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Why local media opposes SOPA, and why you should care

Written on 27 Dec, 2011 in Featured, Opinion | 9 comments

OPINION By BILL MACFADYEN When I first heard talk of SOPA, of course I thought of Mexican food. But the more I’ve learned about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) working its way through Congress, the more of a bad... (Continue reading)

A Facebook secret no more: public offering due

Written on 28 Nov, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 11 comments

Start saving those pennies and get set to buy — in 2012 — a piece of the world’s biggest and trendiest social network, Facebook. The company is expected to shed a 10 percent interest to raise $10 billion — an... (Continue reading)

San Luis Obispo motel tied to British murder case

Written on 30 Oct, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 19 comments

A British tabloid is reporting that U.S. marshals are investigating a link between San Luis Obispo and a sensational murder trial in England. [Daily Mail] Vincent Tabak, a 33-year-old Dutch architectual engineer, is accused of strangling to death Joanna Yeates,... (Continue reading)

This is not an ad for marijuana

Written on 13 Oct, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 27 comments

Escalating their war against medical marijuana in California, federal officials now will try to put a lid on newspaper, radio, and other media advertising of medical marijuana. U.S. Attorney Laura E. Duffy, whose district includes Imperial and San Diego counties,... (Continue reading)

Online poker? First one’s free

Written on 11 Oct, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 3 comments

Political fighting in California over the issue of online gaming has veered from the moral path to the road to profits. Faced with looming federal legislation legalizing and regulating online gambling games such as poker, state lawmakers and a bevy... (Continue reading)

Netflix drops controversial Qwikster plan

Written on 10 Oct, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 10 comments

Netflix, the country’s leading movie rental business, has decided to drop their controversial plan to create two separate websites—one for DVDs and one for streaming. [LATimes] However, a recent price increase that led to a backlash from consumers and a... (Continue reading)

Local newspapers? Humbug, says America

Written on 26 Sep, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 32 comments

Local newspapers don’t earn much respect from a majority of Americans, a new Pew Research Center survey reveals. Most of the 2,000 people interviewed for the survey said they wouldn’t miss their local paper if it disappeared.  They also said... (Continue reading)

Anonymous hacks into Bay Area Rapid Transit website

Written on 15 Aug, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 13 comments

The amorphous hacker group known as Anonymous attacked a Bay Area Rapid Transit website Sunday in retaliation for BART’s decision to cut cell phone service to prevent a flash mob protest against San Francisco police. [San Francisco Chronicle] BART scrambled... (Continue reading)

Taxation with representation

Written on 13 Aug, 2011 in Opinion | 30 comments

OPINION By DR. DON REGAN In a world of computer ease, social media, online payments, world wide and beyond personal computer access and immediacy—why is it that we cannot routinely and securely allocate our Federal and State taxes on line,... (Continue reading)

Facebook takes down California inmate accounts

Written on 9 Aug, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 11 comments

Inmates with unauthorized access to cell phones have been posting Facebook pages from inside California prisons, as well as trolling victims’ pages and harassing them, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. As a result, prison authorities have... (Continue reading)