Instead of reviewing applications ahead of publication one-by-one with an army of reviewers as Apple does, Google takes the opposite approach and scans its app store after the apps have gone live.
But instead of reviewing church history, Brown has spent the past few years studying the future.
Think of it as Yelp for business credit — instead of reviewing restaurants and stores, its community gives feedback on how promptly a company pays.
For example, the law says that instead of reviewing each disabled child's educational plan every year automatically, schools could review them only once every three years, provided parents agree to the change.
In the case of road repairs, instead of reviewing townwide maps and looking only at overall budget numbers, council members were laser-focused on those roads they know they are responsible for.
(But then, since people started quoting movie box-office numbers instead of reviews, maybe everyone really is subscribing to Variety.) Despite this shrewdness, Mr. Blythewood doesn't resist sliding into the genre's twin pitfalls of sentimentality and melodrama.
Instead of reviewing brief summaries of the bank's operations, as his predecessor had, Dimon demanded to see the raw data — hundreds of pages detailing J. P. Morgan's businesses every month.
Instead of reviewing splashy new buildings by the star architects of the planet, as many architecture critics have done, he writes about the intersection of human beings and how they use the built environment.
But many policymakers, and large segments of the public as well, increasingly worry that the court is making policy instead of reviewing law, and promoting a liberal agenda at odds with the views of the majority.
