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Sat October 15 2011 7:48 am &nbsphttp://www.arlingtoncardinal.com/?p=48219   Share The Cardinal -- Arlingtoncardinal.com Articles  (E-Mail, Facebook, Twitter & More)&nbsp Des Plaines Truck Company 83 at Forest Cove Apartments balcony fire . Mount Prospect police and firefighter/paramedics responded about 12:40 a.m. Saturday to a report of a balcony on fire at 1729 Forest Cove , Mount Prospect . Firefighters arrived to find fire on the third floor balcony and declared a working fire and request additional response from mutual aid communities . The fire was out by 12:55 a.m. Saturday. Firefighters from Arlington Heights , Des Plaines, Elk Grove Township , Prospect Heights , Rolling Meadows and others assisted Mount Prospect firefighters . Forest Cove Apartments balcony fire " width="595" height="444" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-48228" /> Stay informed with news from The Cardinal’s Emergencies Behind the Scenes Facebook page ...

Sometimes a metaphor settles into everyday use so comfortably, it can be picked back up to extend its meaning away from what it now describes — a metaphor doing metaphorical service. Platform has certainly done that. When I first wrote about the term in 2010, social media companies like YouTube and Facebook were beginning to use the term to describe their Web 2.0 services, to their users, to advertisers and investors, and to themselves. Now social media companies have embraced the term fully, extending it to services that broker the exchange not just of content or sociality but rides (Uber), apartments (Airbnb), and labor (TaskRabbit). The term so comfortably describes these services that critics and commentators can draw on it to extend out for the purposes of argument. The past few years have witnessed a “platform revolution,” the rise of “platform capitalism,” driven by “platform strategy,” with the possibility of “platform cooperativism,” all part of “the platform society.” Thes...