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Not even "50%-off" deals are expected to save retail sales on Black Friday. Similar discounts on retailers' stocks may draw buyers if Friday's sales beat low expectations, but any rally is likely to be little more than a setup for another selloff, given the economic outlook. (Read More)
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Submitted by Raavi:
In Social Media, Personality is Key
You can be controversial, funny, or intellectually stimulating. "Bland" loses. "Unique" wins. (Read More)
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: Every point is mesmerising. All points look very practical. Sharing a lot of points make you visible for many though they are right or wrong. Hitting on the right target with one chance and one aim is professional. Not many are professional. So aim with many, sure one hits its target. Being jack of all works here I guess. Because, to be master of some, you have to start as a jack. To controdict with some idea, one has to be well aware of it. Thinking lonely is very very helpful. Thoughts during that time perflectly defines you. Finally thannk you very much, Brian Carter
Submitted by Hutch
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I have been grooving on Tumblr a lot recently (see Ambivalence). I think the combination of following a bunch of extremely visually oriented Tumblr blogs, along with the experience of posting a lot of images -- in my case, things I have found on the web, screenshots of movies, or others Tumblr postings -- has an almost hypn (Read More)
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: @hutch I've had several people suggest I try Tumblr, as it's more conducive to the way I would like to communicate. I think it's time I check it out more thoroughly!
The Guardian
Barack Obama has outlined his plan to create 2.5m jobs in his first two years in office with an ambitious spending programme on roads, schools and and renewable energy.In his weekly internet address the United States president-elect warned that the US was "facing an economic crisis of historic proportions". But he suggested (Read More)
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Submitted by Magitam
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Twitter is emerging as a major force in breaking news. But some people disagree.Today we saw yet another illustration, when people in Mumbai got the word of terrorist attacks out to the world well before mainstream media even knew something was happening. Mathew Ingram points out previous examples of Twitter users breaking (Read More)
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: That is the key that we have more primary witnesses to events. First hand history is always better in the long run than secondary and even tertiary sources or channels of information. As someone else mentioned it is brand new reporting territory and it is difficult to fact check tweets as well as there should be some sop's set up for how to use the channels in time of an emergency. So folks make situations potentially worse. Still twitter and Friendfeed are where I turned.
: twitter is a news source like conversations in the street are a news source. there is some value to verification of sources, to gathering information from news sources, to filtering out repetition and to presenting the news in a coherent fashion. these things twitter doesn't do but that is not to say it has no news value. as somewhere to trawl for raw data in the case of a breaking story, it may be valuable.
India Times
China strongly condemned attacks in India's financial centre of Mumbai in which more than 100 people were killed, and expressed condolences to the victims. (Read More)
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