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Lawsuit over denying access to a student with learning disabilities

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

She asked me to comment on a bunch of issues around Bookshare, and we prepared the comments below. New Jersey is not such a state, and thus Bookshare would need to wait to be assigned titles by an authorized user of the NIMAC for the state of New Jersey, typically a responsible person at the state education agency.

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Has Your Organization Thought Through its Social Media Policy?

NTEN

A Federal case in New Jersey questions whether comments made by employees about their employer on a private site outside the office can be constituted as defamation. Are employers liable for hurtful or discriminatory comments posted from office computers?

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News by the Spoonful: The $10 USB Condom (Seriously)

Tech Soup

The action called Battle for the Net was intended to stimulate more comments to the FCC before the September 15 comment deadline. 777,000 new comments were filed with the FCC. The ruling will necessitate policies on: who will be provided with devices. The New Instagram Hyperlapse App. How did it work?

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Amazon shareholders are calling for independent audit of how the company treats workers

The Verge

Courtenay Brown, a worker at an Amazon Fresh warehouse in New Jersey and leader of workers’ group United for Respect, testified before Congress on December 7th about work conditions at her facility. Amazon did not reply to a request for comment from The Verge about the proposal.

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The Last Blogpotomac: A New Community Rises from the Ashes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I started off in Camden, Maine to teach at the PopTech Fellows program, New Jersey Center for the Performing Arts for a session with arts marketers , and finally to Washington, DC to attend a briefing at the White House and to keynote the last BlogPotomac conference. George Brett who took some great photos of conference.

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Fintech Roundup: Goldman Sachs buys another startup, Fast hits a speed bump and BaaS gets hotter

TechCrunch

TechCrunch reached out to Fast for comment. The Fort Lee, New Jersey-based institution is also a technology infrastructure provider that quietly powers lending and payments for many of the fintechs that top VCs are also backing — a reverse of sorts of the more common fintech-powering-bank dynamic we’re used to.

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Gogoro Eeyo 1S electric bike review: unapologetic fun

The Verge

I’ve never had so many people comment on the looks of my bicycles before, either through saucer eyes as I pedaled past or from glowing words of praise. For more information, see our ethics policy. A few other observations: I’m very happy with the soft, sticky rubber on the grips and phone mount. Vox Media has affiliate partnerships.

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