Article: Mexican Officials Say Prisoners Acted as Hit Men - NYTimes.com

Ouch. That's some serious corruption:

Mexican Officials Say Prisoners Acted as Hit Men - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/26/world/americas/26mexico.html?_r=1&src=twt&twt=nytimes

Ballistics studies confirmed that four guns used in the shooting were the same as those assigned to jail guards, Mr. Nájera said.

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Fake femme fatale shows social network risks - Computerworld

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9179507/Fake_i_femme_fatale_i_shows_so...

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Article: How to Make an American Job Before It's Too Late: Andy Grove - Bloomberg

How to Make an American Job Before It's Too Late: Andy Grove - Bloomberg

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-07-01/how-to-make-an-american-job-before-it-s-too-late-andy-grove.html

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"Bridging the Digital Divide" isn't a matter solely of providing technology or bandwidth...

Digital Domain - Computers at Home - Educational Hope vs. Teenage Reality - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/business/11digi.html?_r=1

I liked the article's finish, even if I don't like the results achieved from providing the technology:

"When devising ways to beat school policing software, students showed an exemplary capacity for self-directed learning. Too bad that capacity didn’t expand in academic directions, too."

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Quick downfall from a poorly-chosen Tweet

From the NYTimes:

"CNN on Wednesday removed its senior editor of Middle Eastern affairs, Octavia Nasr, after she published a Twitter message saying that she respected the Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/08/business/media/08cnn.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

Interesting to see the sort of trouble one can get in now that personal opinions can be passed so rapidly across the Internet. Leads one to wonder, of course, how many other journos harbor similar ideas and have just been smart enough not to express them publicly. Look how long it took to catch up with Helen Thomas.

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