail messages. But a blog provides feedback through a fire hose. The nice thing about putting out a newspaper was that, at some point, the story was set and the writer got to go home. Now I have become a day trader, jacked in to my computer and trading by the second in my most precious commodity: me. How do they like me now? What about ... now? Hmmmm ... Now?
Posted by eubie at 9:11 PM permalink
Tax rates for the rich dropped most -- study finds
NY Times: Tax Cuts Offer Most for Very Rich, Study Says -- Families earning more than $1 million a year saw their federal tax rates drop more sharply in 2004 than any group in the country.
The study, by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, also shows that tax rates for middle-income earners edged up in 2004, the most recent year for which data was available, while rates for people at the very top continued to decline.
I finished reading this month The great American tax dodge : how spiraling fraud and avoidance are killing fairness, destroying the income tax, and costing you by Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele so I was already feeling a little put out about income taxes.
Link to the Congressional Budge Office report.
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