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In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we report on President Obama's (non)-use of Twitter, take a look at the past decade in the media industry, review the latest statistics about blogging, question if Oxford Dictionary should've chosen "unfriend" as its word of the (Read More)
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HAVANA — The husband of an acclaimed dissident Cuban blogger was punched and shouted down by a pro-government mob Friday after he challenged the presumed state agents who earlier roughed up his wife to a street corner debate.As he promised earlier on his blog, Reinaldo Escobar went to the intersection of Havana's 23rd and G (Read More)
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ESPN has punished Bill Simmons for writing tweets critical of Boston sports radio station WEEI. ESPN.com editor-in-chief Rob King wrote a blog post to confirm the news, writing that "we've taken appropriate measures."ESPN Radio and WEEI announced a partnership on October 7, and Simmons has criticized the Boston station on h (Read More)
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Susan Payton is the Managing Partner of Egg Marketing & Public Relations, an internet marketing firm. She blogs at The Marketing Eggspert Blog, and teaches marketing courses at Marketing EggSchool. Follow her on Twitter @eggmarketing.We’re a week away from Black Friday and just a few years ago, if you wanted to find the be (Read More)
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Once the service for those serious enough to pay for the privilege to post, TypePad recently released a free "Micro" service. The company made the decision to offer a free product realizing the demand for a platform more formal than Twitter and less formal than Wordpress or Typepad's original product. ReadWriteWeb compared (Read More)
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In the month or so since Twitter started rolling out its Twitter Lists feature, a number of web and Adobe AIR based clients have added support for it.However, we haven’t seen any native Twitter apps support Lists. Today Realmac Software released Socialite Beta 3 for Mac OS X, including, among other enhancements — basic list (Read More)
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Writing a book will never be easy, but FastPencil's mission is to make things easier for authors by bringing this process online and to collaborate with others. FastPencil takes writers from idea to published book. The service offers features for collaboration, editing and design, as well as professional consulting services (Read More)
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Last year, Peter Norback was looking for a way to do a service for his community. "Just before the election, Barack Obama was talking about community service. I had thought about that for years," said the 67-year-old resident of Tucson, Ariz. "But I couldn't get involved with those meetings that didn't do anything, it was j (Read More)
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Max BlumenthalProgressive Book Club/Media Matters for America reviewIn August 2008, when then-senator and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said the media had held her under a "sharper microscope" because she was a woman, Sarah Palin rose to condemn her, accusing Clinton of a "perceived whine" that would harm other fem (Read More)
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The Open Web Awards: Social Media Edition, our annual contest highlighting the very best the web has to offer, is entering its final round. The 70,000+ nominees have been narrowed down to just 5 finalists per category, and you have from now until December 15th to pick the winners.By popular demand, here is the full list of (Read More)
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The semantic Web has long been heralded as the future of the Web. Proponents have said that Web experiences will some day become more meaningful and relevant based on the AI-esque computational power of natural-language processing (NLP) and structured data that is understandable by machines for interpretation.However, with (Read More)
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Brizzly is a web-based Twitter and Facebook client that has been gaining some momentum and buzz over the past couple months. It has some slick features like being able to view photos and videos in-line in your Twitter stream, threaded DMs, and built-in photo uploading. It also recently added support for Twitter Lists. Ho (Read More)
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A Vietnamese blog posted this picture of a package of 'Google' brand "bathroom paper."According to EnGadget's attempt to translate the text printed on the wrapper using Google Translate, the product's description reads,Very long, soft, smooth. Of high vacuum, because you always!Let us know at technology@huffingtonpost.com i (Read More)
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Thirteen-year-old fashion blogger Tavi already skipped school in September to attend New York Fashion Week, but WWD reports that the talented teen's next adventure will take place slightly farther away than the Big Apple. She's slated to be the guest of honor at Comme des Garcons' holiday party on November 27 at the 10 Cors (Read More)
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The good people over at the National Republican Campaign Committee have a favorite punctuation mark, called the ellipsis. And they enjoy using it, mainly to make strategic truncations in a piece of text to make it look as if it says something completely different from its author's original intent. For example, the NRCC co (Read More)