Below you will find the internal documents circulated by Susan G. Komen for the Cure officials that instruct employees how to obfuscate the issues when confronted with questions about why Komen cut-off funding to Planned Parenthood:

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What should the Occupy movement do, after the occupations? The author and activist joined us for a live webchat In her column earlier this week, author and activist Naomi Wolf wrote about her hopes and fears for the Occupy movement, now that it has been evicted from most of its visible manifestations: "Occupy – a movement I love and respect, and which represents our last best hope – also fills me with distress because of how difficult it is for a movement committed to "no spokespeople" to get t...  show all text

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I'm relieved to be out of my social media editor roles because I've been worrying about my future and the future of the social media role at news organizations, for lots of reasons. [...]

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In the Los Angeles Times today, columnist David Lazarus, a writer I admire, wrote an oddly bitter piece inspired by the Facebook IPO, wondering why so many people under 30 just don’t care about privacy: It’s not just that we no longer feel outraged by repeated incursions on our virtual personal space. We now welcome the scrutiny of strangers by freely sharing the most intimate details of our lives on Facebook, Twitter, and other sites. Why is this new attitude to privacy so bad? Because, he say...  show all text

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Bringing US business models to Europe might seem an obvious move for some – but it’s frequently far harder than it might appear. US incumbents can indeed try to expand, but some fall at the first hurdle. Exactly this happened on January 20 when Shoedazzle announced its closure in the UK. UK head Nigel Whiteoak has since admitted to me that the company was looking to make more of the continued opportunity in the US, versus trying to expand in the UK. Shades of the Romans over-reaching their bord...  show all text

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Yammer grew like crazy last year. How crazy? Product VP Jim Patterson just tweeted out the Yammer 2011 Year in Review infographic below with the comment: “Pretty much everything tripled.” Paid seats went from 300,000 to 800,000, total users went from 1.6 million to 4 million (2.5X growth), and employees went from 80 to 250. Also, all told, 200,000 companies are using Yammer, including 85 percent of the Fortune 500 (and TechCrunch). We just can’t quit you (although we’ve tried). Some of these st...  show all text

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With the government reporting that the jobless rate and the number of unemployed fell to their lowest levels since early 2009, the recovery seems to be reaching workers.

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Reports that more than 150,000 jobs have been created can be seen as good news for President Obama's re-election prospects.

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NUJ members 'overwhelmingly' back action over below-inflation pay offer of 1.75% Journalists at Thomson Reuters have voted to strike – for the first time at the news agency in more than 25 years – over a below-inflation pay offer. The National Union of Journalists chapel at the company voted "overwhelmingly" for a 48-hour strike next week, to coincide with the release of Thomson Reuters' full-year financial results. "We tried very hard to reach a settlement with management but the company's ref...  show all text

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Tech@State on Livestream. Tech@State: Real-Time Awareness now streaming! Review the conference agenda at http://bit.ly/t2fBKy - Watch live streaming Internet TV. Broadcast your own live streaming videos, like Tech@State in Widescreen HD. Livestream, Be There.

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Can microblogged data fit the information needs of humanitarian organizations? This is the question asked by a group of academics at Pennsylvania State University's College of Information Sciences ...

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According to a whole bunch of reports, Facebook is supposed to IPO at a valuation around $75 billion. Investors on secondary markets think that's low. One hundred thousand Facebook shares just sold for $40 a pop in a secondary market auction on SharesPost, according to an email sent out by SharesPost.  This comes after months of Facebook shares trading at $35 with little fluctuation. The $40 share price implies a $94 billion valuation for Facebook. Facebook filed for an IPO earlier this week. S...  show all text

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In San Francisco cafes and bars, even on the street, I overhear people talking about their startup ideas, business plans, and goals. And there are tons of incubators, Angels, wannabe Angels, VC firms, making investments in startups. And there's lots of money being made, especially among the Super Angels, the incubators such as Y Combinator, the micro-VCs, and people such as Jeff Clavier, Dave McClure, who have made fortunes selling startups to larger companies. Sometimes startup teams can go fr...  show all text

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A recording of a confidential conference call between the FBI and UK law enforcement officers at the Metropolitan Police has been released by Anonymous on the internet.

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TED Talks From deep in the TED archive, Danny Hillis outlines an intriguing theory of how and why technological change seems to be accelerating, by linking it to the very evolution of life itself. The presentation techniques he uses may look dated, but the ideas are as relevant as ever.

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The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation reversed its decision to cut financing for breast cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood affiliates and apologized to the American people for what it said was casting doubt on its "commitment to our mission of saving women's lives."

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Here’s the press release that just dropped from the Komen Foundation We want to apologize to the American public for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women’s lives. The events of this week have been deeply unsettling for our supporters, partners and friends and all of us at Susan G. Komen. We have been distressed at the presumption that the changes made to our funding criteria were done for political reasons or to specifically penalize Planned Parent...  show all text

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People are more likely to give in to urge to tweet or check email than other cravings, say US researchers Tweeting or checking emails may be harder to resist than cigarettes and alcohol, according to researchers who tried to measure how well people could resist their desires. They even claim that while sleep and sex may be stronger urges, people are more likely to give in to longings or cravings to use social and other media. A team headed by Wilhelm Hofmann of Chicago University's Booth Busine...  show all text

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The identity behind "Glenbrook LLC," which made a $250,000 donation to the pro-Romney "super PAC" last August, is still unknown. Can you help?

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UPDATE, 12:32 p.m.Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood, said during a Friday conference call that her understanding of Komen's announcement is that it's a complete reversal of the decision to bar funding to her group. "It's quite clear that Planned Parenthood and our health centers and our doctors are eligible now to work with Komen foundation again," Richards said, before adding that she hasn't actually talked to Komen leaders about the decision. "I certainly take them at their wor...  show all text

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NEW YORK—Shocked and saddened witnesses at the Huffington Post's news-aggregation facility have confirmed that employee Henry Evers, 25, died Wednesday ...

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