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Economists’ Taboo

Anti-employee control frauds most commonly fall in four broad, but not mutually exclusive, categories – illegal work conditions due to violation of safety rules, violation of child labor laws, failure to pay employees’ wages and benefits, and frauds based on goods and loans provided by the employer to the employee that lock the employee into quasi-slavery. Apple has just released a report on its suppliers that shows that anti-employee control fraud is the norm.

William K. Black parses Apple’s supply chain audits.

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As Tolstoy Saw Napoleon

For n+1 Gary Sernovitz reviews Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs.

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Due to the New Terms

MG Siegler at TechCrunch comments on Amazon’s new Kindle Cloud Reader.

One thing to note is that the cloud versions (and obviously the downloaded versions) of the Kindle books are still limited to a set number of devices. So if you have your books downloaded to your Kindle, iPad, iPhone, etc, you may be over the limit and will not be able to read them in the cloud.

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Be Wary

At Slate Farhad Manjoo covers Apple’s electronic publishing extortion attempt.

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What You'll Find at Disneyland

At Salon Dan Gillmor writes with refreshing candor about news organizations’ flailing for alternative distribution.

I’m disappointed beyond words, meanwhile, that journalism organizations are racing to create apps for the iPad, even though they’re putting the final say over whether their journalism is acceptable into Apple’s hands. What does it say about their journalistic principles that they’d do this? Most won’t even respond to the question, and I’ve asked many. National Public Radio’s Kinsey Wilson, who heads up NPR’s online development, is one of the few to admit discomfort with the situation, saying that Apple holds the leverage at this point; he, and other news executives, are basically hoping Apple won’t jerk them around the way it’s done with others.

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Gadget Fatigue

I’m a “pad” skeptic. Yeah, I saw Steve Jobs on stage with the shiniest, newest, coolest tablet computer out there, but I couldn’t help but ask myself, where does this fit into my life?

Eyder Peralta at National Public Radio dismisses Apple’s awkward device.

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