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September 29, 2014
Indian PM Narendra Modi Brings Vision Of "Toilets Before Temples" To A U.S. Audience
At the Global Citizen Festival, Modi calls on activists to get behind a plan to end open defecation and install toilets in every Indian home.
On Saturday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi stood on a stage in Central Park and saluted 60,000 mostly youthful activists who had earned tickets to the Global Citizen Festival through their work against global poverty. Modi was one of the event's headliners, along with Jay-Z, Beyonce, and The Roots, all of whom had gathered to promote not just awareness of poverty but also action to fight it. Specifically, the organizers had invited him to highlight his pledge to expand sanitation in India and end open defecation, one of the keystone efforts of his government.
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Chartbeat Aims To Move Publishers' Attention Away From Page Views
Pay attention to the "attention economy."
Chartbeat, a social analytics tool used by advertisers and news organizations for real-time monitoring of website traffic, announced Monday that the Media Rating Council accredited 21 of its metrics, including ones that track and monetize audience attention rather than page views.
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Fast Company Is Looking For A Web Development Intern
Tech skills? Join our team!
Fast Company is seeking development interns to work alongside our team on the daily operations and enhancements to the FastCo family of sites, including our flagship site, fastcompany.com, which draws over 12M unique visitors a month.
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Literary Titans Side With Hachette Over Amazon
The new group, called Authors United, includes Salman Rushdie and Philip Roth.
A small group of literary titans is banding together against a common threat: Amazon.
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Chloé Founder Gaby Aghion Dies
The mother of luxury ready-to-wear and Chloé's feminine, playful designs has died at age 93.
Gaby Aghion, a pioneering designer of luxury ready-to-wear and founder of the French fashion house Chloé, died at her Paris home on Saturday. She was 93.
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The Best Drones For Aerial Photography, Videography, And Generally Having Fun
The Wirecutter spent over 35 hours of research and conducted dozens of flights to determine the best drone for your dollar.
Dozens of pre-assembled consumer drones are now available between $200 and $9,000, and we looked into virtually all of them. After 35 hours of research and dozens of flights, we had to agree with the opinions of most experts and everyday users: For aerial photography, videography, and generally having fun, the DJI Phantom 2 Vision+ is the best is the best drone for most people, from first-time flyers to experienced novices.
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The Top 10 Best Places To Work Remotely
At least according to NomadList.
Here's a fun exercise. By combining niceties like Internet data speed, the cost of housing and food, and local weather conditions, NomadList has tallied up a list of the best places on Earth from which to work remotely. The top 10?
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September 27, 2014
Move Over, Bake Sales: The New School Fundraising Model Sells Local, Organic Groceries
More schools are replacing brownies and cookies with broccoli and kale.
Every Wednesday afternoon, Rebecca Matthews sets up on the picnic tables in front of Malcolm X Elementary School in Berkeley, California. She unloads bags of local, organic groceries--on this particular September day, about 90 in total--so parents can easily grab them while picking up their kids.
September 26, 2014
Yahoo is Killing Its Web Directory, And With It A Little Bit of the Internet's Soul
One of the most important sites of the web's first era is about to go offline. Here's a better suggestion.
I happen to remember the very first thing I did on the World Wide Web. It was the fall of 1994, and I performed a search for websites about one of my favorite comic strips, George Herriman's Krazy Kat. I was amazed by how many there were, and how easy it was to find them. (There might have been as many as fifteen or twenty.)
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