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OK, I'm liking this research! Even though it was done by Special K…
"It is the most delicious news. Women are happiest with their lives and the way they look when they are a generous size 14. Contentment, it seems, comes with curves. Perhaps that's why Kate Winslet and Nigella Lawson look so pleased with themselves. In a poll of 3,000 women, size 14s rated their general happiness higher than any other female shape, with a quarter saying they liked their appearance."
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CJR holds a semiannual breakfast for The Audit, our business desk. What is similar to the Post and Atlantic and other salon-like events is that these are intended to eventually draw financial support for the news organization. In our case they are free, though we invite funders and potential funders, including some PR firms and financial institututions (Goldman Sachs and Citigroup). We don’t cover such firms, but of course we cover the coverage of them as we analyze and critique the business press. We invite a sprinking of journalists too, but no public officials.
It can be funny what we learn when we do a disclosure like this. Some of us here assumed the hourlong breakfasts were off the record; but the invitations never said that, and others here thought they were on the record. There are good arguments either way, and we’re talking it through.
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This is the app that fixed my iPhone photo library bug. It does a lot of useful stuff. Worth getting, I bought it.
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Shortly after my 2x iPhone upgraded to 3.0 OS, I had a weird problem with the Photo Library: I'd take a picture, the thumbnail would show up in the camera app, and the photo library would show the correct number of photos. But when I'd try to open the camera roll to view all the photos I'd taken (or access it from another app like Twittelator or Brightkite to upload a photo), none of my new pics would be there!
Apparently other folks had this problem too. In the Apple user support forum I found a fix that works. I downloaded the free demo of the phoneview desktop app and followed the instructions, and it worked. Will post a link to that app next…
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That said, Power.com is making some good points. The idea that users aren’t allowed to input their username and passwords into other services is particularly hypocritical, as that’s exactly what Facebook invites you to do to import contacts from services like Gmail and Yahoo Mail.
Facebook can point to its efforts with Facebook Connect, which lets you log in with your Facebook username at third party sites and import some select data from your profile, as evidence of its openness. But this isn’t true data portability, it’s just a new walled garden — third parties are generally only allowed to cache your data, which means that you’re still tethered to Facebook.
