“ What becomes even more dizzying is the thousands of professionals that have career-related blogs that attract companies in the first place. Who owns their blog posts during their tenure at a company? If an employee generated revenue from those blog posts should the revenue go back to the employer? What if a career blog is launched during employment at a company and discusses information related to the company, or a LinkedIn profile during employment, who owns them?
“ French-born writer Marie NDiaye won France’s top literary prize Monday for ”Three Strong Women,” her moving tale of the struggles of woman in Europe and Africa.
“ Democratic pundit Bob Beckel has been under contract with Fox News for six years. And in the midst of the White House war against the cable network, some of his liberal friends think that’s six years too many. They invited him to lunch the other day for an intervention: Why is Beckel — a true-blue Democrat who worked for Robert F. Kennedy and ran Walter Mondale’s 1984 presidential campaign — giving comfort to the enemy?
“ It was also an example of how Twitter reinforces the tendency of adults to behave like high school students, passing rude notes, spreading exaggerated rumors and obsessing endlessly — and pointlessly — about who said what mean thing about whom.
“ McDonald’s said on Monday that it would close its business in Iceland because it was too expensive for the franchise to operate after the country’s financial crisis.
“ The Kremlin-backed president of Ingushetia said Monday that an opposition activist gunned down in his car over the weekend might have been killed by law enforcement officers, indicating a deep cleavage between power structures in the violent North Caucasus.
