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New York protest near wall street on Tuesday!
Meanwhile, back on Wall Street…
From WSJ:
Just how much do pilots at major airlines earn these days? FltOps.com, an information source for pilots, recently released a salary survey. On the low end, first-year pilots at US Airways would, theoretically, earn a minimum $21,600 a year. For that, they would work 72 hours a month at the controls of a plane (lots more hours are involved in flight preparations, overnights and sitting around waiting). […]
And how big is that big payout they hope to get someday? FltOps said on average, captains top out at minimum salaries of $165,278.
The lowest top-scale captain’s salary was $123,480 at JetBlue Airways, and the highest among passenger airlines was again at Southwest: $181,270 a year. At Delta, American, United and Continental, the top minimum for captains is between $156,000 and $167,000 per year.
I walked through this protest on Tuesday … Interesting
But the fear, at least in my case, is less about Facebook’s relentless invasion of users’ privacy, and more about how its thirst for greater user engagement is making the service unwieldy and bloated.
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Facebook’s complexity will be its doom • The Register facebook is an extraordinary company but this quote rings true for me. (via bijan) Finding a virtuous cycle is the key to success of fb … The unbalance between user desire and corporate desire seems to sabotage the spiral upward. |
My smart phone has already made my car radio obsolete because I rarely listen to broadcast radio. I’m not alone. More than half of adults 18-24 have used a portable MP3 player or phone for audio in their car. 41% are interested in rewinding, fast forward and pause (and I think the rest don’t even know it’s now possible and they’ll want it to once they experience it).
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MM: The Smart Phone Killed The Car Radio (via mediafuturist)
Pandora and Tunein radio killed the radio |
This blog post from reachlocal.com breaks open a thought that establishing a local tribe can be facilitated with organic search results… Hummph … I am almost able to see the future from here?
Clearly everyone will go as MONEYBALL for Halloween this year.
We all get superficial and misuse money.
npr:
America’s most beautiful college campuses have the power not only to sway indecisive high school students, of course, but also to attract tourists. Their appeal comes through varying combinations of awe-inspiring architecture, landscaping, and surroundings. To choose among more than 2,600 four-year American colleges, ‘Travel and Leisure’ considered these three key factors as well as architects’ expert opinions.
See if your campus made the cut: America’s Most Beautiful College Campuses - Articles | Travel Leisure
Photo credit: University of Washington/University Photography
Land on a thought enhancing experiment that is your college life
Amazon Kindle can now check out e-books from 11,000 libraries - CSMonitor.com
Kindle users can now check out e-books from 11,000 community libraries across the country, Amazon announced today. The process is a simple one: Navigate to the website of your local library, enter your library card number, select a title, click “Send to Kindle,” and plug in your Amazon.com information. Your book can then be transmitted wirelessly or via USB – any gadget with Amazon software will do, including an iPhone or Android handset.
The availability of the e-books will vary from library to library, but most titles should be available on your Kindle for about two weeks. After that, they’ll disappear. In a press release, Amazon exec Jay Marine called libraries a “critical part of our communities,” and framed the initiative as the natural next step for library lending.
“We’re even doing a little extra here – normally, making margin notes in library books is a big no-no,” Marine said. “But we’re fixing this by extending our Whispersync technology to library books, so your notes, highlights and bookmarks are always backed up and available the next time you check out the book or if you decide to buy the book.”
Platforms to dive into rather than dive from
