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Category: The Solomon Scandals

April 25, 2011 The Solomon Scandals

PressJack gives ‘Solomon Scandals’ blog a Flipboard magazine-style look in your browser: No iPad needed

Check out the resultant experience for yourself. More info on PressJack is here and here, and, yes, it will also

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April 21, 2011 BRAC-133: The Quarter Pentagon / Politicians / The Solomon Scandals / Washington area life

Quarter Pentagon’s bomb vulnerabilities accidentally revealed: Idiots! Almost as bad as bungles in ‘The Solomon Scandals.’ Any ideas for BRAC-133, Mr. Trump?

Update: Jim Moran has since told me there was no quid pro quo, that the real estate developer's contributions were

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April 15, 2011 BRAC-133: The Quarter Pentagon / The Solomon Scandals

High-profile $1B Quarter Pentagon is potential terrorist-bait and one of many reasons why Washington might screw over the young, the old, and the sick

Update: Jim Moran has since told me there was no quid pro quo, that the Indiana real estate developer's contributions

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April 10, 2011 Media / The Solomon Scandals

Torn between two e-books? Go for the one without Digital Rights Management, if forced to choose. DRM is the ‘Scandal’ of e-publishing.

In character, one of Rob Pegoraro’s last “Faster Forward” columns for the Washington Post is on Digital Rights Management, aka

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March 29, 2011 Media / The Solomon Scandals

Aided by Kindle Review rec and 99-cent sale, ‘Solomon Scandals’ zoomed to 1K rank at Amazon out of 850K

For years, as founder and editor of TeleRead, I complained of e-book gouges by big publishers eager to protect their

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March 24, 2011 The Solomon Scandals

99-cent ‘Solomon Scandals’ Kindle sale: Just through March 28

Update: The sale is still on through early April—Scandals’s rank went from the hundreds of thousands to 1K. I paid

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March 8, 2011 The Solomon Scandals

My Chronicle of Higher Education essay on the need for a well-stocked national digital library system

I’ll be back to the Scandals blog in time, but for now, more of my blogging is happening on the

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February 10, 2011 The Solomon Scandals

Kafka, Proust, Roth classics lead Jewcy.com list: ‘The 50 Most Essential Works of Jewish Fiction of the Last 100 Years’

For every two Jews, said David Ben Gurion, the first prime minister of Israel,  three opinions exist, and maybe when

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December 11, 2010 Media / The Solomon Scandals / Washington area life

Washington Post update: iPad app still shines, Sally Quinn gets honored, and I remember the darker side—the Post’s role in Gary Webb’s suicide

Do Ben Bradlee and other Washington Post luminaries actually use the iPad app they touted in one hoot of a

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