30-03-2012 07:19 TFI-News met with Jim Riley, Deputy Director at Ohio DOT's Division of Innovative Delivery, to discuss the state's current progress on the Ohio Turnpike and the use of P3s in other road projects.
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The New York Times's Brian Stelter reported Friday that Current TV has dismissed cable news host Keith Olbermannafter he moved there just over a year agofrom MSNBC, and the break-up does not sound amicable. In a statement, Current TV writes:
Current was also founded on the values of respect, openness, collegiality, and loyalty to our viewers. Unfortunately these values are no longer reflected in our relationship with Keith Olbermann and we have ended it.
That might only be big news in itself if you're an Olbermann follower, though if you are, it'll come as no surprise. Olbermann has publicly sparred with his network a lot over the past few months. But of course, no story on Olbermann goes without his own enthusiastic take on it, and we expect fireworks will make this interesting. Apparently, there won't be any ceremony about the firing either, Stelter reports. Olbermann's dismissal is immediate, and he'll be replaced by Eliot Spitzer -- the former New York governor who also knows a little something about being fired by a cable news network. Spitzer's set to appear in just a few hours from the announcement, a turn-around so fast, even the show's guests have been caught off guard.
It'll also be interesting to see where Olbermann lands. We hear Rupert Murdoch's got a new sports network in the making.
Update: 6:30 PM EST:Olbermann released the following statement:
I'd like to apologize to my viewers and my staff for the failure of Current TV. Editorially, Countdown had never been better. But for more than a year I have been imploring Al Gore and Joel Hyatt to resolve our issues internally, while I've been not publicizing my complaints, and keeping the show alive for the sake of its loyal viewers and even more loyal staff. Nevertheless, Mr. Gore and Mr. Hyatt, instead of abiding by their promises and obligations and investing in a quality news program, finally thought it was more economical to try to get out of my contract. It goes almost without saying that the claims against me implied in Current's statement are untrue and will be proved so in the legal actions I will be filing against them presently. To understand Mr. Hyatts values of respect, openness, collegiality and loyalty, I encourage you to read of a previous occasion Mr. Hyatt found himself in court for having unjustly fired an employee. That employees name was Clarence B. Cain. http://nyti.ms/HueZsa In due course, the truth of the ethics of Mr. Gore and Mr. Hyatt will come out. For now, it is important only to again acknowledge that joining them was a sincere and well-intentioned gesture on my part, but in retrospect a foolish one. That lack of judgment is mine and mine alone, and I apologize again for it.
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A small New York web development company pulled a fast one on the Internet this week when it pretended to launch a website associated with Kanye West's yet-to-be-unveiled startup.
And as the famous West/Jay-Z song says, it got the people going.
WhoDat.biz lit up Twitter on Wednesday and was reported by a couple of credible news sites, including the Washington Post.
"Quick! Invest in @kanyewest's Donda Media. They just reinvented technology that has been around since the 80's," said one Twitter user, who likely hadn't yet realized the site was a hoax.
By the end of the night, it was obvious the site was not legitimate, especially considering it's nothing more than a simple who-is website that looks up websites' information. Gizmodo debunked WhoDat.biz after discovering the real creators behind the site, cleverly enough, by using the fake West website to look up their phone number.
OKFocus the team of web developers behind the hoax, pulls this kind of stunt once a week, said co-founder Ryder Ripps.
We try to do one of these kind of projects a week just to keep our own spirits up and have fun," he said. "Thats the main objective, and prove to our future clients that were good at the Internet.
OKFocus decided to make an interesting who-is website on Monday. They chose to go with a gangster-style who-is but decided they needed something more to make it interesting and catch people's attention.
And West's startup, named Donda after his deceased mother, presented an opportunity. The rapper announced the venture in January on Twitter, but he has yet to reveal what it is.
It was something that didnt have any sort of presence on the Internet yet, Ripps said. We could interpret it to our own liking.
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