Submitted by The Puck
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The numbers this fall aren't good. After a high above 14,000 last year, the Dow is now thrashing around well below 9,000. The U.S. government is spending over $700 billion to buy unprecedented stakes in the nation's largest banks. Many industries, including technology, are hemorrhaging jobs.This post isn't about all that. (Read More)
Boing Boing
Ala Ebtekar is a Berkeley-based artist whose fantastic work juxtaposes "street" art and traditional Iranian culture. (Above, detail of this piece.) "In my own work, I'm trying to find a visual glimpse of a crossroad where present day events meet history and mythology," Ebtekar says. Ala Ebtekar site, Video profile on public (Read More)
Submitted by The Puck
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Sure there are success stories among the big companies that have dipped their toes in the social media water. But the vast majority of giant companies are still absolutely terrified of social media, Given that even cornflakes are part of called social media these days, that’s a lot of fear. The Mommy Meganiche StrikesIt see (Read More)
ProBlogger
In the last 24 hours MediaWhiz (disclosure - they are sponsors of this site) have released a new advertising product for those interested in selling text links on their blogs) called InLinks.InLinks is an ad network that allows advertisers to buy text links within the content of your posts. The links pass on Google Juice (i (Read More)
Submitted by Louisgray
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I saw the link today for a list compiled of the top 150 Social Media Blogs. I liked it but was disappointed to see that it was not in OPML. It was far easier to add the feeds and then whittle them down if I didn't like them. So I went ahead and did it myself as a gift to all of you Here is the OPML file, just downlo (Read More)
Submitted by The Puck
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Arianna Huffington’s The Huffington Post is seeking a new round to fund investigative journlism.Hufffington disclose the fact during a panel discussion at Michael’s restaurant in Manhattan Tuesday night. Robert MacMillan at Reuters was there, although he was unable to get more details out of Huffington other than “She said (Read More)
Submitted by Courane01
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Buying an Apple computer? Get ready to throw away your monitor, over and over again. New Apple hardware is shipping with "HDCP" anti-copying technology that prevents showing some video on "non-compliant" monitors. Best part: the list of "compliant" monitors will change over time: the monitor you buy today can be "revoked" t (Read More)