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Zynga Gets Slammed Over Haiti Donations – Deserved or Exaggerated?

By Andy Sternberg | Published: 4 March 2010
If a company is not entirely transparent in it’s charitable dealings, it could cost it’s reputation, especially when inaccurate rumors start to spread. via Mathew Ingram at GigaOm: If you want to see a Twitter mob in its larval stage, just do a search on Zynga or Farmville and Haiti and you will see one emerging over [...]
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Open Government Directive Issued — Will it Be Followed?

By Andy Sternberg | Published: 8 December 2009
The U.S. government is vowing to keep an open dialogue just as it seems it’s getting stuck back in it’s tight-lipped ways. Today the White House Open Government Initiative released the Open Government Directive (PDF) and the Open Government Progress Report to the American People (pdf). #OGD Wordle via Clay Johnson. OMB director Peter Orszag [...]
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NowPublic Names LA’s 20 Most Influential Individuals

By Andy Sternberg | Published: 19 August 2008
Crowdsourcing news site NowPublic released a list of LA’s ‘Most Public’ and — however arbitrarily — selected many of my favorite people both online and off including #4: Micki Krimmel, #5: Zadi Diaz of Epic Fu, #6: Dave Bullock, #8: Zach Behrens of LAist, #10: Kent Nichols of Ask a Ninja, #15: Sean Bonner of [...]
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