Huffington Post:
Persephone Books is a female-run publishing house and London bookstore that publishes out-of-print 20th century female authors. It's a quintessential example of the kind of business built of passion, intellect and saleability (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Metro:
Below is an excerpt from "On Faith," an Internet feature sponsored by The Washington Post and Newsweek. Each week, more than 50 figures from the world of faith engage in a conversation about an aspect of religion. This week's (Read More)
Daily Kos:
You might have noticed as of late that the Wrap-Up has taken on a very predictable cadence. The polling news comes first, with numbers and analysis. Then, in bullet form, the political news of the day soon follows. Well, the (Read More)
Boing Boing:
Nouveau Oldtime Jam Blind Boy Paxton Dom Flemons Of Carolina Chocolate Drops And Frank Fairfield An Insider'S View Of The Fort Hood Tra
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CNN:
Illiteracy to Literature in the Enlightened South - Part II By NEAL MOORE OXFORD, MISSISSIPPI (CNN iReport) From the basic grasp of consonants to the next step up the ladder of literacy - actually craving the concept of liter (Read More)
Huffington Post:
The only thing more frightening than being caught in an angry mob of health care protesters is revealing to that angry mob that you work for the Huffington Post. On Thursday, I ventured down to Capital Hill with a professiona (Read More)
Valleywag:
He may have murdered 20 million people, but good PR can change anything! A state news agency is approaching big firms to "rewrite history." No word yet on whether the team behind Eliot Spitzer are considering it. British goss (Read More)
Huffington Post:
By Gareth PorterWASHINGTON, Nov 6 (IPS) - The Barack Obama administration is talking tough to Afghan President Hamid Karzai about the need for decisive action on corruption and governance reform, but its main objective is to (Read More)
Huffington Post:
This week I had an opportunity most Americans would relish, just as I did. I was able to unload on two top executives of Goldman Sachs who descended from on high to my office because I clearly needed some educating. One was (Read More)
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I woke up Wednesday at 4am to a phone call: The London Guardian asking for an interview about my miscarriage twitter. Then a half-hour later, an Irish radio station. And then the phone kept ringing.I told Now Magazine (I thin (Read More)
TechCrunch:
With Twitter rolling out its own retweet functionality soon, people will be pointing their followers to more users they may not be engaging with yet, which will spark users to follow more people and hence increase the amount (Read More)
TechCrunch:
This is, apparently, not a fake exchange. A young journalist comes to Aardvark user Ryan Asava for help. Things go downhill from there. If you never quite understood the service, you’ll get it now. Our previous coverage of t (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Twitter’s Trending Topics area is one of the easiest things to game on the web. Even when trends start out as real items, spammers often latch onto them with bogus tweets hoping to ride the wave and get some people seeing the (Read More)
Mashable!:
While Twitter’s Trending Topics have been an amazing tool for tracking what’s happening not only on Twitter, but in the world in general, they’ve been plagued by spam. The result has been the deterioration of Twitter trends (Read More)
Valleywag:
Yelp couldn't have guessed one of its reviewers might end up in a vicious wrestling match with a store owner, right? Wrong: the owner had visited Yelp HQ the day before the fight, been ignored, then turned away. Ocean Ave. Bo (Read More)
Valleywag:
Yelp couldn't have guessed one of its reviewers might end up in a vicious wrestling match with a store owner, right? Wrong: the owner had visited Yelp HQ the day before the fight, been ignored, then turned away. Ocean Ave. Bo (Read More)
Valleywag:
Drue Kataoka sells engulfing quick dips in art and culture to rich Silicon Valley workaholics. Now she's selling the ultimate fast immersion: the chance to "leave your mark" on Kataoka's during a private jet ride. Lose yourse (Read More)
Huffington Post:
When we set out to make Food, Inc. I was hoping to create a film that would raise questions, open eyes and prompt people around the country to think about how our food system operates.Industrial food companies don't want us t (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Last week, a Gallup poll revealed that while white optimism about race relations remains at November 2008 levels, black optimism has fallen to where it stood before Barack Obama's rise to prominence.We can excuse descriptions (Read More)